Smoking Rates Unchanged - 46 Million in U.S.; SWITCH TO SNUS!

The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) says the number of American cigarette smokers remains at 21% (46 million smokers), and teen smoking has also failed to decline. One in five teens smokes. "It's tragic," said CDC director Dr. Thomas Frieden, who calls smoking the No. 1 preventable cause of death in the United States. He estimates that smoking kills 1,000 Americans a day.

"Without bold action by our elected officials, too many lives, young and old, will suffer needlessly from chronic illness and burdensome health care expenses," Nancy Brown, chief executive of the American Heart Association, said in a statement.

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Cigarette Deaths & Disease: “The Problem is NOT the Nicotine”, It’s the Smoke

The problem is not the nicotine,” says Dr. Michael Lucia, a Nevada pulmonary and sleep specialist, “it is the delivery system [cigarettes] which causes so many health problems. Smoking is the single greatest threat to health because it damages every organ in the body. It is a multi-system disease.” Lucia says 15 types of cancer are directly related to smoking, as well as many other ailments, including heart and vascular disease.

The CDC says smoking causes abdominal aortic aneurysm, acute myeloid leukemia, cataract, cervical cancer, kidney cancer, pancreatic cancer, pneumonia, periodontitis, and stomach cancer, plus bladder, esophageal, laryngeal, lung, oral, and throat cancers; chronic lung diseases; coronary heart and cardiovascular diseases; and reproductive effects and sudden infant death syndrome.

According to the American Lung Association, smoking kills more people than alcohol, AIDS, car crashes, illegal drugs, murders, and suicides combined. Thousands more die from other tobacco-related causes such as fires caused by smoking and smokeless tobacco use.

Quitting smoking will reduce risks for diseases and improve health in general.

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Switch to Snus to Quit Smoking, Say Norwegians

A study recently published by the journal Nicotine & Tobacco Research finds that switching to snus (Swedish-style oral snuff) is by far the most popular method for quitting smoking in Norway. Furthermore, it is much more effective than using nicotine replacement products sold by pharmaceutical companies. [Thanks to Reason for this info!] You can buy the valuable domain SwitchToSnus.com from me by submitting your offer as a comment to this blog, or by making your offer here at SEDO.

FDA Tapping Big Pharma to Knock Off the Tobacco Industry

The FDA is stocking its new tobacco advisory committee with highly-paid consultants for drug companies that market smoking cessation products. It’s a clear conflict of interest, and equally clear evidence of the federal agency being tone deaf – while other parts of the government and virtually every medical journal worldwide are acknowledging they’ve been wrong to let drug-company-paid “experts” sit on research review panels, here the FDA is tossing fairness right out the window.

A non-profit watchdog, Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, is petitioning to toss two foxes out of the henhouse:

·         Dr. Neal L. Benowitz consults for Pfizer, makers of Chantix, a prescription pill that aims at nicotine receptors in the brain.

·         Jack E. Henningfield is a vice president at Pinney Associates, a consultant for GlaxoSmithKline, maker of nicotine gum, lozenges and patches.

“Everybody hates the tobacco companies, but favoring the drug companies can’t be the answer,” Melanie Sloan, executive director of the watchdog group. Their complaint against the stacked advisory panel has been filed with Department of Health & Human Service’s inspector general.

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U.S. Cigarettes Most Dangerous in the World, It Seems

Cigarettes sold in the U.S. cause Americans to inhale more cancer-causing agents than do cigarettes sold in Canada, Britain and Australia, researchers reported on June 1, 2010. Different blends of ingredients account for the fact. The study, published in the journal Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers and Prevention, showed that the amounts of carcinogens in cigarette butts directly correlated with tell-tale compounds in the smoker's urine.

"We know that cigarettes from around the world vary in their ingredients and the way they are produced," said Dr. Jim Pirkle of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. "All of these cigarettes contain harmful levels of carcinogens, but these findings show that amounts of tobacco-specific nitrosamines differ from country to country, and U.S. brands are the highest in the study."

The popular U.S. cigarette brands studied contained "American blend" tobacco, known to contain higher TSNA levels than the "bright" tobacco used in the most popular Australian, Canadian, and British brands. Australian and Canadian smokers got more nicotine than U.S. and British smokers, but not of TSNAs. 

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NIH: Nicotine Good for Attention and Memory

Dr. Stephen Heishman, a scientist with the National Institute on Drug Abuse (part of the National Institutes of Health) and colleagues studied all the literature they could find on nicotine and performance published between 1994 and 2008. They reviewed 41 studies and looked at how nicotine affected everything from fine motor skills to short term memory. Their results were published in the journal Psychopharmacology. They found that nicotine not only helps with fine motor skills and alertness, but it improves short term memory for tasks as well. "The effect on attention was well known, but I was somewhat surprised about the effects on memory," Heishman said. "Smokers say that one of the reasons that they smoke is to help them concentrate, focus on tasks and do their work, and obviously a lot of our daily work involves memory. So on the other hand, I guess it shouldn't be too surprising."

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