Smoking Statistics
Tobacco use is the leading preventable cause of death
From CDC’s fact sheet: Worldwide, tobacco use causes more than 5 million deaths per year, and current trends show that tobacco use will cause more than 8 million deaths annually by 2030.1 Cigarette smoking is responsible for more than 480,000 deaths per year in the United States, including an estimated 41,000 deaths resulting from secondhand […]
More Articles
Smoking Ban
Smoke-free laws, sometimes colloquially referred to as “smoking bans” are key tobacco control public policies, including criminal laws and occupational safety and health regulations, which prohibit tobacco smoking in workplaces and/or other public spaces. Legislation may also define smoking as more generally being the carrying or possessing of any lit tobacco product.[1] Rationale The rationale for smoke-free laws posits that smoking is optional, whereas breathing is not. Therefore, smoke-free […]
Health benefits of smoking ( From Wikipedia )
Several types of “Smoker’s Paradoxes”,[1] (cases where smoking appears to have specific beneficial effects), have been observed. This is in addition to the numerous documented negative health effects of smoking. These effects should not be confused with altered mortality rate in “quitting ill”. Patients who quit smoking have a temporary increase in mortality from lung cancer compared to smokers, but […]
Y1 Tobacco
Y1 is a strain of tobacco that was cross-bred by Brown & Williamson to obtain an unusually high nicotine content. It became controversial in the 1990s when the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) used it as evidence that tobacco companies were intentionally manipulating the nicotine content of cigarettes.Y1 has also been investigated by […]
Tobacco Types
Aromatic Fire Cured Tobacco Aromatic Fire-cured tobacco is a variety of tobacco which is used as a condimental for pipe blends. In the USA, it is grown in northern middle Tennessee, in Virginia and central Kentucky. Aromatic Fire-cured tobacco that is grown in Tennessee and Kentucky is very often used in moist snuff, chewing tobaccos, some […]
Tobacco History
Tobacco became one of the primary products used by the colonization of the future American South. this was done many years before the USA was created. in the beggining the colonial expansion, had a very big desire to make the tobacco production bigger. This was their dream. Native Americans used tobacco before Europeans arrived in […]
Smoking Increases Risk for Breast Cancer Death
No Doubt Now: Smoking Increases Risk for Breast Cancer Death In a prospective study of 2265 women with breast cancer, current and former smokers had a 39% higher rate of dying from breast cancer than never smokers. The study, which has an average follow-up of 9 years, provides strong evidence that smoking increases a woman’s […]
Smoking is Harmful for Pets!!!
Smoking is Harmful for Pets! While much is often said about the dangers of direct smoking and the harmful effects of secondhand smoke exposure to humans, there is also evidence that dogs, cats, and other pets are also adversely affected. How: By ingestion of cigarette or cigar butts which contain toxins By drinking water that […]
Severe adverse effects of smoking may be reversible if it is stopped early in pregnancy
In women who stopped smoking before 15 weeks’ gestation, rates of spontaneous preterm birth and small for gestational age infants did not differ from those in non-smokers, indicating that these severe adverse effects of smoking may be reversible if smoking is stopped early in pregnancy. It’s known that smoking during pregnancy increases the risk of […]
Why ‘World No Tobacco Day’ is observed?
World No Tobacco Day (also popularly known as World Tobacco Day, and Anti Tobacco Day) is observed worldwide on 31st May every year to encourage tobacco users to abstain from consumption of all forms of tobacco for a period of 24 hours. World Tobacco Day was initiated in the year 1987, when the World Health […]
No Smoking Awareness 