SMOKING - FACTS...

Tobacco smoke contains over 4,000 different chemicals. At least 43 are known carcinogens (cause cancer in humans). Some are:

1. Benzene (petrol additive):A colourless cyclic hydrocarbon obtained from coal and petroleum, used as a solvent in fuel and in chemical manufacture - and contained in cigarette smoke. It is a known carcinogen and is associated with leukaemia.
2. Formaldehyde (embalming fluid): A colourless liquid, highly poisonous, used to preserve dead bodies - also found in cigarette smoke. Known to cause cancer, respiratory, skin and gastrointestinal problems.
3. Ammonia (toilet cleaner):Used as a flavouring, frees nicotine from tobacco turning it into a gas, found in dry cleaning fluids.
4. Acetone (nail polish remover): Fragrant volatile liquid ketone, used as a solvent, for example, nail polish remover - found in cigarette smoke.
5. Tar: Particulate matter drawn into lungs when you inhale on a lighted cigarette. Once inhaled, smoke condenses and about 70 per cent of the tar in the smoke is deposited in the smoker's lungs.
6. Nicotine (insecticide/addictive drug): One of the most addictive substances known to man, a powerful and fast-acting medical and non-medical poison. This is the chemical which causes addiction.
7. Carbon Monoxide (CO) (car exhaust fumes)-An odourless, tasteless and poisonous gas, rapidly fatal in large amounts - it's the same gas that comes out of car exhausts and is the main gas in cigarette smoke, formed when the cigarette is lit.
8. Arsenic (rat poison),
9. Hydrogen Cyanide (gas chamber poison)

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CASH BENEFITS...

Since the typical smoker spends 35,000 Indian Rupees per year on cigarettes; one might wonder what could be bought with that money instead. Here are some examples:

1. They could play 2,800 video arcade games
   
2. Talk to a friend on the phone in another state for 126 hours and 22 minutes


3. Shop till they drop for music – about 45 compact discs!
   
4. Buy 1186 packs of sugar free gum – a better habit!


5. If they saved the 35,000 Indian Rupees every year in a bank account earning 5% interest, they would have 1.23254806 million Indian Rupees after 20 years. Talk about being able to buy a nice car!

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1. Cigarette smoking has been identified as the most important source of preventable morbidity and premature mortality in the United States and the world.
2. Smoking-related diseases cause an estimated 440,000 American deaths each year.
3. Smoking costs the United States over $150 billion annually in health care costs.
4. A 2004 Study by the CDC's National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion found that cigarette smoke contains over 4,800 chemicals, 69 of which are known to cause cancer.
5. Women account for 39 percent of all smoking deaths.
6. Each day 1500 more of American youngsters become regular smokers.
7. 1/3 of them will die prematurely from this habit.
8. 1200 Americans die every day from tobacco use and exposure to secondhand smoke. That is one person every 72 seconds.
9. Tobacco industries spend over $34.1 million a day in marketing its products in the U.S. alone.
10. Smoking kills more than 400,000 Americans and costs more than $89 billion in health care expenditures every year.
11. Tobacco-related health care bills cost the states and taxpayers billions of dollars each year under Medicaid and other state-funded health care programs.
12. 5 million people die annually from smoking throughout the world.
13. About 90% of all adults who smokes took their first puff at or before the age of 18.
14. Every eight seconds, someone in the world dies due to tobacco
15. In the US, smoking causes about 445 new cases of lung cancer every day.
16. Over 50,000 people a year die from secondhand smoke in the US alone.
17. People that smoke have 10 times as many wrinkles as a person that does not smoke.
18. Research has indicated that approximately eleven minutes are cut off the life of an average male smoker from each cigarette smoked.
19. Tobacco kills more Americans than AIDS, drugs, homicides, fires, and auto accidents combined.
20. 1 out of 3 smokers are estimated to eventually die from a tobacco-related disease.
21. A person who smokes a pack of cigarettes a day will on average lose two teeth every ten years.
22. A study indicates that smokers are likely to die on average six and a half years earlier than non-smokers.

NO SMOKING

Smoking is an act/habit of inhaling fumes from a burning cigarette or beedi or pipe. Generally, tobacco is the major content of them, rarely with other blend/stuff.

Origin of smoking tobacco - Herbs usually produce fragrance while they are burnt. Initially, Egyptians and Greeks were found to inhale fumes of burnt herbs for medicinal purpose. Researches suspect that America must be the birthplace of tobacco, since only after Columbus it has been known to spread all over the world. The Portuguese take the credit of introducing the smoking habit in India. Tobacco is generally used in various ways i.e., smoked, snuffed, chewed, drunk or rubbed against skin. It had been learnt that ancient doctors sometimes prescribed tobacco smoking to soothe nerves.

History of smoking- Originally, they smoked raw, folded tobacco leaf, followed by other advancement, paper rolled, filtered, flavored, etc. Kings used to smoke on those days with specially made mouth tube from a burning bowl. Blending other herbs and aromatic substances with tobacco may vary according to the craving or desirable taste of the smoker.

Contents of Tobacco smoke – The major constituents are

i) tar,

ii) nicotine,
iii) carbon monoxide,
iv) Ammonium compounds,
v) acetone,
vi) methanol,
vii) phenol,
viii) naphthalene,
ix) butane,
x) mercury,
xi) lead,
xii) cadmium,
xiii) urethane,
xiv) arsenic,
xv) Hydrogen cyanide, etc.
Many of these are carcinogenic i.e., have the tendency to produce cancers.

Addiction - Any routine habit will go to our subconscious mind and remain there to induce us to do our routine routinely. More than that, smoking addiction is extraordinary craving mainly due to nicotine and ammonium compounds. They will trigger our brain to pass signal for top up of addictives, once satiety level drops.

In reality, nicotine and other compounds in tobacco smoke are found to stimulate brain temporarily. But one should be aware that every action has its own opposite reaction. So, this addictive booster will finally end in retardation of brain activities and premature ageing. So, altogether, a smoker will get fenced and will be made to remain on the dark side of health in the midst of his/her own smoke.

Poisonous effects of smoking- since blood has become contaminated, but most common sufferers are lung and heart. The smoke entering the lung usually converts oxygen into carbon monoxide to cause bad effect. The deeper the puff and more the time of holding smoke in the lungs will cause more damage to the lungs. The common sufferings are
· Discoloured lips and stained teeth
· Foul breath and nasal/sinus allergy
· Respiratory disorders like recurrent cough, bronchitis, asthma, tuberculosis, chronic obstructive pulmonary diseases, emphysema, lung cancer, etc.Heart attack
· Increased blood pressure and strokeBlocks in peripheral blood vessels causing TAO (Thrombo Angitis Obliternas) or gangrene which can end in amputation
· Sleeplessness
· Peptic ulcer and constipation
· Premature ageing and death
· Males may suffer from lowered sperm count & Impotency
· Female smokers often suffer from delay in getting pregnant and early abortions. They would also poison the fetus when they smoke during pregnancy.

To know some interesting facts & trivia on Smoking log on to :

http://homeopathy-tips.blogspot.com/2009/01/smoking-facts.html

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PHOBIAS AND HOMEOPATHY

A phobia is a persistent irrational fear of an object or a situation that's generally considered harmless. Phobias are characterized by four factors:

• A persistent, irrational fear of an object or situation.
• A powerful desire to avoid the object or situation.
• Significant distress associated with the problem.
• Recognition

It is estimated that one person in every ten has a particular phobia which causes them attacks of extreme panic that can occur at any time and in any place

CLASSIFICATION:

Social phobia - fears involving other people or social situations such as performance anxiety or fears of embarrassment by scrutiny of others, such as eating in public.

Specific phobias - fear of a single specific panic spiders, snakes, dogs, elevators, water, waves, flying, balloons, catching a specific illness, etc.

Agoraphobia - a generalized fear of leaving home or a small familiar 'safe' area, and of possible panic attacks that might follow

SIGNS AND SYMPTOMS - PHOBIA:

1. A persistent, irrational fear of a specific object
2. An immediate response of uncontrollable anxiety when exposed to the object of fear
3. A compelling desire to avoid what you fear
4. When facing the object of your phobia, an experience of panicky feelings, such as sweating, rapid heartbeat, avoidance behavior, difficulty breathing and intense anxiety
5. Anxious feelings when merely anticipating an encounter with what you fear

TREAT YOUR PHOBIAS WITH HOMEOPATHY:

Fear, apprehension, anxiety, associated with travel ….ARGENTUM NITRICUM
Feelings of homesickness…. CAPSICUM
Fear of Darkness and being alone…THUJA
Fear of snakes ….THUJA
Afraid of all kinds of things, esp. in dark…PHOSPHORUS
Fear of being misrepresented, dishonored and humiliated – STAPHY
Fear of People, delusion of being watched – HYOSCYAMUS
Fear of Dogs, animals – BELLADONA
Fear of death+++, fear of alone – ARSENICUM
Fear of heights and claustrophobia – CALC. CARB.
Fear of crowds, a fear of falling, even fear that the heart might stop – GELS
Fear of robbers and intruders – NAT. MUR
Fear of downward motion – BORAX
Fear pointed things, knives, forks of – SPIGELIA
Fear of being touched – ARNICA
Fear of Flying - ACONITE