National Commission on Marihuana and Drug Abuse THE BAN ON ADVERTISING Both the U.S. Public Health Service and Federal Trade Commission have annually reported findings to Congress since passage of the cigarette labeling law. The FTC recommended that the Act should be amended to: Warning: Cigarette Smoking…
Having previously written about my approach to blending, I realized that bringing information about different tobacco types to light might be useful, so here is a very basic guide to some of the varieties you ll commonly find. Virginia- One of the most important of all blending components, Virginia is…
The Department of Health and Human Service s (DHHS) 1982 report to Congress on the health consequences of smoking presents a comprehensive evaluation of the relationship between cigarette smoking and cancer. It identifies cigarette smoking as the major single cause of cancer mortality in the United States…
Like it or not, smoking is now banned in all public indoor spaces in the UK. Here s what you need to know about where you can, and can t, light up. Smoking was cool, now it means going out in the cold. When the smoking ban came into effect in England on 1 July 2007, the whole of the United Kingdom became…
Maybe you’ve tried to quit smokeless tobacco before. Why is quitting and staying quit so hard for so many people? The answer is mainly nicotine. Nicotine Nicotine is a drug found naturally in tobacco, which is as addictive as heroin or cocaine. Over time, a person becomes physically dependent on and emotionally addicted to nicotine. The physical dependence causes unpleasant…
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1London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London WC1E 7HT, UK Abstract Lung cancer incidence in smokers is roughly proportional to dose rate (cigarettes per day) but increases much more rapidly with duration of smoking. The assumption that the incidence rate is proportional to total lifetime dose (the product of dose rate and duration) has been known to be wrong for…
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NJOYNew York Times columnist Joe Nocera calls attention to the lifesaving potential of electronic cigarettes and bemoans resistance to this form of harm reduction by the anti-smoking movement. Describing a new e-cigarette model from NJOY that is designed to more closely simulate smoking by delivering more nicotine and a stronger hit to the back of the throat,Nocera writes:…
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A Yale study estimates that 8 million lives have been saved in the United States as a result of anti-smoking measures that began 50 years ago this month with the groundbreaking report from the Surgeon General outlining the deadly consequences of tobacco use. The Yale School of Public Health-led analysis is published in the Journal of the American Medical Association. The study…
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A smoking ban in England , making it illegal to smoke in all enclosed work places in . Similar bans had already been introduced by the rest of the United Kingdom before this — on 2 April 2007 and Northern Ireland on 30 April 2007. Before the smoking ban [edit] Before the ban many businesses voluntarily introduced bans on smoking mainly as a result of public feedback. The pub…
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