Gerald E. Markle and Frances B. McCrea
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 The case against cigarette smoking is well-known. Smoking is the single most preventable cause of premature death in the United States. Each year, about 438,000 Americans die from cigarette smoking, a loss of about five million years of potential life span, associated with an annual cost of $92 billion in productivity loses. One in every five deaths is smoking related.15 These mind-boggling numbers overwhelm any potential health gain from the various procedures and treatments reviewed in our first seven chapters. |
Craig Pepin-Donat
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 As a reminder of the deadly legacy of tobacco, here are a few basic facts to consider before you light one up:
• cigarette smoking kills more than 440,000 each year at an annual cost of more than $75 billion in direct medical costs.
• cigarette smoking will result in either death or some form of physical disability in half of all regular smokers.
• Coronary heart disease and stroke, the primary types of cardiovascular disease caused by smoking, are the first and third leading causes of death in the United States. |
Lester A. Mitscher and Victoria Toews
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 This result was particularly impressive considering all of the behaviors that would be expected to increase the risk of heart disease in the French population, such as cigarette smoking and a high-fat diet. This incongruity of a high-fat diet and high rates of smoking combined with a low risk of heart disease due to drinking red wine was dubbed the French Paradox.
What is it in red wine that exerts such powerful health protection that it can shield the body from the damage of fatty foods and cigarette smoking? |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 That there is no proof that cigarette smoking is one of the causes.
4. That statistics purporting to link cigarette smoking with the disease could apply with equal force to any one of many other aspects of modern life. Indeed the validity of the statistics themselves is questioned by numerous scientists.
We accept an interest in people's heath as a basic responsibility, paramount to every other consideration in our business.
We believe the products we make are not injurious to health. |
Craig Pepin-Donat
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| Understanding Nicotine and Tobacco Addiction
Gregory Bock and Jamie Goode
Symposium on Understanding Nicotine and Tobacco Addiction ISBN: 0470016574
Book Description: cigarette smoking is estimated to lead to 4.9 million premature deaths per year worldwide. This is predicted to rise to 10 million by 2020. Topics covered include the nature of the worldwide health problem posed by cigarette smoking, the psychodynamics of cigarette addiction and the basic pharmacology and biochemistry of nicotine and its effect on the brain. |
| Since cigarette smoking speeds up your heart rate and constricts the flow of blood throughout your body, it will significantly increase your odds of experiencing a heart attack.
Nicotine addiction also results in withdrawal symptoms when a person tries to stop smoking. A study found that when chronic smokers were deprived of cigarettes for 24 hours, they had increased anger, hostility, aggression and loss of social cooperation. People suffering from withdrawal take longer to regain emotional balance and control following stressful events. |
| Cigarette smoking will result in either death or some form of physical disability in half of all regular smokers.
• Coronary heart disease and stroke, the primary types of cardiovascular disease caused by smoking, are the first and third leading causes of death in the United States. Approximately 61 million Americans suffer from some form of cardiovascular disease, including high blood pressure, coronary heart disease, stroke, congestive heart failure and other conditions.
• More than 2,600 Americans die every day because of cardiovascular diseases, about one death every 33 seconds. |
Andreas Moritz
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 These include a decrease of nervousness, anxiety, and emotional imbalance; an increase of stress tolerance, self-confidence, imagination, and creativity; positive changes in personality and moods; and a reduction of unhealthy habits such as cigarette smoking and alcoholism. Studies from Russia also show that duodenal ulcers greatly improve through regular exposure to the sun.
American research found that when exposure to sunlight was added to fitness programs, subjects had a 19 percent increase in performance as measured by physical fitness tests. |
| Regular consumption of alcohol, coffee, sugar, chocolate, soft drinks, sports drinks, diet drinks and foods containing sweeteners like aspartame, and cigarettes strongly interferes with hormone production and is, therefore, sufficient to trigger strong menopausal symptoms. cigarette smoking by itself accelerates the destruction of estrogen. During menopause a woman's ovaries naturally reduce hormone production. The above stimulants can trigger powerful and regular stress responses in the body that eventually lead to hormone deficiency. |
| Major studies on heart disease have shown that lack of happiness and job satisfaction head the list of risk factors for heart attacks; they are far more endangering to our health than animal fats, alcohol and even cigarette smoking.
The main purpose of life is to increase happiness. Any action that deviates from our purpose and does not support this most basic principle of life is destined to fail or generate impediments—problems that are designed to lead us back to the path of happiness. This is as true for the field of health as it is for every other area in life. |
| In their report, the INTERHEART team listed the most important risks of heart attack after apo ratio as (from greater to lesser risk) cigarette smoking, diabetes, high blood pressure, excessive abdominal fat, stress, inadequate intake of fruits and vegetables, and lack of exercise. Much to the surprise of the cholesterol/heart disease lobbyists, elevated cholesterol wasn't among these risks. |
| The extensive 1991 Nurses' Health Study showed a 46 percent increase in ischemic stroke risk among nurses using HRT, despite the fact that this group is comprised of women with less diabetes, less cigarette smoking, and less adiposity than those not using estrogen. Six years earlier, the Framingham, Massachusetts study suggested that the risk of heart disease actually increased with the use of HRT. Similar results were reported by the Journal of the American Medical Association in 1995. |
| It would be too simplistic to assume that heart disease is only caused by stress, cigarette smoking, overeating, alcohol abuse, etc. These risk factors are not the ultimate causes of a dysfunctional heart, but rather the effects or symptoms of plain dissatisfaction in life. The origins of all major causes of heart disease (lack of happiness and contentment) may still be there after all the other risk factors or causes have been eliminated. A large number of people have died from heart attacks with perfectly clean arteries and no other tangible, physical reasons. |
Gerald E. Markle and Frances B. McCrea
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| Each year, about 438,000 Americans die from cigarette smoking, a loss of about five million years of potential life span, associated with an annual cost of $92 billion in productivity loses. One in every five deaths is smoking related.15 These mind-boggling numbers overwhelm any potential health gain from the various procedures and treatments reviewed in our first seven chapters.
A related and serious public health problem, and a generally overlooked one, is the effect of secondhand smoking. |
| Or would it be governmental regulation of cigarette smoking or the food industry? To the great detriment of each and all of us, our society focuses on the former. To understand why, we need to pose one final question:
CUI BONO
In the classic murder mystery, the detective solves the crime by asking the question: cui bono, who benefits?
In the final section of this book, we ask three questions: who makes money from our illnesses? Who spends money to keep us well? Who makes money from keeping us well?
The answer to the first question—who makes money? |
Bill Sardi
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 Source: George Weissman, president, Philip Morris, 1954
" There is not one shred of conclusive evidence to support the link between cigarette smoking and lung cancer." George Weissman, president, Philip Morris, 1957
A Frank Statement to Cigarette Smokers
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A Frank Statement to Cigarette Smokers
The "Frank Statement to Cigarette Smokers," an advertisement placed in 448 newspapers in 258 American cities in 1954 by U.S. tobacco manufacturers, questioned research which implicated tobacco as a cause of cancer. |
Dr. Abram Hoffer, MD, FRCP (C) and Dr. Harold D. Foster, PhD
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 American Cancer Society. cigarette smoking, http://www.cancer.org/docroot/ PED/content/PED0io02X0Cigarette°Smoking.asp
3 Canadian Centre on Substance Abuse. The Costs of Substance Abuse in Canada 2002. http://www.ccsa.ca/CCSA/EN/Research/Research0 Activities/TheCost
4 Hoffer A. Adventures in Psychiatry. The Scientific Memoirs of Dr. Abram Hoffer. Caledon, Ontario: KOS Publishing Inc. 2005.
5 Williams RJ. Nutrition and Alcoholism. Norman, Oklahoma: University of Oklahoma Press, 1951.
6 Williams RJ. Alcoholism: The Nutritional Approach. Austin, Texas: University of Texas Press, 1959. |
Bill Sardi
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| A compelling study, conducted in Japan among 8,500 adults over a nine-year period, found that those with the highest green tea intake (more than ten cups per day) had a significantly lower relative risk of cancer than those consuming fewer than three cups per day, even when adjustments were made for cigarette smoking and alcohol intake. For heavy tea drinkers, the average age of onset of cancer was remarkably delayed, by three years for men and almost nine years for women. |
| The EPA bases its claim on studies published by the National Academy of Sciences in 1999 which said radon gas is the second leading cause of lung cancer in the United States after cigarette smoking. Radon in drinking water causes an additional 1 80 deaths a year, estimates the EPA. The EPA offers a videotape about radon and has produced several publications about radon for homeowners.
But before you buy into the EPA's propaganda on radon, you might want to examine the following information.
Two maps are reproduced to help you analyze this issue for yourself. |
| The number of people who think cigarette smoking is one of the causes of lung cancer has changed over time:
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Lung cancer is such a large portion of all cancers that it skews all the other combined statistics regarding cancer rates and therapy. |
Thomson Healthcare, Inc.
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 Controls (n = 1552) were selected and matched to cases by age and gender and adjustments were made for age, income, education and cigarette smoking. As tea consumption increased, the incidence of all three cancers decreased. Women with the highest tea consumption (or = 200 g/month) had a 33% reduced risk for colon cancer, 43% reduced risk of rectal cancer and 47% reduction in the risk for pancreatic cancer (p= 0.07, 0.001, and 0.008 respectively). |
Ray D. Strand
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 Other main causes include something called homocysteine (which I'll discuss in Chapter 6) and the free radicals that cigarette smoking, hypertension, fatty foods, and diabetes cause.
The inflammation that takes place in our arteries is quite similar to the inflammatory reactions found elsewhere in the body. I will attempt to explain this process in lay terms so that you will have a better understanding of what is actually taking place on a cellular level. Don't get caught up in trying to understand the minute details of this process. |
Lester A. Mitscher and Victoria Toews
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| Most cases of lung cancer can be traced back to exposure to carcinogens, mostly from cigarette smoking, but also from exposure to asbestos, radiation, and radon. Green tea extract is a very promising chemopreventive agent against lung cancer, since many experiments on laboratory animals indicate that it ameliorates the effects of chemical carcinogens. |
| What is it in red wine that exerts such powerful health protection that it can shield the body from the damage of fatty foods and cigarette smoking? Red wine is a rich source of flavonoids, a large class of antioxidant compounds that occur naturally in many plants and foods. More than four thousand flavonoids have been discovered so far in a wide variety of foods.
Three of the most powerful flavonoids in red wine are also present in green tea: catechin, epicatechin, and gallic acid. |
| We do know that blood pressure is affected by several factors, including body weight, certain dietary components, genetic predisposition, cigarette smoking, stress, exercise, and percentage of body fat. Endocrine disorders, including adult-onset diabetes associated with obesity, also contribute to hypertension.18
The Norwegian study of 20,000 middle-aged adults that we discussed earlier in terms of cholesterol levels also included data regarding blood pressure. Systolic blood pressure decreased steadily in both men and women as their average tea intake increased. |
Dr Ron Roberts
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 However, it is not so widely known that cigarette smoking uses up Vitamin C in the body. Levels of the vitamin have been measured in smokers and it has been shown that one cigarette can use up to 25 mg of Vitamin C. It is therefore doubly important that asthmatics who smoke supplement their diet with Vitamin C. Obviously the best solution would be to stop smoking altogether, and you will find suggestions to help you do so in Chapter 15.
VITAMIN B6
Researchers studying the effects of Vitamin B6 on anaemic patients discovered that it was also beneficial to asthma. |
J. Douglas Bremner
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 You may not be surprised that one death out of five each year is caused by cigarette smoking, but did you know that an equal number of deaths are caused by obesity? Indeed, obesity has a number of negative health consequences, including early mortality. Heart disease, diabetes, cancer, hypertension, and an overall reduced quality of life are a few of the major problems overweight people face. The rate of obesity-related ailments like type 2 diabetes has doubled every ten years. |
Bill Sardi
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| That statistics purporting to link cigarette smoking with the disease could apply with equal force to any one of many other aspects of modern life. Indeed the validity of the statistics themselves is questioned by numerous scientists.
We accept an interest in people's health as a basic responsibility, paramount to every other consideration in our business
We believe the products we make are not injurious to health.
We always have and always will cooperate closely with those whose task it is to safeguard the public health. |
Mehmet C. Oz., M.D. and Michael F. Roizen, M.D.
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 No surprise that cigarette smoking decreases telomere length.)
YOU Tool 3
Peep breathing and Meditation and deep breathing may help modify the messages sent from the gut and the rest of the body to the brain via the vagus nerve. As you learned, controlling the vagus can help you with everything from improving your memory to improving your immune system. We suggest you carve out time each day to breathe deeply and meditate. Before bed is a good time, or else when you're trying to manage stress.
Deep Breathing: Lie flat on the floor, with one hand on your belly and one hand on your chest. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 And the third reason is because I would never want to be associated with the kind of people who live on steak and animal products as primary food sources -- those cigarette smoking, steak eating, pro-war, wife beating alcoholic numnuts who think global warming is a hoax and that that the whole world would be better off if we all just ate more beef and drank more milk. (That association has a strong basis in fact, by the way. In the United States, rates of alcoholism and wife beating are much higher in towns, cities and counties that consume and produce more beef. |
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