Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Tobacco use is of particular concern to the U.S. Department of Defense because, historically, the military has had higher and heavier rates of tobacco use than civilians," wrote the researchers. The Pentagon health survey found, among members of the U.S. military, smoking increased from 30% in 1988 to 34% in 2002 -- the first recorded rise since 1980.
Among the U.S. population in general, smoking has steadily decreased since 1965. In 1965, 42.4% of American adults were smokers, compared to 20.9% in 2004. |
Bill Sardi
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 American Journal Gastroenterology 98: 1440-41, 2003]
Earlier onset of colorectal cancer appears to be associated with alcohol use, tobacco use and male gender. The data showed that alcohol and tobacco users developed cancer an average of 7.8 years earlier than those who had never drank or smoked. Those who had never smoked but drank or who had never drank but smoked were each an average of 5.2 years younger at cancer diagnosis than those who neither smoked nor drank. The effect of smoking appeared to be particularly greater for women. Women who smoked but never drank developed cancer 6. |
Richard Beliveau, Ph.D. and Denis Gingras, Ph.D.
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 Happily, society has taken giant steps in controlling tobacco use. Intensive information campaigns stressing the dangers of tobacco use, an ever greater number of public spaces where smoking is forbidden, as well as the heady increases in the cost of tobacco: all of these efforts have had as a direct consequence the significant reduction of the proportion of smokers in our society. Even the most hardened smokers today admit that tobacco use is harmful to health, and most of them express their desire to kick the habit. |
Lester A. Mitscher and Victoria Toews
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 The green tea was able to counteract the damaging effects of tobacco use, and the decreased levels of this marker of tobacco use attested to the beneficial effect of the tea.7
Another group of Japanese researchers reported similar good news about green tea. At the 1991 International Symposium on Physiological and Pharmacological Effects of Camellia sinensis (Tea): Implications for Cardiovascular Disease, Cancer, and Public Health, Dr. |
Devra Davis
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 Yet some forms of the disease not tied with tobacco use continue to increase, and deaths are unconscionably higher in blacks than in whites with few exceptions. Accounts of breathtaking advances in research provide a steady rumble today, just as they have done for decades. Leaders come and go. Battles change. Rhetoric shifts. But the conflict is not ending. The early talk of imminent victory has grown muted. It is still easier for people to become cancer statistics than to understand them. |
Gerald E. Markle and Frances B. McCrea
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 We must begin with the realization, they wrote, that "lung cancer is merely the natural pathologic consequence of exposure to tobacco use." Our ability to eliminate this fearsome disease "will remain constrained until focus and resources are directed to the root causes of these conditions."13 In other words, lung cancer can be prevented; once contracted, its treatment is most difficult.
According to the JAMA article, the second leading "actual cause of death" is obesity (16%).
This is not only a serious problem, but one that is growing rapidly. |
Craig Pepin-Donat
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 The major causes of heart disease, stroke, high blood pressure, high cholesterol and diabetes are tobacco use and obesity (caused by poor diet and physical inactivity) . Tobacco and obesity are the number one and two causes of preventable death in the nation.8 The reality is that if no one used tobacco and everyone ate a balanced, healthy diet of natural organic foods coupled with moderate exercise, the incidence of these types of diseases and the number of prescription drugs that people take would be a fraction of what it is today. |
Thomson Healthcare, Inc.
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 LICORICE ROOT AND FRUIT
Contraindications for Licorice include chronic hepatitis, cholestatic diseases of the liver, cirrhosis of the liver, severe renal insufficiency, diabetes mellitus, hypertonic neuromuscular disorders, arrhythmias, hypertension, hypertonia, and hypokalemia. tobacco use has been associated with licorice toxicity (Synhaivsky, 1980).
Pregnancy: Not to be used during pregnancy.
Breastfeeding: Not to be used while breastfeeding. |
Caldwell B. Esselstyn, Jr., M.D.
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 The profiles of the two were very similar when it came to risk factors for coronary artery disease, including cholesterol and other blood lipid levels, blood pressure, and tobacco use. |
| But the usual cardiovascular risk factors (high cholesterol, high triglycerides, high homocysteine, insulin resistance, hypertension, and tobacco use) all impair the ability of that delicate enzyme to destroy ADMA.
NO (Nitric oxide)
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DDAH (Dimethylarginine dimethylaminohydrolase)
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Figure 6. The pathway of nitric oxide production—arginine through nitric oxide synthase to nitric oxide—can be blocked by too much ADMA. |
Richard Beliveau, Ph.D. and Denis Gingras, Ph.D.
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| The list of harmful effects associated with tobacco use is a very long one: a thirty-fold increase in the risk of lung cancer, a significant increase in the risk of cancers of the aerodigestive system (mouth, larynx), of the pancreas and of the bladder, a staggering increase in the risk of being affected by fatal cardiovascular disease, not to mention the many unpleasant side effects smokers put up with: loss of smell and taste, chronic fatigue, etc.
Happily, society has taken giant steps in controlling tobacco use. |
Elson M. Haas, M.D.
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 Tobacco use contributes to 1 in every 5 deaths.
A 35-year-old male who smokes 2 packs a day has a life expectancy that is 8.1 years shorter than his nonsmoking counterpart.
Tobacco Use Without Smoking—Dipping, Chewing, and Snuffing In 1999, 7.6 million Americans used smokeless tobacco. The prevalence of smokeless tobacco use is increasing. Increased risk of oral cancer.
Secondhand and Sidestream Smoke Definitions
Mainstream smoke—smoke drawn through the mouthpiece of the cigarette. Passive smoking—nonsmokers' inhalation of tobacco smoke. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| Department of Defense because, historically, the military has had higher and heavier rates of tobacco use than civilians," wrote the researchers. The Pentagon health survey found, among members of the U.S. military, smoking increased from 30% in 1988 to 34% in 2002 -- the first recorded rise since 1980.
Among the U.S. population in general, smoking has steadily decreased since 1965. In 1965, 42.4% of American adults were smokers, compared to 20.9% in 2004. This decline began after the Surgeon General's first report on the dangers of smoking in 1964. |
Dr. Abram Hoffer, MD, FRCP (C) and Dr. Harold D. Foster, PhD
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 In total, 43,162 Canadians died from addiction-associated causes in 2002, with tobacco use being responsible for 37,209 of those deaths.
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Role of Vitamin B-3
In the 1950s, Dr Hoffer and his colleagues in Saskatchewan began to treat large numbers of schizophrenic patients with high doses of vitamin B-3. A few of these patients were both alcoholic and schizophrenic. From this group, it was learned that, coincidentally, niacin was a particularly good treatment for alcohol addiction. |
Devra Davis
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| He added that "the extraordinary rise in tobacco use" was
"the single most important cause of the rising incidence of lung cancer" in recent decades.58 Shortly after it appeared in German in 1939, Muller's dissertation was printed as an abstract in English in the Journal of the American Medical Association. In an ideal world, this study would have profoundly altered the way people thought about the problem of tobacco. The real world, however, was on the brink of war. An addictive product that drives several major economies is not something to be trifled with. |
Bill Sardi
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| For example, the greater decline in cancer death rates is due in large part to the substantial decrease in tobacco use among males. [Cancer 107: published online Sept. 6, 2006]
Do they really want you to stop smoking?
One wonders why smoking is still popular in the United States. There are social and governmental influences that stand in the way of its eradication. Recognize, political parties receive a great deal of their donations from the tobacco industry.
Worldwide, however, more than 1 out of 6 people on the planet smoke cigarettes. |
Devra Davis
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| In the 1930s, German scientists developed epidemiological methods to show that tobacco use increased cancers and other diseases in humans. Not all Nazi leaders shared enthusiasm for what became the first national campaign to combat smoking. Josef Goebbels, the cigar-smoking Nazi propaganda minister, boasted that he never smoked more than one cigar at a time.
Goebbels notwithstanding, Germany officially discouraged civilian use of tobacco throughout the war years, insisting that a better race could not be created if smoking were allowed. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 We are pledging aid and assistance to the research effort into all phases of tobacco use and health. This joint financial aid will of course be in addition to what is already being contributed by individual companies.
2. For this purpose we are establishing a joint industry group consisting initially of the undersigned. This group will be known as TOBACCO INDUSTRY RESEARCH COMMITTEE.
3. In charge of the research activities of the Committee will be a scientist of unimpeachable integrity and national repute. |
Connie Bennett, C.H.H.C. with Stephen T. Sinatra, M.D.
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 Wigand, who now heads a nonprofit foundation, Smoke-Free Kids, to reduce teen tobacco use. "It's easy to get children to smoke cigarettes because the taste approaches sweetness. Sugar is one of many components used to make cigarettes more candylike. Unfortunately, the sweet taste helps hook some 3,000 to 5,000 kids a day. Ninety percent of smokers begin before age 20," he claims. "The average onset of cigarette smoking in the United States is 12 to 13 years old, and even younger overseas."
Kids are bombarded with ads for junk foods. There's no restraint from the food companies. |
Bottom Line Health
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| After compensating for factors that affect colon cancer risk— including age, gender, alcohol and tobacco use, and exercise—the researchers found that diabetics were 1.4 times more likely to develop colon cancer than nondiabetics.
Other studies have found the same association, Garrow says, but he believes his study is the largest cross-sectional survey to date. Exactly why diabetics have a greater risk of developing colon cancer isn't clear, Garrow says. |
Devra Davis
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| The Statement pledged to aid and assist research into "all phases" of tobacco use and health when, in reality, the research funded through the TIRC was deliberately steered into areas that were unlikely to incriminate tobacco. The TIRC was not supposed to operate as a trade association, but it was in fact a PR organization masquerading as a tobacco health research organization. Its existence allowed the industry to say "we're studying the problem," when it was actually doing everything it could to misrepresent the nature and scale of possible harms.
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| Here is the answer:
We are pledging aid and assistance to the research effort into all phases of tobacco use and health. This joint financial aid will of course be in addition to what is already being contributed by individual companies.
For this purpose we are establishing a joint industry group consisting initially of the undersigned. This group will be known as TOBACCO INDUSTRY RESEARCH COMMITTEE.
In charge of the research activities of the Committee will be a scientist of unimpeachable integrity and national repute. |
| This effort to stifle tobacco use never quite took hold. Nazi Germany, like most industrial countries at the time, had come to depend heavily on tax revenues from cigarette sales.66 Still, German magazines regularly featured ads for products free of tobacco and other "genetic poisons" such as alcohol, along with products like vitamins and nutritional compounds that were touted for their ability to strengthen the gene pool.67 News stories warned that nicotine passed from inhaled smoke through the lungs into the blood and fat, ending up in breast milk. |
Richard Beliveau, Ph.D. and Denis Gingras, Ph.D.
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| Intensive information campaigns stressing the dangers of tobacco use, an ever greater number of public spaces where smoking is forbidden, as well as the heady increases in the cost of tobacco: all of these efforts have had as a direct consequence the significant reduction of the proportion of smokers in our society. Even the most hardened smokers today admit that tobacco use is harmful to health, and most of them express their desire to kick the habit. |
Ann M. Coulston and Carol J. Boushey
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 Diet, tobacco use, and fatal prostate cancer: Results from the Lutheran Brotherhood Cohort Study. Cancer Res. 50, 6836-6840.
65. Chan, J. M., Pietinen, P., Virtanen, M., Malila, N., Tangrea, J., Albanes, D., and Virtamo, J. (2000). Diet and prostate cancer risk in a cohort of smokers, with a specific focus on calcium and phosphorus (Finland). Cancer Causes Control 11, 859-867.
66. Allen, N. E., Sauvaget, C, Roddam, A. W., Appleby, P., Nagano, J., Suzuki, G., Key, T. J., and Koyama, K. (2004). A prospective study of diet and prostate cancer in Japanese men. Cancer Causes Control 15, 911-920. |
| Risk is also increased by long-term tobacco use and possibly excessive alcohol use. Risk may be decreased by use of aspirin or other non-steroidal antiinflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) and postmenopausal hormone replacement therapy. But neither aspirin-like drugs nor postmenopausal hormones are currently recommended to prevent colorectal cancer because of their potential side effects.
Some studies show a lower risk of colon cancer among those who are moderately active on a regular basis, and more vigorous activity may even further reduce the risk of colon cancer. |
Lester A. Mitscher and Victoria Toews
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| Polyphenols may mitigate some of the harmful effects of tobacco use. The International Agency for Research on Cancer determined that smokers with a high intake of polyphenols "are partially protected against the harmful effects of tobacco carcinogens within their bladder mucosal cells." Another study, involving 293 bladder cancer patients and 589 healthy controls, found that drinking green tea corresponded to a significantly lower risk of bladder cancer in women. |
Bill Sardi
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| Somehow 20 milligrams of synthetic beta carotene was found to pose a mortal risk to these men while their tobacco use and booze consumption weren't mentioned. Dietary supplements were now and forever more to be regarded as toxic. The amount of beta carotene in a couple of raw carrots was now considered carcinogenic.
Supplemental beta carotene raised the incidence of lung cancer by 1 8 percent, said the study. But when the hard data, rather than the relative statistics, were carefully analyzed, the concern over beta carotene appeared to be a false alarm. |
| Instead of saying that tobacco use overcomes some of the health benefits derived from eating fresh fruits and vegetables and advising men to stop smoking, the study advised men to stop taking dietary supplements. There was no major criticism of the study from public or private health authorities. Physicians all bought into the story. Only health reporter Jack Challem reported that beta carotene supplements create no appreciable risk of lung cancer when people smoke less than 20 cigarettes daily and drink little or no hard alcohol. |
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