Holiday smoking can kill

Holidays now come and as far as relaxation due to no work, majority of cigarette smokers tends to increase their consumption of cigarettes. from parties and other forms of socializing. at this time we can almost forgot or even don't count the amount of cigarettes being consumed.

Since it's the season where one would be with his/her family celebrating this holidays, why not give them an additional gift of not smoking or reduce it. It would be certainly beneficial to you and your love ones. Yes! this special gift is free! give it all you like (LOL!) you can brag about it all you want but the best is doing it for yourself (that's a +).

Please don't even try to think to give a cigarette pack to a relative or friend, it promotes health hazard and even death. Let's celebrate the holidays with a clean conscience and healthy as possible. don't want to spoil this holiday by celebrating it in a hospital or even worst (that sucks!).

Remember cigarette smoking kills - Kill cigarette smoking!

"Cigarettes kill," but don't tell smokers

www.chinaview.cn

BEIJING, Dec. 14 (Xinhuanet) -- Study shows that warnings related to self-esteem were more effective than those indicating "cigarettes kill" in reducing smoking, according to media reports quoting the Journal of Experimental Social Psychology Monday.

Psychologists from the U.S., Switzerland and Germany conducted a small study and drew the conclusion that warnings such as "smoking makes you unattractive" or "smoking brings you and the people around you severe damage" do a better job in talking people out of their habit.

This worked especially well when people smoked to boost their self-esteem, such as young people who learned to smoke to become popular or fit in with their peers, the psychologists figured out.

"To succeed with anti-smoking messages on cigarette packs one has to take into account that considering their death may make people smoke," the study said.

A total of 39 psychology students, smokers aged between 17 and 41, participated in the study.

"On the one hand, death-related warnings were not effective and even ironically caused more positive smoking attitudes among smokers who based their self-esteem on smoking," the study said.

"On the other hand, warning messages that were unrelated to death effectively reduced smoking attitudes" among those who smoke for self-esteem.

Editor: Deng Shasha

WHO: Smoking kills 5 million every year

World Health Organization New report on smoking - this is the most recent and I guess the data are carefully gathered and verified.

Facts:

5 million people tobacco smoking kill every year.

95 % of global population is unprotected by smoking ban laws.

600,000 people kill on secondhand smoking.
10% of world population is covered by any single measure (protecting people to smoke, ban on tobacco ads and tax raise on tobacco products.)

8 million people kill by 2030 - if developing countries don't take drastic action.

Smoking levels naturally drop off — as they have in Western countries — when populations become richer and better-educated.

read the whole article here.

So educate yourself stop smoking and Kill Smoking habit.

Smoking Kills less

Yes! cigarette smoking kills less if few are actually smoking (duh!)

I've read some good news regarding some significant progress by European countries about lung cancer (mostly cause by cigarette smoking) or death rate related to lung cancer. The article shows improvement on health on those countries stated.

Read the whole article here!

Very simple - Smoking kills!

Nowadays, purely text warning or advisory on stop or quit smoking is commonly ignored. We get used to seeing it, and just don't see them anymore. It is good to see that some health conscious country has the will to save the smokers and non smokers specially the young ones, to keep them out from this addictive vice. and at least dream of having a cigarette free place (too bad for the tobacco company!). I hope this can be soon implemented here in the philippines, where tobacco companies are pretty darn rich!

The image above tells it all, should I say more? Hell yeah! Smoking kills! So kill smoking before it kills! Let us all try to quit cigarette smoking, I mean lets not try lets do it! Having a will is always a good place to start.