SNUS this?

There it is the new and improved smokeless tobacco. I actually found a website that believes or is whating its readers to believe that this smokeless tobacco is less harmful on you than the traditional cigarettes. Funny Right!! I found it hilarious! However, this website is true is stating that smoking a traditional cigarette causing more harm in smoking it than in using Snus.

"Using modern snus products can reduce the risks of tobacco use by about 90% compared to smoking, is a expert panel saying."

http://buysmokelesstobaccocompany.com/



However, go to Camel's website and it states that WARNING: SMOKELESS TOBACCO IS ADDICTIVE. "Snus is spit-free, smoke-free, mess-free, tobacco that comes in a small pouch. Just slide it under your upper lip and enjoy." How is it spit-free... High moisture + low salt content = no spitting.

So even though one is not smoking the carcinogens in traditional cigarettes, one is allowing all of the other ingredients to head directly to the gums and oral cavities.

https://snus.tobaccopleasure.com/modules/security/Login.aspx

Researchers at the University of Minnesotta have found that Camel SNUS has lower levels of carcinogens than other smokeless tobacco products. "For example, while the new snus products had levels of benzo(a)pyrene of around 3 micrograms/gram, tradional smokeless tobacco products all had levels above 30, and Kodiak Wintergreen had a level of 57." Which means that each metal tin containing 15 tightly packaged pockets are less toxic than the other leading smokeles products. So buy Camel instead of Kodiak and still end up with oral mouth cancer? Yay! Sounds fun right.

http://www.healthline.com/blogs/smoking_cessation/2009_01_01_smoking_cessation_archive.html

So my theory is not for the moving to smokeless tobacco if quitting is near to one's future, but to the slowly stopping smoking traditional tobacco (cigarettes). By not becoming interested in this products makes a smoker's chances of not acquiring more mouth or oral cancer than what they are already exposed too.

What do you think?

Warning Low Battery

The latest and greatest technology to be discovered is the electronic cigarette. I have focused on the brand of E-Cigarette. The E-Cigarette looks like a traditional cigarette but it is in fact better than such for what's inside this revolutionary product. The body of this product consists of a cartridge, an atomization chamber, a smart chip controller and lithium battery. On the tip of the device is an operating mode indicator that lights up when you inhale it; simulating the burn of a traditional tobacco cigarette.

The most amazing part of this product is the atomization chamber, I believe. This is where all the magic happens. This chamber is responsible for ceating the vapor like smoke, simulating a real cigarette. "This vapor is a result from the heating up or atomizing of the liquid inside the cartridge." Giving the smoker the full efect of smoking the traditional cigarette without the harsh carinogens and without second hand irration.

Starting the E-Cigarette there is no more:

• Standing Outside
• Lost Productivity
• Cigarette Butts
• Tar
• Carbon Monoxide
• Ashtrays
• Offensive Smoke
• Second-hand Smoke
• Smoker Breath

http://www.ecigaretteschoice.com/pages/Benefits.html

However, On September 9th, of this year, The FDA claimed that all electronic cigarettes are classified as "new drugs" because of this specific language:

"Any product that bears labeling claims that it helps stop or reduce the cigarette urge, helps stop or reduce smoking, or similar claims is a smoking deterrent drug product."

The Electronic Cigarette Association was also alerted of the FDA's new policy and was notified of the new application process. These new products were required to file an investigational new drug application, which mandates manufacturers to provide data on animal testing and even human clinical trials. Each manufacturer was given fifteen days to notify the FDA in writing with their plan of actions.

http://pagingdrgupta.blogs.cnn.com/2010/09/09/fda-warns-e-cig-makers-on-stop-smoking-claims/?iref=allsearch

So with the FDA's conclusion on these "new drugs" does that make these products safer for the public and for others. Should it be qualified for the limits of the smoking bans? I do believe it is a safer cigarette for smokers for avoiding the tar emissions into our lungs. However, the cost for a starter kit is almost ridiculous.
What do you think?

Flavored Smoke

According to ABC News on September 22, 2009, a new law banned the sale of flavored tobacco. It sure does not seem like it has went into effect though. I still see flavored cigarettes being sold at the drive-thrus and gas stations. In the summer of 2009, the FDA was cracking down the the sale of flavored tobacco that health officials believed was targeting the children. A letter was sent out to various tobacco companies giving them an initial warning that if they were to "continue to make, distribute or sell flavored cigarettes in violation of the law." The ban had even the border agents blocking the income of imported flavored tobacco and/or cigarettes.

FDA's head of its' new Center for Tobacco Products beleves that tobacco companies are producting flavored cigarettesbecause they aare favored by teens. "Studies show that 17-year-old smokers are three times as likely to use flavored cigarettes as smokers over the age of 25," Deyton said.

The law stated that the tobacco companies with be required ro register with the FDA. Ans as for Deyton he said that the agnecy will soon require the tobacco companies with have to release the information concerning the "constituent components of tobacco products," which is now leading the FDA to consult with the CDC to investigate the safety of those ingredients.

http://abcnews.go.com/Health/QuitToLive/law-bans-sale-flavored-cigarettes/story?id=8640262&page=2

Monkey See, Monkey Do

Teens have been known to follow what they see like if their parents drink they are more likely to try drinking earlier than if their parents did not drink. Well it also boils down to seeing their parents and peers smoking cigarettes. It does happen. When a teen begins to smoke, they believe they are being portrayed as older and more wiser because they are smoking. The differences between the subjective feelings of adult who smoke than teens who smoke are far more apparent especially in behavioral aspects.

"The American Lung Association estimates that every minute four thousand eight hundred teens will take their first drag off a cigarette."

"Research has proven the fact that nicotine has the ability to suppress feelings, suppress appetite for food, is used as stimulation after sex, and is a good way to relax from troubles and feelings of insecurities." I can agree with the research because I began smoking at a young age and the more I read this attached article the more and more the research has proven in my life when I smoked in high school. These are examples that I have either experienced or have witness my follow peers who smoked cigarettes go through as we were in high school:

-   They tried their first cigarette in sixth or seventh grade
-   They feel like they are not a part of the school
-   They become isolated from other students
-   They can’t perform as well at sports events
-   They feel like they need a job to support their smoking habit
-   They start using other illegal substances
-   They begin experimenting with alcohol and other drugs
-   They experience pressure from home and school and use tobacco as a form of relief
-   Teen smokers enjoy trying to hide their smoking

Now some of these known experiences are far fetched but can happen with teens who choose the wrong crowd to hang out with and their habit becomes out of control and leading them into other substances to make them seem "Cool." Being "cool" not only is portrayed with the peers that teens are surrounded by, but their icons such as Lady Gaga above ^, who seems to be advertising the smoke shades as I like to call them. Does it make you want to smoke??Teens of every generation before and after me have and will strive for attention whether it be good or bad. Smoking cigarettes just seems so eaasy to do if almost everyone around your life smokes, therefore, even the more rush to seek cigarettes out of your parents pack and hide in your room and take your first puff. It's a rush and that's what it was about for me. I just wanted the attention it was not about me breaking laws like stealing but breaking the rules my parents set in place and to be sponetaneous and rebellious!

On the other hand, when I took my first puff of a cigarette years ago I did not know how addicting they were and I honestly did not think I would continue smoking. Boy I was wrong! To this day I am a Marlboro Medium smoker and just apart of the statistics. I have noticed that the older I become the sicker I always am and the more I smoke when I stress out. Now that my family knows I smoke it is not a problem to smoke and no need to hide it
but if I could go back in time I would and put down the cigarette that I picked up. I was just naive as most teens who begin to smoke and did not think I could get hooked, but I did!

However, times are changing and smoking is becoming almoost impossible and unattractive to the public eyes. Schools no longer have the yellow lined smoking boxes for the staff and students but now have teachers strolling parking lots during lunch hours to make sure students are not smoking. Public places like Buffalo Wild Wings and other family places are becoming non smoking across the state of Ohio. So in theory this smoke free environment that we are living in should decrease the amount of smokers if the cost of cigarettes does not beat it.

http://www.teendrugabuse.us/teensmoking.html

Smoking Babies

"Currently, at least 10 percent of women in the United States smoke during pregnancy."
Without being pregnant smoking still harms the human body, however, smoking while being pregnant can cause serious harm to the unborn fetus. Besides the 4,000 chemicals that are contained in cigarettes, nicotine and carbon monoxide play a role in having complications during a pregnancy.

In 2004, information was gathered about women smoking while pregnant that showed that 11.9% of babies were born with a lower birth-rate than average than compared to nonsmokers with a 7.2%. Smoking has been known to be a cause to many illnesses has been known to cause slow fetal growth. Smoking also increases the risk of having of a preterm pregnancy. "However, if a woman stops smoking even by the end of her second trimester of pregnancy, she is no more likely to have a low-birthweight baby than a woman who never smoked."

Smoking not only effects an unborn fetus's growth during a pregnancy but can double the risk of causing placental problems. Placenta previa is a low-lying placenta that covers a part or all of the opening of the uterus and placental abruption is when a placenta peels away, partly of almost completelt from the uterine wall before labor begins. Both placedntal problems can cause heavy bleeding during labor. If a rupture occurs before 37 weeks often results in a premature baby.

Even if a nonsmoking pregnant woman exposes themselves to secondhand smoke they are likely to have a lower birthweight. It is highly advisable for pregnant women to stay clear from secondhand smoke. "Babies whose mothers smoked during pregnancy are up to three times as likely to die from sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) as babies of nonsmokers."


http://www.marchofdimes.com/professionals/14332_1171.asp