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Not only does smoking cigarettes increase your risk of rheumatoid arthritis, it makes the disease harder to treat. For free help quitting smoking, call 1-800-QUIT-NOW. Smoking during pregnancy can cause complications, like low birth weight, and sudden infant death syndrome once the baby is born. You can quit. In the last 50 years, a women’s risk of dying from smoking has more than tripled. You can quit. Tobacco control efforts such as the launch of the Tips from Former Smokers Campaign contributed to 8 million lives saved. Learn more about our Tips participants & why they decided to quit. Smokers Who Use E-Cigarettes Less Likely to Quit Study rebuts contention that devices assist tobacco cessation The rapid increase in use of e-cigarettes has led to heated debates between opponents who question the safety of these devices and proponents who claim the battery-operated products are a useful cessation tool. A study, published online on April 16 in the American Journal of Public Health, suggests proponents are in error. University of California, San Diego School of Medicine researchers found that smokers who used e-cigarettes were 49 percent less likely to decrease cigarette use and 59 percent less likely to quit smoking compared to smokers who never used e-cigarettes. The population-based study followed 1,000 California smokers over the course of one year. “Based on the idea that smokers use e-cigarettes to quit smoking, we hypothesized that smokers who used these products would be more successful in quitting,” said Wael Al-Delaimy, MD, PhD, professor and chief of the Division of Global Public Health in the Department of Family Medicine and Public Health. “But the research revealed the contrary. We need further studies to answer why they cannot quit. One hypothesis is that smokers are receiving an increase in nicotine dose by using e-cigarettes.” Although e-cigarettes do not contain tobacco, users, known colloquially as “vapers,” exhale a mixture of volatile organic compounds, heavy metals and ultrafine particles that usually contain aerosolized nicotine in a cloud of vapor. The findings show that daily smokers and women were more likely to have tried e-cigarettes. Al-Delaimy believes the study will inform the United States Food and Drug Administration and other regulators on the profile of e-cigarette usage among smokers as they create guidelines for e-cigarettes amid continued discussion about product safety and its attraction to people who have never used traditional cigarettes. In January, the California Department of Public Health (CDPH) released the State Health Officer’s Report on E-Cigarettes, a health advisory that addressed the health risks posed by the marketing, sale and use of e-cigarettes. “There is a lot of misinformation about e-cigarettes,” said CDPH director and state health officer, Ron Chapman, MD, MPH. “That is why, as the state’s health officer, I am advising Californians to avoid the use of e-cigarettes and keep them away from children of all ages.” What Could Go Wrong Big Tobacco is all over e-cigarettes - in a BIG way. Find out why history can’t be allowed to repeat itself at http://stillblowingsmoke.org. California has taken another step in its campaign against electronic cigarettes, with the Department of Public Health on Friday releasing video advertisements calling the devices toxic and warning they are being marketed to kids. Read more here: http://www.modbee.com/news/article15552794.html#storylink=cpy Experts call for a tobacco-free world by 2040A world virtually free of tobacco and its devastating health consequences could be a reality within 30 years if governments showed political will and took stronger action against cigarette companies, health experts said on Friday. The international group of public health and policy specialists, writing in The Lancet medical journal, said sale of tobacco should be phased out worldwide by 2040 and called for a “turbo-charged” international effort against its use. A billion people are forecast to die this century from smoking and other forms of tobacco use if control efforts are not stepped up. More than 80 percent of those deaths will be in poor and middle-income countries.“A world where tobacco is out of sight, out of mind, and out of fashion — yet not prohibited — is achievable in less than three decades… but only with full commitment from governments, international agencies, such as United Nations and World Health Organization, and civil society,” said Robert Beaglehole of the University of Auckland in New Zealand, one of the experts. Describing a “tobacco-free” world as one where less than 5 percent of adults use it, he added: “The time has come for the world to acknowledge the unacceptability of the damage being done by the tobacco industry and work towards a world essentially free from the… sale of tobacco products.” Tobacco kills some 6 million people a year worldwide, according to the WHO. More: http://news.yahoo.com/experts-call-tobacco-free-world-2040-000640055.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=tumblr John Oliver is Coming for You Next, Big Tobacco Companies From beating up on Uruguay to bullying poor Togo (to say nothing of the garbage being thrown Australia’s way), these predatory, selfish, and disgusting actions are unconscionable any way you slice it. Which is exactly why we’re thrilled Oliver and his disgustingly hilarious new mascot, Jeff the Diseased Lung in a Cowboy Hat, are on the charge. Click below to see the video John Oliver is masterful in this segment of Last Week Tonight. Smoking’s Death Toll May Be Higher Than Anyone Knew By Richard Harris The U.S. surgeon general lists 21 deadly diseases that are caused by smoking. Now, a study in this week’s New England Journal of Medicine points to more than a dozen other diseases that apparently add to the tobacco death toll. To arrive at this conclusion, scientists from the American Cancer Society, the National Cancer Institute and several universities tracked nearly a million people for a decade and recorded their causes of death. As expected, the researchers found that smokers were much more likely to die of lung cancer, heart disease, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, esophageal cancer, mouth cancer and a long list of other diseases that health officials have previously linked to smoking. But author Eric Jacobs, strategic director of pharmacoepidemiology at the American Cancer Society, found other causes of death that were also more common in smokers — “things like kidney failure, infections and certain types of heart and respiratory diseases that weren’t previously counted,” he says. (More on Shots - Health News from NPR) 2 Approaches To Ending Smoking: Laws And Labels We hear it from smokers struggling to quit all the time: “If only they’d make it illegal, then I’d have to quit.” A fifth of the world’s population sucks on cancer sticks, and while the West has cleared the air in some places with public bans, the global consumption rate has managed to creep up 13 percent in the past decade. Many countries have been experimenting with anti-tobacco strategies and legislation for years, but of all the efforts — from Orwellian-style bans to smoke-free cars — only a handful seem to have delivered results. Oddly, making smoking illegal isn’t one of them. In 2004 and 2005, the Himalayan Kingdom of Bhutan — which has measured its country’s health not by GDP but by gross national happiness — became the first country to outright ban tobacco sales and make smoking in public places and private offices illegal. But it would seem that being happy, for some Bhutanese, depends on cigarettes, and enforcing the new laws — including harsh jail terms for minor possession offenses — has ruffled feathers while not necessarily reducing smoking rates. That figure comes from the World Health Organization’s Framework Convention on Tobacco Control, but it’s a controversial statistic: Some experts believe the smoking rate in Bhutan is much higher and has remained unchanged since the ban. “We think that the smoking level in Bhutan is higher than you might expect — it’s just that everybody’s not doing it legally,” says Jeffrey Drope, the American Cancer Society’s managing director of economic and health policy research. Publicly smoking or chewing tobacco products may be punishable offenses, but importing cigarettes in limited amounts for personal consumption is still allowed, provided taxes are paid. Like Prohibition did for alcohol, Bhutan’s ban on producing and selling tobacco has fueled smuggling and under-the-counter sales. So across the world, what has worked? Some anti-smoking experts cite the effort in Scotland, where displays by large retailers aimed at younger consumers are prohibited. Photo: An employee in a Sydney bookshop in 2012 adjusts packaged cigarettes, which have to be sold in identical olive-brown packets bearing the same typeface and largely covered with graphic health warnings. (William West/AFP/Getty Images)
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Može li svijet ostati bez cigareta za 25 godina? Svijet bez duhanskih proizvoda i njihovih štetnih posljedica po zdravlje mogao bi postati stvarnost ako vlade pokažu političku volju i poduzmu snažnije akcije protiv proizvođača cigareta Međunarodna skupina stručnjaka za javno zdravstvo ocijenila je u članku u časopisu za medicinu Lancet da bi se prodaja duhana trebala postupno ukinuti do 2040. godine i pozvala na vrlo snažne međunarodne napore protiv uživanja duhana. Predviđa se da će u ovom stoljeću zbog pušenja i drugih oblika uživanja duhana umrijeti milijarda ljudi ukoliko se ne pojačaju napori u nadziranju njegove uporabe. Više od 80% umrlih bit će u siromašnim i zemljama s prihodima srednje razine. "Svijet u kojem je duhan van vidokruga, van svijesti i van mode, no ne i zabranjen, može se postići u manje od tri desetljeća, no samo uz punu predanost vlada, međunarodnih agencija, poput Ujedinjenih naroda i Svjetske zdravstvene organizacije, te civilnog društva", rekao je Robert Beaglehole sa sveučilišta u Aucklandu. Opisujući svijet bez duhana kao svijet u kojem ga koristi manje od 5% odraslih osoba, Beaglehole je dodao da je "došlo vrijeme da svijet uvidi neprihvatljivost štete koju čini duhanska industrija i radi na svijetu koji bi u osnovi bio lišen prodaje duhanskih proizvoda". Duhan, po Svjetskoj zdravstvenoj organizaciji (WHO), godišnje u svijetu ubije oko 6 milijuna ljudi. Osim u slučaju raka pluća, kojega uzrokuje pušenje i koji je često smrtonosan, pušenje predstavlja i veliki faktor rizika u nizu drugih bolesti. Duhan je vodeći uzrok preranih smrti od kroničnih stanja koja bi se moglo spriječiti, poput bolesti srca, moždanog udara i visokog krvnog tlaka.