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A Few Facts About Tobacco – The Killer Plant

July 22, 2010
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What many tobacco users get after years of smoking are a number of physiological diseases such as heart disease, lung cancer, larynx cancer, mouth cancer, eye irritations, brain dysfunction due to nicotine addiction, emphysema, and the list goes on.

It isn’t very pleasant and when you think about it the act of smoking isn’t very pleasant either. You stick this thing in your mouth, light the end and puff away. While you are introducing over 4,000 dangerous cancer giving chemicals to your body you are making yourself and your clothes smell like a dirty old ashtray, turning your fingers yellow and burning money. If anybody wants to get close to you your hair will stink and kissing you will be unpleasant for non smokers. It used to look cool many years ago, now anybody who smokes looks more like a fool. Let’s see just what tobacco is:

Tobacco is a plant grown in warm climates and processed to be used as a main ingredient in traditional cigarettes. Tobacco comes from the genus plant Nicotiana. This plant is commonly used as an organic pesticide. When nicotiana is processed in an organic matter called nicotine tartrate, it becomes a medicinal substance.

The most common form of tobacco usage is in smoking, chewing, dipping tobacco or snuff. Tobacco is also a psychoactive substance often used in a religious, shamanic, or spiritual context. After the arrival of Europeans in North America, tobacco became popular as a recreational drug which helped develop the economy of the southern United States until it was replaced by cotton.

There are many species of tobacco plants under the genus Nicotiana. The word nicotine was derived from the plant nicotiana named after its discoverer Jean Nicot.

As early as 1559, people became dependent and nicotine was classed as addictive substance. Addictive properties of nicotine are deemed to be directly dependent on quantity, speed, and frequency of absorption of tobacco in the body via different ways of consumption such as inhalation and chewing.

Tobacco use has been practiced by more than a billion people and up to 1/3 of the world’s adult population. Today, tobacco smoking is considered the leading cause of deaths of 5.4 million individuals per year. The major component of tobacco considered highly toxic and prime contributor of chemical imbalance in the body is nicotine. Nicotine causes chemical disturbance therefore altering a number of chemical messengers or neurotransmitters in the brain. For instance the acetylcholine and norepinephrine are responsible for the change of the moods.

Short puffing can give a relaxing sensation while deep and long puffing of cigarette gives relief sensation from pain. This is due to the increase in nicotine that affects the levels of acetylcholine and norepinephrine.

Like any other agricultural products, tobacco is also cultivated by sowing its seeds in cold frames or hotbeds to prevent attacks from insects which then transplanted into the fields. Tobacco is an annual crop that is harvested to be stored for curing and then packed into its various forms for consumption and consumption that kills.

The British government announced that they intend to cut smoking by at least one half by 2020. Apart from offering more help, suggested measures include banning smoking at entrances to buildings, stripping logos, graphics and colours off cigarette packets and banning the sale of them from vending machines.

After seeing the harm that smoking does I wish that they would ban the sale of tobacco products altogether. It’s horrifying when you think that this nasty, smelly habit is responsible for up to 80,000 lives being stubbed out every year in Britain alone, and the leading cause of preventable deaths. Tobacco is a serial killer and we actually pay for the dubious pleasure of risking our lives – crazy isn’t it.

A Chronology of Events in the Civilized World on Tobacco

July 16, 2010
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1492- Columbus Discovers Tobacco. In his journal, Columbus mentions tobacco for the first time. Rodrigo de Jerez and Luis de Torres first observe the native smoking ritual and try it themselves. Jerez becomes the first smoker of western decent.

1556- Tobacco use spreads to the old world through Spain and Portugal. The plant that grew from these seeds is christened Nicotina tabacura by Linnaeus, thereby immortalizing Jean Nicot’s name. Later the addictive alkaloid is called nicotine.

1548 – The Portuguese begin to grow tobacco for export in Brazil.

1770 – The first tobacco shop is established in Lancaster.

1826 – England is importing only 26 lbs of cigars per year. By 1830, England is importing 250,000 lbs per year.
1847 – Philip Morris is open for business in England. They sell hand rolled Turkish cigarettes.

1854 – Philip Morris begins making its own cigarettes in London, on Bond Street

1881 – James E. Bonsack invents the automated cigarette-making machine. It can produce 200 cigarettes per minute, a production rate which would have previously taken 50 workers, thereby markedly reducing the cost of production. Within one year the largest cigarette manufacturer sells more than a billion cigarettes annually.

1832 – The cigarette is invented by an Egyptian artilleryman during the siege of Acre. The Egyptian’s cannon crew had improved their rate of fire by rolling the gunpowder in paper tubes. For this, he and his crew were rewarded with a pound of tobacco. Their only pipe was broken, so they took to rolling the pipe tobacco in the paper tubes.

1864 – First American cigarette factory opens and produces almost 20 million cigarettes annually.

1875 – Allen & Ginter cigarette brands, Richmond Straight Cut No. 1 and Pet, begin using picture cards to stiffen the pack and protect the cigarettes. The cards, with photos of actresses, baseball players, Indian Chiefs, and boxers are enormously successful and represent the first modern promotion scheme for a manufactured product.

1901 – 3.5 billion cigarettes and 6 billion cigars are sold. Four in five American men smoke at least one cigar a day.

1902 – Tiny Philip Morris sets up a corporation in New York to sell its British brands, including Philip Morris, Blues, Cambridge, Derby, and a cigarette named after Marlborough Street, where its London factory is located. Marlboro is one of the earliest woman’s cigarettes, featuring a red tip to hide lipstick marks. It does not catch on with the public.

1910 – Most popular brands: Pall Mall, Sweet Caporals, Piedmont, Helmar and Fatima.

1913 – RJ Reynolds introduces Camel, considered by historians as the first ‘modern’ cigarette.

1917 – During World War I cigarettes become the smoke of choice as pipes and cigars prove unmanageable at the front. Between 1910 and 1919 cigarette production increases by 633% from under 10 billion/year to nearly 70 billion/year and cigarette smoking begins to become fixed among American men. The American Red Cross and the Young Men’s Christian Association, previously opposed to the propagation of cigarettes, actively supply them to the troops overseas.

1921 – RJ Reynolds spends $8 million in advertising, mostly on Camel. Inaugurates the highly successful “I’d Walk a Mile for a Camel” slogan.

1924 – Philip Morris re-introduces Marlboro with the slogan “Mild as May,” targeting “decent, respectable” women. “Has smoking any more to do with a woman’s morals than has the color of her hair?” the advertisement reads. “Marlboros now ride in so many limousines, attend so many bridge parties, and repose in so many handbags.”

1927 – A sensation is created when George Washington Hill blatantly aims Lucky Strike advertising campaign at women, urging them to “reach for a Lucky instead of a sweet.” Smoking initiation rates among adolescent females triple between 1925-1935, and Lucky Strike captures 38% of the American market.

1936 – Brown and Williamson introduce Viceroy, the first national brand to feature a filter of cellulose acetate. Advertising increases the use of physicians to counter the claims that cigarettes are a major health problem.

1940 – Adult Americans smoke 2,558 cigarettes per capita a year, nearly twice the consumption of 1930

1945 – Smoking is now socially acceptable for women. Another generation of Americans is now habituated to tobacco as a result of free cigarettes distributed by the Red Cross and other organizations to our fighting men and women.

1952 – Kent introduces the ‘Micronite’ filter, which Lorillard claims “offers the greatest health protection in cigarette history.” It turns out to be made of asbestos. Kent discontinues use of the Micronite filter four years later.

1954 – RJ Reynolds:- introduces:- Winston:- filter cigarettes, but promotes the taste benefit, not health. Winston dominates the US market for the next 15 years.

1954 – Marlboro advertising taken over by the Chicago ad agency Leo Burnett. “Delivers the Goods on Flavor” ran the new slogan in newspaper ads. Design of the campaign, which features ‘Marlboro Men,’ is credited to John Landry of Philip Morris. Prior to initiating this campaign, Marlboro had

1963 – Marlboro dispenses with tattooed sailors and athletes as the Marlboro Man and settles on the exclusive use of cowboys. For several years, Philip Morris research had shown that sales increased whenever they cowboys appeared in their campaigns.

1964 – Marlboro Country ad campaign is launched. “Come to where the flavor is. Come to Marlboro Country.” Marlboro sales begin growing at 10% a year.

1968 – Philip Morris introduces Virginia Slims with the slogan, “You’ve come a long way, baby.” Five yeas later, Billy Jean King, wearing Virginia Slims colors, defeats Bobby Riggs in the televised ‘Battle of the Sexes.’ Virginia Slims continues to promote tennis matches to this day.

1972 – Marlboro becomes the best-selling cigarette in the world. It remains so today by a wide margin.
1999 – About 10 million Americans smoke cigars.

2002 – CDC estimates smoking health and productivity costs reach $150 billion a year, according to a new study published in this week’s WMMR. CDC estimated the total cost of smoking at $3,391 a year for every smoker, and even itemized the per-pack health/productivity costs at $7.18/pack. Further, it estimated the smoking-related medical costs at $3.45 per pack, and job productivity lost because of premature death from smoking at $3.73 per pack.

Current campaign
Fire-safe cigarette legislation has been passed or introduced in many states. To maintain regulatory uniformity, all states and countries are using the “model” FSC regulatory bill based on the New York FSC law. With identical fire safety regulations for cigarettes in all states and countries, cigarette manufacturers can voluntarily produce FSC worldwide. Until then, legislative campaigns mandating FSC will continue.

Junk Food – the New Tobacco

July 4, 2010
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There was a fashion in the early 1980s to label those who argued that junk food was making us ill and that we needed to stop eating so much of it “food Leninists”. I admit to having been thus branded, and to having worn the tag as a badge of honour, although I regret having inflicted culinary experiments with puritan pulses and, worse still, sugar-free cake, on friends and acquaintances.

Now it seems the establishment shorthand for campaigners who want to change the nation’s diet – overheard after a national consumer council seminar on food policy last week – has been upgraded: we have progressed from Leninists to Stalinists. That we should no longer be dismissed as mere misguided ideologues but castigated as full-blown tedious tyrants is very gratifying and perhaps a sign of moral panic. We seem to be winning the argument. After all, what is a poor industry to do when even the Republican president of the US aligns himself with the totalitarian tendency?

Junk food, in case you have not yet heard, is the new tobacco. In a startling address to the nation last weekend, President Bush declared a war on fat and urged Americans to eat fewer fatty foods and more fruit and vegetables while taking more exercise. He was responding to the crisis of obesity in the US.

Congress is considering putting health warnings similar to those on cigarette packets on foods high in fat and salt and imposing a tax on junk food which is aimed at children.

Last month a New York columnist Meredith Berkman launched a $50m class-action lawsuit against a food manufacturer for doubling the fat content of what purported to be a low-fat snack. Not expecting to win, Berkman filed her suit with delicious irony, claiming damages for “emotional distress” for all those who got fat or had to spend extra time at the gym.

Only in America, except that the industry lobby in the UK, the food and drink manufacturers’ association, doesn’t think this funny, and is seriously worried about the implications. The Royal College of Paediatrics has predicted a similar epidemic of obesity here. Type 2 diabetes, the sort caused by diet and usually found only in adults, is now being seen in children.

As the case against junk food grows, we can enjoy looking out for some of the contortions the tobacco industry practised in an effort to fight off the inevitable.

First will be the refusal to acknowledge that food and health are directly related. (Remember how long cigarette companies denied that there was a proven causal link between tobacco and disease?) The medical consensus now is that diet, and specifically a diet high in fats, sugars and salt, plays a major part in cardiovascular disease, including coronary heart disease, cancer, diabetes, obesity and tooth decay.

The industry line is that these are complex, multifactoral diseases, and that you cannot point the finger at any one factor. Our sedentary lifestyles and the breakdown of traditional patterns of eating are just as much to blame as any particular food.

We Stalinists have no problem with this. We’d love to renationalise those school playing fields so casually sold off, so that children could have a chance to exercise properly. But the food industry may find it has some rather more hardline opposition to deal with.

The Wanless report on the NHS, commissioned by the Treasury, calculated the cost to the health service each year of diet-related diseases: diabetes £1.3bn, coronary heart disease £2.4bn, cancer £2.5bn.

Health economists are becoming clearer about how to allocate this financial burden. They say, for example, that 30% of the risk factors in heart disease and cancer can be attributed to diet. Imagine: 30% of the NHS bill for diet-related diseases equals £3-4bn a year, and Gordon Brown is on the case. No wonder the junk food manufacturers are worried.

Listen out also for the Marie Antoinette line of counter attack – what we eat is a matter of free choice or, to paraphrase, “let them eat rubbish”.

Professor Tim Lang of Thames Valley university, widely credited with being the original food Leninist, has done extensive work on what influences people’s choices in food. He points out that most of the £600m spent on advertising food in the UK each year promotes snacks, sweets and fatty foods. Children are bombarded with messages promoting unhealthy “free” choices.

The Good Food Foundation has asked children what they think of as cooking skills. These are their answers: opening a sandwich (36%), making toast (31%), opening a cereal pack (20%), cooking chips (11%). If that’s free choice, wouldn’t you be a Stalinist?

felicity.lawrence@guardian. co.uk

Womens Health:The Negative Effects Of Tobacco On Women.

May 17, 2010
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Since the 60s, smoking women has continued to grow: the proportion of smokers rose from 10 to 22% in 40 years on the 15 million smokers in USA. The women smoke more and more and earlier. The first cigarette is usually taken between 14 and 16 years. Cigarette smoke passes from the lungs to the brain within 10 seconds, carrying so much faster than would intravenous injection of illicit drugs. Smoking cigarette send some 4 000 chemicals to the body.

Tobacco and gynecological disorders

Smoking decreases the secretion of estrogen. It may therefore be responsible for menstrual disorders with irregularities and pain. There is also often a change of tone of voice, which becomes hoarse, and an increase of hairs. Menopause occurs 1 to 2 years earlier than average among smokers. Hot flashes are more intense and the risk of osteoporosis is increased. Tobacco also promotes the development of precancerous lesions of the cervix.

Tobacco and skin

Due to a lack of oxygenation of the skin, smokers are more often dull complexion and “clouded”. The cellular exchanges have slowed and the waste is not eliminated. The skin loose his radiance and elasticity. Wrinkles appear prematurely, with 10 to 20 years ahead, especially at the lips. Smoking stimulates the production of free radicals that damage the elastin and collagen.

Tobacco and pill

35% of women aged 20 to 44 years who take contraceptive smoke, increasing from 4 to 10 times the risk of cardiovascular problems. Combining a contraceptive with cigarettes is a major health hazard, especially past 35 years. Indeed, nicotine promotes deposition of fat in the blood vessels and damages arteries. The blood thickens and the risk of thrombosis, stroke and cerebral vascular accident (stroke) is accentuated. These evils are aggravated by contraceptives.

Smoking and Pregnancy

Cigarette smoking decreases by 50% female fertility: thickens the cervical mucus, preventing sperm progression, lack of estrogen reduces the quality of the uterine wall and restricts blood flow necessary for the implantation of the egg. Smoking increases by 3 the risk of miscarriage, and by 2 ectopic pregnancies and premature births. There is also stunted fetus that is not well oxygenated. Its weight is generally lower than 200 g at birth. In addition, smokers lactating produce 25% less milk than non-smokers.

Tobacco and weight

Smoking reduce the taste and smell. In addition, nicotine stimulates the nervous system that causes a cut-hunger, slows the storage of fat in adipocytes and artificially increases energy expenditure to 200 calories per day compared to non-smoker. The smokers have a weight lower than they would if they do not smoke (around 4 kg). So when you stop smoking, you just go back to your normal weight. No need to worry! However physical activity is still recommended to stabilize the weight. If you start to gain to much weight, try to eat better by cutting in the fat and salt.

It may be a good idea to consult a dietetist to help stabilize your weight while you stop smoking. Consulting a dietetist is a sure way to establish a healthy and balanced diet. Using dangerous product like laxative and purgative are dangerous and not the solution to long lasting weight loss!

Good luck!

Treaty Signatures of WHO called Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC)

May 13, 2010
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The World Health Organization Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (WHO FCTC) is the first treaty negotiated under the auspices of the World Health Organization as they mandate measures on the reduction of tobacco use to curb the so-called tobacco epidemic and many countries has signed on this advocacy. The WHO opens a statement on their official website (www.who.int/fctc/en/) regarding on this framework. They’ve said, “The WHO FCTC was developed in response to the globalization of the tobacco epidemic. The spread of the tobacco epidemic is facilitated through a variety of complex factors with cross-border effects, including trade liberalization and direct foreign investment.”

Demand reduction strategies set by the WHO include among others regulation on the disclosure of contents of tobacco products, packing and labeling of tobacco products and education, communication, training and public awareness. Below are the list of core demand and supply set by WHO FCTC which found on their official website and you may also get download the framework into PDF: www.who.int/entity/fctc/text_download/en/index.html

The core demand reduction provisions in the WHO FCTC are contained in articles 6-14:
– Price and tax measures to reduce the demand for tobacco, and
– Non-price measures to reduce the demand for tobacco, namely:

Protection from exposure to tobacco smoke;
Regulation of the contents of tobacco products;
Regulation of tobacco product disclosures;
Packaging and labeling of tobacco products;
Education, communication, training and public awareness;
Tobacco advertising, promotion and sponsorship; and,
Demand reduction measures concerning tobacco dependence and cessation.
The core supply reduction provisions in the WHO FCTC are contained in articles 15-17:
Illicit trade in tobacco products;
Sales to and by minors; and,
Provision of support for economically viable alternative activities.
One of the healths warning they sending out to jolt smokers was the picture-based of danger in smoking including a text “Warning: Smoking Causes 92% of Oral Cancers”. The Anti-tobacco organizations and groups pounding to the doors of lawmakers to prioritize the bill on the picture-based of this health warning. Do you think it could deter the number of people from smoking?

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A Few Facts About Tobacco – The Killer Plant

March 22, 2010
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What many tobacco users get after years of smoking are a number of physiological diseases such as heart disease, lung cancer, larynx cancer, mouth cancer, eye irritations, brain dysfunction due to nicotine addiction, emphysema, and the list goes on.

It isn’t very pleasant and when you think about it the act of smoking isn’t very pleasant either. You stick this thing in your mouth, light the end and puff away. While you are introducing over 4,000 dangerous cancer giving chemicals to your body you are making yourself and your clothes smell like a dirty old ashtray, turning your fingers yellow and burning money. If anybody wants to get close to you your hair will stink and kissing you will be unpleasant for non smokers. It used to look cool many years ago, now anybody who smokes looks more like a fool. Let’s see just what tobacco is:

Tobacco is a plant grown in warm climates and processed to be used as a main ingredient in traditional cigarettes. Tobacco comes from the genus plant Nicotiana. This plant is commonly used as an organic pesticide. When nicotiana is processed in an organic matter called nicotine tartrate, it becomes a medicinal substance.

The most common form of tobacco usage is in smoking, chewing, dipping tobacco or snuff. Tobacco is also a psychoactive substance often used in a religious, shamanic, or spiritual context. After the arrival of Europeans in North America, tobacco became popular as a recreational drug which helped develop the economy of the southern United States until it was replaced by cotton.

There are many species of tobacco plants under the genus Nicotiana. The word nicotine was derived from the plant nicotiana named after its discoverer Jean Nicot.

As early as 1559, people became dependent and nicotine was classed as addictive substance. Addictive properties of nicotine are deemed to be directly dependent on quantity, speed, and frequency of absorption of tobacco in the body via different ways of consumption such as inhalation and chewing.

Tobacco use has been practiced by more than a billion people and up to 1/3 of the world’s adult population. Today, tobacco smoking is considered the leading cause of deaths of 5.4 million individuals per year. The major component of tobacco considered highly toxic and prime contributor of chemical imbalance in the body is nicotine. Nicotine causes chemical disturbance therefore altering a number of chemical messengers or neurotransmitters in the brain. For instance the acetylcholine and norepinephrine are responsible for the change of the moods.

Short puffing can give a relaxing sensation while deep and long puffing of cigarette gives relief sensation from pain. This is due to the increase in nicotine that affects the levels of acetylcholine and norepinephrine.

Like any other agricultural products, tobacco is also cultivated by sowing its seeds in cold frames or hotbeds to prevent attacks from insects which then transplanted into the fields. Tobacco is an annual crop that is harvested to be stored for curing and then packed into its various forms for consumption and consumption that kills.

The British government announced that they intend to cut smoking by at least one half by 2020. Apart from offering more help, suggested measures include banning smoking at entrances to buildings, stripping logos, graphics and colours off cigarette packets and banning the sale of them from vending machines.

After seeing the harm that smoking does I wish that they would ban the sale of tobacco products altogether. It’s horrifying when you think that this nasty, smelly habit is responsible for up to 80,000 lives being stubbed out every year in Britain alone, and the leading cause of preventable deaths. Tobacco is a serial killer and we actually pay for the dubious pleasure of risking our lives – crazy isn’t it.

Smokeless Cigarettes Vs Tobacco, Where’s the Savings?

March 5, 2010
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Tobacco cigarette prices are on the rise and many feel the crunch of this recession, it’s no wonder so many smokers are turning to smokeless cigarettes. A cost-effective option for many reasons and even though many opponents are trying to discredit its effectiveness, we will look at some facts and let you the smoker form your own opinion and decide on what is cheaper. It’s seems obvious that these electronic cigarettes are a much safer and healthier solution but it may premature to make it official.

Before we start, let’s look into some of the information and rumors. There are a number of spurious claims boasted by industry insiders about the unknowns, but experts who are not clamming to the big daddy cigarette industry agree that the risk posed by small traces of chemicals in smokeless cigarette vapor is small, and is much likely less than that of consuming many FDA approved products. Even with the same products containing the exact chemicals the FDA will make it painful for the smokeless cigarette industry to gain credit without first paying its dues.

Ok so let’s take a look to see if this is really an economical choice, we think the proof is there, but smokeless cigarettes are also crafty in the technology presented. Nicotine patches and gums (also more expensive than smokeless cigarettes) are considered nicotine delivery devices but in ways that don’t recreate the same habitual act associated with smoking. People who buy these aids sometimes miss the routines of smoking more than the nicotine. Smokeless cigarettes, which visually resemble a standard cigarette, deliver nicotine through a vapor which is inhaled much like smoke but without many of the drawbacks or the negative effects or smell of standard cigarettes. Additionally, the smokeless electronic cigarette has the hand to mouth effect that smokes are so used to in their habits. This leads to our conclusion that smokeless cigarettes can be an economical choice as well as a mentally sound and socially approved choice.

But the money saved with smokeless cigarettes can be considerable so let’s take a look at some of the cost details. As of August 2009 the average price of a pack of cigarettes was $7.82 up from $2.92 just ten years ago. The average smoker smokes by low estimates smokes 15 cigarettes per day which amounts to $2138.90 per year. Wow, big tobacco is BIG…On average a smokeless cigarette filter is equivalent to 10 cigarettes so that would be 1.5 filters per day on average at a price of $1.59 per filter x 1.5 equals $2.38 which equals $870.00 per year. The doesn’t count in to effect that the average smokeless cigarette will last approximately six months so we will need to add another $59.00 x 2 for a total of $988.00. Now, this does not take into effect that the concept behind the smokeless cigarette is to lean off of smoking and vaporizing all together so there must be some kind of factor there but lets not dig that far just yet.

So there it is, we have given you some facts for you to use in making some sense out of the questions leading you to ponder if it is really right for you…As a fifteen year former smoker who has had great success with the smokeless cigarette and is off of tobacco cigarettes all together, I can say that it has been the right choice for me and the only options of the many I have attempted through the years. Give it a shot, if you are currently a tobacco smoker what is the worst that can happen by trying the smokeless cigarettes when you are removing tar, carcinogens, and hundreds of chemicals from your body?

Womens Health:The Negative Effects Of Tobacco On Women.

March 5, 2010
By

Since the 60s, smoking women has continued to grow: the proportion of smokers rose from 10 to 22% in 40 years on the 15 million smokers in USA. The women smoke more and more and earlier. The first cigarette is usually taken between 14 and 16 years. Cigarette smoke passes from the lungs to the brain within 10 seconds, carrying so much faster than would intravenous injection of illicit drugs. Smoking cigarette send some 4 000 chemicals to the body.

Tobacco and gynecological disorders

Smoking decreases the secretion of estrogen. It may therefore be responsible for menstrual disorders with irregularities and pain. There is also often a change of tone of voice, which becomes hoarse, and an increase of hairs. Menopause occurs 1 to 2 years earlier than average among smokers. Hot flashes are more intense and the risk of osteoporosis is increased. Tobacco also promotes the development of precancerous lesions of the cervix.

Tobacco and skin

Due to a lack of oxygenation of the skin, smokers are more often dull complexion and “clouded”. The cellular exchanges have slowed and the waste is not eliminated. The skin loose his radiance and elasticity. Wrinkles appear prematurely, with 10 to 20 years ahead, especially at the lips. Smoking stimulates the production of free radicals that damage the elastin and collagen.

Tobacco and pill

35% of women aged 20 to 44 years who take contraceptive smoke, increasing from 4 to 10 times the risk of cardiovascular problems. Combining a contraceptive with cigarettes is a major health hazard, especially past 35 years. Indeed, nicotine promotes deposition of fat in the blood vessels and damages arteries. The blood thickens and the risk of thrombosis, stroke and cerebral vascular accident (stroke) is accentuated. These evils are aggravated by contraceptives.

Smoking and Pregnancy

Cigarette smoking decreases by 50% female fertility: thickens the cervical mucus, preventing sperm progression, lack of estrogen reduces the quality of the uterine wall and restricts blood flow necessary for the implantation of the egg. Smoking increases by 3 the risk of miscarriage, and by 2 ectopic pregnancies and premature births. There is also stunted fetus that is not well oxygenated. Its weight is generally lower than 200 g at birth. In addition, smokers lactating produce 25% less milk than non-smokers.

Tobacco and weight

Smoking reduce the taste and smell. In addition, nicotine stimulates the nervous system that causes a cut-hunger, slows the storage of fat in adipocytes and artificially increases energy expenditure to 200 calories per day compared to non-smoker. The smokers have a weight lower than they would if they do not smoke (around 4 kg). So when you stop smoking, you just go back to your normal weight. No need to worry! However physical activity is still recommended to stabilize the weight. If you start to gain to much weight, try to eat better by cutting in the fat and salt.

It may be a good idea to consult a dietetist to help stabilize your weight while you stop smoking. Consulting a dietetist is a sure way to establish a healthy and balanced diet. Using dangerous product like laxative and purgative are dangerous and not the solution to long lasting weight loss!

Good luck!

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