When Did We Know About The Effects Of Cigarette Smoking

It seems a day doesn't go by that we don't hear orThe habit burns up good health, good resolutions, good
see something about cigarette smoking and themanners, good memories, good faculties, and often
tobacco companies being blamed for the destructivehonesty and truthfulness as well.
effects of cigarette smoking on our health, is it a badCases of epilepsy, insanity and death are frequently
rap put on the tobacco companies, or a way for thereported as the result of smoking cigarettes, while
states to collect more taxes. If you haven't heard thesuch physicians as Dr. Lewis Sayre, Dr. Hammond, and
states our increasing the tax on cigarettes, on JanuarySir Morell Mackenzie of England, name heart trouble,
1st Texas increased the tax by a $1.00 a pack to $1.41,blindness, cancer and other diseases as occasioned
New Jersey levies a nation-high $2.58 state tax perby it.
pack.Leading physicians of America unanimously condemn
Bangor Maine bans smoking in cars carrying childrencigarette smoking as one of the vilest and most
which went in to effect on Jan.19, it allows the police todestructive evils that ever befell the youth of any
stop cars if an adult is smoking while a child under 18 iscountry, declaring that its direct tendency is a
a passenger. The smoker can be fined $50. Mostdeterioration of the race.
large companies now have smoke free workplaceLook at the pale, wilted complexion of a boy who
policies.indulges in excessive cigarette smoking. It takes no
So when did we become aware that cigarettephysician to diagnose his case, and death will surely
smoking was bad for us? It would seem to be onmark for his own every boy and young man who will
January 11, 1964, when Surgeon General Luther Terryfollow up the habit. It is no longer a matter of guess. It
issued a landmark concluding, for the first time, thatis a scientific fact which the microscope in every case
smoking is a direct cause of lung cancer, heartverifies.
disease, and emphysema. In 1964, 50-percent of adultHe also goes on to list the cost of smoking and I was
males and 46-percent of all Americans smokedsurprised that one cigarette cost between 5 and 10
cigarettes.cents each, that's one to two dollars a pack which
Then on May 27, 2004 the U.S. Surgeon Generalwas a lot of money then.
Richard H. Carmona released a new comprehensiveIf the physicians new in 1892 the destructive effects of
report on smoking and health, revealing for the firstcigarette smoking why has it taken over 115 years to
time that smoking causes diseases in nearly everyinform us that the tobacco companies have been
organ of the body. Published 40 years after thepoisoning us and we need to quit smoking, could it be
surgeon general's first report on smoking, whichthe tobacco companies lobbing efforts, who knows,
concluded that smoking was a definite cause of threebut now that we are aware and the tobacco
serious diseases, this newest report finds thatcompanies no were aware, they won't be up to any
cigarette smoking is conclusively linked to diseasesmore tricks to keep us hooked, they even put links on
such as leukemia, cataracts, pneumonia and cancerstheir web sites to stop smoking sites to help us quit
of the cervix,kidney, pancreas and stomach.smoking.
"We've known for decades that smoking is bad forGuess what if you believe that you under estimate the
your health, but this report shows that it's even worsepower of greed, the following is taken from
than we knew," Dr. Carmona said. "The toxins fromMassachusetts Department of Public Health they are
cigarette smoke go everywhere the blood flows. I'mone of only 3 states that require tobacco companies
hoping this new information will help motivate people toto submit reports and what they found is, that from
quit smoking and convince young people not to start in1998 to 2004 the amount of nicotine in a cigarette has
the first place."increased steadily, the study showed that regardless
Statistics indicate that more than 12 million Americansof brand that the amount of nicotine that is actually
have died from smoking since the 1964 report of thedelivered to the smokers lungs has increased
surgeon general, and another 25 million Americans alivesignificantly overall, nicotine yields increased ten
today will most likely die of a smoking related illness. Itpercent. Marlboro, Newport, and Camel, the three most
would seem that the tobacco companies have killedpopular brands with young smokers, all delivered
more of us than all the wars in history.significantly more nicotine, and Kool menthol increased
So it looks like we have know that cigarette smokinga woping twenty percent.
is bad for are health a little over 40 years right, well inNicotine in tobacco is a highly addictive drug that
my research I found the following information datedaffects nearly every organ in our body with the
1892 Titled The Destructive Effects of Cigaretteincreased levels of nicotine in cigarettes it makes it
Smoking.more difficult to quit smoking. Smoking is a very
Cigarettes have been analyzed, and most physicianspowerful addiction, and it can take multiple attempts to
and chemists were surprised to find how much opiumquit smoking but you must keep trying, you can
is put into them. A tobacconist himself says that thesuccessfully quit smoking.
extent to which drugs are used in cigarettes isToday we have many resources to help us quit
appalling. Havana flavoring for this same purpose issmoking, so lets send a message to the tobacco
sold everywhere by the thousand barrels. Thiscompanies and spend that cigarette money on as
flavoring is made from the tonkabean, which containsmany stop smoking programs that it takes.
a deadly poison. The wrappers, warranted to be riceA lot of the quit smoking programs on line offer full
paper, are sometimes made of common paper, andmoney back guarantee so what do you have to lose
sometimes of the filthy scrapings of rag pickersexcept a bad habit and the destructive effects of
bleached white with arsenic. What a thing for humancigarette smoking on our health.
lungs.