Friday, April 5, 2013

What's in secondhand smoke?

Secondhand smoke — also known as environmental tobacco smoke — includes the smoke that a smoker exhales (mainstream smoke) and the smoke that comes directly from the burning tobacco product (sidestream smoke).

U.S. survey shows that low-nicotine cigarettes may help smokers quit

According to recent survey results show that, without more than the usual amount of smoking, smokers of nicotine addiction can be reduced by the absorption of low nicotine content of cigarettes. One pair of 135 between 18-70 years old, small, controlled study, the transition to the suction contain less nicotine cigarettes, smokers can not smoke more cigarettes and inhale deeply into the tar and toxins to compensate for reduced nicotine content.


Many persons love to smoke Camel cigarettes, Winston cigarettes, Kent cigarettes .

Monday, April 1, 2013

Why are Britons more susceptible to disease?


The years Britons can expect to live before disease and disability take their toll is below average
The number of years Britons can expect to live before disease and disability take their toll is below average, but not all of that is down to hospital care. Photograph: Murdo Macleod for the Guardian
For the last 60 years, the UK has gloried in a healthcare system that is free to all its citizens and regularly described by politicians as the envy of the world. It has brought in a smoking ban in public places, it has good immunisation systems, cancer screening and has reduced salt in food. And yet, say the authors of a major piece of work on the global burden of disease, the UK lags behind many other comparable countries in terms of the health of its population.
The report published in the Lancet medical journal by the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) in Seattle, using data supplied by UK experts and organisations, compares health in the UK with health in 18 other countries – 14 other members of the EU, plus Australia, Canada, Norway and the US.
The exercise is the first time data from the Global Burden of Disease project – which has pulled together an extraordinary amount of information from 187 countries – has been used to compare similar nations and figure out why some do better than others.
The UK is below average in terms