Dangers Of Cigarette Smoking

IT IS one of the best-selling consumer products in the world. It commands armies of loyal buyers and enjoys a rapidly expanding market. Its delighted companies boast impressive profits, political clout, and prestige. The only problem is, its best customers keep dying off!

TheEconomist observes: Cigarettes are among the worlds most profitable consumer products. They are also the only (legal) ones which, used as intended, turn most of their users into addicts and often kill them. This means big profits for the tobacco companies but huge losses for their customers. According to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, some five million years of life are sliced off the lives of American smokers eachyear, roughly a minute for each minute spent smoking. Smoking kills 420,000 Americans a year, reports Newsweek magazine. Thats 50 times as many as illegal drugs.

Around the world, three million people a yearsix every minutedie from smoking, according to the book MortalityFromSmokinginDevelopedCountries1950-2000, published by Britains Imperial Cancer Research Fund, WHO (World Health Organization), and the American Cancer Society. This analysis of world smoking trends, the most comprehensive to date, covers 45 countries. In most countries, warns Richard Peto of the Imperial Cancer Research Fund, the worst is yet to come. If current smoking patterns persist, then by the time the young smokers of today reach middle or old age, there will be about 10million deaths a year from tobaccoone death every three seconds.

Smoking is like no other hazard, says Dr.Alan Lopez of WHO. It will kill one in two smokers eventually. Martin Vessey of the Department of Public Health at Oxford University says similarly: These findings over 40 years lead to the horrible conclusion that one-half of all smokers will eventually be killed by their habita truly terrifying thought. Since the 1950s, 60million people have died from smoking.

It is also a truly terrifying thought to the tobacco companies. If three million people each year around the world are now dying from smoking-related causes, and many others quit smoking, then more than three million new users must be found annually.

One source has emerged because of what tobacco companies hail as the liberation of women. Smoking by women has been an accomplished fact for some years in Western lands and is now moving into places where it used to be viewed as a stigma. Tobacco companies intend to change all of that. They want to help women celebrate their newfound affluence and liberation. Special cigarette brands claiming lower tar and nicotine contents lure women who smoke and who find such smoke less harsh. Other cigarettes are perfumed or have a long, slender designthe look that women may hope to achieve by smoking. Tobacco advertisements in Asia feature young, chic Asian models dressed seductively in Western elegance.

Smoking-related death rates, however, are keeping pace with the liberation of women. The number of lung cancer victims among women has doubled in the last 20 years in Britain, Japan, Norway, Poland, and Sweden. In the United States and Canada, rates have increased 300percent. Youve come a long way, baby! proclaims one cigarette advertisement.

Some tobacco concerns have their own strategy. One Philippine company in that predominantly Catholic country distributed free calendars bearing a portrait of the Virgin Mary and their cigarette brand logos placed brazenly below the icon. I had never seen anything like it before, said Dr.Rosmarie Erben, Asian health adviser for WHO. They were trying to link the icon motif to tobacco, to make Philippine women comfortable with the idea of smoking.

In China an estimated 61percent of the adult men smoke, whereas only 7percent of the women do. Western tobacco companies have their eyes on the liberation of these lovely Oriental ladies, millions of whom were so long denied the pleasures of their glamorous Western sisters. One large fly in the ointment, though: The government-owned tobacco company supplies most of the smokes.

Western companies, however, are gradually prying open the door. With limited advertising opportunities, some cigarette companies look to groom their future customers in a stealthy way. China imports movies from Hong Kong, and in many of them, the actors are paid to smokea soft sell!

With hostility growing on the home front, the prosperous American tobacco companies are extending their tentacles to embrace new victims. The facts show that they have taken deadly aim at the developing nations.

Health officials worldwide sound the warning. The headlines declare: Africa Battles a New PlagueCigarette Smoking. Smoke Turns to Fire in Asia as the Cigarette Market Soars. Asian Smoking Rates Will Lead to Cancer Epidemic. The New Third World Fight Is Over Tobacco.

The continent of Africa has been battered by drought, civil war, and the AIDS epidemic. Yet, says Dr.Keith Ball, British cardiologist, Short of nuclear war or famine, cigarette smoking is the greatest single threat to the future health of Africa.

Multinational giants hire local farmers to grow tobacco. The farmers cut down trees sorely needed for cooking, heating, and housing and use them as fuel to cure tobacco. They grow lucrative tobacco crops instead of less profitable food crops. Impoverished Africans commonly spend a large proportion of their scanty income on cigarettes. So African families wither from malnutrition while the coffers of Western tobacco companies grow fat from the profits.

Africa, Eastern Europe, and Latin America are all targeted by Western tobacco companies, who see the developing world as one gigantic business opportunity. But teeming Asia is by far the biggest gold mine of them all. China alone presently has more smokers than the entire population of the United States300million. They smoke a staggering 1.6trillion cigarettes a year, one third of the total consumed in the world!

Physicians say the health implications of the tobacco boom in Asia are nothing less than terrifying, reports TheNewYorkTimes. Richard Peto estimates that of the ten million anticipated smoking-related deaths each year in the next two or three decades, two million will be in China alone. Fifty million Chinese children alive today may die from smoking-related diseases, Peto says.

Dr.Nigel Gray summed it up this way: The history of smoking over the past five decades in China and Eastern Europe condemns those countries to a major tobacco disease epidemic.

How can a product which is the cause of 400,000 premature deaths each year in the US, a product which the US Government is trying hard to help its citizens to quit, suddenly become different beyond American borders? asked Dr.Prakit Vateesatokit of the Anti-Smoking Campaign of Thailand. Does health become irrelevant when the same product is exported to other countries?

The developing tobacco interests have a powerful ally in the U.S. government. Together they have fought to gain footholds abroad, particularly in Asian markets. For years American cigarettes were locked out of Japan, Taiwan, Thailand, and other countries, some of whose governments had their own monopolies on tobacco products. Antismoking groups protested imports, but the U.S. administration brandished a persuasive weaponpunitive tariffs.

From 1985 on, under intense pressure from the U.S. government, many Asian countries have opened their gates, and American cigarettes have been flooding in. U.S. cigarette exports to Asia jumped by 75percent in 1988.

Perhaps the most tragic victims of the tobacco wars are the children. A study reported in TheJournaloftheAmericanMedicalAssociation says that children and teenagers constitute 90% of all new smokers.

An article in U.S.News&WorldReport estimates the number of teen smokers in the United States at 3.1million. Every day 3,000 new recruits start smoking1,000,000 a year.

One cigarette advertisement features a fun-loving, pleasure-seeking cartoon camel, often with a cigarette dangling from his lips. This cigarette advertisement is charged with luring youngsters into nicotine slavery before they comprehend the health risks. Within three years of running this advertisement, the cigarette company enjoyed a 64-percent increase in sales to adolescents. A study at The Medical College of Georgia (U.S.A.) found that 91percent of six-year-olds surveyed recognized this smoking cartoon character.

Another popular cigarette icon is the free-wheeling macho cowboy whose message is, according to one teen, When youre smoking, youre unstoppable. It is said that the biggest-selling consumer product in the world is a cigarette that corners 69percent of the market among teen smokers and is the most advertised brand. As an added incentive, coupons come with each pack, to be redeemed for jeans, hats, and sportswear popular with youths.

Recognizing the tremendous power of advertising, antismoking groups have succeeded in having tobacco advertisements banned from television and radio in many countries. One way the savvy tobacco advertisers circumvent the system, however, is by strategically placing billboards at sports events. Therefore, a telecast game, with a vast young audience, may show their favorite player poised for action in the foreground and a towering cigarette billboard lurking in the background.

At downtown locations or in front of schools, cleverly costumed women in miniskirts or in cowboy or safari outfits hand out free cigarettes to eager or curious teens. At video arcades, discos, and rock concerts, samples are passed around freely. One company marketing plan leaked to the press showed that a particular brand in Canada targeted French-speaking males from 12 to 17 years of age.

The glaring message is that smoking brings pleasure, fitness, virility, and popularity. Where I worked, said one advertising consultant, we were trying very hard to influence kids who were 14 to start to smoke. Advertisements in Asia depict healthy, young Western athletic types romping on beaches and ball fieldswhile smoking, of course. Western models and life-styles create glamorous standards to emulate, remarked a marketing trade journal, and Asian smokers cant get enough.

After spending billions of advertising dollars, the tobacco marketers have scored huge successes. A ReadersDigest special report showed that the rise in the number of young smokers is alarming. In the Philippines, says the report, 22.7percent of people under 18 now smoke. In some Latin American cities, the teen-age rate is an astonishing 50percent. In Hong Kong, children as young as seven are smoking.

However, even as tobacco celebrates its conquests abroad, cigarette companies are painfully aware of gathering storm clouds at home. What are tobaccos chances of weathering the storm?

TheDeadlyRecipe

Up to 700 different chemical additives may be used by cigarette manufacturers, but the law allows the companies to keep their lists secret. On the lists, though, are heavy metals, pesticides, and insecticides. Some ingredients are so toxic that it is illegal to dump them in a landfill. That graceful swirl of cigarette smoke carries with it some 4,000 substances, including acetone, arsenic, butane, carbon monoxide, and cyanide. The lungs of smokers and of people nearby are exposed to at least 43 known cancer-causing agents.

Do you live, work, or travel with heavy smokers? If so, you may be at increased risk for lung cancer and heart disease. A 1993 study by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) concluded that environmental tobacco smoke (ETS) is a Group A carcinogen, the most dangerous. The massive report analyzed the results of 30 studies implicating the spiraling smoke from the end of cigarettes as well as exhaled smoke.

The EPA blames passive smoke for 3,000 lung-cancer deaths each year in the United States. The American Medical Association in June1994 corroborated the conclusions with a study it published showing that women who never smoked but were exposed to ETS have a 30percent greater risk of developing lung cancer than other lifetime nonsmokers.

For young children, exposure to smoke results in 150,000 to 300,000 cases of bronchitis and pneumonia annually. Smoke aggravates asthma symptoms for 200,000 to 1,000,000 children each year in the United States.

The American Heart Association estimates that as many as 50,000 deaths a year occur from heart and blood vessel diseases precipitated by ETS.

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Thank You For Smoking: A Way to Safeguard The Young?and State Tax Revenues Through Radio Frequency Identification Tagging of Cigarettes

Introduction: Cigarette Taxes andThe Law of Unintended Consequences

Arbitrage is a simple concept. It can be defined as the practice of taking advantage of a price differential between two or more markets. The same principle of buying an item in a lower priced market and reselling it in a higher priced one applies just a equally in the worlds of high finance with stocks, bonds, options, and currencies as it does in placing sports bets or selling collectibles on eBay.

Arbitrage applies to cigarettes as well. For decades, U.S. cigarette taxes were far lower than those in Canada, leading to a high volume of cigarettes heading Northbound with Canadian travelers. On an individual level, smokers have an incentive to take advantage of the tax disparity by purchasing lower taxed and lower-priced cigarettes in neighboring states. Literally, by driving a few miles or, in many cases, by simply crossing the street, they could save themselves $10 or $20 per carton. However, academic studies have shown that for most smokers, convenience outweighs economics. The fact is that approximately two-thirds of all of all cigarettes sold in the United States are sold by the single pack. For instance, a recent study by researchers from the University of California found that after Californias 50 cent per pack tax increase, fewer than five percent of the states smokers attempted to evade the heightened tax by purchasing their cigarettes online, from nearby state s, or on an Indian reservation (where cigarettes can legally be sold tax-free).

In the U.S., while there is a federal excise tax of 39 cents levied on each pack of cigarettes, the majority of cigarette taxes are imposed at the state level. And in this decade, states have significantly increased their cigarette taxes. In fact, in the past five years alone, the average state cigarette tax has risen from 43.4 cents per pack to $1.02 a pack. In addition, major cities, such as Chicago, New York City, and Anchorage are increasingly adding their own taxes on cigarettes. In fact, the total cigarette taxes in each of these locales exceed $3 per pack! Thus, the disparity in state cigarette taxes is large, ranging from a high of $2.57 per pack in New Jersey to just 7 cents per pack in South Carolina (for reference, Louisiana's cigarette tax stands at 36 cents per pack, making it the seventh lowest of all fifty states). The disparities are especially stark when you consider that in several instances, the cigarette taxes of one state can be often double, triple or m ore than that of its neighboring states. Consider that North Carolinas tax of 35 cents per pack is five times that of neighboring South Carolina, and that New York States tax rate of $1.50 per pack is more than four times that of North Carolinas (and more than twenty times that of South Carolina. The city cigarette taxes even exacerbate these cigarette price disparities, in New York City, the municipal tax of $1.50 per pack doubles the effective tax rate on cigarettes bought there versus in other parts of the state.

These tax increases have been generally popular with the public at least with the non-smoking majority, who see cigarette taxes as a means to provide a stable source of tax revenue, while working to help curb youth smoking by making smoking less affordable. Academic studies have shown that while cigarette tax increases do decrease overall smoking rates slightly, state tax revenues still increase with each tax increase, as the core group of smokers has an almost inelastic demand for the product. Perhaps most importantly, by reducing the smoking rate in society, the tax increases should in the long-term decrease the health care costs attributable to the treatment of smoking-related illnesses and concerns (causing less government spending on health services down the road). Yet, even with todays average price for a pack of cigarettes running at $4.28, health experts have calculated that the total health care and productivity costs attributable to smoking at over ten dollars p er pack!

The Booming Business of Cigarette Smuggling

The price disparity between these markets has not been lost on entrepreneurial types in both the legitimate and illegitimate business world. Online cigarette sales have been a flourishing business, with estimates on Internet sales of cigarettes reaching into the billions. Also, the many Indian tribes in the United States have aggressively promoted tobacco sales on their tribal lands as a major attraction, both in their own right and to promote sales of other items and visits to tribal casinos. While cigarette taxes are set by the individual states, the interstate transport and sale of cigarettes is governed by a 1949 federal law known as the Jenkins Act . This statute prohibits the sale or transfer of cigarettes across state lines unless the proper taxes are paid in the receiving state. Thus, trafficking of cigarettes across state lines makes the products contraband, and in most instances, Internet retail outlets and Indian tribal sellers are not paying the proper taxes. Thi s means what are legal sales can become illegal when state lines are crossed. It also means that states lose tremendous amounts of tax revenue, estimated to be upwards of one and a half billion or more dollars annually in a recent report from the federal Government Accountability Office (GAO).

The arbitrage window is also open for smugglers as well, with both small time and large scale operators to take advantage of the price disparities between state jurisdictions. From the perspective of John D'Angelo of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATFE), There is no doubt that there's a direct relationship between the increase in a state's tax to an increase in illegal trafficking. Indeed, there have been an increasing number of cases of cigarette smuggling (officially called cigarette diversion) in the United States since the rapid rise of tobacco taxes, beginning in 2000. There is also an increasing sophistication in these trafficking operations, with the increasing involvement of both organized crime elements and terrorist organizations in these black market operations. As the Irish Republican Army has been involved with cigarette smuggling in Europe for decades, in the past few years, cases have been uncovered in the U.S. mainland involving know n international terrorist groups, including Hamas, Hezbollah, Islamic Jihad, PKK (the Kurdish Workers Party), and Al Qaeda. Now, the U.S. faces the very real prospect that not only are we facing not only a tax problem, but an increasing threat from terrorism, funded significantly by a growing black market trade in cigarettes coming to our shores.

Indeed, what is occurring in the U.S. is the long reach of a global epidemic of cigarette smuggling. To a lesser extent, the U.S. is also seeing the tax burden on cigarettes sparking growth in the illegal importation of counterfeit cigarette products from China and a variety of other countries around the world . In fact, according to the most recent data available, the U.S. Customs and Border Protection seized approximately $25 million worth of counterfeit imported cigarettes in 2003, which represents almost one-fifth of all imported commodities seized for violations of intellectual property rights. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), more than a quarter of all cigarettes are smuggled, and the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives has found that Russian, Armenian, Ukrainian, Chinese, Taiwanese, and Middle Eastern (mainly Pakistani, Lebanese, and Syrian) organized crime groups are highly involved in the trafficking of contraband and counterfe it cigarettes. Finally, sales of cigarettes through the black market work around the prohibitions against the sale of tobacco products to minors (under 18 or even up to 21 in some states). Thus, the World Health Organization has taken the position that the burgeoning sale of contraband cigarettes serves to significantly counteract the efforts to curb youth smoking.

Using RFID Technology to Combat Organized Cigarette Smuggling (and You, Yes You, Buying Your Smokes at the Indian Casino!)

RFID is a new, old technology using radio wave technology to identify objects as opposed to manual or bar-code based optical scanning. It is being utilized in a wide variety of industries today, everywhere from retail to pharmaceuticals to animal science to aerospace, as the cost of the technology is making it practical for routine use. In contrast, todays cigarette tax technology dates back to the early 1950s, with tax stamps on packs of cigarettes being mandated by the Jenkins Act. These have proven easily counterfeited and subject to fraud on a massive scale. Indeed, there is a rampant black market just in the sale of counterfeit and stolen tax stamps themselves. California is the only state thus far to use a new generation of machine readable tax stamps, incorporating encryption technology that gives law enforcement the ability to scan stocks of cigarettes to verify that the proper taxes have been paid. With these new, high tech tax stamps, California has seen a signif icant rise in cigarette tax revenue well in excess of $100 million in the past two years since the new requirements went into effect. And with all states struggling with declining tax revenues due to the current economic situation, recapturing tax revenues will be an especially important subject for legislators and tax enforcement agencies over the next few years.

In mid-February 2007, then Sen. Ted Kennedy (D-Massachusetts) and Rep. Henry Waxman (D-California) introduced The Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act (S.625 in the Senate and H.R. 1108 in the House). Their bills would for the first time grant the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) the power to regulate the manufacture, sale and advertisement of most tobacco products, including cigarettes and smokeless tobacco. The bill specifically authorizes the use of special codes or devices on tobacco product labels for the purpose of tracking or tracing the tobacco product through the distribution system. While the proposed legislation do not now specifically call for an RFID mandate, industry and political analysts believe that this could be the case when the bills reach their final form, or, when passed in the implementing regulations. According to a recent RFID Journal analysis, Congress, while not naming RFID specifically, could become the first legislative cat alysts for the technology's use in government regulation.

A Wall Street Journal editorial dubbed the proposed legislation The Marlboro Preservation Act, as the bill through advertising restrictions and other barriers to entry would help to protect the market dominance of the major tobacco companies, making it harder and most costly for smaller manufacturers to compete. In fact, tobacco industry analysts from Morgan Stanley and Citigroup believe that the legislation would work in favor of the incumbent, large tobacco companies. This is because the increased regulatory burden and advertising limitations would limit the ability of smaller competitors to make inroads into the cigarette market, while also serving to narrow the price gap between premium and low-cost brands.

The U.S. would not be alone in looking to RFID in regulating the cigarette supply chain to specifically combat the trafficking of contraband products. The United Kingdom also has a sizeable problem with contraband cigarettes entering the British market. In fact, according to the Tobacco Manufacturers' Association (TMA), an estimated two billon counterfeit cigarettes well over a quarter of all cigarettes sold annually - are smuggled into the UK. This translates into a loss of approximately 3.5 billion in lost tax revenue for the British government from contraband cigarettes. To counteract this problem, HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) announced in March that within six months, the British government would begin requiring the use of a covert security mark on all cigarette packets. Again, while not specifically naming RFID as the technology that would be utilized for the covert marking, analysts anticipate this to be the case, as the ministry desires to enable customs officials to be able to use small hand-held readers to verify the authenticity of cigarettes and that crown taxes had been properly paid.

Indeed, the WHO has recommended that countries take several steps to curb cigarette smuggling, from raising criminal penalties and licensing all parties involved in the cigarette trade who handle the product as it moves from the manufacturer through the distribution channels to the ultimate consumer. The WHO has also posited the value of having each pack of cigarettes given a serialized identification code, enabling track and trace capabilities to not only assure product authentication and provide a pedigree trail, but to ensure tax compliance as well. Again, while not suggesting an RFID-based solution specifically, it would appear that RFID would be the only technology capable of providing this level of security to the tobacco supply chain.

Analysis

Will we see wide-scale tagging of cigarettes using RFID in the near future? Noted RFID analyst, Dr. Peter Harrop, Chairman of IDTechEx Ltd., cautions that with the cost of RFID tags (presently at least a quarter per unit): No one in their right mind would put a conventional RFID chip in a cigarette packet. Yet, as tag prices fall and new chipless forms of RFID emerge, the prospect of tagging individual packs of cigarettes will become more practicable. Still, the major tobacco companies may come to see RFID tagging at the pack level as enhancing their competitiveness, both in fighting the damage to their brand from counterfeit cigarettes and in putting more costs on their smaller rivals. Thus, there is likely to be an unusual degree of industry-government cooperation to foster RFID tagging of cigarettes, due to the alignment of their mutual interest to protect the legal cigarette trade. We may also see more government action in this area along the lines of the recent British government announcement and the bill before the U.S. Congress, which stands a good chance of passage this year.

Yet, the question remains as to whether labeling can be made practical from a cost perspective? The answer lies in the level of tagging. Certainly, cigarettes qualify as one of the best candidate products for tagging, due to the ratio of the cost of the tag to the value of the item in question which is right up there with high cost items such as pharmaceuticals, electronics, and liquor. The unusual situation with cigarettes is that the key level of tagging might not be at either the individual item level (the pack) or the case level. Rather, cartons of cigarettes a packaging level unique to the tobacco trade - presents a compelling business case. A carton of cigarettes is an industry standard, containing 200 cigarettes (20 cigarettes in a pack, 10 packs to a carton). By tagging cartons of cigarettes, in addition to tagging the cases and pallets that contain them, the cigarette industry and governments could significantly cut the ability of individuals and outlets to trade in contraband cigarettes. In the process, they would effectively create the largest RFID mandate and with it, new demand for RFID tags and labels into the billions of tags - that would perhaps go a long way toward promoting the market growth that would drive unit tag prices significantly downward.

Finally, as we have seen in the U.S., there is that perfect storm developing where the interest of all parties is converging to work towards both national, and perhaps even multinational, solutions. While smoking rates are declining in the U.S., it is important to note that both legal and illicit cigarette sales are a burgeoning market globally. According to the most recent analysis from the World Health Organization, there are well over a billion smokers worldwide more than one-sixth of the global population consuming the approximately 5.5 trillion cigarettes produced annually by the tobacco industry. Thus, when talking about RFID and cigarettes, there is no blowing smoke theres surely a growth opportunity here for innovative companies ready for an innovative, effective RFID-based solution for the tobacco industry.

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David C. Wyld () is the Robert Maurin Professor of Management at Southeastern Louisiana University in Hammond, Louisiana. He is a management consultant, researcher/writer, and executive educator.

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The E Cig: Various Reasons to Give Up Tobacco Cigarettes - Health

Generally, smokers don't like learning about the health hazards caused by this toxic practice. Many smokers don't recognise the addictive power of the nicotine contained in cigarettes. Still, lots of them either can't or won't stop. The electronic cigarette, also known as the e cig, is a great way to avoid the 4000 harmful chemicals, toxins, and substances known to be present in cigarette smoke, yet still satisfy nicotine cravings. Here's a brief run-down on some of the diseases and conditions you'll avoid by switching.

E Cig: Cardiovascular Hazards Linked to Smoking Tobacco

Conditions and diseases which involve the heart and blood circulation include poor circulation, and a kind of chest pain known as angina. You're also at a heightened risk for a heart attack or stroke. A little more than 100,000 people within the UK expire yearly from diseases connected with smoking. And out of this many, approximately 43,000 of them are related to numerous forms of cancers that are connected to smoking. Nearly 31,000 occur due to cardiovascular disease. To end, just about 30,000 gradually lose their battle and pass away of emphysema and a number of other chronic lung diseases. In contrast, using the e cig only distributes a measured dose of nicotine to the user with none of the unsafe chemicals and carcinogens.

E Cig: The Real Deal Involving Tobacco Utilize and Cancer

Smokers are at a higher danger of getting cancer than those who don't. An incredible 90% of lung cancer deaths occur due to smoking. If you smoke more than 15 cigarettes per day, your chance of dying from lung cancer approaches 25%. Contrast this with the fact that if nobody smoked, lung cancer would be an exceptionally rare disease that strikes only 0.5% of people. When you are the type of smoker who draws in deeply, your chances are heightened tremendously. With smokers, there's 4 times the risk of developing cancer of the mouth. Numerous other forms of cancers that are more typical with smoking are oesophageal, pancreatic, cervical, bladder, and kidney cancer. In contrast, the vapour you inhale from an electronic cigarette is virtually harmless, and the "smoke" you exhale is just as benign.

E Cig: A Number of Disturbing Aspects on Tobacco Smoking

A cigarette tip burns at approximately 700 degrees Celcius. The tremendous heat accounts for the formation of a lot of hazardous toxins In addition to nicotine, the two largest opponents are tar and carbon monoxide. Tar is also known to be a cancer-causing agent, and carbon monoxide reduces the oxygen level in the body. Also, nicotine augments the cholesterol level in the body. By and large, smoking lessens the life expectancy by as high as 8 years. Smoking steps up arterial disease, and subsequently, raises the danger of a smoker suffering the probability of fatal blood clots by an incredible 400% When an electronic cigarette is used, there isn't any burning. The tip glows, but is just an LED light, and e cigs don't cause any of these diseases and conditions.

Despite the fact that it will happen in years to come, the health hazards connected to smoking, with time, will lower to match those of non-smokers for those who discontinue smoking cigarettes. Can you think of a more beneficial reason to convert to the e cig?

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Shopping for Electronic Cigarettes from the proper Corporation is Important - Careers

The electric cigarette has existed for many years and it can be presently getting greater popularity as an option for tobacco cigarettes. Some controversy continues to surround the electronic cigarette being applied as a quit smoking aid or Nicotine Replacement Therapy item, however its usefulness as an option for smoking cigarettes is clear. The dependency of tobacco cigarette smoking has numerous levels with it. Combined with physical addictive properties of nicotine, the cigarette smoker also has the psychological addiction as well as emotional habitual patterns to cope with.

At last in history there is certainly now a device which will address the complexities of cigarette smoking addiction and well being troubles that come with them.The smokeless cigarette is like a regular cigarette within the manner that it could be made use of. Physical look and really feel are strikingly similar together with the actions linked with smoking a true cigarette. So many people today are attached to with just how smokes really feel in their very own hands combined with the actions of working with them consequently the electronic cigarette does very nicely at replicating this knowledge for tobacco smokers. Initially the smokeless cigarette was truly cumbersome but the later generations of the e cigarette have changed into considerably additional practical user friendly units. By no means cumbersome nor inconsistent with their top quality, the smokeless cigarette today can give its users a far additional finished simulated cigarette smoking encounter as compared to previously.Nicotine is alleged for being concerning the most addicting substances obtainable.

Everyone can just imagine the reason why the habit of utilizing tobacco almost certainly be difficult to give up. Folks that make use of the the electronic cigarette have the choice of utilizing it with or without having any nicotine. That incredibly successful function can readily regulate the potency of nicotine produced by the e cigarette and might be utilised to progressively lower the level of nicotine the body gets over time. Comparable to what the nicotine patch does despite the fact that the electronic cigarette also mimics the action of true cigarette smoking, consequently minimizing the fidgeting involved of getting with no a smoke within your hand. Contemplating the electronic cigarette doesn't have exactly the same issues as regular ones in how that it doesn't make tobacco smoke.

Amongst the challenges of working with regular cigarettes is becoming second hand smoke. Because of the scientific evidence of tobacco smoke being risky to our well being and wellbeing, smokers seem to be considerably shunned of the practice of smoking cigarettes in public locations for superior cause. The electronic cigarette won't create smoke inside the conventional sense and its output of water mist is absolutely benign so that it will not cause health complications like making use of tobacco can. The smokeless cigarette attributes a lot of benefits over its conventional tobacco cigarette version.

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Know Your Electronic Cigarette - Technology - Electronics

Electronic Cigarettes could be purchased online and in selected stores worldwide. There is a wide selection of brands to choose from. Your refillable electronic cigarette is being refilled by e juice that comes in different flavours and intensity or strength. You could choose from different varieties of e juice down to the fruity ones to Chinese green tea flavoured ones. There are also flavours that taste like real tobacco cigarette which is more on the menthol side and there is an available e juice in the market that is 100% free from nicotine. Electronic cigarettes come with three main parts: an atomizer, a cartridge, and a rechargeable battery. You pour droplets of e juice into the cartridge to be able for your electronic cigarettes to work and produce misty smoke or vapor which simulates real hand smoking.

A refillable electronic cigarette is a great way to save money. A refillable electronic cigarette is your initial investment to a healthier lifestyle electronic cigarettes offer. To be followed by your consumption of e juice, altogether they help you save up money up to half of your monthly cost compared to tobacco cigarettes. You'll be surprised to find out when you calculate your every month consumption of electronic cigarettes or your refillable electric cigarette and e juice, and compare it to your tobacco cigarette spending in the past. With your refillable electric cigarette, it would be more or less a 50% difference from your past smoking bill. You do not have to smoke a real cigarette anymore with these goodies. It would save you from the harsh chemicals and would save you from different illnesses such as lung cancer, it could save thousands of people from dying caused by nicotine and the thousand carcinogenic additives and harsh elements tobacco cigarettes have. A little lighting stick could save your life and aid your addiction. If we gather all the smokers in the world and convince them to switch to electric cigarette smoking instead, it would make a huge impact and difference, of course a kind of difference that's definitely on the good side of things.

The electric cigarette is one of the most valuable inventions not to improve but rather to help amend the human addiction to its tobacco consumption. It is safe to say that this innovation will help repair the diminishing concern for one's health. With this said, it is better to opt for electric cigarettes because it would benefit a smoker in the long run.

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Electronic Cigarettes Offer A Healthier Way of Smoking - Technology - Electronics

Nine years ago, the concept and idea of electronic cigarettes was finally introduced in the market. A Chinese pharmacist named Hon Lik and his company, called Ruyan, which means "to resemble smoking," started exporting its products in 2005-2006 worldwide, and by the year 2007, he received his first international patent. Now thousands of people have switched to electronic cigarettes, making it a replacement to tobacco cigarettes. Purchasing an electronic cigarette kit is your one way ticket to a healthier way of living. Electronic cigarettes consist of mainly three parts: a nicotine cartridge, an atomizer, and a rechargeable battery where the power supply comes from. The e juice liquid is used to produce vapors in electronic cigarettes. The mist smoke is similar to the one emitted by nebulizers or vaporizers. The e juice liquid has different standard levels of nicotine; it has different strengths depending on your preference. There is also a nicotine-free e juice liquid if you wish to completely kick away nicotine from your life.

An electronic cigarette kit is available online and in a number of stores worldwide. Investing to an electric cigarette kit and e juice liquid cuts down your monthly cost on smoking, making it not only health-friendly but also economically reasonable, it also contributes to lesser damage in air pollution, because there is the absence of first and second hand smoke. There is also a "Do it yourself" e juice liquid, in which you could be able to adjust the ingredients and flavour of your own choice. Electric cigarettes are hailed the smartest choice and alternative to tobacco smoking. If you would step up and make a difference in your life thru this, it would be rewarding on your part in the end. An electric cigarette kit may just be your life saver from the harmful additives tobacco cigarettes possess. An electric cigarette kit may just be your saviour from respiratory related illnesses and worse, death. It is good to know that a lot of people now switch to electric cigarett e smoking. This may lower down the population of chain smokers worldwide and it is not far-fetched that slowly it would banish the number of tobacco smokers in this planet; wouldn't it be a better place if that would be the case? It is considered a great invention for these assumptions could possibly come true. It would be a smart choice if you would get away from that danger zone caused by tobacco cigarettes.

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Electronic cigarette filters: a better way to quit traditional cigarettes - Health

Smoking is one of the most common habits that are seen very commonly with large number of people. Though it is injurious to health but this is such a habit that people cannot leave it. The harmful effect of tobacco takes a very dangerous form and smokers suffer from various health problems among them many are incurable. A lot of remedies have come that so that smokers can quit smoking but it is hard to do so as smokers can never live without smoking if it becomes a regular habit for them. With the introduction of, this problem can be sorted out. These are as similar to the traditional cigarettes but the do not have any harmful effect. You can enjoy smoking as much as you want to by having these without affecting your health.

Smoking is not at all a good habit as it has many bad effects that might take a danger form. There are many people who cannot resist themselves and hence cannot quit smoking. are the best option for them as these are not at all harmful for the body and fulfills the urge those who cannot survive without cigarettes. The offer the same pleasure without affecting the health of an individual. So with the help of this smart electronic cigarette filters, you can easily continue with your smoking habit and can enjoy it to the fullest.

E-cigarettes have the that offer the same feeling that a traditional cigarette gives with verisimilitude effect of smoking. These electronic cigarettes have many features in it such as an indicator light at the tip that can let you feel as if you are enjoying the real traditional one. But it does not burn anything and do not generate any kind of harmful chemical that is generally found in the real cigarettes. Therefore, having the e-cigarettes with are not at all harmful for the smoker and it do not affect the environment in anyway. The effectively restrict the intake of tobacco, tar and nicotine those are found in the normal real cigarette and that creates problem for the smoker as well as pollute the environment. Therefore, the are getting huge popularity these days.

The come with a standard size and hence fit easily with all kinds of e-cigarettes. These can easily be fixed into the e-cigarettes as soon as it gets over and you can enjoy smoking without any kind of problem. Besides, the do not have the problem of second hand smoking as it does not emit smoking. The are best for those who do not smoke but are the part of the company of smokers.

So if you are planning to quit smoking but your regular habit and addiction to it is not letting you to do so then get the e-cigarettes with It can give you the same pleasure without harming your health. Get these e-cigarettes with electronic cigarette filters from us at DinoDirect and enjoy smoking as much as you want to.

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