ONCE YOU START, ITS HARD TO STOP…

When your parents were young, people could buy cigarettes and smoke much anywhere — even in hospitals! Ads for cigarettes were all over the place. Today we're more aware about how bad smoking is for our health. Smoking is restricted or banned in almost all public places and cigarette companies are no longer allowed to advertise on TV, radio, and in many magazines.

Almost everyone knows that smoking causes cancer, emphysema, and heart disease; that it can shorten your life by 10 years or more; and that the habit can cost a smoker thousands of dollars a year. So how come people are still lighting up? The answer, in a word, is addiction.

ONCE YOU START, ITS HARD TO STOP…

Smoking is a hard habit to break because tobacco contains nicotine, which is highly addictive. Like heroin or other addictive drugs, the body and mind quickly become so used to the nicotine in cigarettes that a person needs to have it just to feel normal.

People start smoking for a variety of different reasons. Some think it looks cool. Others start because their family members or friends smoke. Statistics show that about 9 out of 10 tobacco users start before they're 18 years old. Most adults who started smoking in their teens never expected to become addicted. That's why people say it's just so much easier to not start smoking at all.

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Cigarette Brands

Many brands of cigarette that we have. Here, i choose a several brands to share with all of you.

First, Camel brands. Camel is a brand of cigarettes that was introduced by U.S. company R.J. Reynolds Tobacco (RJR) in 1913. Most Camels contain a blend of Turkish and Virginia tobacco. The history, Camel cigarettes were originally blended to have a milder taste in contrast to brands that were considered much harsher at the time of its introduction. the brand's catch-phrase slogan, used for decades, was "I'd walk a mile for a Camel!" The most famous historical style of Camel cigarettes is the soft pack of the regular, unfiltered variety

Then, Chesterfield brands. Chesterfield is a brand of cigarette made by Altria. It was one of the most recognized brands of the early 20th century, but sales have declined steadily over the years. It was named for Chesterfield County, Virginia. Chesterfield is still being made today and it is still popular in Europe, but has been absent from U.S. advertising for many years. The Chesterfield most expensive cigarette on German black markets after capitulation:up to 25 Reichsmark for 1 cigarette (for compare: 1 bread of 4 lbs was 50 RM)

Next, Kent brands. Kent is a brand of cigarettes, first to introduce smoke filters in 1952. From March 1952 until at least May 1956, the Micronite filter in Kent cigarettes contained a form of asbestos. Kent uses charcoal filters (a form of Activated carbon). The brand is a propriety of British American Tobacco group. The brand is named after Herbert Kent, a former executive at Lorillard Tobacco Company. The primary component in each of our cigarette brands is tobacco. Therefore, quality control of the types and grades we use is critical. The Tobacco Farmer Partnership Program (TFPP) allows us to work directly with U.S. farmers to ensure that sufficient amounts and the right qualities and grades of tobacco are available for our products. We continuously develop, improve and enhance our manufacturing processes to consistently provide adult smokers with high-quality products.

Futhermore, L & M brands. the brands was created by the company Liggett & Myers, L&M is a brand of cigarettes produced by Altria Group, Inc. (previously known as Philip Morris Companies, Inc.). They aren't very common in the continental US, but are sold almost everywhere in Puerto Rico, Israel and Egypt. They are also widely available in Europe. L & M is a brand of cigarette made by Philip Morris. The history of what is now a global company can be traced back to Philip Morris's 1847 opening of a single shop on London's Bond Street, selling tobacco and ready-made Cigarettes.

We also have Lucky Strike brands. Lucky Strike is a brand of American cigarettes, often referred to as "Luckies". The brand was introduced by R.A. Patterson of Richmond, Virginia, in 1871 as a cut-plug chewing tobacco and later a cigarette. The history, in 1905, the company was acquired by the American Tobacco Company (ATC), and Lucky Strike would later prove to be its answer to R.J. Reynolds' Camel. Matt Tellman is the founder of Lucky Strike. In 1917, the brand started using the slogan "It's Toasted" to inform consumers about the manufacturing method in which the tobacco is toasted rather than sun-dried. Because of this different manufacturing process, Lucky Strike cigarettes are said to have a unique and distinctive flavour. The message "L.S.M.F.T." ("Lucky Strike means fine tobacco") was introduced on the package in the same year.

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smokeless t0bacc0..

What Is Smokeless Tobacco?

Smokeless tobacco, also called spit tobacco, chewing tobacco, chew, chaw, dip, plug, and probably a few other things, comes in two forms: snuff and chewing tobacco.

Snuff is a fine-grain tobacco that often comes in teabag-like pouches that users "pinch" or "dip" between their lower lip and gum. Chewing tobacco comes in shredded, twisted, or "bricked" tobacco leaves that users put between their cheek and gum. Whether it's snuff or chewing tobacco, you're supposed to let it sit in your mouth and suck on the tobacco juices, spitting often to get rid of the saliva that builds up. This sucking and chewing allows nicotine, which is a drug you can become addicted to, to be absorbed into the bloodstream through the tissues in your mouth. You don't even need to swallow.

Where Does It Come From?

Smokeless tobacco has been around for a long time. Native people of North and South America chewed tobacco, and snorting and chewing snuff was popular in Europe and Scandinavia.

In the United States, chewing tobacco has long been associated with baseball. Players chewed it to keep their mouths moist, spit it into their gloves to soften them up, and used it to make a "spitball," a special pitch that involved the pitcher dabbing the ball with saliva to cause it to spin off the fingers easily and break sharply. By the 1950s, chewing tobacco had fallen out of favor in most of America, so by that time not too many baseball players were spitting big brown gobs all over the infield. Instead of chewing their tobacco, most people were smoking it.

What Can Chewing Tobacco Do to Me?

The more immediate effects can disrupt your social life: bad breath and yellowish-brown stains on your teeth. You'll also get mouth sores (about 70% of spit tobacco users have them). But, it gets a lot more serious than that. Consequences of chewing and spitting tobacco include :

++ cracking and bleeding lips and gums

++ receding gums, which can eventually make your teeth fall out

++ increased heart rate, high blood preasure and irregular heartbeats, all leading to a greater risk of heart attacks

++ cancer

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the effects of smoking...

I agreed with siew chung.. The components of cigarette can cause many effects.

The body is smart. It goes on the defense when it's being poisoned. For this reason, many people find it takes several tries to get started smoking: First-time smokers often feel pain or burning in the throat and lungs, and some people feel sick or even throw up the first few times they try tobacco.

The consequences of this poisoning happen gradually. Over the long term, smoking leads people to develop health problems like cancer, emphysema (breakdown of lung tissue), organ damage, and heart disease. These diseases limit a person's ability to be normally active — and can be fatal. Each time a smoker lights up, that single cigarette takes about 5 to 20 minutes off the person's life.

Smoking can also cause fertility problems and can impact sexual health in both men and women. Girls who are on the pill or other hormone-based methods of birth control increase their risk of serious health problems, such as heart attacks, if they smoke.

The consequences of smoking may seem very far off, but long-term health problems aren't the only hazard of smoking. Nicotine and the other toxins in cigarettes, cigars, and pipes can affect a person's body quickly, which means that teen smokers experience many of these problems: