Cigarettes have more disadvantages than advantages. In fact, cigarettes have advantages only in smokers’ mind. According to a recent study, cigarette smoking is the cause of 90 percent of the world’s lung cancer cases. In a study was found that…
Daily Archives: March 23, 2009
THE NEED FOR HELP IN STOPPING SMOKING AND THE VALUE OF TREATMENT
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The reason for such low unaided quit rates is that tobacco use is highly addictive: ‘The evidence suggests that failure to stop smoking is very closely tied to neuropsychological processes unrelated to rational choice’. WHO, the American Psychiatric Association and…
Tobacco dependence treatment
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Tobacco consumption remains the largest single preventable cause of death in the world. There are now more than 1.3 billion smokers world-wide, forecasted to rise to about 1.6 billion by 2025. The World Bank projection is that on current trends…
Anti-smoking advocates in Halifax
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Anti-smoking advocates in Halifax are concerned over what they say is the increasing frequency of cigarette advertisements that have appeared in the city’s free alternative weekly paper, The Coast. The Coast ran full-page ads by tobacco company DuMaurier in two…