Quit Smoking Painlessly Now!

Each year on May 31, the World Health Organization celebrates “World No Tobacco Day,” a day that WHO uses to highlight the risks of smoking and to advocate for effective policies to reduce tobacco consumption. This year, the theme is TOBACCO-FREE YOUTH

World No Tobacco Day was created by WHO in 1987 to “… draw global attention to the tobacco epidemic and its lethal effects. Tobacco is the number one preventable epidemic that the health community faces.”

According to the World Health Organization (WHO), “The theme of World No Tobacco Day 2008 is Tobacco-Free Youth. Young people are aggressively targeted by the tobacco industry which spends billions of dollars each year marketing its products.” To protect the world’s youth from experimenting with tobacco and becoming regular users, this year’s World No Tobacco Day campaign calls for a ban on all forms of tobacco advertising, promotion and sponsorship.”

The World Health Organization statement is quoted in its entirely here:

“Tobacco is the leading preventable cause of death in the world. It is the only legal consumer product that kills one third to one half of those who use it as intended by its manufacturers, with its victims dying on average 15 years prematurely.”

“Approximately 1.8 billion young people (aged 10-24) live in our world today with more than 85% found in developing countries. Having survived the vulnerable childhood period, these young people are generally healthy.“

“However, as the tobacco industry intensifies its efforts to hook new, young and potentially life-long tobacco users, the health of a significant percentage of the world’s youth is seriously threatened by their deadly products.”

“Nicotine is a highly addictive substance and child and adolescent experimentation can easily lead to a lifetime of tobacco dependence.”

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“If you are thinking of giving up smoking, I’d recommend it. The first week was the most difficult. I used apples and oranges. Oranges were better as they took a while to peel so were more hassle than an apple, also very good from a health point of view. You have to change your routine and habits completely, avoid situations where you’d usually smoke. It’s nice to have energy, it’s nice to have good skin, its nice to not cough up chunks of blackened lung tissue every morning, it’s nice to taste food properly, it’s nice to be able to run, it’s nice not to stink like an ashtray.”

Nick Simpson from www.oceanfoods.net

Before the rumors of smoking and health became reality, people smoked cigarettes for a number of reasons. Some reasons for smoking were cigarettes assisted in the digestion of food; cigarettes helped the smoker to relax; and it was fashionable to smoke. Since there were so many brands to choose from in the late 1940’s, smokers wondered what brand the doctors recommended over the others. They got their answer on NBC’s MYSTERY IN THE AIR.

Announcer Michael Roy stated that three independent research organizations conducted a nationwide poll with doctors, surgeons, and specialists in every branch of medicine. 113,597 doctors in all participated in this poll. The brand of cigarette the doctors named most often was Camel.

To prove it was worthy of the doctors’ recommendation, Camel introduced the “T-Zone.” In all honesty, every human being, smoker and non-smoker alike, has a T-Zone — although they never knew it was named as such. Most people would call it their mouth and throat. For those people who smoked, the T-Zone was very important. It was the proving ground as to what cigarette provided the combination of good taste and a smooth smoke. Since more doctors recommended Camels for this very reason, it made a lot of sense for the people to take the doctors’ advice and smoke Camels as well.

The doctors’ recommendation of Camels lasted until the early 1950’s — when the first rumblings about smoking and heath were beginning to surface. It was only a matter of time before the doctors, who originally recommended Camel, began to publicly distance themselves from any positive advertising for Camel and any other cigarette brand.

Text extracted from “Doctors Recommend Smoking Camel”