Showing posts with label amount of tar. Show all posts
Showing posts with label amount of tar. Show all posts

Monday, March 21, 2011

Cigarettes with Low Tar and Nicotine

Below article about cigarettes.

Research shows that smoking tar and low nicotine content is less harmful than others.

However, the transition from smoking low tar and nicotine would not be good for your health if you go to smoke their cigarettes more than usual. In general, smokers compensate for low tar and tobacco smoke and nicotine inhale more deeply.

Thursday, March 17, 2011

Danger of Smoking

Today's article about danger of smoking.

Every year, 6,600 teens in Louisiana start smoking. And one of every four students in high school is a regular smoker.

Now the doctors who care for seriously sick smokers are doing something about it.

Why would doctors bring young teenage girls to the morgue to see jars of organs, and to a heart cath lab to see a choked off blood vessel in a woman who smoked? Well, it all started in a classroom at Chabert Medical Center in Houma, where a lung doctor and tobacco educator are serious about how crippling and deadly smoking is.

"What I see every day, when I'm counseling patients and caring for patients in the ICU, in those latter stages of lung cancer and emphysema, is quality of life. So many of them say, 'If I would have known, if only I had known.' It's just devastating to hear someone say that after smoking 20, 30, 60 years," said Dr. Andrea Girod Espinoza, an LSU health pulmonologist and critical care specialist at Chabert.

The girls had to guess what rat and insect poison, acetone polish remover, moth balls, ammonia cleaner, car exhaust and tar all have in common. The answer later.

They saw how many cigarettes pile up in a year of a pack a day smoker, who spend nearly $2,000 a year. They got the feeling of damaged lungs by breathing through a tiny straw after doing jumping jacks.

One of the stops on the tour for the girls is the baby nursery, and one of the things they learned is that when a pregnant woman smokes, all the nicotine and chemicals cross through the placenta and get into the developing baby. In fact, for the rest of the child's life, all the way into adulthood, its brain and body will be affected.

They also learned about smoking and one of a teen's biggest fears.

"So there's a special kind of acne that's associated with smoking that we know about and it's actually harder to treat than normal acne," Dr. Espinoza explained.

So what will happen now to these girls when friends entice them to smoke?

"I'm going to try to convince them to not smoke either. I'm going to give them some facts about how smoking is bad for you," said 12-year old Haley Terrebonne.

"My favorite part was when we looked at the babies because they was [SIC] pretty," said Key Howard, a 14-year-old who has a friend who smokes.

"I learned a lot about the organs and how smoking is definitely not good for you and how it can really kill you and give you a bunch of different cancers," said 14-year-old Monique Hebert.

And that table of products contain the same chemicals as in cigarettes.

"The 4,000 is the number of chemicals that are in every puff of cigarette smoke that a smoker will take. Many of these have been proven to cause different types of cancer," said Wendy Theriot, a tobacco control initiative cessation specialist with LSU Health Sciences Center at Chabert Medical Center in Houma.

Tuesday, March 15, 2011

Cigarettes Cointain

What's in cigarettes? Do you know?

Tobacco smoke is a mixture of gases and small particles composed of water, tar and nicotine. The tar is a messy mixture of hundreds of toxic chemicals, many of which are known to cause cancer (eg, nitrosamines, benzpyrene).

Lot of gas in tobacco smoke are harmful. These include carbon monoxide, nitrogen oxides, hydrogen cyanide, ammonia and other toxic irritants such as formaldehyde and acrolein. Due to high temperatures (above 800 ° C or 1400 ° F), the burning of a cigarette is like a miniature chemical factory. It offers many other harmful chemicals found in tobacco off or supported by the use of smokeless tobacco (eg snuff, which contains no tar or gas). In total, over 4,000 chemical compounds have been identified in tobacco smoke.

The chemicals that cause cancer are mainly in the tar. Tar, with a little 'annoying, it can also be partly responsible for chronic bronchitis and emphysema. Nitrogen oxides are suspected, but the main agents responsible are not yet known. Neither carbon monoxide or nicotine causes cancer, but they are probably working together as causes of heart disease associated with smoking.

It is easy to understand why the main cancers caused by smoking are at sites having direct contact with the smoke, specifically the lungs, mouth, and throat. However, some cancer-producing chemicals are absorbed into the blood and transported to other parts of the body. This is how smoking causes cancer of the bladder, kidney, pancreas, and uterus.

The way in which smoking causes heart attacks, strokes and other cardiovascular diseases is quite complex.

* After absorption through the lungs, carbon monoxide combines with hemoglobin in the red blood cells and reduces the amount of oxygen they can carry around the body.
* Carbon monoxide and nicotine both appear to play a part in accelerating the deposition of cholesterol in the inner lining of arteries which over many years leads to arteriosclerosis, a kind of hardening and furring up of arteries which reduces blood flow.
* Cigarette smoking also makes the blood clot more easily, making episodes of thrombosis more likely.
* Impairment of blood flow, and of oxygen-carrying capacity due to carbon monoxide, all reduce the supply of oxygen. This happens at the same time that the heart's need for oxygen is increased by the stimulant effect of nicotine on the rate and force of the heart's contractions.
* The lack of oxygen is damaging to the heart and increases the severity of a heart attack.
* Nicotine can cause further problems by upsetting the regular rhythm of the heart.

Nicotine and carbon monoxide are also important factors in peripheral vascular disease, which can lead to gangrene of the feet. Nicotine causes constriction, or narrowing, of the small blood vessels. This, combined with carbon monoxide's oxygen-reducing effect, tips the balance in people with narrowed leg arteries.

Likewise, nicotine constriction of blood vessels in the placenta (which provides nourishment to an unborn baby), combined with the effects of carbon monoxide, reduces oxygen supply to the unborn babies of pregnant women who smoke.

In these various ways both nicotine and carbon monoxide are involved in the effects of smoking on coronary heart disease, other vascular diseases, and on the development of the unborn child. Although stopping smoking may not reverse arteriosclerosis, a disease in which plaque builds up in the arteries, it will progress less quickly.

Friday, March 11, 2011

With Electronic Cigarettes No More Bad Breath Attributable to Tar

Below article about tar cigarettes.

Bad breath or halitosis is not a thing that people want to survive. This is something you do not need to hesitate about the electronic cigarette. This kerana you might want to benefit from the aid and excessive, that they bring with them nicotine or with very small amounts of nicotine.
What are the advantages if you smoke electronic cigarettes rather than regular cigarettes?

digital smoke does not give the breath of smokers often suffer from dangerous fumes. For people who smoke, it may be, the downside is often trigger such as tar in the mouth and respiratory system collected a foul odor. What is usually not dibaiki by dessert as a result, the membrane has pierced the mouth
Materials level nicotine content of cigarettes can even trigger various lung diseases. With the electronic cigarette, you can nicotine in very little or no smoke in any way as a result of pengewapan will create the same impression as the impression that smoking easily without merosakkan of tar and nicotine.

Electronic supplementary exhaust fumes, so it will not give your system to cause an unpleasant odor and cause respiratory problems. As the study shows, hundreds of thousands of smokers lung Kanser have received. If you smoke a cigarette, wasted three days of your life. If you do not Mahu this happens to you, but you can not avoid your behavior, then an electronic smoking Cuba.

Dark lips also occurs in people who kerana nicotine or tar smoke deposits on the surface of the lip. With e-smoking, this is prevented kerana a mechanism for tar and nicotine to kill, can be dark gray instead of pink your lips.

These are a few of the reasons why you must opt to smoke electronic cigarettes. You will certainly be avoiding halitosis which is caused by smoking, when you smoke these awesome cigarettes. Likewise, the individuals round you'll not turn into passive people who smoke, which is hazardous to their health.

Sunday, March 6, 2011

Personal Vaporizers Offer The Tobacco User an Alternative

These article about offering user an alternative ways.

Personal Vaporizer tobacco to offer users an alternative that meets or exceeds the experience that smoking provides. This development has given thousands of smokers for a way to freedom by tobacco, without the exercise of their free time.

primary steam is pleased to announce that their exclusive Primax Flavor cartridges now for immediate shipment. The United States has flavors are steam only in the evening.

Most personal evaporator (or e-cigarette) devices use the same basic principle. A liquid is evaporated using a battery and a heating element. The user of this steam inhaled cigarette smoke. The vapor steam contains a product based on taste and a small amount of nicotine than tobacco smoke, which contains over 4,000 different chemical compounds, including known carcinogens.

All personal vaporizers are not the same, however. There are many different technologies used. PrimeVapor developed their Primax Personal Vaporizer System after exhaustive research of all the products on the market. They discovered that there were three basic principles that needed to be addressed to give user the best experience.

First of all, there is the basic vapor delivery system. They found that the two-part system consisting of a microprocessor controlled lithium ion battery and a disposable flavor cartridge provided the most consistent vapor and ease of use. They discovered that some of the three part systems were somewhat difficult to use and messy.

Secondly is the vapor liquid itself. PrimeVapor found that the best vapor production came from using vegetable glycerin. The sensation of inhaling the vapor or the “throat hit” is an essential component of the complete experience. Another advantage is that vegetable glycerin is a completely natural organic compound made from palm oil and used in many foodstuffs. Many other products use propylene glycol, a petroleum derivative.

The flavor of the vapor is the final key to the alternative smoking experience. During their research, PrimeVapor discovered that the offerings on the market were lacking in taste. That is why they decided that the only way to offer a superior product was to create and formulate their own flavor compounds. Using food grade flavor extracts from all over the world, PrimeVapor’s Brewmaster has created fifteen exclusive flavors that will satisfy anyone’s taste.

When someone first starts to use the electronic cigarette their inclination is to choose a flavor that is most like what they used with their tobacco cigarette. PrimeVapor’s base tobacco flavor, Redboro and their base menthol, Freeport allow an easy transition to e-cigarettes.

But there is so much more. Customers can use PrimeVapor’s unique Flavor Navigator to choose taste sensations like Morning Blend, a delicious combination of tobacco, coffee and chocolate flavors.

Tobacco users want the same sensation they get from smoking. That is why PrimeVapor adds just the right amount of almost pure nicotine to their vapor formulas. Customers have a choice of three different strengths to accommodate those who want to taper off their nicotine intake.

The final consideration PrimeVapor discovered has nothing to do with taste or equipment but something more fundamental. Researching the market, PrimeVapor found that there are so many different ways the products are sold that it can be quite confusing to the potential customers. There are websites that allegedly offer a free kit to get started without really making it clear that the customer is really signing up for a recurring monthly charge to their credit card for products they may not want or need.

PrimeVapor has created a customer first philosophy that makes it clear just what is needed to enjoy this new alternative to smoking. Their basic Starter Kit makes it simple to get started. PrimeVapor also wanted to lower the cost barrier and now offers this kit at the remarkably low price of $49.95. Customers can rest assured that they are in complete control of their transaction. PrimeVapor will never charge a customer for anything they have not specifically ordered.

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Saturday, March 5, 2011

How the affect of health with tar cigarettes?

Today's article about how does tar in cigarettes affect health.

Tar cigarettes is referring to the toxic chemicals in cigarette manufacturing was added. Different ratings on the amount of cigarettes they were blurry, was based. Tar cigarettes with the highest concentrations over 22 mg tar per cigarette, while the low-tar cigarettes less than 7 mg each. Tar can be brown in solid form at the end of a cigarette found.

Coloring Effects
# Cigarette tar can show immediate health effects in terms of a smoker's appearance. The tar in cigarettes can stain smokers' teeth and turn them yellow and brown. In addition, cigarette tar can stain anything it touches brown, including a smoker's hands and clothing. Filters in tobacco cigarettes are intended to keep tar from exiting, but toxins still make it through and can leave a brown-yellow film behind.

Major Health Effects
# The tar in tobacco cigarettes is a major cause of lung cancer, emphysema and bronchitis. The toxins from the tar can damage lung cells that keep tumors from forming. Cigarette tar also damages cilia in the lungs, which protect the lining of the lungs. In addition to the discoloring of teeth, tar can cause periodontitis, a gum disease that can result in the loss of teeth.

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Friday, March 4, 2011

A New Way To Get Around Smoking Bans?

Article about electronic cigarettes.

When people on a bus, a plane or at a restaurant think they’re seeing other people violating the smoking ban, they should take a second look. The suspect may actually be ‘vaping’ rather than smoking. In other words, enjoying an electronic cigarette. A cigarette without smoke, tar and carcinogens.

A lady who was vaping an electronic cigarette at the Cincinnati Zip’s Cafe was interviewed about what she thought about this relatively new electronic device. A long time smoker, Jenny Jenkins from Cincinnati, Ohio said: “I was usually smoking a pack of cigarettes a day but when I got my e-cigarette, I was down to half a pack on my first day.”

She continued: “I just took out my electronic cigarette whenever I felt an urge to smoke and took a few puffs. After that I had no more carvings for the real cigarette. On my third day I was down to five tobacco cigarettes a day and on my fifteenth day I smoked my last cigarette. I just didn’t need them anymore. I then noticed that I started to feel more energy and less fatigue.”

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Thursday, March 3, 2011

Low Tar Cigarettes Safer During Pregnancy?

Are low tar cigarettes safer during pregnancy?

Pregnant smokers who switch to light cigarettes aren't doing themselves - or their babies - any favours. The labels on light cigarettes may say "low nicotine" or "low tar," but the claims are meaningless. All cigarettes have roughly the same amount of nicotine and tar. Cigarette companies have simply changed the design of some cigarettes so they produce fewer toxins when tested by machines in government laboratories. For instance, manufacturers put tiny vents in the filters so that the machines suck in fresh air as well as cigarette smoke. But when so-called low-nicotine or low-tar cigarettes are smoked by people instead of machines, any differences pretty much disappear.

When people smoke light cigarettes, they instantly adjust their smoking technique. Without even thinking about it, they puff more quickly and breathe more deeply. Many smokers also inadvertently cover the vents in the filters with their fingers, essentially turning their light cigarettes back into regular cigarettes. In the end, they get their full dose of nicotine, along with carbon monoxide, tar, and all of the other poisons that can harm a woman's health and threaten her pregnancy.

If you're worried about the dangers of regular cigarettes, switching to light or low tar cigarettes isn't the answer. You need to give up, and the sooner the better. The only safe cigarettes are the ones that don't get smoked.

Info from this source.

E-Cigarettes, No Tar, Harmless to Others

These about E-Cigarettes.

Product detail.

E-cigarettes, No Tar and Other Carcinogenic Substances, Harmless To Others
Specification:
Length(mm): 106
Diameter(mm): 9.2
Weight (g): 15.2
Length of cartomizer(mm): 40
Length of battery(mm): 70
Length of cartridge(mm): 42
E-liquid content(ml): 0.39
Mouthfuls of e-liquid: 80-100
Battery capacity(Mah): 190
Charging time(h): 1.5
Input voltage(v): 90-240
Work voltage(v): 3.7
Mouthful of battery: 180-240

Standard set:
Atomizer: 1pc;
Battery: 2pcs;
USB adaptor: 1pc;
USB charger: 1pc;
Cartridge: 5pcs;
Gift box: 1pc;
Manual: 1pc(in English or Russian)

E-cig cartridge of nicotine:
1. Non: 0 mg,
2. Low: 8mg,
3. Mid: 12mg,
4 High: 16mg

E-cigarettes, No Tar and Other Carcinogenic Substances, Harmless To Others
1. CE RoHS SGS FDA approved
2. Diameter: 8.5mm/9.2mm
3. One cartridge keeps 500 puff

More information from this source.

Friday, October 29, 2010

Tar Effects Teeth

Article about how tar can effect teeth.

Anyone that knows a smoker is aware of the affects cigarettes have on a personal teeth. The real culprit here is tar. Tar, when combined with nicotine stains the teeth yellow or brown. Cigarettes also give people chronic bad breath. All of this is obvious. There are, however, more serious effects from tar on dental health.
Periodontal disease is one possible effect that poses the most serious risks. The disease destroys the soft tissue and bone that attaches the jawbones because of bacterial infection. The outcome of the disease is loss of teeth after they loosen and eventually fall out. The early stages show bleeding gums and the pulling back of the gun from the teeth. It also causes the roof of the mouth to become swollen and inflamed. Effects of smoking the cigarettes are most known effects of the smoking, because the cigarettes are most famous type of tobacco, as well as partly because of horrifying diseases, which will result.
Any infection in the gums takes longer to heal in a smoker because the chemicals in cigarette smoke cause the weakening of the immune system. This could be especially dangerous is the infection spreads. Dental infections are among the most dangerous infections due to the close proximity to the brain. A smoker is far more prone to infections such as these than a non-smoker.
Smokers are also six times more likely to develop gum disease than a non-smoker. When gum disease is present, the gums become red and inflamed. The foundation of the teeth is also weakened in smokers, which also heightens the chances of tooth loss. Because the cigar smokers do not inhale smoke, and they are not in the danger of any cancer or heart disease, which affects the smokers of cigarettes. Effects of smoking the cigars are strongly felt in mouth & throat. Effects of smoking the cigars are not as newsworthy like those of the cigarettes, however they are not any nicer as well.
Smoking also effects the production of saliva, which also causes tooth discoloration. Saliva also cleanses teeth and the lining of the mouth and helps protect teeth against decay so when there is a problem with the production of saliva – like the problem caused by smoking for example – it means problems for the whole mouth.
Smoking also caused bacteria to get caught in plaque on teeth, which is another reason a smoker’s gums may become inflamed. This bacterium also causes problems for the jaw, which once again, may lead to tooth loss. Wonders of the modern technology also have allowed for the mechanical replacements, thus at least the smokers are now no longer have to mute for rest of lives. Unluckily, these mechanical replacements generally tend to sound as if a kids robot toy with laryngitis. Obviously, there is much more to these effects of the smoking, as well as others besides, than will easily get included here. Take time to learn yourself beyond this media blurbs. You will be happy that you did.

Friday, October 22, 2010

Gum Disease, Smoker’s Teeth

Talks about tar cigarettes.

The oral health effects of smoking cigarettes include an increased risk of periodontal disease, and mouth and throat cancers. Smoker's teeth are the characteristic yellow teeth caused by the deposits of cigarette tar on the tooth surface. Periodontal disease is the infection of the gums and bones that support and nourish the teeth. Mouth and throat cancers include cancer of the tongue, larynx and esophagus. The smoking facts reveal that oral health is profoundly affected by smoking cigarettes.

There are several ways in which the environment of the mouth is altered by cigarette smoking leading to the dramatic changes in oral health in smokers.

Cigarette smoking changes the factors that are necessary to maintain a good healthy mouth and throat and these changes in turn create the known oral diseases caused by smoking as well as the undesirable cosmetic effects.

Deposits of cigarette tar on the tooth surface:

Over time the grooves and pits of teeth become stained from deposits of cigarette tar. This discoloration becomes permanent and is so characteristic as one of the cosmetic effects of smoking cigarettes that the condition is recognized as smoker's teeth.

Reduction in the amount and nature of the saliva:

Good oral health is maintained by the production of proper amounts of saliva. The teeth are protected from infection by the special antibodies in saliva and its constant action of bathing and rinsing all dental surfaces.

Both these specific characteristics of saliva are diminished by smoking. Not only are the antibodies absent in the saliva of smokers but there is not as much saliva produced. This leaves your teeth and gums vulnerable to infection and since your immune system is compromised as well, when you do get infections in your mouth it can progress and become much more serious because of the reduced response of your immune system.

Smoking has been shown to be one of the main causes of gum disease. A heavy smoker is more than 6 times more likely to have periodontal disease than a nonsmoker.

Reduced nourishment to the tissues:

Nicotine is a powerful vaso-constrictor and results in decreased blood supply to all tissues. Oral health is profoundly affected by this reduced blood supply to the structures that support the teeth, like the gums and the bones. Gradually these tissues become so malnourished the tissue health cannot be maintained and teeth start to fall out.

There are more toothless grins among smokers than there are among non-smokers.

Contact with the Carcinogenic Ingredients in Cigarettes

Many of the ingredients in cigarettes are known to cause cancer. The constant contact of the oral tissues with these chemicals increases the likelihood of oral and throat cancers and the oral health risks of smoking increase with the amount smoked. The more you smoke the higher your chances of developing cancer of the tongue or one of the types of throat cancers such as cancer of the larynx (voicebox) or the esophagus.

Here are some smoking facts about oral and throat cancers:

  • The risk for cancer of the larynx in smokers is ten times that of non smokers.
  • The number one risk factor for cancer of the tongue and oral cancers in people over 50 is the use of tobacco and in fact 95 per cent of oral cancers occur in people over the age of 40
  • 75 per cent of oral cancers occur in people who use alcohol, tobacco, or both alcohol and tobacco.
  • Of all the people who are diagnosed with mouth and throat cancer this year only about 50 per cent will still be alive 5 years from now.
Yellow teeth, toothless grins, periodontal gum disease, and mouth and throat cancers are all among the oral health effects of smoking.

It is enough to make you sick and it doesn't look too pretty either.

Thursday, October 21, 2010

High and Low?

About how low tar differ from high tar cigarettes.

At first manufacturer's thought less nicotine and tar would help.it was proven not any safer.The filters on cigarettes stop solid particles but not the poison gasses like carbon monoxide and ammonia etc.People who smoke low tar usually drag harder to compensate less smoke and smoke has to go through the filter,the smoke that comes off the end of the cigarette is the big problem.It’s the same in all cigarettes,you breathe it and that is the second hand theory-the smoke just from lighting up.

Tuesday, October 19, 2010

Tar Amount in Cigarettes

Article about amount of tar in cigarettes.

By definition, tar is modified pitch resin produced from the wood and roots of pine by destructive distillation under pyrolysis or any of various dark heavy viscid substances obtained as a residue.

According to this video, one stick of cigarette contains 18 milligrams of tar. A regular smoker can get 7.2 grams of tar per 400 pieces of cigarettes. Tar is an extremely fatal poison and may contain 400 types of other chemicals. Tar is sticky and may stick to lungs every time a person smoke. It elevates the risk of lung cancer.

Sunday, June 20, 2010

Same Deadly Diseases

Above talks about differenr colored cigarette packs, same deadly diseases.

The landmark tobacco legislation President Obama signed last year banned tobacco companies from using descriptors like "light," "ultralight," "low tar" and "mild" on cigarette labels starting June 22. An FDA guidance document points out that when tobacco companies introduced "light" and "ultralight" cigarettes in the 1960s and 1970s, the implicit message (pdf) in their advertising was that these products were safer and healthier than regular-strength cigarettes. People believed it, and the same belief persists today, as many many smokers still mistakenly believe that "light" and "low tar" cigarettes are safer and cause fewer health problems than full-flavor cigarettes. While tobacco companies will no longer be able to describe their products using misleading words, they aren't too worried. Instead, over the last year or so, they have simply changed the colors of the packs to convey the same message, eventually training people to recognize "light" and "low tar" cigarettes by color instead of words on the pack. All Salem cigarette packages, for example, used to be the same shade of green, but now Salem "lights" are a lighter-colored green and white, and "ultralight" cigarette packs will be pale gray and white. R.J. Reynolds argues that the "smoking experience" is the cigarettes' appeal, not safety, and that different-colored packages will ensure that smokers can still get the taste they desire from cigarettes. Rep. Henry Waxman (D-California) thinks differently, saying the industry has just found a way to evad

Sunday, June 13, 2010

Low tar and light cigarettes

Here’s the truth about low tar and light cigarettes.

Why do some smokers choose “low tar” and “light” cigarettes? Because they think these cigarettes may be less harmful to their health than regular cigarettes.

The Federal Trade Commission wants you to know that cigarette tar and nicotine ratings can’t predict the amount of tar and nicotine you get from any particular cigarette. That’s because how you smoke a cigarette can significantly affect the amount of tar, nicotine and carbon monoxide you get from your cigarette. Research indicates that many smokers of “low tar” or “light” cigarettes compensate by taking deeper, longer, or more frequent puffs from their cigarettes. The amount of tar and nicotine a smoker actually gets also can increase if the smoker unintentionally blocks tiny ventilation holes in cigarette filters that are designed to dilute smoke with air.

When it comes to “low tar” and “light” cigarettes, the FTC wants you to know:

  • The tar and nicotine numbers used in advertising and on packaging are determined using a smoking machine — a smoking “robot” so to speak — that smokes every brand of cigarette exactly the same way.
  • The numbers do not represent the amount of tar and nicotine a particular smoker may get: First, people don’t smoke cigarettes the same way the machine does; second, no two people smoke the same way.
  • Many lower tar cigarettes have filters with very small vent holes in the sides that allow air to dilute the smoke in each puff. It’s easy for smokers to cover the holes unknowingly; that results in them getting more tar and nicotine.
  • It’s impossible to tell from the ratings the amount of tar and nicotine a smoker will get from any cigarette. Smokers of lower nicotine cigarettes tend to compensate for the lower nicotine by taking deeper and more frequent puffs than they would from a regular cigarette.
  • The amount of tar and nicotine smokers actually get depends on how deep and how often they puff on the cigarette and whether they block the vent holes.
  • Smoking “low tar” or “light” cigarettes does not eliminate the health risks of smoking. If you’re concerned about the health risks of smoking, stop smoking.

Tuesday, March 23, 2010

Low tar cigarettes doesn’t cut cancer risk

Here about tar cigarettes.

1970th year of government public health authorities and the tar in tobacco smoke reduction was convinced to create a safe place.
Standard tests have been developed for measuring tar and nicotine. Research in the BMJ, regardless of whether the current brand, TAR, according to the level, all smokers or those who have never baked in a cast than those who did not have a much higher risk of lung cancer. To return to the person smoking 22 milligrams of tar or more points were at high risk of lung cancer. These data, the recent decision of the National Cancer Institute concluded that no credible evidence of lung cancer risk level of the machine measured tar cigarettes is reduced by lowering the consistency is.
"As a member of the public health, we zmiryane TAR on a cigarette vending machine supplier with a review of the current evaluation system will recommend that," Harris said. Other research shows that people are more focused questions related to the resin, and lung cancer risk assessment assumes that call writers have shown a low tar cigarette smoke. They are used to reduce high-tar, cigarettes in the country to return to the limited public health benefits, these products are widely used where I believe you can provide.

Wednesday, February 17, 2010

Tar in Cigarette

Quit smoking..

An experiment with 400 cigarettes
No wonder why humans lung cancer!
Think about this: sticky tar contains poison and remains in the lungs each time you smoke and your lungs need much calorie to remove these poisons from the blood!
You will live shorter than you think!
But think of your family and / or the lives of children!

Friday, July 24, 2009

Content of tar and nicotine

Here the content of tar and nicotine.

CIGARETTE BRAND
TYPE
TAR
NICOTINE

CARTIER Vendome
Filter
8 mg
0.8 mg

CARTIER Vendome Menthol
Filter
8 mg
0.8 mg

COURTLEIGH 120 Slims
Filter
14 mg
1.4 mg

COURTLEIGH
Filter
14 mg
1.3 mg

DUNHILL International
Filter
15 mg
1.4 mg

DUNHILL Menthol Mild
Filter
10 mg
0.9 mg

DUNHILL King Size Lights
Filter
9 mg
0.8 mg

DUNHILL Infinate Lights
Filter
9 mg
0.8 mg

DUNHILL Ultra Lights
Filter
5 mg
0.5 mg

DUNHILL King Size
Filter
15 mg
1.4 mg

MATRIX
Filter
14 mg
1.0 mg

MATRIX Lights
Filter
10 mg
1.8 mg

BENSON & HEDGES Gold
Filter
15 mg
1.4 mg

BENSON & HEDGES Special Mild
Filter
10 mg
1.0 mg

BENSON & HEDGES Ultra Mild
Filter
6 mg
0.6 mg

BENSON & HEDGES Menthol Mild
Filter
10 mg
1.0 mg

BENSON & HEDGES Ultimate Light
Filter
4 mg
0.4 mg

BENSON & HEDGES No.1
Filter
1 mg
0.1 mg

BROTHER
Filter
15 mg
1.4 mg

CAMEL
Filter
15 mg
1.1 mg

CAMEL Light
Filter
8 mg
0.7 mg

CAMEL Mild
Filter
13 mg
1.0 mg

CAMEL
Non-Filter
18 mg
1.4 mg

JOHN PLAYERS King Size
Filter
15 mg
1.0 mg

GAULOISES
Filter
12 mg
0.7 mg

GAULOISES Blondes
Filter
15 mg
1.1 mg

GAULOISES Legres Grey
Filter
9 mg
0.4 mg

GAULOISES Legres Red
Filter
5 mg
0.8 mg

GITANES
Filter
12 mg
0.7 mg

LUCKY STRIKE
Filter
12 mg
0.9 mg

LUCKY STRIKE Lights
Filter
9 mg
0.7 mg

CHESTERFIELD
Filter
13 mg
1.0 mg

CHESTERFIELD Lights
Filter
9 mg
0.7 mg

CHESTERFIELD
Non-Filter
17 mg
1.5 mg

CONSULATE
Filter
16 mg
1.3 mg

SATIN LEAF
Filter
11 mg
1.0 mg

SATIN LEAF Ultra
Filter
5 mg
0.5 mg

SATIN LEAF Ultra 1 mg
Filter
1 mg
0.1 mg

SATIN LEAF Ultra Menthol
Filter
5 mg
0.5 mg

SATIN LEAF Absolute Lights
Filter
3 mg
0.3 mg

CRAVEN A 120 Menthol
Filter
15 mg
1.3 mg

CRAVEN A
Filter
15 mg
1.3 mg

GUNSTON
Filter
17 mg
1.5 mg

JOHN ROLFE King Size
Filter
14 mg
1.2 mg

JOHN ROLFE Lights
Filter
7 mg
0.7 mg

LEXINGTON
Filter
17 mg
1.4 mg

LEXINGTON Lights
Filter
12 mg
1.1 mg

MILLS
Filter
17 mg
1.5 mg

PALL MALL
Filter
12 mg
1.1 mg

PALL MALL Super Lights
Filter
6 mg
0.6 mg

PETER STUYVESANT
Filter
15 mg
1.4 mg

PETER STUYVESANT Extra Mild
Filter
9 mg
0.8 mg

PAUL REVERE
Filter
14 mg
1.2 mg

ROTHMANS King Size
Filter
15 mg
1.4 mg

ROTHMANS King Size Special Mild
Filter
12 mg
1.1 mg

VAN RIJN
Filter
16 mg
1.5 mg

VAN RIJN Special Mild
Filter
12 mg
1.1 mg

VOGUE Slims 100
Filter
5 mg
0.5 mg

VOGUE
Filter
10 mg
1.1 mg

WINFIELD
Filter
14 mg
1.2 mg

WINFIELD Lights
Filter
10 mg
1.1 mg

WINSTON
Filter
15 mg
1.3 mg

WINSTON Lights
Filter
8 mg
0.7 mg

FORUM
Filter
13 mg
0.7 mg

FORUM Mild
Filter
9 mg
0.6 mg

FORUM Estate
Filter
14 mg
1.0 mg

FORUM Menthol
Filter
13 mg
0.7 mg

EMBASSY King Size
Filter
15 mg
1.5 mg

EMBASSY Lights
Filter
11 mg
1.0 mg

EMBASSY Menthol
Filter
15 mg
1.5 mg

ROYALS Red
Filter
15 mg
1.4 mg

ROYALS Light
Filter
11 mg
1.0 mg

ROYALS Menthol
Filter
13 mg
0.7 mg

RIVAS PARK
Filter
15 mg
1.2 mg

SAHAWI
Filter
12 mg
1.0 mg

SAHAWI Super Lights
Filter
8 mg
0.7 mg

SHARP
Filter
14 mg
1.2 mg

KINGSTON King Size
Filter
11 mg
1.0 mg

YES
Filter
16 mg
1.0 mg

Tuesday, July 21, 2009

Smoking less won’t reduce cancer risk

Above about tar cigarettes.

The notion of tobacco harm reduction—that there may be a "safer" way to smoke—is one that holds great appeal for smokers unwilling or unable to kick the habit and for the tobacco companies that profit from it. But two recent studies add weight to the argument that quitting is still the only certain way to reduce the health risks of tobacco.

The first, published in BMJ (2004;328:72–80), compared lung cancer risk among smokers of high-tar, regular-tar, and reduced-tar cigarettes. Researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the ACS found that low-tar and very low-tar cigarettes were no less harmful than those with regular or medium-tar levels.

"The data underscore that terms like ‘light’ and ‘ultra light’ are misleading because they imply less health risk but do not correspond to less hazardous cigarettes," said coauthor Michael J. Thun, MD, MS, Vice President of Epidemiology and Surveillance Research at ACS.

Nearly 1 million men and women (nonsmokers, former cigarette smokers, and current cigarette smokers) participating in the ACS Cancer Prevention Study II were analyzed. The tar rating of the brand of cigarette smoked in 1982 was compared with mortality from cancer of the lung, trachea, or bronchus over the next six years. Cigarettes were categorized as "very low tar" (0 to 7 mg tar per cigarette), "low tar" (8 to 14 mg tar per cigarette), "medium tar" (15 to 21 mg tar per cigarette), or "high tar" (22 mg or more per cigarette). The statistical analyses controlled for factors including age, race, education, marital status, diet, occupation (including asbestos exposure), and cardiovascular or respiratory comorbidities.

As expected, people who never smoked had virtually no risk of lung cancer. Those who smoked high-tar brands (which typically are unfiltered) had the highest risk; compared with current smokers of medium-tar cigarettes, their hazard ratios were 1.44 for men and 1.64 for women.

But lung cancer risk among people who smoked low-tar or very low-tar cigarettes was indistinguishable from that of smokers of medium-tar brands. Hazard ratios were 1.17 and 1.02 among men smoking very low-tar and low-tar brands, respectively, and 0.98 and 0.95, respectively, among women. None of these values were significantly different from the hazard ratio for smokers of medium-tar brands (set at 1.0 for this statistical analysis).

The way people smoke is the likeliest explanation for the findings, Thun said. The tar and nicotine content listed on cigarette labels is based on measurements from a smoking machine, but studies have shown "there’s a very poor correlation between machine-measured yield and what people are actually taking in," he explained.

People who smoke reduced-tar cigarettes don’t necessarily lower the amount of chemicals they inhale because they tend to inhale deeper, hold the smoke longer, and puff more often than smokers of regular-tar brands. They also tend to smoke more and may, inadvertently or not, cover ventilation holes in the cigarette filter that are designed to dilute the smoke with air.

Compensation in smoking behavior is also the most likely explanation for the findings of a second study examining the effect of smoking fewer cigarettes on the level of carcinogens in the body. Researchers from the University of Minnesota Cancer Center Transdisciplinary Tobacco Use Research Center reported in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute (2004;96:107–115) that smoking fewer cigarettes did not result in a proportional reduction in metabolites of the carcinogen 4-(methylnitrosamino)-1-(3-pyridyl)-1-butanone (NNK).

"The reduction was just not as great as you would have expected based on how much [the study participants] had cut back," said lead researcher Stephen Hecht, PhD.

Hecht and colleagues enrolled more than 150 people who smoked, on average, 23.7 cigarettes a day. The study involved gradual cigarette reduction using nicotine replacement therapy and brief counseling sessions. At each stage of the program, urinary levels of the NNK metabolites 4-(methylnitrosamino)-1-(3-pyridyl)-1-butanol (NNAL) and NNAL glucuronides (NNAL-Gluc) were measured. The reductions in these biomarkers did not keep pace with the reductions in cigarettes.

Cutting cigarette consumption by 53% led to a reduction of only 29% in NNAL and NNAL-Gluc. Cutting cigarettes by 75% caused only a 37% drop in the chemicals. Even people who cut back to just 2.6 cigarettes a day, a reduction of 90%, lowered their levels of NNAL and NNAL-Gluc by only 46%.

Although these reductions in carcinogens were statistically significant, for most smokers the effect was modest and transient, Hecht said. As the study went on, NNAL and NNAL-Gluc increased again in many participants, even though they were still smoking fewer cigarettes. Compensatory smoking is probably the reason.

Thun and Hecht said their findings support the notion that giving up cigarettes entirely is the best bet for reducing the health risks caused by tobacco. In the first study, quitting reduced lung cancer risk substantially; people who gave up smoking before age 35 had almost the same lung cancer risk as nonsmokers, but even those who quit after age 55 saw a substantial reduction. Hecht has done previous research showing that levels of NNAL and NNAL-Gluc gradually decrease and eventually become undetectable in people who quit smoking.

Moreover, no product or strategy designed to reduce the harm from smoking has yet been shown to work, Hecht said

"I still think cessation is the way to go, clearly," he said. "We don’t have conclusive evidence that anything else works."

Wednesday, July 15, 2009

Tar cigerettes affect health

    Here's about how tar cigarettes can affect our health.

    Amount of Tar

  1. Cigarette tar refers to the toxic chemicals that are added during the production of tobacco cigarettes. Different cigarettes are given ratings based on the amount of tar they include. Cigarettes with the highest tar concentration have more than 22 mg of tar in each cigarette, while low-tar cigarettes have less than 7 mg in each. Tar can be found in a brown solid form at the end of a smoked cigarette.
  2. Coloring Effects

  3. Cigarette tar can show immediate health effects in terms of a smoker's appearance. The tar in cigarettes can stain smokers' teeth and turn them yellow and brown. In addition, cigarette tar can stain anything it touches brown, including a smoker's hands and clothing. Filters in tobacco cigarettes are intended to keep tar from exiting, but toxins still make it through and can leave a brown-yellow film behind.
  4. Major Health Effects

  5. The tar in tobacco cigarettes is a major cause of lung cancer, emphysema and bronchitis. The toxins from the tar can damage lung cells that keep tumors from forming. Cigarette tar also damages cilia in the lungs, which protect the lining of the lungs. In addition to the discoloring of teeth, tar can cause periodontitis, a gum disease that can result in the loss of teeth.
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