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Woman dies in fire - she had been smoking in bed. Chattanooga

Fatal house fire in Plano blamed on man smoking in recliner. Dallas Morning News

Discarded smoking materials responsible for a massive West Side apartment building fire that caused over $3 million in damage. WISC-TV Madison

A house was destroyed by fire after one of its young occupants carelessly disposed of smoking material. Observer-Dispatch

Careless smoking causes fire at a foster home. Muskegon Chronicle.

A report suggests that a fatal fire at a Madison mobile home was caused by careless smoking.

The State (South Carolina) reported an apartment fire that killed one person, destroying a 12 unit apartment. The fire is thought to have been caused by a discarded cigarette.

"Elderly woman dies from smoking-related fire." News 10 Now

Giving up smoking remains the best way for smokers to live longer

Giving up smoking reduces people's chances of dying from chronic diseases including smoking related lung diseases, cardiovascular disease and smoking-related cancers the New Zealand Ministry of Health says.

Chief Advisor Public Health, Dr Ashley Bloomfield, says chronic lung disease is a serious side effect of smoking and can be debilitating and even fatal. This new study shows that microscopic inflammatory changes seem to persist in smokers with chronic lung disease. But more importantly, as the authors also point out, quitting increases survival, reduces hospital admissions and reduces the rate of decline in lung function. These are likely to be the outcomes that matter to smokers.

Teen smokers wouldn't smoke if they had their life again

Preliminary New Zealand Ministry of Health research indicates that almost three quarters of 15-19 year olds who currently smoke say that if they had their life again they would not smoke.

"Our research shows about 85 per cent of these young smokers believe they won't be smokers in their 20s. Unfortunately, the evidence suggests many will continue to smoke for many more years, some for the rest of their lives. Smoking tobacco is incredibly addictive and this finding sends a clear message to any young person thinking of taking up smoking - don't, or you will regret it,'' Dr Bloomfield says.

Dr Bloomfield says by creating smokefree environments for their children parents can help their children avoid the poor health and early death that can result from smoking.

Some good news - teens are smoking less than before. Statistics Canada

News coverage helps reduce Teenage Smokers, Dr. Matthew Farrelly, (an RTI International report)

Tobacco Free on World No Tobacco Day

Every Day More than 4,000 Youth Try Their First Cigarette

Tobacco Free Florida is celebrating World No Tobacco Day by encouraging youth to pledge that they will remain tobacco free and tobacco users to quit for good.

"By taking the 'I Care' pledge, youth choose to abstain from all forms of tobacco use, allowing them to serve as positive role models in their family and friends' lives, not to mention society as a whole," says Kim Berfield, Deputy Secretary of the Florida Department of Health. "It is crucial that youth recognize the importance of claiming their right to health and healthy living by avoiding cigarettes and smokeless tobacco."

Children and teenagers make up 90% of the new smokers in the United States and each day, more than 4,000 young people between the ages of 12 and 17 try their first cigarette. Another 1,140 become regular, daily smokers and of those, about a third will die from a smoking-related disease. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the younger one begins to smoke, the more likely they will become an adult smoker. Young people who do not start using tobacco by age 18 will most likely never start.

Source: Tobacco Free Florida

Grassroots Enterprise Launches 'I am Smoke- Free' Application Built on Facebook(R) Platform to Enable Easier Activism on behalf of The Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids

Freelance artist and poet, Tim Webb, a Spring resident, also known as Texas Tim, has created an anti-smoking coloring book to reach young children with the message that cigarette smoking is harmful to their health through cartoon illustrations and poems.

According to the American Cancer Society (ACS), "cigarettes kill more Americans than alcohol, car accidents, suicide, AIDS, homicide, and illegal drugs combined." The ACS strongly recommends that "parents start talking about tobacco use when their children are 5 or 6 years old and to continue through their high school years" as a preventative measure.

"Quitting Smoking - Seven out of 10 smokers said they would like to quit ... mainly for health reasons. ... [ 77% of people surveyed agree with the smoking ban ] ..." BBC News 

New York City’s smoking rate has plummeted since a comprehensive program against smoking was launched in 2002, according to findings in the national Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Morbidity and Mortality Report (MMWR).

America's Medicaid system could spend nearly $10 billion less within five years if all Medicaid beneficiaries who smoke, quit. A new study by the American Legacy Foundation found that effective smoking prevention and cessation programs could cut Medicaid costs by 5.6 percent.

The list of reasons you shouldn't smoke is getting longer

Alzheimer's Starts Earlier for Heavy Drinkers and Smokers

Heavy drinkers and heavy smokers develop Alzheimer's disease years earlier than people with Alzheimer's who do not drink or smoke heavily, according to research presented at the American Academy of Neurology 60th Anniversary Annual Meeting.

"A toxic pollutant spread by oil spills, forest fires and car exhaust is also present in cigarette smoke, and may represent a second way in which smoking delays bone healing, according to research presented at the annual meeting of the Orthopaedic Research Society in San Francisco (March 2008).

In 2005, researchers from the University of Rochester Medical Center identified one ingredient in smoke, nicotine, that delays bone growth by influencing gene expression in the two-step bone healing process: stem cells become cartilage; cartilage matures into bone. In the current study, some of the same researchers found that a second smoke ingredient, the polyaromatic hydrocarbon benzo(a)pyrene (BaP), also slows bone healing, but in a different way. 

Smoking has been shown to delay skeletal healing by as much as 60 percent following fractures. Slower healing means a greater chance of re-injury and can lead to chronic pain and disability. The obvious solution is for smokers to quit when they get hurt ..."  Our Experts say "QUIT NOW!"

Pregnant women pass on the effects of smoking, including the possibility that smoking before pregnancy or while breast-feeding might substantially decrease the fertility of female offspring to the long list of possible negative outcomes.
University of Toronto, Canada

Smoking during pregnancy increases the risk of placental abruption (potentially a life threatening condition). American Journal of Epidemiology.

Dr. John Laird, University of California, Davis Medical Center: "Smoking is one of the biggest reasons people may develop peripheral artery disease." (In severe cases requiring amputations). KCRA

Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and other institutions worldwide have found that smokers have a 70 percent greater risk of having hearing loss than non-smokers. Daily Vidette

Researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis say that smoking interferes with ligament healing. 

Prenatal smoking increases ADHD risk in some children - "Past research has suggested that both genes and prenatal insults — such as exposure to alcohol and nicotine — can increase the risk of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). But the identified increases in risk have been very modest. Now, a team of Washington University scientists has found that when those factors are studied together, risk of a severe type of ADHD greatly increases." Washington University School of Medicine

"If you wanted to start today to reduce your chances of getting cancer, what would you have to do? Lose excess weight, get more exercise, eat a healthy diet and quit smoking." Washington University School of Medicine

"Researchers link smoking to higher risk of developing dementia." ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

A Swedish study suggests a direct connection between smoking and an increased risk of stillbirth. Drs. L. Hogberg and S. Cnattingius, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm

"One in five smokers (20 per cent) say that they will try to, or definitely stop smoking when the UK goes completely smoke free from July 1st." PNN Online, 15 March 2007

Researchers at The University of Nottingham say that, "Not only does (smoking) cause cancer, heart attacks and strokes but smokers will also lose more muscle mass in old age than a non-smoker. The effect of this predisposes smokers to an accelerated decline in physical function and loss of independence."

Next Safety, Inc. promotes its revolutionary pulmonary drug delivery device. The handheld device delivers nicotine more effectively than a cigarette. 

If you want to quit smoking and you don't wish to rely on drug delivery devices, consider Hypnotherapy to stop smoking.

"... those genes and functions which do not revert to normal levels upon smoking cessation may also provide insight into why former smokers still maintain a risk of developing lung cancer." Effect of active smoking on the human bronchial epithelium transcriptome, by Raj Chari, Kim M. Lonergan, Raymond T. Ng, Calum MacAulay, Wan L. Lam, Stephen Lam. BMC Genomics.

The moral: don't smoke and if you're a smoker, the sooner you give up smoking, the better your chances for avoiding some of the nasty life threatening diseases. If you keep on poisoning your body with smoke, it will eventually kill you.

A very tired smoker asked to be jailed so she could quit smoking. The authorities should provide better help to people who wish to quit smoking. Most authorities push "drug" replacement therapies? Why replace one kind of drug with another? There are safer methods to give up smoking ...

Hypnotism helps Stop Smoking ...

"... the (hypnosis) results were good – June has now not had a cigarette in two weeks and the nicotine patches are now off." June said, "I am not missing my cigarettes, the cravings have definitely gone." Bridlington Today News August 2007

"... as well as therapies like hypnosis, to help people quit smoking. ..." In Matters of the Heart, Prevention Is Key, article by Jane E Brody, New York Times, 31 July 2007

"Hypnosis is the most effective way of giving up smoking, according to the largest ever scientific comparison of ways of breaking the habit. Willpower, it turns out, counts for very little" New Scientist,  31 October 1992

"Another popular way to quit is by undergoing hypnotherapy treatment. Hypnosis helps smokers to deal with all of the emotional and psychological aspects of quitting." Mirror,  26 March 2007

Quit to Live Longer and Happier

14-year study finds that quitting smoking adds years to life

The study, "The Effects of a Smoking Cessation Intervention," is the first experimental study to show that stopping smoking adds years to life. It was published in the Feb. 15, 2005 issue of Annals of Internal Medicine.

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