E Cigarettes, the UK’s Premium Smoking Brand

Yesterday Freedom celebrated St George’s Day and gave away over 200 free disposable e cigarettes to Londoners from their new range, which will be soon available on their new website and via many retail outlets nationwide. The disposable e cigarette is a great way for tobacco smokers to see whether the experience of inhaling vapour rather than tobacco smoke is a viable alternative to smoking. Over the past year Freedom Cigarettes has convinced over 20,000 smokers to change their smoking habit and take up vaping e cigarettes. Electric cigarettes are a healthier and more social alternative to smoking tobacco, so for many people the decision to switch is easy. During this year Freedom will be running events, experiential stands and giving away loads of goodies as they make more smokers aware of the benefits of e cigarettes and the great flavors in their new range.

Teen Smokers and Tobacco Use

Why is important to educate teens on the topic of tobacco? Because according to the Tobacco Reality Unfiltered group (TRU), the number of teens who wish they would have never started smoking is 70 percent. Plus, once they have started it is very hard to quit. What makes tobacco so addictive and so hard for teens to quit smoking? Nicotine. Nicotine, which is found in tobacco, is more addictive than heroin or cocaine. In fact, nicotine reaches the brain in 7 seconds. Another reason teens smoke is peer pressure, stress, to look “cool” or because their parents smoke. Our goal is to show teens how not only addictive tobacco use can be, but also how very harmful it is to your body.

Tobacco Control Law in Indonesia

A tobacco control bill was first named to the House of Representatives’ list of priority legislation for deliberation and passage in 2009 — and there it smoldered until last October, when it was abruptly dropped from the list. Rohani Budi Prihatin, a House staffer who helped draft the “bill to control the health impact of smoking products,” fears legislators are unwilling to revive it over concerns its passage could hurt industry players. “The draft is ready, we finished it a long time ago,” he said. “But as you can see, no House members want to discuss this. All of them remain tight-lipped.” Ignatius Mulyono, chairman of the House Legislative Body, said the legislation needed to undergo major revision. “When will it be back on the list? When they review the substance and title of the bill, because it’s very biased toward the anti-tobacco lobby,” he said. “None of the parties supported the bill, so we had no option but to drop it.”

Smoking and World Economy

Smoking costs the world 1% to 2% of its gross domestic product each year and could kill about one billion people this century, authors of the fourth edition of the Tobacco Atlas said at the book's launch in Singapore. The economic losses include direct and indirect costs such as healthcare spending for treating smoking-related illnesses and the value of lost productivity, say the authors of the book, which is published by the American Cancer Society and World Lung Foundation. The cost of smoking could be even greater, as co-author Hana Ross said it was difficult to measure intangible costs like the suffering of family members or pain felt by patients. "During the 20th century, tobacco killed 100 million people. The estimate is that in the 21st century, tobacco will kill one billion people," lead author Michael Eriksen said at the launch of the book at a global health conference in Singapore.

Tobacco Plant Can Fight Malaria

Who says tobacco doesn’t have any health benefits? A genetically modified tobacco plant that can fight drug-resistant malaria has been developed by Israeli scientists. Although we don’t think smokers will find this in their cheap Nistru cigarettes in the near future or get to smoke it. Researchers at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem have found that tobacco plant can be altered to produce “artemisin”, an active component in malaria treatment. Artemisin, a natural compound that comes from the sweet wormwood plant, can fight drug-resistant malaria, but due to its small quantities and high price, millions of people cannot get access to this remedy, the researchers said.

Newport Cigarettes Smokers

The modern cigarette has its beginnings in the seventeenth century. Despite its age, it only started to see popular use in the twentieth century. During the two previous World Wars, the product was part of the rations provided to the Allied soldiers on the field. Soldiers passed their idle time by smoking. When the war ended, they took the practice home with them. This is where the phenomenon as we see it today started. The product can be acquired through many different outlets like corner stores and major retail establishments. Smokers trying to find cheap cigarettes on the web get two options: menthol and non-menthol.

Second-hand Smoke in California

If official statistics are to be trusted, the state of California has less smokers than any other state in the U.S., except Missouri. Good for them, right? After all, it has been scientifically proved that smoking cheapest Marlboro cigarettes is hazardous for your health. But California still has a long way to go, because a recent study coming from the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research estimates that nearly 2.5 million children in the state are exposed to secondhand smoke. That is, they live in homes where other people smoke inside, whether or not they're allowed to. Exposure to secondhand smoke, by the way, is just as bad as if you were doing the smoking. For starters, it poses many of the same health hazards. Young children whose relatives smoke near them have a greater risk of being asthmatic or suffering from all sorts of respiratory illnesses.