U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. . Atlanta, GA: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, Office on Smoking and Health, 2014. U.S. Department of Health and Human Services…
General surgery is a surgical specialty that focuses on abdominal contents including esophagus, stomach, small bowel, colon, liver, pancreas, gallbladder and bile ducts, and often the thyroid gland (depending on local reference patterns). They also deal with diseases involving the skin, breast, soft…
On 31 August 1842, the United States Congress passed a Navy appropriation bill that was a blueprint for efficiency. The legislation provided for five Navy bureaus United States Navy bureau system to replace the outdated Board of Navy Commissioners—Yards and Docks; Construction, Equipment, and Repair;…
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By 1640, London was importing nearly a million and a half pounds of tobacco annually from Virginia. Soon English tobacconists were extolling the virtues of the colony s tobacco with labels bearing such verses as: Life is a smoke! - If this be true, Tobacco will thy Life renew; Then fear not Death, nor…
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For example, some studies suggest that women are more susceptible to the carcinogens in cigarettes, because women appear to develop lung cancer after fewer pack-years of smoking than do men. Examples: Jill smoked 1 pack of cigarettes daily for 20 years. She has a 20 pack-year history of smoking. Frank…
1585–1622, English colonist in Virginia. He reached the colony in May, 1610, and introduced (1612) the regular cultivation of tobacco, which became Virginia s staple. A widower, he fell in love with and married (1614) Pocahontas Pocahontas c.1595–1617, Native North American woman, daughter of Chief Powhatan. Pocahontas, meaning playful one (her real name was said to be Matoaka)…
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Lenny Dykstra chews tobacco during a game against the Chicago Cubs, Sept 1, 1990. Credit: Jonathan Daniel / Getty Images Pitching great Curt Schilling revealed the details of his fight with cancer on Boston radio Wednesday, explaining that he has squamous cell carcinoma, a form of mouth cancer that is currently in remission, and that he likely got it from a career of chewing…
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Cigarette smoking among U.S. adults has fallen to the lowest rate in generations, according to data released Thursday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. That s good news, considering that smoking still accounts for about 480, deaths annually in the United States, along with an estimated $300 billion in health costs and lost productivity. But the CDC numbers…
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Tobacco Advertising Tobacco advertising in America first appeared in 1789, when the Lorillard brothers advertised their snuff and tobacco products in a local New York daily paper. Advertising for tobacco, and most other products, over the next 70 years took this same form - mostly unadorned advertisements in local or regional newspapers. For the three main tobacco products…
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