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So to all you smokers out there, quit before you turn into one!
is it possible for a movie to suck more than "the smokers"?
You can tell from the first moments of "The Smokers."
Though nicotine replacement therapy (NRT) has helped many smokers quit, the cigarette habit remains pervasive in many countries.
The use of nicotine in non-combustible forms like smokeless tobacco, or PNV, would enable millions of current smokers to reduce considerably the harm that their nicotine consumption is doing to their health.
But, so far, none of this has occurred, largely because nicotine is viewed as a highly addictive and toxic substance, with even smokers hesitating to try NRT or PNV for this reason.
Moreover, smokers and PNV users control very precisely, on a puff-by-puff basis, the dose of nicotine they consume, virtually eliminating the risk of overdose.
With minimal health risks compared to tobacco smoking, PNVs face only one real barrier to use: smokers’ willingness to switch.
Though, in an ideal world, people would simply be able to quit using nicotine altogether, experience suggests that many smokers cannot – or do not want to – give it up, and will continue to smoke if there is no safe and acceptable alternative.
If smokers are willing to accept PNVs as a viable option, high-risk tobacco use could become a thing of the past.
So far, converted smokers have taken the lead in promoting the shift to PNVs, sharing their experiences online, in Internet forums and on Facebook and Twitter.
(In fact, lung cancer kills one in ten smokers.)
A recent study showed that a few years of smoking can have this effect, making smokers more susceptible to a variety of cancers.
Some 100 million of China’s 200 million young male smokers and about 40 million of India’s 100 million young male smokers will eventually die from tobacco-related causes.
Poland also chooses to treat possession of even the smallest quantities of drugs as criminal, as evidenced by the fact that 60% of people sentenced for drug possession in Poland are marijuana smokers.
Cessation by the 1.1 billion current smokers is needed to lower tobacco deaths over the next few decades.
Tobacco tax increases, dissemination of information about the health risks of smoking, smoking bans in public, complete bans on advertising and promotion, and cessation therapies are effective in helping smokers to quit.
Knowledge of the health risks from smoking is low: 61% of Chinese smokers in 1996 thought tobacco did them “little or no harm.”
Most smokers become addicted as adolescents or young adults, when shortsightedness and lack of information make rational decisions difficult.
Moreover, recent economic research finds that higher taxes are justified on welfare grounds, because the costs to smokers are huge (even though the external costs to others might be small), and that higher cigarette taxes do not hurt the poor (since the self-control value of higher taxes helps the poor more).
The prevalence of COPD, which is diagnosed mainly in smokers and former smokers, ranges from 2,000 per 100,000 inhabitants to more than 10,000, with mortality rates varying between 25 and 75 per 100,000.
If it took Obama, a man strong-willed enough to aspire to and achieve the US presidency, five years to kick the habit, it is not surprising that hundreds of millions of smokers find themselves unable to quit.
Although smoking has fallen sharply in the US, from about 40% of the population in 1970 to only 20% today, the proportion of smokers stopped dropping around 2004.
There are still 46 million American adult smokers, and smoking kills about 443,000 Americans each year.
Smokers who want to quit would then find it easier to do so.
The first smokers did not inhale tobacco smoke; that became possible only in the nineteenth century, when a new way of curing tobacco made the smoke less alkaline.
Even setting aside the harm that smokers inflict on nonsmokers, the free-to-choose argument is unconvincing with a drug as highly addictive as tobacco, and it becomes even more dubious when we consider that most smokers take up the habit as teenagers and later want to quit.
After all, many smokers would actually like to see cigarettes banned because, like Obama, they want to quit.
“How about restaurants in 10-15 years start treating carnivores the same way that smokers are treated?”
For example, revenues from tobacco taxation, which disproportionately affects lower income groups, should be used to fund cessation-support programs that target disadvantaged smokers.
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