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Every day you stay off cigarettes, you boost your health and wealth - as your quit calculators show. But is that what quitting means to you? Write a list, as long or short as you like, of the best things about quitting. 

Below are some examples to get you started. And don't forget, you can always come back and add things later if you want. 

My clothes don't stink. 

My hair feels clean. 

No more burn holes in my clothes. 

I can taste food. 

I feel better. 

I feel in control. 

help me lot 

http://www.tobaccofreecatalog.org/upfiles/CSH_ReadytoQuit.pdf

http://www.whyquit.com/joel/

http://www.cancer.org/acs/groups/cid/documents/webcontent/002971-pdf.pdf

http://www-health.concordia.ca/pdf/healthinfo/quitsmoking.pdf

http://whyquit.com/joel/ntap.pdf

http://media.wix.com/ugd/74fa87_2010cc5496521431188f905b7234a829.pdf

http://www.c-uphd.org/documents/wellness/red_book-stop_smoking.pdf

Did you know…

•Today’s marijuana is up to 10 times stronger than it was in the 60’s and 70’s.

•The short-term effects of smoking marijuana include: difficulty keeping track of time,

trouble concentrating, poor coordination, poor short-term memory, hallucinations,

paranoia, bloodshot eyes, dry mouth and throat, and hunger.

• Marijuana has some of the same poisons as regular cigarettes, like carbon monoxide 

(car exhaust fumes), ammonia (in glass cleaner), and hydrocyanic acid (gas chamber 

poison).And because joints don’t have filters, you get 4 times as much tar in your lungs.

•There are 50-70% more cancer causing agents in marijuana than in tobacco.

• Because marijuana is usually smoked by inhaling deeply and holding the breath, the

cancer causing poisons are highly concentrated in the smoke.

• Marijuana causes problems with the reproductive cycles of men and women. It also 

lessens sexual pleasure. Long-term use can even stop the pleasure completely.

• In men, marijuana may lower sperm production and testosterone levels. Testosterone is 

the “masculine” hormone which controls hair and beard growth, development of the

genitals, muscle mass, and voice changes at puberty.

• In women, marijuana may alter hormone levels, causing menstrual 

problems. Women may also find themselves unable to have

children after long-term regular use.

• Marijuana weakens your immune system,

making it harder for your body to protect 

itself from illness, or heal when you do

get sick.

• Smoking marijuana has been connected with 

more wheezing, coughing, colds, flu,

pneumonia, and bronchitis.

• In addition, smoking marijuana can damage the

lining of the lungs and bronchial tube

Is been 60 days without no cigarettes products I've been having few days really tough cravings they are very hard to deal with but I have to deal with it if I don't want to go back to my old habit. I woke up this morning with some cravings but I'm doing okay. Looking for forward not  feeling  any kind of craving any more is like going to hell and back to earth.

I feels good when I win   the craving and the craving  loses. I am NOT looking forward to going visiting my girlfriend family they are heavy duty smokers and I'm afraid that I will fall back to my old habit yes I have the willpower in the strength to  fight the craving but I'm not sure who's going to win or lose.

doing ok 

http://www.tobaccofreecatalog.org/upfiles/J258-WantToQuitSmoking-English.pdf

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61 motivational quotes for quitting smoking

Being an ex smoker and a counselor I have found one of the most difficult things with quitting smoking is losing motivation when things get tough..

The thing about motivation is that it’s not a constant variable. Today might be a high point but tomorrow gone. As Zig Ziglar put it: “People often say that motivation doesn’t last. Well, neither does bathing – that’s why we recommend it daily.”

That’s why I made this post. If you are considering quitting smoking, or have already quit and need a little boost to keep going, than I suggest you take a look at this list.

PS: I have written my own comments to most of quotes, explaining why I think this particular thought is important. EnjoyJ

PPS: add to comments if you have some good ones:)

1) The hardest distance is always from the sofa to the front door

Erki Nool, Olympic winner

> Every beginning is difficult, but it gets easier from there on

2) The secret of getting ahead is getting started

Mark Twain

> There will never be a “perfect” time to quit smoking. A time when you don’t have any distractions or stress… If you had started today one year ago, this would not even be an issue for you today! Don’t waste another year!

3) The world has the habit of making room for the man whose words and actions show that he knows where he is going

Napoleon Hill

> Imagine, as realistically as possible, the place where you want to be in the near future, the state you wish to reach and the Universe will help you and guide you

4) Your life is in your hands, to make of it what you choose

John Kehoe

> It’s all about choices! You choose, you make the rules, not tobacco companies, not addiction

5) Our greatest glory is not in never failing but in rising up every time we fail

Ralph Waldo Emerson

> Most people, who have quit smoking, have had at least one unsuccessful try in the past. It is not important how many times you try to quit. The only important thing is, that eventually you stay quit

6) We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.

Aristotle

> Quitting smoking is rather a marathon than a sprint. It is not a one-time attempt, but a longer effort

7) It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.

Theodore Roosevelt

> Not trying is the surest way of achieving nothing at all.

8 ) People often say that motivation doesn’t last. Well, neither does bathing – that’s why we recommend it daily.

Zig Ziglar

> It is good from time to time to recall all those big and little reasons why you wanted to quit smoking in the first place. Reading this blog once in a while might also be helpfulJ

9) Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire, which transcends everything.

Napoleon Hill

> Desire is making people build ships and cities, has made men conquer nations… and it can defeat that nicotine

10) People become really quite remarkable when they start thinking that they can do things. When they believe in themselves they have the first secret of success.

Norman Vincent Peale

> When we start focusing on things we can do and don’t think so much about the things we can’t do, things really start to happen

11) Men are born to succeed, not fail.

Henry David Thoreau

12) What we can or cannot do, what we consider possible or impossible, is rarely a function of our true capability. It is more likely a function of our beliefs about who we are.

Anthony Robbins

> You are as strong as you think you are, you can achieve things you think you can achieve, its all in your head

13) Every human has four endowments- self-awareness, conscience, independent will and creative imagination. These give us the ultimate human freedom… The power to choose, to respond, to change.

Stephen Covey

14) There is no such thing in anyone’s life as an unimportant day.

Alexander Woollcott

> Today just might be the best day to start seriously thinking about quitting smoking…

15) They can because they think they can.

Virgil

16) There are those who dream and wish and there are those who dream and work.

Jeune.E. McIntyre

> Which ones do you think are happier?

17) Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it’s always your choice.

Wayne Dyer

> Don’t let tobacco companies make the choices for you… they care about their own well-being, not yours

18) You can have anything you want, if you want it badly enough. You can be anything you want to be, do anything you set out to accomplish if you hold to that desire with singleness of purpose.

Abraham Lincoln

19) If you deliberately plan on being less than you are capable of being, then I warn you that you’ll be unhappy for the rest of your life.

Abraham H. Maslow

> Quitting smoking can be a very good test of ones character. Pass the test and you will have accomplished so much more than just get rid of one bad habit

20) Self-pity gets you nowhere. One must have the adventurous daring to accept oneself as a bundle of possibilities and undertake the most interesting game in the world — making the most of one’s best.

Harry Emerson Fosdick

> Every failure can be considered as a tragedy or a chance to learn something. The latter is healthierJ

21) At least three times every day take a moment and ask yourself what is really important. Have the wisdom and the courage to build your life around your answer.

Lee Jampolsky

> How important is it really that you feel satisfied right now for 2 minutes, compared to getting yourself free from addiction forever?

22) It’s not who you are that holds you back, it’s who you think you’re not.

Unknown

> Many people all over the world have quit smoking. You can too

23) Know the true value of time; snatch, seize, and enjoy every moment of it. No idleness, no delay, no procrastination; never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.

Earl of Chesterfield

> There will never be a better time to start quitting smoking than today

24) Consult not your fears but your hopes and your dreams. Think not about your frustrations, but about your unfulfilled potential. Concern yourself not with what you tried and failed in, but with what it is still possible for you to do.

Pope John XXIII

25) You must be the change you wish to see in the world.

Mahatma Gandhi

> All good thoughts and ideas mean nothing without action

26) Everything that is happening at this moment is a result of the choices you’ve made in the past.

Deepak Chopra

> The choices you make today design your future

27) Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.

Henry Ford

> Every time you try to quit smoking you are actually getting closer to staying smoke free

28) Victory belongs to the most persevering.

Napoleon Bonaparte

> The process of quitting smoking doesn’t end with the last cigarette. It’s not quitting itself, the real key is staying quit

29) You will never possess what you are unwilling to pursue.

Mike Murdock

> Ever heard the story about a cat that accidentally caught a mouse in his sleep? Me neither

30) He who controls others may be powerful, but he who has mastered himself is mightier still.

Lao-Tzu

31) No matter how hard the past, you can always begin again.

Buddha

32) All that we are is the result of what we have thought.

Buddha

> And more importantly – what we have chosen to do

33) It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.

Seneca

> It’s all in your headJ you have the power to make things seem hard or easy or even amusing. The choice is yours.

34) The best motivation is self-motivation. The guy says, “I wish someone would come by and turn me on.” What if they don’t show up? You’ve got to have a better plan for your life.

Jim Rohn

35) Our strength grows out of our weakness.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

> You take a weakness and start making it stronger.. You don’t have to build your strengths – that you already possess… It is your weakness that needs the exercise

36) Confidence is a habit that can be developed by acting as if you already had the confidence you desire to have.

Brian Tracy

> Think, walk, talk and act like a nonsmoker and you will soon be oneJ

37) You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing that you think you cannot do.

Eleanor Roosevelt

> If quitting smoking seems hard right now, it is exactly what you should start doing

38) Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing.

Abraham Lincoln

> You can always lie to others and hide your actions from them… but you can not fool yourself

39) The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes of mind.

William James

> Lets take full advantage of this discoveryJ

40) What you are is what you have been, and what you will be is what you do now.

Buddha

> It is impossible to underestimate the significance of your today’s choices

41) You were born with potential.

You were born with goodness and trust.

You were born with ideals and dreams.

You were born with greatness.

You were born with wings.

You are not meant for crawling, so don’t.

You have wings.

Learn to use them and fly.

Rumi

42) We are all inventors, each sailing out on a voyage of discovery, guided each by a private chart, of which there is no duplicate. The world is all gates, all opportunities.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

43) And all may do what has by man been done.

Edward Young

> Men before you have quit smoking – you can too!

44) We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore,  is not an act but a habit.

Aristotle

> Today you can start forming habits for overcoming all obstacles in life… even nicotine cravings

45) Work spares us from three evils: boredom, vice, and need.

Voltaire

> Changing a habit is hard work. But it’s harder to find work that would be more fulfilling

46) If the wind will not serve, take to the oars. Destitutus ventis, remos adhibe

Latin Proverb

> If easier solutions did not get you through, its time to put more effort in your attempts

47) Men’s best successes come after their disappointments.

Henry Ward Beecher

48) If you want to succeed in the world you must make your own opportunities as you go on. The man who waits for some seventh wave to toss him on dry land will find that the seventh wave is a long time a coming. You can commit no greater folly than to sit by the roadside until some one comes along and invites you to ride with him to wealth or influence.

John B. Gough

49) Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

> to quit smoking, you must first want to quit, but then you must also do the quitting

50) Constant dripping hollows out a stone.

Lucretius

> No matter how difficult a task may look.. Persistence and steady action will get you through

51) Every artist was first an amateur.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

> Practice makes perfect – the sooner you start, the sooner you will be a happy nonsmoker

52) You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take.

Wayne Gretzky

> Not doing it is certainly the best way to not getting it

53) Keep steadily before you the fact that all true success depends at last upon yourself.

Theodore T. Hunger

> You have no one to blame and no one to take your place in this task

54) The thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen.

Frank Loyd Wright

> Self fulfilling prophecies do exist in real life

55) The surest way not to fail is to determine to succeed.

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

> Self confidence is the ground stone of success

56) Success is sweet: the sweeter if long delayed and attained through manifold struggles and defeats.

A. Branson Alcott

> Easy come, easy go… “Achieve-everything-while-doing-nothing” schemes don’t work, they are just not logical

57) Failures do what is tension relieving, while winners do what is goal achieving.

Dennis Waitley

> The easiest thing is to make sure you feel happy and satisfied in this moment. Setting long term goals is much more effort taking, but at the same time much more fulfilling.

58) Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.

Samuel Johnson

> The perfect day for quitting is not real. It will never come, so might as well start today

59) A day will never be anymore than what you make of it.

Josh S. Hinds

> Make today count, so that you can look at it tomorrow and feel proud

60) It was character that got us out of bed, commitment that moved us into action, and discipline that enabled us to follow through.

Zig Ziglar

> Things don’t just happen, people make them happen

61) Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you’ve imagined.

Henry David Thoreau

> Take a moment to imagine all the benefits that come with your new found freedom from nicotine

Cigarettes look deceptively simple, consisting of paper tubes containing 

chopped up tobacco leaf, usually with a filter at the mouth end. In fact, they 

are highly engineered products, designed to deliver a steady dose of 

nicotine. 

Cigarette tobacco is blended from two main leaf varieties: yellowish ‘bright’, 

also known as Virginia where it was originally grown, contains 2.5-3% 

nicotine; and ‘burley’ tobacco which has a higher nicotine content (3.5-4%). 

US blends also contain up to 10% of imported ‘oriental’ tobacco which is 

aromatic but relatively low (less than 2%) in nicotine.1

In addition to the leaf blend, cigarettes contain ‘fillers’ which are made from 

the stems and other bits of tobacco which would otherwise be waste 

products. These are mixed with water and various flavourings and additives. 

The ratio of filler varies among brands. For example, a high filler content 

makes a less dense cigarette with a slightly lower tar delivery. 

Additives are used to make tobacco products more acceptable to the 

consumer. They include humectants (moisturisers) to prolong shelf life; 

sugars to make the smoke seem milder and easier to inhale; and flavourings 

such as chocolate and vanilla. While some of these may appear to be quite 

harmless in their natural form they may be toxic in combination with other 

substances. Also when additives are burned, new products of combustion 

are formed and these may be toxic. The full list of 600 permitted additives 

can be viewed on the Department of Health’s website 2

 For further 

information on tobacco additives, see also the ASH/ICRF report, Tobacco 

Additives.3

The nicotine and tar delivery can also be modified by the type of paper used 

in the cigarette. Using more porous paper will let more air into the cigarette, 

diluting the smoke and (in theory) reducing the amount of tar and nicotine 

reaching the smoker’s lungs. Filters are made of cellulose acetate and trap 

some of the tar and smoke particles from the inhaled smoke. Filters also 

cool the smoke slightly, making it easier to inhale. They were added to 

cigarettes in the 1950s, in response to the first reports that smoking was 

hazardous to health. Tobacco companies claimed that their filtered brands 

had lower tar than others and encouraged consumers to believe that they 

were safer. 

1 ASH Factsheet: What’s in a cigarette? Tobacco 

smoke 

Tobacco smoke is made up of “sidestream smoke” from the burning tip of the 

cigarette and “mainstream smoke” that is delivered to the smoker via the filter 

or mouth end. 

Tobacco smoke contains thousands of different chemicals which are 

released into the air as particles and gases. Many toxins are present in 

higher concentrations in sidestream smoke than in mainstream smoke and, 

typically, nearly 85% of the smoke in a room results from sidestream smoke.4

The particulate phase includes nicotine, "tar" (itself composed of many 

chemicals), benzene and benzo(a)pyrene. The gas phase includes carbon 

monoxide, ammonia, dimethylnitrosamine, formaldehyde, hydrogen cyanide 

and acrolein. Some of these have marked irritant properties and more than 

60, including benzo(a)pyrene and dimethylnitrosamine, have been shown to 

cause cancer.5

What is tar? “Tar”, also known as total particulate matter, is inhaled when the smoker 

draws on a lighted cigarette. In its condensate form, tar is the sticky brown 

substance which can stain smokers’ fingers and teeth yellow-brown. All 

cigarettes produce tar but the brands differ in amounts. The average tar yield 

of British cigarettes (as measured by a standard machine method by the 

Government Chemist) declined from about 30mg per cigarette in the period 

1955-61 to 11mg in the late 1990s. There have also been reductions in 

nicotine (from an average of about 2mg in 1955-61 to about 0.9mg by 

1996).6 7 

Until January 1992, information about tar yields of cigarettes was given in a 

general fashion on cigarette packets and advertisements as a result of a 

voluntary agreement between the tobacco industry and the Government. 

Under the terms of The Tobacco Products Labelling (Safety) Regulations 

1991, which implemented EU requirements for health warnings on tobacco, 

cigarette packets were required to include a statement of both the tar and the 

nicotine yield per cigarette on the packet itself. 

In 2001, a new EU directive regulating tobacco products became law.8

 This 

replaced two previous directives on labelling and tar yield. The directive 

placed upper limits on yields of tar (10mg), nicotine (1mg) and carbon 

monoxide (10mg) for all cigarettes manufactured and sold within the EU. 

Since 2003, it has been illegal to describe one cigarette as being less harmful 

than another by using misleading descriptors such as “light” or “mild”. 

Furthermore, tobacco manufacturers are required to submit to the EU 

Member States a list of all the ingredients used in the manufacture of 

cigarettes, together with toxicological data on their effects on health as well 

as any addictive effects. For further information on tobacco regulation, see 

ASH Essential Information on: Tobacco Policy in the European Union. 

Why low tar 

cigarettes are 

no safer than 

higher tar 

cigarettes 

Following the discovery in the 1950s that it was the tar in tobacco smoke 

which was associated with the increased risk of lung cancer, tobacco 

companies, with the approval of successive governments, embarked on a 

programme to gradually reduce the tar levels in cigarettes. Although there is 

a moderate reduction in lung cancer risk associated with lower tar cigarettes, 

research suggests that the assumed health advantages of switching to lower 

tar may be largely offset by the tendency of smokers to compensate for the 

reduction in nicotine (cigarettes lower in tar also tend to be lower in nicotine) 

by smoking more or inhaling more deeply.9

 Also, a study by the American 

2 ASH Factsheet: What’s in a cigarette? 3 ASH Factsheet: What’s in a cigarette? 

Cancer Society found that the use of filtered, lower tar cigarettes may be the 

cause of adenocarcinoma, a particular kind of lung cancer.10 There is no 

evidence that switching to lower tar cigarettes reduces coronary heart 

disease risk. 

Nicotine Nicotine, an alkaloid, is an extremely powerful drug. The Royal College of 

Physicians has affirmed that the way in which nicotine causes addiction is 

similar to drugs such as heroin and cocaine.11 Nicotine is contained in the 

moisture of the tobacco leaf: When the cigarette is lit, it evaporates, attaching 

itself to minute droplets in the tobacco smoke inhaled by the smoker. It is 

absorbed by the body very quickly, reaching the brain within 10-19 seconds. 

It stimulates the central nervous system, increasing the heart beat rate and 

blood pressure, leading to the heart needing more oxygen. However, 

compared to other components of tobacco, nicotine is relatively harmless. 

Indeed, pure nicotine can be consumed safely in the form of nicotine 

replacement therapy (e.g. gum, patches, lozenges etc) to help people stop 

smoking. It works by helping smokers deal with nicotine cravings while 

cutting down or stopping smoking. For more information on stopping 

smoking see ASH’s fact sheets: Stopping smoking: the benefits and aids to 

quitting and Stopping smoking: ASH's 15 tips

Carbon 

monoxide 

Harm 

reduction 

Carbon monoxide, the main poisonous gas in car exhausts, is present in all 

cigarette smoke. It binds to haemoglobin much more readily than oxygen, 

thus allowing the blood to carry less oxygen. Heavy smokers may have the 

oxygen carrying power of their blood cut by as much as 15%.12

For further information see ASH’s report on tobacco smoke composition.13

Tobacco companies have known for decades that smoking is hazardous to 

health and have invested significant resources in trying to produce less 

dangerous products. These include attempts to reduce the carcinogens in 

tobacco as well as the production of novel nicotine delivery systems. For 

example, BAT has begun testing a new type of cigarette that includes a 

specially treated tobacco and charcoal filter.14 However, to date, there is 

little evidence that minor modifications to tobacco products have any 

significant impact on reducing the risk of developing tobacco-related 

diseases. By contrast, nicotine replacement products, which have been 

subject to thorough safety checks and clinical trials, can help smokers reduce 

their tobacco consumption as well as aiding complete cessation.15 A report 

by the Royal College of Physicians concluded that harm reduction can be 

achieved by providing smokers with safer sources of nicotine that are 

acceptable and effective cigarette substitutes. To achieve this, nicotine 

product regulation must be reformed as there is currently little incentive for 

companies to produce such products.16 For further information on harm 

reduction see www.ash.org.uk/current-policy-issues/harm-reduction-productregulation4 

References 

1

Milne, A. Smoking – the inside story. Woodside Communications, 1998 

2

Permitted Additives to Tobacco Products in the United Kingdom Department of Health, October 2003 

3

Tobacco Additives - cigarette engineering and nicotine addiction. ASH/ICRF, 1999 

4

 US Surgeon General. The Health Consequences of Smoking: Chronic obstructive lung disease. USGPO, 1984 

5

 IARC Monographs on the evaluation of carcinogenic risks to humans. Vol 83: Tobacco smoke and involuntary 

smoking. Lyon, International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), 2004 

6

 Kiryluk, S. and Wald, N. Trends in cigarette smoking habits in the United Kingdom, 1905-1985. In Wald, N. and 

Froggatt, P. Nicotine, Smoking and the Low Tar Programme. OUP, 1989 

7

 Consumers and the changing cigarette. Health Education Authority, 1999 

8

EU Council Directive on the regulation of tobacco products 

9

 Jarvis, M and Bates, B Why low tar cigarettes don't work.. ASH, 1999 

10 Thun, M; et al. Cigarette smoking and changes in the histopathology of lung cancer. Journal of the National Cancer 

Institute, 1997; 89 (21): 1580-86. [View abstract]

11 Nicotine Addiction in Britain Royal College of Physicians, 2000 

12 Royal College of Physicians. Smoking or Health. London, Pitman, 1977 

13 What goes in? What comes out? Cigarette and smoke composition ASH, 2001 

14 Cookson C. BAT clinical trial for ‘less toxic’ tobacco. Financial Times 11 May 2009 

15 See for example, ASH webpage on smoking reduction at www.ash.org.uk/stopping-smoking/for-healthprofessionals/smoking-reduction

16 Harm reduction in nicotine addiction A report by the Tobacco Advisory Group of the Royal College of Physicians.

London, RCP, 2007

http://ash.org.uk/files/documents/ASH_117.pdf

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$3.57

$32.97

$33.13

Eclipse

$70.52

$7.06

$63.81

$64.11

English Ovals

$74.94

$7.50

$67.81

$68.13

Eve 120

$45.55

$4.56

$43.93

$44.14

Export A

$58.10

$5.81

$52.58

$52.82

Fantasia

$73.16

$7.32

$66.20

$66.51

Fortuna

$36.72

$3.68

$33.90

$34.06

Gold Coast

$48.04

$4.81

$43.47

$43.67

Gold Crest

$31.09

$3.11

$28.13

$28.26

GPC

$54.82

$5.49

$49.60

$49.84

Grand Prix

$40.35

$4.04

$38.32

$38.50

Havana Ovals

$73.16

$7.32

$66.20

$66.51

Hi Val

$34.89

$3.49

$31.57

$31.72

Hint Menthol

$73.16

$7.32

$66.20

$66.51

Kent

$62.63

$6.27

$56.67

$56.94

Kentucky's Best

$37.59

$3.76

$33.26

$33.42

Kool

$53.51

$5.36

$48.23

$48.46

L & M

$41.92

$4.20

$46.20

$46.44

L & M Turkish Blend

$41.92

$4.20

$46.20

$46.44

Lark

$67.65

$6.77

$61.21

$61.50

Liggett Select

$43.74

$4.38

$41.39

$41.58

Lucky Strike

$70.52

$7.06

$63.81

$64.11

Malibu

$41.21

$4.13

$37.29

$37.46

Marlboro

$53.83

$5.39

$50.31

$50.56

Marlboro 25's

$53.83

$6.73

$50.31

$50.56

Marlboro 72's

$44.83

$4.49

$50.31

$50.56

Marlboro Black

$45.33

$4.54

$50.31

$50.56

Marlboro Craft Blend

$54.63

$5.47

$51.04

$51.29

Marlboro Menthol Skyline

$53.83

$5.39

$50.31

$50.56

Marlboro NXT

$45.33

$4.54

$50.31

$50.56

Marlboro Special Blend (Red, Gold, Black, and Blue Packs)

$45.33

$4.54

$50.31

$50.56

Marlboro Specially Marked One Pack Deals:  Southern Cut Box, Black Special Blend Box, Black Special Blend 100’s Box, Menthol Black Special Blend Box, Menthol Black Special Blend 100’s Box and NXT Box

$38.83

$3.89

$45.31

$45.56

Marlboro Specially Marked One Pack Deals:  Blend No. 27 Box, Blend No. 27 100’s Box, Southern Cut Box, Red Label Box, Red Label 100’s Box, Eighty-Threes Box, Menthol Box, Menthol 100’s Box, Menthol Gold Pack Box, Menthol Gold Pack 100’s Box, Smooth Box, and Smooth 100’s Box

$43.83

$4.39

$40.31

$40.56

Marlboro Specially Marked Two Pack Deals:  Red Label Box, Red Label 100’s Box, Menthol Box, Menthol 100’s Box, Menthol Gold Pack Box, Menthol Gold Pack 100’s Box, and Smooth Box

$43.83

$8.77 per two packs

$40.31

$40.56

Maverick

$41.32

$4.14

$37.38

$37.56

MCD

$73.16

$7.32

$66.20

$66.51

Merit

$67.65

$6.77

$61.21

$61.50

Misty

$48.04

$4.81

$43.47

$43.67

Monarch

$48.04

$4.81

$43.47

$43.67

Montego

$37.09

$3.71

$33.80

$33.96

Montclair

$44.89

$4.49

$40.62

$40.81

More

$70.52

$7.06

$63.81

$64.11

Natural American Spirit

$59.87

$5.99

$54.18

$54.43

Natural American Spirit Organic

$59.87

$5.99

$54.18

$54.43

Naturals

$73.16

$7.32

$66.20

$66.51

Naturals King

$56.27

$5.63

$50.91

$51.15

Newport

$55.14

$5.52

$55.32

$55.58

Newport Non-Menthol

$43.14

$4.32

$40.32

$40.58

New York Cut

$47.07

$4.71

$42.59

$42.79

Now

$70.52

$7.06

$63.81

$64.11

Old Gold

$44.94

$4.50

$40.66

$40.85

Pall Mall

$40.91

$4.10

$46.07

$46.28

Pall Mall Specially Marked One Pack Deals:  Menthol Black 100, Menthol White 100, Blue Box and Blue 100 Box

N/A

$3.60

$41.07

$41.28

Pall Mall Unfiltered

$70.52

$7.06

$63.81

$64.11

Parliament

$58.73

$5.88

$53.14

$53.39

Player's

$67.65

$6.77

$61.21

$61.50

Private Labels by RJR

$48.04

$4.81

$43.47

$43.67

Pyramid

$37.28

$3.73

$34.64

$34.80

Rave

$36.72

$3.68

$33.90

$34.06

Red Kamel

$55.51

$5.56

$50.23

$50.46

Rothman

$52.14

$5.22

$47.18

$47.40

Salem

$55.51

$5.56

$50.23

$50.46

Saratoga

$67.65

$6.77

$61.21

$61.50

Shield

$33.56

$3.36

$31.72

$31.87

Signature

$48.04

$4.81

$43.47

$43.67

Smoker Friendly

$34.60

$3.46

$31.31

$31.45

Sonoma

$38.21

$3.83

$37.29

$37.46

State Express 555

$67.75

$6.77

$61.21

$61.50

Tourney

$35.86

$3.59

$33.79

$33.95

Tareyton

$70.52

$7.06

$63.81

$64.11

True

$62.63

$6.27

$56.67

$56.94

Ultra Buy

$33.56

$3.36

$31.72

$31.87

USA Gold

$40.61

$4.07

$40.36

$40.55

Vantage

$70.52

$7.06

$63.81

$64.11

Virginia Slims

$59.76

$5.98

$54.07

$54.33

VB

$35.75

$3.58

$32.35

$32.50

Wave

$37.19

$3.72

$39.98

$40.17

Wild Horse

$33.56

$3.36

$31.72

$31.87

Wings

$36.76

$3.68

$35.52

$35.69

Winston

$48.51

$4.86

$50.23

$50.46

http://www.in.gov/atc/2387.htm

Overview

Smoking harms nearly every organ of the body. Smoking causes many diseases and reduces the health of smokers in general.1

Smoking and Death

Smoking causes death.

The adverse health effects from cigarette smoking account for an estimated 443,000 deaths, or nearly one of every five deaths, each year in the United States.2,3

More deaths are caused each year by tobacco use than by all deaths from human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), illegal drug use, alcohol use, motor vehicle injuries, suicides, and murders combined.2,4

Smoking causes an estimated 90% of all lung cancer deaths in men and 80% of all lung cancer deaths in women.1

An estimated 90% of all deaths from chronic obstructive lung disease are caused by smoking.1

Smoking and Increased Health Risks

Compared with nonsmokers, smoking is estimated to increase the risk of—

coronary heart disease by 2 to 4 times,1,5

stroke by 2 to 4 times,1,6

men developing lung cancer by 23 times,1

women developing lung cancer by 13 times,1 and

dying from chronic obstructive lung diseases (such as chronic bronchitis and emphysema) by 12 to 13 times.1

Smoking and Cardiovascular Disease

Smoking causes coronary heart disease, the leading cause of death in the United States.1

Cigarette smoking causes reduced circulation by narrowing the blood vessels (arteries) and puts smokers at risk of developing peripheral vascular disease (i.e., obstruction of the large arteries in the arms and legs that can cause a range of problems from pain to tissue loss or gangrene).1,7

Smoking causes abdominal aortic aneurysm (i.e., a swelling or weakening of the main artery of the body—the aorta—where it runs through the abdomen).1

Smoking and Respiratory Disease

Smoking causes lung cancer.1,2

Smoking causes lung diseases (e.g., emphysema, bronchitis, chronic airway obstruction) by damaging the airways and alveoli (i.e., small air sacs) of the lungs.1,2

Smoking and Cancer

Smoking causes the following cancers:1

Acute myeloid leukemia

Bladder cancer

Cancer of the cervix

Cancer of the esophagus

Kidney cancer

Cancer of the larynx (voice box)

Lung cancer

Cancer of the oral cavity (mouth)

Pancreatic cancer

Cancer of the pharynx (throat)

Stomach cancer

Smoking and Other Health Effects

Smoking has many adverse reproductive and early childhood effects, including increased risk for—

infertility,

preterm delivery,

stillbirth,

low birth weight, and

sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS).1,8

Smoking is associated with the following adverse health effects:8

Postmenopausal women who smoke have lower bone density than women who never smoked.

Women who smoke have an increased risk for hip fracture than women who never smoked.

References

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. The Health Consequences of Smoking: A Report of the Surgeon General. Atlanta: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, Office on Smoking and Health, 2004 [accessed 2012 Jan 10].

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Annual Smoking-Attributable Mortality, Years of Potential Life Lost, and Productivity Losses—United States, 2000–2004. Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report 2008;57(45):1226–8 [accessed 2012 Jan 10].

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Health, United States. Hyattsville (MD): Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Health Statistics. [accessed 2012 Jan 10].

Mokdad AH, Marks JS, Stroup DF, Gerberding JL. Actual Causes of Death in the United States. JAMA: Journal of the American Medical Association 2004;291(10):1238–45 [cited 2012 Jan 10].

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Reducing the Health Consequences of Smoking: 25 Years of Progress. A Report of the Surgeon General. Rockville (MD): U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Public Health Service, Centers for Disease Control, National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, Office on Smoking and Health, 1989 [accessed 2012 Jan 10].

Ockene IS, Miller NH. Cigarette Smoking, Cardiovascular Disease, and Stroke: A Statement for Healthcare Professionals from the American Heart Association. Circulation 1997;96(9):3243–7 [accessed 2012 Jan 10].

Institute of Medicine. Secondhand Smoke Exposure and Cardiovascular Effects: Making Sense of the Evidence.  (PDF–747 KB) Washington: National Academy of Sciences, Institute of Medicine, 2009 [accessed 2012 Jan 10].

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Women and Smoking: A Report of the Surgeon General. Rockville (MD): U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Public Health Service, Office of the Surgeon General, 2001 [accessed 2012 Jan 10].

For Further Information

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion

Office on Smoking and Health

E-mail: tobaccoinfo@cdc.gov

Phone: 1-800-CDC-INFO

Media Inquiries: Contact CDC's Office on Smoking and Health press line at 770-488-5493.

Health Effects of Tobacco

Know the Truth

Because a child's body is still growing, teens and youth are vulnerable to its deadly effects. Smoking by children and adolescents hastens the onset of lung function decline during late adolescence and early adulthood and is related to impaired lung growth, chronic coughing, and wheezing.

Addiction

Nicotine is not only highly addictive for youth, it's poisonous - it can be used as a pesticide on crops, and a drop of pure nicotine would kill a person. Every day, another 1,500 kids become daily smokers, and one-third of them will die prematurely as a result of getting hooked. Even youth who don't smoke very often can suffer the adverse effects of addiction

Physical Performance

Tobacco can affect youth activities and athletic performance. Tobacco narrows blood vessels and puts a strain on the heart, it also leads to lack of oxygen and shortness of breath. Smokers run slower and can't run as far as nonsmokers.

Secondhand Smoke

The Environmental Protection Agency has concluded that secondhand smoke causes lung cancer in adults and greatly increases the risk of respiratory illnesses in children and sudden infant death syndrome. The carbon monoxide in tobacco smoke increases the chance of cardiovascular diseases, and children who breathe secondhand smoke are more likely to develop ear infections, allergies, bronchitis, pneumonia, and asthma. Older children whose parents smoke get sick more often.

Learn more about Youth & Tobacco and Youth Tobacco Prevention from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Troubling Health Facts about Smoking and Teens

Girls who smoke are more likely to grow excess facial hair.

Smoking as few as 5 cigarettes a day can reduce teens' lung function growth, with teenage girls being especially vulnerable.

40% of teenagers who smoke daily have tried to quit and failed.

About 2/3 of teen smokers say they want to quit smoking, and 70% say they would not have started if they could choose again.

44% of teens say they didn't know bidi cigarettes could lead to cancer. Find out about bidis

One bidi cigarette produces 3 times as much nicotine and carbon monoxide as a regular cigarette and 5 times as much tar.

Teens who smoke produce twice as much phlegm as teens who don't.

Teens who smoke break out more.

Zits last longer for teens who smoke.

Kids who smoke 2 or 3 cigarettes a day can get hooked in as short as two weeks.

Teens who smoke are more likely to catch a cold than people who don't - and their symptoms will probably be worse and last longer.

Teenagers who smoke use more medications than those who do not smoke.

Teenagers who smoke have significantly more trouble sleeping than those who do not smoke.

1 out of every 3 young people who become regular smokers will die of a smoking related disease.

If current smoking patterns in the United States persist, approximately 5 million of today's children will die prematurely of tobacco-related diseases. Read about Preventing Chronic Diseases and Tobacco Use from the CDC.

Most people start using tobacco before they finish high school. This means that if you stay smoke-free in school, you will probably never smoke.  

For more information about the health effects of tobacco on youth, visit Tobacco Free Kids.

http://www.tobaccofreemaine.org/channels/parents/learn_more_about_health_effects.php

Effects of Smoking

The harmful effects of smoking on the body and overall health of smokers presented in the list below, only begins to convey some of the short and long term side effects of smoking cigarettes.

Quitting makes sense for many reasons but simply put: smoking kills and the effects of second hand smoke are also bad for the health of those around you.

Harmful Health Effects of Smoking

Every year hundreds of thousands of people around the world die from diseases caused by smoking cigarettes - Smoking KILLS.

One in two lifetime smokers will die from their habit. Half of these deaths will occur in middle age.

Tobacco smoke also contributes to a number of cancers.

The mixture of nicotine and carbon monoxide in each cigarette you smoke temporarily increases your heart rate and blood pressure, straining your heart and blood vessels.

This can cause heart attacks and stroke. It slows your blood flow, cutting off oxygen to your feet and hands. Some smokers end up having their limbs 

amputated.

Tar coats your lungs like soot in a chimney and causes cancer. A 20-a-day smoker breathes in up to a full cup (210 g) of tar in a year.

Changing to low-tar cigarettes does not help because smokers usually take deeper puffs and hold the smoke in for longer, dragging the tar deeper into their lungs.

Carbon monoxide robs your muscles, brain and body tissue of oxygen, making your whole body and especially your heart work harder. Over time, your airways swell up and let less air into your lungs.

Smoking causes disease and is a slow way to die. The strain of smoking effects on the body often causes years of suffering.

Emphysema for example is an illness that slowly rots your lungs. People with emphysema often get bronchitis again and again, and suffer lung and heart failure.

Lung cancer from smoking is caused by the tar in tobacco smoke.

Men who smoke are ten times more likely to die from lung cancer than non-smokers.

Heart disease and strokes are also more common among smokers than non-smokers.

Smoking causes fat deposits to narrow and block blood vessels which leads to heart attack.

Smoking causes around one in five deaths from heart disease.

In younger people, three out of four deaths from heart disease are due to smoking

Cigarette smoking during pregnancy increases the risk of low birth weight, prematurity, spontaneous abortion, and perinatal mortality in humans, which has been referred to as the fetal tobacco syndrome.

As mentioned earlier, this list can only begin to convey some of the long and short term effects of smoking cigarettes. We know that smoking kills and that quitting makes sense but what about the the effect on others?

We consider reasons why smoking is bad for those around you next, in the effects of second hand smoke.

http://www.stop-smoking-programs.org/effects-of-smoking.html

Effects of Second Hand Smoke

by Len Johnson. Derived from Wikipedia article: "Tobacco Smoking"

Passive smoking (also known as environmental tobacco smoke (ETS), involuntary smoking or second hand smoke) occurs when the exhaled and ambient smoke from one person's cigarette is inhaled by other people. Non-smokers exposed to second hand smoke are at greater risk for many of the health problems associated with direct smoking.

In 1992, the Journal of the American Medical Association published a review of the evidence available from epidemiological and other studies regarding the relationship between second hand smoke and heart disease and estimated that passive smoking was responsible for 35,000 to 40,000 deaths per year in the United States in the early 1980s1.

Non-smokers living with smokers have about a 25 per cent increase in risk of death from heart attack and are also more likely to suffer a stroke, and some research suggests that risks to non-smokers may be even greater than this estimate. One recent study in the British Medical Journal found that exposure to second hand smoke increases the risk of heart disease among non-smokers by as much as 60 percent!2.

Passive smoking is especially risky for children and babies and can cause low birth weight babies, sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS), bronchitis, pneumonia, and middle ear infections.

Some controversy has attended efforts to estimate the specific risk of lung cancer related to passive smoking. The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in 1993 issued a report estimating that 3,000 lung cancer related deaths in the US were caused by passive smoking every year. Tobacco industry lobbyists, such as the Alexis de Tocqueville Institution, and industry-funded researchers, such as S. Fred Singer, aggressively attacked the EPA study as "junk science".

In 2002, a group of 29 experts from 12 countries convened by the Monographs Programme of the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) of the World Health Organization reviewed all significant published evidence related to tobacco smoking and cancer. It concluded its evaluation of the carcinogenic risks associated with involuntary smoking, with second-hand smoke also being classified as carcinogenic to humans3.

An earlier WHO epidemiology study also found "weak evidence of a dose-response relationship between risk of lung cancer and exposure to spousal and workplace ETS". The fact that the evidence was described as "weak" has been interpreted by the tobacco industry and its supporters as evidence that the ETS-lung cancer link has been "disproven".

More precisely, the "weakness" of the evidence stems from the fact that the risk of ETS for individuals is small relative to the very high risk of actually smoking, making it more difficult to quantify through epidemiology. In addition to epidemiology, moreover, several other types of scientific evidence (including animal experiments, chemical constituent analysis of ETS, and human metabolic studies) support the WHO and EPA conclusions.

Many experts believe that moderate, occasional exposure to second hand smoke presents a low cancer risk to non-smokers, but the risk is more likely to be significant if non-smokers work in an environment where cigarette smoke is prevalent. For this reason, many countries (such as Ireland) and jurisdictions (like New York State) now prohibit smoking in public buildings. Many office buildings contain specially ventilated smoking areas; some are required by law to provide them.

References

http://jama.ama-assn.org/cgi/content/abstract/267/1/94

http://bmj.bmjjournals.com/cgi/reprint/bmj.38146.427188.55v1 (no longer available)

http://monographs.iarc.fr/htdocs/monographs/vol83/02-involuntary.html (no longer available).

Article History:

Title: Effects of Second Hand Cigarette Smoke

Year: 2005 

Authors: Len Johnson. Derived from Wikipedia article: "Tobacco Smoking"

Publisher: Stop-Smoking-Programs.org

License: Perm