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In addition to the addictive drug nicotine, the other principal harmful substances in cigarettes are tar and carbon monoxide. Tar is a sticky, brown residue that collects in the lungs. Primarily made up of chemicals known as hydrocarbons, tar is a powerful cancer-causing agent that has been linked to the development of lung cancer. Carbon monoxide is a poison that partially replaces the oxygen normally carried throughout the body by red blood cells, robbing the body of sufficient oxygen. Switching to a low-tar cigarette usually does not help because the person usually compensates for the change by inhaling longer or by smoking more cigarettes. read more

The most important thing you should know about quitting smoking is that the harmful effects of the habit begin to reverse almost as soon as you stop. Within 20 minutes of your last cigarette, your heart rate and blood pressure drop to normal. After 8 hours of being smoke-free, your blood levels of carbon monoxide and oxygen return to normal. Your risk of having a heart attack decreases after only 24 hours, and in 2 weeks your circulation will improve and your lung function will increase up to 30 percent. These beneficial effects continue until, after 10 years of not smoking, your chances of dying of lung cancer become about the same as for a nonsmoker. read more

Hypnotherapy is considered one of the most promising fields of medicine when it comes to solving patients bad habit like smoking and gambling. In this type of therapy, the patient is put on trance so that the therapist can create certain contact with his subconscious mind of his patient. Once there is an established connection, the patient becomes more aware to what the therapist say because his mind would hear nothing but the voice of the hypnotherapist, making himself believe that he have to quit smoking or stop gambling. read more

In doing economic analysis, the policy question we seek to answer dictates which definition of the cost of smoking to employ, and the perspective from which these costs are counted. For example, the perspective could be that of a government department, the healthcare sector of the economy, or all of society. Consistency in defining costs and in perspective is particularly important to avoid both double counting and erroneous identification of transfers of funds in the economy as costs. read more

Nicotine, delivered from tobacco through smoking or oral use, is an addictive drug and tobacco use is, for the majority of smokers, essentially a form of nicotine self-administration. The tobacco industry was aware of this in the early 1960s, as revealed by the following quotation from a general counsel to the tobacco company Brown & Williamson: “Moreover, nicotine is addictive.We are, then, in the business of selling nicotine, an addictive drug…”. read more

Tobacco smoke is a serious environmental hazard and a significant cause of ill health. A review commissioned by the “Europe Against Cancer” Programme of the European Commission in 1997 concluded that:“Tobacco smoke is the most important source of indoor contaminants in environments where smoking occurs.” read more

Many non-smokers feel immediate effects on breathing in tobacco smoke. They can suffer from coughing, headache, eye irritation, sore throat, sneezing and runny nose, nausea, breathing problems, and irregular heartbeat (particularly for people with heart disease).
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Cigarette smoking harms nearly every organ of the human body, thereby causing a broad range of diseases, at least 24 of which are fatal, as well as a massive burden of chronic illness. read more