| It seems a day doesn't go by that we don't | | | | resolutions, good manners, good memories, |
| hear or see something about cigarette smoking | | | | good faculties, and often honesty and |
| and the tobacco companies being blamed for | | | | truthfulness as well. |
| the destructive effects of cigarette smoking | | | | |
| on our health, is it a bad rap put on the | | | | Cases of epilepsy, insanity and death are |
| tobacco companies, or a way for the states to | | | | frequently reported as the result of smoking |
| collect more taxes. If you haven't heard the | | | | cigarettes, while such physicians as Dr. |
| states our increasing the tax on cigarettes, | | | | Lewis Sayre, Dr. Hammond, and Sir Morell |
| on January 1st Texas increased the tax by a | | | | Mackenzie of England, name heart trouble, |
| $1.00 a pack to $1.41, New Jersey levies a | | | | blindness, cancer and other diseases as |
| nation-high $2.58 state tax per pack. | | | | occasioned by it. |
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| Bangor Maine bans smoking in cars carrying | | | | Leading physicians of America unanimously |
| children which went in to effect on Jan.19, | | | | condemn cigarette smoking as one of the |
| it allows the police to stop cars if an adult | | | | vilest and most destructive evils that ever |
| is smoking while a child under 18 is a | | | | befell the youth of any country, declaring |
| passenger. The smoker can be fined $50. Most | | | | that its direct tendency is a deterioration |
| large companies now have smoke free workplace | | | | of the race. |
| policies. | | | | |
| | | | Look at the pale, wilted complexion of a boy |
| So when did we become aware that cigarette | | | | who indulges in excessive cigarette smoking. |
| smoking was bad for us? It would seem to be | | | | It takes no physician to diagnose his case, |
| on January 11, 1964, when Surgeon General | | | | and death will surely mark for his own every |
| Luther Terry issued a landmark concluding, | | | | boy and young man who will follow up the |
| for the first time, that smoking is a direct | | | | habit. It is no longer a matter of guess. It |
| cause of lung cancer, heart disease, and | | | | is a scientific fact which the microscope in |
| emphysema. In 1964, 50-percent of adult males | | | | every case verifies. |
| and 46-percent of all Americans smoked | | | | |
| cigarettes. | | | | He also goes on to list the cost of smoking |
| | | | and I was surprised that one cigarette cost |
| Then on May 27, 2004 the U.S. Surgeon General | | | | between 5 and 10 cents each, that's one to |
| Richard H. Carmona released a new | | | | two dollars a pack which was a lot of money |
| comprehensive report on smoking and health, | | | | then. |
| revealing for the first time that smoking | | | | |
| causes diseases in nearly every organ of the | | | | If the physicians new in 1892 the destructive |
| body. Published 40 years after the surgeon | | | | effects of cigarette smoking why has it taken |
| general's first report on smoking, which | | | | over 115 years to inform us that the tobacco |
| concluded that smoking was a definite cause | | | | companies have been poisoning us and we need |
| of three serious diseases, this newest report | | | | to quit smoking, could it be the tobacco |
| finds that cigarette smoking is conclusively | | | | companies lobbing efforts, who knows, but now |
| linked to diseases such as leukemia, | | | | that we are aware and the tobacco companies |
| cataracts, pneumonia and cancers of the | | | | no were aware, they won't be up to any more |
| cervix,kidney, pancreas and stomach. | | | | tricks to keep us hooked, they even put links |
| | | | on their web sites to stop smoking sites to |
| "We've known for decades that smoking is bad | | | | help us quit smoking. |
| for your health, but this report shows that | | | | |
| it's even worse than we knew," Dr. Carmona | | | | Guess what if you believe that you under |
| said. "The toxins from cigarette smoke go | | | | estimate the power of greed, the following is |
| everywhere the blood flows. I'm hoping this | | | | taken from Massachusetts Department of Public |
| new information will help motivate people to | | | | Health they are one of only 3 states that |
| quit smoking and convince young people not to | | | | require tobacco companies to submit reports |
| start in the first place." | | | | and what they found is, that from 1998 to |
| | | | 2004 the amount of nicotine in a cigarette |
| Statistics indicate that more than 12 million | | | | has increased steadily, the study showed that |
| Americans have died from smoking since the | | | | regardless of brand that the amount of |
| 1964 report of the surgeon general, and | | | | nicotine that is actually delivered to the |
| another 25 million Americans alive today will | | | | smokers lungs has increased significantly |
| most likely die of a smoking related illness. | | | | overall, nicotine yields increased ten |
| It would seem that the tobacco companies have | | | | percent. Marlboro, Newport, and Camel, the |
| killed more of us than all the wars in | | | | three most popular brands with young smokers, |
| history. | | | | all delivered significantly more nicotine, |
| | | | and Kool menthol increased a woping twenty |
| So it looks like we have know that cigarette | | | | percent. |
| smoking is bad for are health a little over | | | | |
| 40 years right, well in my research I found | | | | Nicotine in tobacco is a highly addictive |
| the following information dated 1892 Titled | | | | drug that affects nearly every organ in our |
| The Destructive Effects of Cigarette Smoking. | | | | body with the increased levels of nicotine in |
| | | | cigarettes it makes it more difficult to quit |
| Cigarettes have been analyzed, and most | | | | smoking. Smoking is a very powerful |
| physicians and chemists were surprised to | | | | addiction, and it can take multiple attempts |
| find how much opium is put into them. A | | | | to quit smoking but you must keep trying, you |
| tobacconist himself says that the extent to | | | | can successfully quit smoking. |
| which drugs are used in cigarettes is | | | | |
| appalling. Havana flavoring for this same | | | | Today we have many resources to help us quit |
| purpose is sold everywhere by the thousand | | | | smoking, so lets send a message to the |
| barrels. This flavoring is made from the | | | | tobacco companies and spend that cigarette |
| tonkabean, which contains a deadly poison. | | | | money on as many stop smoking programs that |
| The wrappers, warranted to be rice paper, are | | | | it takes. |
| sometimes made of common paper, and sometimes | | | | |
| of the filthy scrapings of rag pickers | | | | A lot of the quit smoking programs on line |
| bleached white with arsenic. What a thing for | | | | offer full money back guarantee so what do |
| human lungs. | | | | you have to lose except a bad habit and the |
| | | | destructive effects of cigarette smoking on |
| The habit burns up good health, good | | | | our health. |