World No Tobacco Day 31th May 2006
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| Smokers blow up £90,000 in a Lifetime
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A study in the UK calculated the lifetime cost of smoking about 15 cigarettes a day and the amount calculated comes to a staggering £91,832.43 or approx . US $150,000 or Rs. 6,000.000 . This figure is worked out at 373,302 cigarettes smoked, or 18,665 packs.
The study was helped by Clerical Medical. It found that the average smoker has 15.24 cigarettes a day, costing them 106.68 pounds a week. In a year the smoker blows up 6,060 cigarettes at an average cost of £1,493.22. and collectively the English nation puffs up 72 BILLION cigs a year and blows a staggering 17 Billion pounds up in smoke. Interesting figures to a health economist!!
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| Tobacco
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The word Tobacco is derived form the Native American word tabago, representing a Y-shaped pipe used to sniff tobacco power. Originally grown in South and Central America, the deadly plant is used in many forms such as bidis, cigarettes, cigars, pipes, kreteks, clove cigarettes, snuff and smokeless cigars. According to WHO statistics, it has been projected that 50% of people who smoke today (approximately 650 million people) would be killed by tobacco.
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Smoking Ban
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Chronic Fatigue Syndrome is a complex, strange disorder
characterized by extreme fatigue. Nobody is immune to developing this condition. It can affect even the healthy! The disease, of an unknown cause is three times more common in women than men. A person can have it for years, and yet go unnoticed. It can strike following an episode of illness such as cold or can also be associated with high levels of stress. In some cases, it might be difficult for the patient to pinpoint when it all began.
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| Smoking and Cancer
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Despite years of research on CFS, it has not been possible to pinpoint the exact cause of this strange and complex disorder. It is believed that chronic fatigue syndrome is a manifestation of autoimmune disorder, a condition in which the bodys immune cells recognise an individuals own cells to be non-self and destroy it. Consistent with the above belief, may patients with CFS have been found to have high levels of circulating antinuclear autoantibodies, that cause self-destruction.
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Depression is one of the most common mental disorders affecting approximately 340 million people in the world. No one is immune from depression - it occurs in people of all social classes, all countries and all cultural settings. For some people, a combination of many factors may be causing clinical depression. For others, a single factor may be triggering the illness.
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