Beijing is to impose smoking ban

4-30-08
Beijing is to impose smoking ban so says, Jill McGivering on BBC News. The Chinese authorities are due to ban smoking in most public buildings in the capital Beijing, starting on Thursday.
For every three cigarettes lit worldwide, one is smoked in China. Almost 25% of the Chinese smoke. My goodness that is a lot of Chantix and patches to sell.
The WHO is discussing further measures with the government, like an increase in taxes on cigarettes. But smoking is big business,and business in China is just like here only when there is enough money in it for the CEO's and politicians will things change to the next excess. However, financial loss now could be more than off-set by savings on health care in the future, is one way to think about it. but if the American model is used they could let it go & it will help with the population problem.

Smoking & My Nose

I have sleep apnea, when I first got my air mask last year I was still smoking. I had noticed after a short time the rubber thingyies that went into the nostrils had turned color. I assumed it was just normal. This winter i had to get a new mask & nose pieces and after wearing it for 4 months it dawned on me that the nose pieces never turned brown. It was the nicotine that had collected in my nose, transfered onto the nose pieces. Now no one smokes around here, so no nicotine in the air. Wow !!Tags: quit smoking stop smoking quit smoking storysmoking smoking effects

More Lung Cancer

Right what I needed today a friend was diagnosed with lung cancer.......

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Smoking & Skin Cancer

We all know that ultraviolet sun exposure is the most serious risk factor involved in the development of different types of skin cancer. However, the link between smoking and skin tumors, although well-established, is less obvious to the general public. Previously held research clearly showed that smoking cigarettes could induce an additional risk of contracting squamous cell carcinoma - a dangerous type of skin cancer, typically observed in elderly people. A recent study conducted by researchers from Netherlands has revealed that, in fact, smoking can more than TRIPLE your chances of developing squamous cell carcinoma!

The new study examined a groups of almost 1,000 subjects, both smokers and non-smokers, roughly half of whom were skin cancer patients. The researchers correlated the subjects’ smoking habits with the incidence in developing various types of skin tumours. Although no link has been discovered between smoking and melanoma, the most deadly type of skin cancer, a strong association has been found between smoking and squamous cell carcinoma. The researchers failed to find a link between tobacco consumption and another type of commonly observed skin cancer, basal cell carcinoma.
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Genetic link to smoking addiction

Scientists have identified genetic variations that raise the risk of lung cancer for smokers and former smokers.

There is some evidence to suggest that they may make carriers more addicted to tobacco. Three research teams, writing in the journals Nature and Nature Genetics, each pinpointed two key areas of variation on chromosome 15.

The variants are common in the population - but they only raise lung cancer risk in those who have smoked.

Current or former smokers who carry two copies of both variants, one from each parent - about 15% of the total - have a raised risk of 70-80%.

Those who carry one copy of each variant have a raised risk of around 28%.
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