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Shisha pipe smoking among young ‘rising in Leicester’

admin — Thu, 31 Mar 2011 10:47:30 +0000

GPs in a city say they are seeing an increase in teenagers with health problems linked to shisha pipe smoking. Leicester’s Primary Care Trust said it had been surprised by the numbers visiting doctors with symptoms. Qasim Chowdary, a PCT smoking cessation adviser, said the increase in pipe use, which involves burning fruit flavoured tobacco, was among 15 to 24-year-olds. He said research challenged the “misconception” that shisha smoking was not as harmful as smoking cigarettes. He said shisha pipe smoking was now incredibly popular among youngsters of all cultures and ethnic ... Jump to full article >>

Hooked on hooka: Schoolgirl, 13, spending up to £60 per DAY in shisha cafes

admin — Wed, 23 Feb 2011 16:11:45 +0000

A 13-year-old girl has become hooked on smoking shisha in back street cafes and is spending up to £60 on it per day. The Bedouin-style cafes, in which customers smoke flavoured and unfiltered tobacco through a water or ‘hookah’ pipe, can be licensed, but are not allowed to sell to under-16s or allow smoking inside. The girl’s mother believes hundreds of middle class under 16s are hooked on the pipes which are smoked in illegal backstreet dens. Retailers charge around £6 per session – and openly sell to underage children. The woman, who does not want to be identified, ... Jump to full article >>

Cigarettes for $2.70 a Pack, but You Have to Help

admin — Mon, 31 Jan 2011 08:42:16 +0000

The small group that gathered at lunchtime inside a strip-mall storefront in Skokie had not come to eat. They had come to Smokes & Such to admire the new $30,000 machine that spits out a carton of custom-made cigarettes in eight minutes flat — at $27 a carton. That’s $2.70 a pack, or about a third of what smokers would pay at the CVS pharmacy across the street. The cigarettes are so cheap because the machine uses pipe tobacco instead of cigarette tobacco. There’s not much difference between the two. The pipe tobacco is a coarser cut, but more important, it’s taxed at roughly $2.8 ... Jump to full article >>

Cigars and pipes are riskier than first believed, study warns

admin — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 11:33:55 +0000

The 38-year-old Ada man says he doesn’t smoke cigarettes and avoids caffeine and alcohol. He’s even a marathon runner, despite having asthma and high blood pressure. But he knows his nightly habit could lead to lung disease or cancer. “I’m kind of stubborn,” Scrivner said. “I’m one of those people who thinks that won’t happen to me.” A new study finds that pipe and cigar smoke may be more harmful than once thought. While less harmful than cigarettes, researchers found pipe and cigar smoke decreases lung function and doubles the risk for chronic obstructive pulmonary d ... Jump to full article >>

Smoke gets in your soul, pipe lovers say

admin — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 09:48:58 +0000

Yesterday was International Pipe-Smoking Day. How did you let that one slip by? Probably because pipes, once the international symbol of sophisticated masculinity, slipped off the popular radar screen decades ago. Hugh Hefner, founder of the Playboy empire, and a ’60s male icon, might still wear a smoking jacket over those black silk pajamas, but he quit smoking back in 1985 after a stroke. And nobody really missed it. Thanks to the anti-tobacco campaign, based on concerns over public health, and waged on the federal, state and local levels, tobacco use of all kinds has dropped steadily ... Jump to full article >>

Cigars, Pipes Can Damage Lungs Too

admin — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 11:20:33 +0000

Cigar aficionados and pipe smokers often claim that their habit is safer than cigarette smoking because they don’t inhale. Even if they think they’re just harmlessly puffing away, they’re still damaging their lungs, a new study shows. People who smoke cigars and pipes, but have never smoked cigarettes, are more than twice as likely as people who never smoked to have decreased lung function, according to the study. Cigar and pipe smokers who smoke cigarettes (or used to) are at even greater risk; those smokers were nearly 3.5 times more likely than nonsmokers to have decreased lung funct ... Jump to full article >>

Water Pipes No Safer Than Cigarettes

admin — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 09:08:25 +0000

Water pipes are no safer than cigarettes for smoking tobacco, researchers say. A new study found that people who smoke tobacco with a water pipe inhale carbon monoxide and nicotine, which puts them at risk for heart disease and nicotine addiction. The study included 31 volunteers, aged 18 to 50, who smoked tobacco using a water pipe and a single cigarette. After each smoking session, researchers measured levels of nicotine and carbon monoxide in the participants’ blood, along with heart rate, puff number and puff volume. On average, participants had higher levels of carbon monoxide after smo ... Jump to full article >>

Herbal Cigarettes Medical Properties

admin — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 11:42:50 +0000

Have you heard something about herbal cigarettes? Can you imagine what is it and how it distinguishes from ordinary tobacco cigarettes? If you are not smoker, probably you don’t have any idea of this phenomenon. In distinction from non-smoking population, the smoking one is perfectly enlightened of this appearance. As they acknowledge the real scathe that natural tobacco, by means of its high nicotine content, inflicts people’s health, they tend to switch to its perfect alternative that doesn’t exert such an obvious negative influence. And this alternative is herbal cigarette. Herbal smo ... Jump to full article >>

SMOKERS’ AREAS

admin — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 11:26:26 +0000

Ministry of Health has directed the managements of hotels and restaurants to stop allocating designated areas for smokers in their premises to allow them using cigarettes, pipes, cigars and ‘Sheesha.’ According to official sources, they have been asked to implement anti-tobacco laws to protect the health of non-smokers, as there is no permission of allocating any designated area for smokers. While taking notice of open use of tobacco in the premises of hotels, restaurants and international food chains, the ministry has asked the chairman Pakistan Hotels Association and president Pakistan F ... Jump to full article >>

Pipe dream posing problems

admin — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 13:08:21 +0000

Tax avoidance scheme by small tobacco companies is legal but worrisome. The federal government should have known how small, independent tobacco companies would react when it disproportionately increased the tax on their primary product. These companies specialize in making tobacco for, whose sales had been growing because they are cheaper than packaged cigarettes. But Congress and President Barack Obama this year raised taxes on all tobacco products in order to expand a program that subsidizes children’s health insurance. Hardest hit were the companies in the roll-your-own industry. The tax ... Jump to full article >>