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Date Posted: 19:59:06 08/29/06 Tue
Author: Cigarette smoking is not hip. It’s not cool. (Smoking increases the risk)
Subject: Say Tak Nak To Cigarettes
In reply to: Malaysian Medical Resources 's message, "Doc Bloggers: Palmdoc, TECheah, Dobbs, Vagus, UK Doc and Friends." on 19:51:40 08/29/06 Tue

Say Tak Nak To Cigarettes
Cigarette smoking is not hip. It’s not cool.

On average, people who smoke die 5 to 10 years earlier than people who don’t smoke.

Smoking increases the risk of many health problems:

* lung cancer (Most people who have lung cancer are smokers or people who live with smokers.)
* other lung diseases, such as emphysema
* heart disease
* stroke
* ulcers
* hip, wrist, and spinal fractures
* cervical cancer
* bladder cancer.

Smoking can make sleep disorders worse. Smokers also tend to get colds and other respiratory infections more often.

Smoking is especially harmful if you have:

* lung disease, such as asthma
* heart or blood vessel disease
* diabetes
* high blood pressure
* high cholesterol
* a family history of these problems.

Smoking affects pregnant women and their unborn children. If you smoke while you are pregnant:

* You have a greater risk of losing your baby during pregnancy.
* Your baby may have a low birth weight.
* Your baby may have trouble breathing at birth.
* Your child may have more respiratory infections, ear infections, and asthma.

Smoking gives you Bad breath and Stains your teeth and nails.

Smoking is highly addictive. The addiction is due to the active drug Nicotine and the addiction is as bad as taking dadah.

Prevention is better than the cure. If you don’t smoke, don’t get started.
If you smoke or know of smokers who wish to quit, you can visit these sites for help:

Useful Resources to Quit Smoking (from the CDC):
http://www.cdc.gov/tobacco/how2quit.htm
Giving Up Smoking:
http://www.givingupsmoking.co.uk/
You Can Quit Smoking:
http://www.surgeongeneral.gov/tobacco/consquits.htm

This message is a Public service by the Malaysian Medical Resources (http://medicine.com.my).
You can view the message at this page:
http://medicine.com.my/wp/?page_id=929

or else send an email to Tak.Nak@medicine.com.my to receive this message as an email.
You are invited to forward the message via email to all young Malaysians to encourage them not to take up the habit or quit smoking today!

Say Tak Nak Today!

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9 Responses to “- Say Tak Nak Today!”
P.K. Moi Says:
May 11th, 2006 at 4:09 pm
Education may help to increase the number of ‘Tak Naks’. However we need to say ‘Tak Nak’ to second hand smoke too. I think there are enough folks who appreciate the dangers of smoking, including second hand smoke. In avoiding second hand smoke, how do we tell the offending smoker not to compromise our health in an effective manner without getting into a fight or some other unpleasant event is a skill that may be elusive, assuming that it is not convenient to move away (eg at mamak stalls, jogging path in a park)? Seems to me that strict and effectively enforced legislation is the way to go, seeing that the attitude of many Malaysians is ‘I can do what I want since there is no law against it’.

Palmdoc Says:
May 11th, 2006 at 7:33 pm
Hi Moi. Nice to see you here. Well, I guess it is better not to pick a fight, especially if it is in a public place. Generally what I would do is to move away - seat myself further away or simply leave the place. If it is a place where they are not supposed to smoke then I would point it out to the people in charge.

Palmdoc Says:
May 12th, 2006 at 12:47 pm
In the news today -
Researchers: Heart deaths would plunge without passive smoking

Eliminating exposure to secondhand tobacco smoke could reduce the number of deaths related to heart disease in the United States by more than 500,000 over the next 25 years, according to researchers at the University of California, San Francisco.
The risk from passive smoking is currently estimated to be equivalent to actively smoking one cigarette per day

Palmdoc Says:
May 12th, 2006 at 12:54 pm
Also in the news today: FDA Approves Chantix For Smoking Cessation

The FDA has approved Chantix (varenicline tartrate) tablets for the treatment of smoking cessation - to help smokers give up. Varenicline tartrate, the new active ingredient, is a new type of molecule that received priority FDA review.

Chantix, which works on specific parts of the brain, helps people give up smoking in two ways:

– It provides some satisfaction that nicotine gives, hence lessening withdrawal symptoms

– It blocks the nicotine from entering relevant parts of the brain, thus eliminating the reward a smoker feels when he/she smokes (only happens while patient is taking the tablets)

Palmdoc Says:
May 14th, 2006 at 8:05 am
Spotted some interesting links
Second-Hand Smoke Traces Detected in Babies’ Urine

Nearly half the infants in a small study exposed to second-hand smoke from their parents’ cigarettes showed signs of a potent carcinogen in their urine, according to investigators here.
“The take home message is, ‘Don’t smoke around your kids,’” said Stephen Hecht, Ph.D., of the University of Minnesota.

Smoking, Obesity, or Both Foretell Early Death for Millions

More than four score million U.S. adults are obese or smoke, and about nine million are obese and also smoke, according to estimates from a cross-sectional analysis.
Obesity and smoking are primary risk factors for from early death from several chronic conditions, and for a large number of Americans, and the overlap of both probably carries an increased risk, said Cheryl Healton, Dr.PH., of Columbia, and colleagues.

dobbs Says:
May 14th, 2006 at 8:13 am
Two older links about smoking:

Even One Cigarette a Day Jeopardizes Health

Even one cigarette a day is enough to put a smoker’s health in jeopardy, Kjell Bjartveit, M.D., of the National Health Screening Service here reported and colleagues in the September issue of Tobacco Control.

Smoking Nearly Doubles Root Canal Requirements

Men who smoke cigarettes are about twice as likely to require root canal treatment as those who have never smoked, according to a prospective cohort study lasting for almost three decades.

dobbs Says:
May 20th, 2006 at 9:31 am
Parental Smoking Linked to Allergic Rhinitis in One-Year-Olds

With infants who had at least one parent with allergies, exposure to environmental tobacco smoke nearly tripled the risk of developing allergic rhinitis by age one year, according to Jocelyn Biagini, a doctoral student at the University of Cincinnati here, and colleagues.

dobbs Says:
May 25th, 2006 at 10:05 am
‘One puff’ link to future smoking

Children who try just one cigarette are twice as likely as those who have never tried it to take up smoking, a study funded by Cancer Research UK suggests.
The study found the same was true even after a gap of three years or more.
The 2,000-pupil study, in Tobacco Control, is the first to find a smoking “sleeper effect” - where desire remains years after the first cigarette.
Cancer Research UK said anti-smoking campaigns should focus on preventing children trying even one cigarette.

dobbs Says:
June 8th, 2006 at 11:04 am
Second-Hand Smoke Is A Bone-Breaker

Second-hand smoke can boost the risk of osteoporosis in pre-menopausal women, researchers reported here.

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