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by JamieSanford

Studying About Cigarette Smoking And Patterns

Many countries have set up laboratories to study about the different aspects related to smoking at the macro level as well as at the micro level. In the macro level, larger aspects of smoking are taught or studied; aspects such as the effect of a small illness on the number of cigarettes smoked by a person. And, at a micro level, things that happen during individual smoking sessions, for instance, are studied. Test rooms have been developed in which volunteers smoke tobacco cigarettes while the computers and other systems recorded the various behaviour and trend patterns. In this kind of a controlled environment or context it is possible for researchers to study carefully about the behaviour of tobacco cigarette smokers so that they get to discover or find out what all were the factors that controlled it.

Most of the cigarette smokers that served as subjects in these experimental studies did not feel that they smoked in a different manner from the normal way while they were inside the laboratories. Though, it was important to demonstrate or prove this in order to validate the system. To carry out this act, portable puff-monitoring systems and mechanisms were developed. These modern systems take the researcher one step away from the laboratory settings where events are a little bit more controlled or one step closer to the natural environment, where a smoker would be in. These measures allowed a smoker’s smoking behaviour to be monitored by researchers as they went about going about their daily life in their usual environments.

In another type of laboratory setting, there is less use of automated devices; but a rigorous observation of cigarette smoking and associated behaviour is done. This setting is called the residential research laboratory setting where people that volunteered lived in the company of other people for a few days or even several months. In such kind of a setting, people are always free to smoke as they choose. But they get or take each cigarette either from a cigarette dispensing machine or from one of the research staffs. Patterns related to smoking are thus observed round the clock. Each one of these settings is exclusively arranged to measure deviations in the aspect of a smoker’s smoking behavior. This particular strategy that make use of several systems permits a lot of checks, otherwise called points of validation, that need to be made. It would also provide one with a complete picture of smoking patterns.

Descriptive studies related to cigarette smoking pattern or behaviour has been gaining credence.As a first step, researchers or scientists using these laboratories and devices would measure carefully everything that happens when people smoked tobacco cigarettes. The first one recorded the number of times these people smoked and found that cigarette smoking occurred not as a random event, but rather as an orderly habit or routine. Since each of the systems gave a similar result, it was concluded that the results were worthy enough to be treated as true and authentic findings.

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by Pink Ponk

10 Facts About Cigarette Smoking And Their Effect On Us

There are 10 interesting and important fact that we all should know about.I will start taking every fact in part and try to explain it.

Fact 1: Smoking is the largest single preventable cause of death and disease in Australia. There are around 19,000 tobacco caused deaths each year. That’s 52 a day.

Fact 2: Tobacco smoke contains over 4,000 chemicals, many of which are highly toxic and over 40 of which are known to cause cancer. There is no safe ‘low tar’ cigarette and no safe level of smoking. There are so many smoking risks.

Fact 3: Latest data (2001) from the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare shows 21.1% of Australians over 14 are smoking at least weekly. 80% of them have tried to quit at least once. Within the last twelve months 30.8% of smokers have tried to stop.

Fact 4: Male smokers may produce less sperm and their sperm may have more abnormalities than that of non-smokers. Women who smoke are more likely to have a miscarriage. Several studies have found that women who smoke have decreased fertility. Of these, one study has found that smokers have about 72% of the fertility of non-smokers.

Fact 5:Every month Australian tobacco companies lose at least 12,000 customers. About 12,500 quit and 1,600 die of diseases caused by smoking cigarettes.

Fact 6:A twenty-a-day smoker, aged 30, who started smoking at around 16 has already breathed a kilo of tar into their lungs.

Fact 7:A smoker is 10 times more likely to develop lung cancer. Heavy smokers are 15 to 25 times more at risk than non-smokers.

85% of all male cases and 77% of female cases of lung cancer are related to smoking.

Fact 8:Women smokers who use the pill increase their risk of a heart attack, stroke, and other cardiovascular diseases by about ten times.

Fact 9:Smoking reduces life expectancy by 7 – 8 years. That means, each cigarette shortens the life of the smoker by around 8 minutes.

Fact 10: Over 57,000 reports worldwide have examined the link between cigarette smoking and disease, making it the most researched cause of disease ever investigated in the history of Biomedical Research.

by freebird (bobinson|ബോബിന്‍സണ്)

Smoking Cigarettes – 5 Things You Should Know About Cigarette Smoke

Cigarette smokers are constantly faced with criticism and health warnings. Here are 5 things that are true about cigarette smoking.

1. Cigarettes Cause Cancer
Smoking cigarettes has been proven to cause cancer. When tobacco is burned, thousands of chemicals are generated. It is these chemicals that are responsible for cancers and cardiovascular diseases. Lung cancer, for example, is the most prevalent type of cancer and is primarily a result of cigarette smoking.

2. Cigarettes Are Expensive
Traditional cigarettes contain filters, papers, and tobacco leaves. With all the advertising, lobbying, and branding thrown into the mix, the cost of putting cigarettes on the market has never been higher before. On top of that, consumers are burdened by heavy tobacco taxes. Sin tax, as some may call it, is considered as a pretty unfair tax in this free country.

3. Second Hand Smoke Affects Children and Newborns
Cigarette smoke Contains 4,000+ chemicals and small particulates, and a good amount of them still get out of your lungs and get inhaled by nearby people. Second hand smoke not only causes cancer, but stunts growth in children and produce birth defects in newborns. In fact, inhaling second hand smoke is deadlier than smoking the actual cigarette. The reason is that cigarette smoke contains free radicals, which induce cellular damage and cause cancer. Because second hand smoke is lower in temperature, the free radicals adhere to the lung tissue better and inflict greater damage to the victims.

4. Cigarettes Stain Teeth
Among the substances in cigarette smoke is the tar and other particulates. These things stick to your teeth and gradually discolor them.

5. Cigarettes Accelerate the Aging Process
Aging is a process of gradual cellular deterioration. Because the chemicals in cigarette also inflict cellular damage, smoking compounds the aging effects. Cigarettes essentially accelerate this natural process and make you a lot older than you actually are.

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