Showing posts with label smoking. Show all posts
Showing posts with label smoking. Show all posts

Friday, March 18, 2011

Safer Smoking Alternative

Here's about e-cigarettes the safer smoking alternative.

E-cigarette consists of a battery-operated device comprising a lithium battery, heating the filter and the evaporator. Unit heats the solution to the nicotine inhaled nicotine dependency exemption. Although the e-cigarette contains nicotine is not carcinogenic. Nicotine is not harmful chemicals in cigarettes. It has other chemicals in cigarettes, the release of carcinogens into the air and the lungs, where the tobacco leaves are burned. E-cigarettes do not contain tar, carcinogens and harmful chemicals. E-Cigarette contains water, nicotine and propylene glycol. All these ingredients are safe and not harmful to human body.


The Truth About Nicotine

Nicotine is the drug of tobacco. But nicotine does not cause cancer. Studies show that nicotine itself is not really so addictive. Nicotine cigarettes is much easier than the end itself. This is why so many people who use nicotine replacement therapy (gum, patches, lozenges, etc.) are twice as successful to quit smoking permanently. In fact, the nicotine substitutes were causing cancer, why should the doctors recommend they stop smoking. Nicotine does not cause a heart attack, cancer or lung disease. This is not the yellow teeth, nails and skin. Using the e-cigarette, a person can be back to reduce physical symptoms and greater long-term success in smoking cessation.

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.

Wednesday, March 16, 2011

Healthier Way Of Smoking

Below about E-Cigarettes a healthier way of smoking while improving your health.

Electronic cigarettes are an innovative way to simple, a little bad food habit, at the same time improve your health. The electronic cigarette e-Lites are also an option to save money and reassuring account of the need for physical property is a smoker and "vaping. Since the vaping from an electronic cigarette does not produce harmful product in the air, e-Lites are welcomed by the community for non-smoking and much healthier than traditional cigarettes fire-driven. E-Lites are an innovative way to reduce the health complications caused by the unpleasant traditional cigarettes. Ask replicated and feel like the real thing. Electronic Cigarette E-Lite Steam a neutral, eliminating the cancer-causing smoke and the smell that so many people find unpleasant.

The electronic cigarette contains nicotine in a pure liquid form. If the liquid is inhaled, is in a nebulizer, which is heated and drawn in turn transformed into a harmless vapor. E-Lites are tobacco smoke, tar and carcinogenic free e-Lites make a healthy alternative. What is E-Lite save almost £ 5 per pack and is legal everywhere with you in every pub, restaurant or place of worship.

This latest generation of electronic cigarette comes with a starter kit that joy is simple, reliable and easy to use. Equipment containing nicotine that is replaceable and contains enough of the drug connection for up to 20 cigarettes should be charged. E-Lite is a leader in alternative and smoking in a fast pace is extended to meet demand domestically and internationally.

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.

Sunday, March 13, 2011

E Cigarette Store Anticipates the Increased Popularity

These about E Cigarette Store Anticipates the Increased Popularity of the E-Cigarette.

The smoking ban enacted in the UK in 2007 shows no signs of being relaxed any time soon. In fact, two attempts to do just that died in Parliament last year, including an attempt to amend the legislation to allow tobacco use in private clubs. In response, E Cigarette Store anticipates that electronic cigarette usage will increase in the future.

Electronic cigarettes are devices that can be used as a tobacco substitute yet with none of the harmful effects related to tobacco products. E-cigarettes contain no tar, nicotine, or other toxic chemicals and carcinogens found in standard tobacco products. Because there is no burning, the cigarette puts off no smoke or odour. In fact, the only by-product of these devices is harmless water vapour that dissipates quickly safely.

In the UK, there are currently no restrictions on the use of e-cigarettes. Although some pubs and restaurants are not yet fully up to speed on the devices, there are plenty who welcome them on their premises. Some even sell the devices themselves. On the E Cigarette Store website, a list of pubs and clubs that allow the e-cigarette is readily available. In addition, HTML code is made available to owners of such establishments who wish to be linked on the site.

The E Cigarette Store website includes links to various retailers who carry electronic cigarettes and their related accessories. The site provides a brief description of items for sale along with the retail price and a direct link to the company selling it. E Cigarette Store does not engage in any product sales; rather, it is simply a source of links to those that do.

The devices have been so popular recently that retailers like Gamucci have been introducing Disposable Electronic Cigarettes These cigarettes function just like the regular ones except they are meant to be thrown away once the nicotine runs out.

In addition, users will find articles and videos regarding the dangers of smoking and the benefits of using electronic cigarettes. The articles provide helpful information that smokers need in order to assess whether or not to use the e-cigarette as a tobacco alternative. Sceptical consumers will find links to other media outlets on the right side of the website. These external sources of information lend further credence to the information found on the E. Cigarette Store site.

Consumers who wish to know specifically how the East cigarette works will be delighted to find a diagram with a complete explanation on the website. The diagram shows all of the main components of the device, which are appropriately labelled, as well as a description of the parts. The diagram, combined with other information on the website, should give the user a fairly good idea what the e-cigarette is all about.

Users will find the website to be fast loading, gentle on the eyes, easy-to-read, fully functional, easy to navigate, and a good source of information on e-cigarettes.

Friday, March 11, 2011

War On Menthol Cigarettes

Today's article about the coming war on menthol cigarettes.

Last year, shortly after the Food and Drug Administration has received legislative authorization to set the tobacco, tobacco smoking, "thinks" it is forbidden - in the name of children.

This is largely a share of advertising by Twista Lime, Kauai Kolada and the taste of cigarettes, which was reinforced less than one percent of the cigarette market, and most factory production again when the smoke flavor FDA announced restrictions.

Now the FDA has begun a more intense after Login menthol smoke.

Perhaps the sense of an attack on smoking is the practice, because the risk is much higher now. In pursuit of menthol smoke, the government tried to ban smoking 30 per cent of the market at this time.

Like the flavor of smoke, supporters of the ban say the bulb cool clips of people smoking. This time, not to say that children bulb target, critics also throw a race card in a mix of music is like smoking menthols liked about three quarters of smokers blacks.

This coming war on menthols is a study in contradictions that will affect all Americans regardless of race and whether they smoke.

First and foremost, this 21st-century attempt at Prohibition will be a boon for smugglers. Cigarettes are already recognized by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives as the likely “number-one black market commodity in the world.”

Cigarette smuggling — now largely focused on avoiding the many taxes imposed on tobacco — already got a boost in the late ’90s when additional fees were added to comply with the tobacco industry’s settlement deal with state attorneys general. If menthol cigarettes are banned entirely, a new and extremely lucrative market will open up.

According to the ATF, more than $100,000 can be made right now from just a simple minivan full of contraband cigarettes smuggled into New York City. This puts money into the hands of the mob and even would-be terrorists while simultaneously depriving straining governments of tax revenue.

By the way, the Lorillard Tobacco Company, which sells these cigarettes, estimates that outlawing menthol cigarettes would reduce state and federal tax revenues by approximately $40 billion.

Don’t forget that someone selling homemade or smuggled menthol cigarettes out of the trunk of a car is also probably not very concerned about asking for proof of age. This means that creating a new underground market for cigarettes could conceivably increase underage access to tobacco products.

And don’t expect these smuggled smokes will undergo the quality checks that their currently legal counterparts face.

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Wednesday, March 9, 2011

New Product From Liberro Electronic Cigarettes

These about Liberro Electronic Cigarettes launched new product.

Liberro Electronic Cigarettes are now using their latest product, Real Liberro before No Smoking Day 9 started in March, the smallest and the most realistic e cigarette market is a good way to go smoke-free, while still determines their nicotine.

Liberro realism tar and tobacco-free electronic cigarette which looks and tastes like the real thing. These include the experience of nicotine associated with smoking, but they are smoke free. Instead, they produce odorless vapor that rapidly degraded, and they are not to smoke - so they can be used in public places. Electronic cigarettes produce carbon monoxide, tar does not smell. In addition, Liberro Electronic Cigarette also rechargeable and can be economically more efficient than regular cigarettes, the cost savings of up to 80% per year.

Fire Chiefs from all over the national No Smoking Day is an opportunity to warn smokers that the careless disposal of cigarettes, the biggest killer and the cause of the house fire. Liberro realism is easy to use and it is battery operated and there is no fire, there is no fire hazard associated with traditional cigarettes. It even has a built-in flashlight, ideal for power outages and gadget lovers!
Real Liberro Each Starter Pack contains everything you go for a hassle-free electronic cigarette cigarettes a convenient size for the tax. It also contains six regular or menthol taste of tips (the equivalent of about 90 for each pack of cigarettes worth). Refill tips are available at a fraction of the normal cost of cigarettes available.

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Tuesday, March 8, 2011

Smokers are turning to E-Lites technology

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No Smoking Day arrives Wednesday, March 9, but the growing popularity of electronic cigarettes, smokers smoke-free means no longer have a full day of abstinence.

E-Lites, UK-based maker of cigarettes most sophisticated electronic systems on the market, says that rather than go without, smokers can enjoy an alternative, the so-called "vaping" or "E-Liting, which is healthier that conventional cigarettes, more comfortable, more convenient to purchase and restrictions in public places.

innovative company, based on extensive research and development, production of steam-neutral, which eliminates the smell of cigarettes disgusting that many find unpleasant.

benefit of their award winning electronic cigarettes more and more fans, according to e-Lites founder Adrian Everett. "The benefits of E-Lites is too big to ignore a lot of smokers, and we are experiencing unprecedented levels of demand, " he said. "No Smoking Day is a great opportunity to test the best alternatives to traditional smoking, so we are urging smokers to test the E-Lites. "

Celebrities certainly haven’t been slow to take up the ‘vaping’ trend. Among the stars spotted with electronic cigarettes have been Katherine Heigl, Johnny Depp, Avril Lavigne and Leonardo DiCaprio.

E-Lites contain a pure liquid form of nicotine that, when someone inhales from the device, is drawn into an atomising chamber, heated and turned into a vapour. This delivers a measured amount of nicotine to smoothly and pleasantly satisfy the user. Although they are used very much like a cigarette, E-Lites contain no tobacco, tar, carcinogens or harmful chemicals.

The device comprises a replaceable cartridge, which delivers the nicotine equivalent of up to 15 cigarettes, an atomiser and a rechargeable battery, which lasts for the equivalent of 15 to 20 cigarettes before needing to be recharged.

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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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Monday, November 1, 2010

E-cigarette Manufacturers Target Stop Children Committed

Article about e-cigarette maker agrees to stop taargetting kids.

The largest maker of electronic cigarettes has agreed to stop targeting minors and claiming that its "e-cigarettes" are a safe alternative to smoking.

Smoking Everywhere reached a settlement with the state attorney general's office last week and agreed to pay $170,000.

The company and other electronic cigarette makers have claimed that e-cigarettes are safe because they contain no carcinogens or tar and produce no second-hand smoke, according to the state attorney general's office.

But the U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced last July that some electronic cigarettes do contain dangerous chemicals, including nicotine and carcinogens such as nitrosamines and diethylene glycol, commonly known as antifreeze.

"Smoking Everywhere aimed ads at minors and falsely claimed its products were safe," Attorney General Jerry Brown said in the news release.

Christine Gasparac, spokesperson for the attorney general's office, said the website featured Howard Stern saying "kids love 'em." The defendants did not admit any violation of the law, according to court documents. Company representatives could not be reached for comment.

On its website, Smoking Everywhere advertises e-cigarettes in flavors like mint, coffee,

chocolate, vanilla, cherry and apple and offers products with varying nicotine strengths.

“It looks like a cigarette, it tastes like a cigarette, it feels like a cigarette, but it isn't a cigarette – it's much better!” a video advertisement on the company’s website states. The ad focuses on the benefits of being able to smoke the e-cigarette indoors – in taxis, restaurants and airports.

The e-cigarette was developed in China in 2004, according to the World Health Organization. When puffed on, an indicator light glows, and a vapor is produced. The e-cigarette comes with a lithium battery and a charger.

The settlement with Smoking Everywhere is not the first between the state and an e-cigarette company. On Aug. 3, the attorney general's office announced an $85,000 settlement with Sottera, another major e-cigarette producer. Sottera, according to the settlement, had also targeted minors and made false claims about its product.

Other states, like Oregon, have sued e-cigarette companies for the same reasons.

In 2008, the World Health Organization published a news release stating that it "does not consider it to be a legitimate therapy for smokers trying to quit."

In a CNN article published last year, Elicko Taieb, the CEO of Smoking Everywhere, was quoted as saying, “There are no ingredients in our e-cigs that can cause cancer. However, it is a pretty new product, so we are not 100 percent sure of the side effects at this point.”

Evidence Doesn’t Indicate Benefit to Health

About low-tar cigarettes.

Millions of Americans smoke "low-tar," "mild," or "light" cigarettes, believing those cigarettes to be less harmful than other cigarettes. In a new monograph from the National Cancer Institute (NCI) titled Risks Associated with Smoking Cigarettes with Low Machine-Measured Yields of Tar and Nicotine*, national scientific experts conclude that evidence does not indicate a benefit to public health from changes in cigarette design and manufacturing over the last 50 years.

"This report was made possible by the work and cooperation of scientists throughout the country," said Scott Leischow, Ph.D., chief of the NCI Tobacco Control Research Branch. "The monograph clearly demonstrates that people who switch to low-tar or light cigarettes from regular cigarettes are likely to inhale the same amount of cancer-causing toxins and they remain at high risk for developing smoking-related cancers and other diseases." This monograph is the 13th volume in NCI's Smoking and Tobacco Control Monograph Series, which began in 1991.

Public Health Effects

Epidemiologic studies (studies that examine the relationship of risk factors to health and disease) in the late 1960s and 1970s found that smokers of lower-tar or filtered cigarettes had somewhat lower lung cancer risks than smokers of other cigarettes. This finding was particularly noteworthy because smokers in these studies had been smoking the reduced-yield cigarettes for only a relatively short period of time. It was predicted that as more smokers used lower yield products for longer periods of time, a greater benefit would occur and national lung cancer death rates would fall.

Unfortunately, these reductions have not been seen. Even as the popularity of lower- yield cigarettes grew - 97 percent of the cigarettes now sold in the United States are filtered cigarettes - lung cancer rates continued to rise until the early 1990s. The monograph demonstrates that the overall decline that has been seen since the 1990s can be attributed to the decrease in smoking prevalence, and not to changes in cigarette design.

The new monograph reviews published literature on death rates in the U.S. and the United Kingdom which also demonstrated an increase - rather than a decrease - in smoking risks over a period when machine-measured yields of tar and nicotine were declining. Two studies conducted by the American Cancer Society more than 20 years apart found that, despite the large reduction in machine-measured tar yield over this period, smokers in the later study had an increased risk of lung cancer. This increase was seen even when differences in the number of cigarettes smoked per day and duration of smoking were factored into the analysis. The monograph clearly demonstrates that the expected reduction in lung cancer risk offered by the early epidemiologic studies has not been seen in national lung cancer death rate trends.

Surveys have indicated that among the estimated 47 million adults who smoke in the United States, people who are most concerned about smoking risks or are most interested in quitting use brands labeled "light" or "ultra-light." Unfortunately, the monograph finds that choosing lower-yield cigarettes is not likely to reduce tar intake and resulting disease risks. Furthermore, marketing and promotion of reduced yield products may delay genuine attempts to quit. There is no evidence that switching to light or ultra-light cigarettes actually assists smokers in quitting.

According to David M. Burns, M.D., senior scientific editor of the monograph and a professor at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine, "The take-home message of this report is that the only proven way to reduce the disease risks associated with smoking is to quit."

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 smoker̢۪s 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.

Wednesday, October 20, 2010

Electronic Cigarettes Become Most Popular

Talk about electronic cigarettes.

There is a growing tendency among smokers to switch from smoking traditional cigarettes to using electronic cigarettes. Since their introduction into the North American market some 9 years ago, 1 in 20 of the 40 million smokers are using or have used electronic cigarettes or e-cigs as they are sometimes known as.

Smokers who have used electronic cigarettes to quit smoking have found it as the most effective and successful tool they have ever used. Many have unsuccessfully spent thousands of dollars on nicotine patches, nicotine gum, pills, acupuncture, hypnosis, only to revert back to the habit.

So how is the e-cig more effective than the other quit smoking products on the market? The main difference is that the electronic cigarette looks, tastes and feels like a real cigarette, without the tar and harmful chemicals that are associated with conventional cigarettes. The user can vary the strength of nicotine from 16mg to zero over a period of time, giving the body time to adjust to the lack of nicotine in the bloodstream.

The other distinct advantage is that with an e-cig, the user is actually smoking. He or she is holding the device between the fingers, inhaling the harmless vapour and exhaling. Most of the people who have tried to quit using a nicotine patch or gum, have sorely missed this tactile action of putting a cigarette to the mouth, inhaling and exhaling. This action alone can be attributed to the success of the electronic cigarette.

The e-cig is here to stay despite various local governments and the large tobacco corporations efforts to ban its sale in this country. There are many advantages when a smoker changes from smoking traditional cigarettes to e-ecigs. The main ones are that they contain none of the harmful toxins and tar, they can be smoked anywhere as they do not emit any harmful second-hand smoke, and they are cheaper to use than conventional cigarettes.

Thursday, October 14, 2010

Still Want To Smoke?

Talks about tar in cigarettes.

The experience of 400 cigarettes No wonder the human lung cancer! Consider this: The sticky Tar contains poison and remains in the lungs each time you smoke and your lungs need much calorie to remove these toxins from the blood! You will live shorter than you think! But think of your family and / or the lives of children!

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Wednesday, October 13, 2010

Cigarettes Contain Heavy Metal

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A senior official with the country's top tobacco watchdog has expressed doubts over the credibility of a study which suggests that some Chinese cigarettes contain too many heavy metals, saying simply comparing Chinese and Canadian cigarettes is not scientific.

A study released on Thursday by the International Tobacco Control Project shows that some Chinese cigarettes have significantly high levels of heavy metals, with some containing about three times the level of lead, cadmium and arsenic of Canadian cigarette brands.

The brands involved include Honghe, Hongtashan and Baisha, and the metal content in tobacco comes from the contaminated soil in which the tobacco leaf is grown, the study shows.

However, Wang Xiansheng, deputy director of the technology department of China's State Tobacco Monopoly Administration, expressed doubts over the study's credibility.

"I don't think the research which simply compares Chinese- and Canadian-made cigarettes can be trusted and so far there are no standards on tobacco products' heavy mental concentration in China and the world," he said on Saturday.

Wang made no direct comments on the heavy metal content level in Chinese-made cigarettes.

An unnamed official with the general office of the Shanghai Tobacco (Group) Co told the Yangtze Evening News on Saturday that the high heavy metal concentration detected in the cigarettes comes mainly from tobacco leaves.

"It's related to many factors including the natural environment where they grow, so that's not under the control of the tobacco producer," the officer was quoted as saying.

Official documents show the heavy metal problem has caught the attention of the administration.

A document posted by the administration's website in 2009 says tobacco plants are prone to absorbing heavy metals from the soil they grow in and the heavy metal inhaled by people while smoking could harm their health.

"To work out technologies addressing the problem will help improve consumers' health and the competitiveness of Chinese-made tobacco products in the global market," the document says.

Experts warn that almost all of the heavy metals have known health effects: arsenic is a poison, cadmium can cause cancer and lead is toxic to the brain - and these metals get into smokers' bodies along with a cocktail of other toxins.

"The presence of such contaminants in an already deadly consumer product demonstrates the need for strong regulation of tobacco products. Smokers and non-smokers in China and elsewhere deserve to know what is in their cigarettes," said Richard O'Connor with the Roswell Park Cancer Institute, New York, who led the study.

Each year, 1 million smokers die from tobacco-related diseases in China, and another 100,000 die from exposure to secondhand smoke. If current trends continue, China's death toll from tobacco will reach 2 million a year by 2020, official statistics showed.

Worse, knowledge about the harm of cigarettes is far lower in China than internationally, the new study shows. Only 68 percent of smokers in China believe that smoking leads to lung cancer and only 36 percent believe smoking causes heart disease.

In addition, more than 70 percent of Chinese smokers wrongly believe that "light" or "low tar" cigarettes are less harmful, a previous survey showed.

"Weak cigarette package warnings are ineffective at educating the public about the serious consequences of smoking," said Wang Ke'an, director of the Think Tank Research Center for Health Development, a non-governmental organization based in Beijing.

The warnings on the back of cigarette packages in China are written in English and fewer than 10 percent of smokers in China understand them, he said.

Monday, October 11, 2010

Cigarette Smoking Facts

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The world’s view on smoking cigarettes has changed dramatically over the last century. The habit was once considered to be cool, sexy, good for your health, and widely enjoyed by many people. It was promoted by sportsmen, and advertised all over television. No one could be seen acting in a movie without a lit cigarette in their hand! Today, smoking is considered to be a nasty addictive habit that can kill you and those around you. You wont find them advertised anywhere – nor will you see anyone smoking inside a public building. It seems that these days smokers are considered to be anti-social and are often frowned at if seen smoking outside in crowded places. Below is a list of interesting facts about cigarettes.

1. Cigarettes are the single-most traded item on the planet, with approximately 1 trillion being sold from country to country each year. At a global take of more than $400 billion, it’s one of the world’s largest industries.

2. The nicotine content in several major brands is reportedly on the rise. Harvard University and the Massachusetts Health Department revealed that between 1997 and 2005 the amount of nicotine in Camel, Newport, and Doral cigarettes may have increased by as much as 11 percent.

3. In 1970, President Nixon signed the law that placed warning labels on cigarettes and banned television advertisements for cigarettes. The last date that cigarette ads were permitted on TV was extended by a day, from December 31, 1970 to January 1, 1971 to allow the television networks one last cash windfall from cigarette advertising in the New Year’s Day football games.

4. U.S. cigarette manufacturers now make more money selling cigarettes to countries around the globe than they do selling to Americans.

5. The American brands Marlboro, Kool, Camel and Kent own roughly 70% of the global cigarette market.

Saturday, October 9, 2010

Cigarettes Contain Tar

Here’s thought about tar in cigarettes.

In solid form, tar is the brown, tacky substance that is left behind on the end of the cigarette filter. It stains a smoker's teeth and fingers brown and coats everything it touches with a brownish-yellow film.
Tar in cigarette smoke paralyzes the cilia in the lungs and contributes to lung diseases such as:

  • Emphysema
  • Bronchitis
  • Lung Cancer

  • Low Tar Cigarettes Are Safer True?

    Here’s thought about it.

    Even smokers, it turned out to be a common psychological 'health conscious' is. The right to exercise the right to munch on the right saw smoke and equality. Furthermore, for example, said the tobacco advertisers, clean air, mountain streams, sports, dance, movement started by the Southern tobacco products. People in the health care service boasts a stylish addition to good growth. They can also lead to the footprints of equal value, index, fresh, and their diet, energy, g protein, mg sodium relationship.

    One sense with the intention of ancestors boast mature refined is with the intention of they appreciate with the intention of in a large amount gear the grave issue is the sum of the substance which they ingest. They appreciate with the intention of every person is exposed to a number of evil causing agents, representing instance, except with the intention of the likelihood of receiving evil is correlated to the quantity of persons agents. Similarly, countless cigarette smokers get with the intention of the hazards of smoking are correlated to the quantity of tobacco containing toxins with the intention of they ingest.

    Unfortunately, this urbanity in the self-monitoring of come again? we eat, drink, as well as smoke has ended cigarette smokers straightforward targets representing the as a result called ’safer cigarette’. though the tobacco companies achieve not concede with the intention of some of their goods basis disease, they comprise but promoted low-tar brands. be in the region of tar yields comprise dropped next to in relation to 50% in the historical two decades, then in the United Kingdom tobacco companies boast argued representing the hardship representing them to be present acceptable to resume cigarette promotion in enjoin to hearten smokers to exchange to low-tar brands. The spokesperson tables of tar, nicotine furthermore carbon monoxide yields boast moreover optimistic the conception of the a lesser amount of dangerous cigarette next to advocating with the intention of smokers who cannot stop must exchange to lower-yielding brand.

    On the face the relocate towards smoking worse tar docile cigarettes seems relatively promising. proviso nation are not capable to transfer up, next to smallest amount they are heart exposed to slighter amounts of the toxins to the same extent cigarettes boast mature steadily ’safer’. except comprise the cigarettes in fact mature safer? come again? perform the executive yield information mean?

    The come back with to the formerly distrust is with the intention of cigarettes are perhaps not  any safer than they were some decades ago. in attendance is normal sign with the intention of intake of tar with nicotine has insufficiently to perform by in print levels. nation are choosing cigarettes based taking place FALSE information. The glitch is with the intention of executive estimates comprise insufficiently to achieve by what’s more the subject matter of tobacco in the cigarettes before the feature ancestors in reality smoke them. nation bottle with achieve fine-tune the volume, prize open with frequency of wheezing next breathe in extra before fewer of the smoke generated in reply to the vigor of the cigarette. except automated cigarette smoking apparatus are involuntary to smoke every one of cigarettes in just the similar route also achieve not adjustment the mode they smoke in reply to nibble also vigor factors. Clearly, hard along with promotion methods obligation be present altered proviso regulars are to ensue truly educated approximately come again? they are smoking.
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