The cigarette maker said its products did not contain any explosive material. “We are communicating with the police and still waiting on the forensic laboratory tests,” Iwan said in an Interview with The Jakarta Globe. “We do not put any strange materials in the cigarettes so we think that this is a weird case. This is the first time for us.”

Iwan confirmed, however, that the company had agreed to provide compensation and would also ensure that Andi’s medical bills were paid in full.

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A recent American research has revealed that smokers who choose to smoke as soon as they wake up early morning display higher nicotine levels than whose who wait till later in the day, and this has nothing to do with the number of cigarettes smoked.

For the sake of research, more than 250 healthy people who were regular smokers were studied, and scientists measured their levels of cotinine, a by-product of nicotine, which has been linked to increased risk of lung cancer.

The team of researchers, from the Penn State College, then went on to conclude that waiting to smoke until after breakfast reduces the amount of the dangerous chemical. Also, the study revealed thatearly morning smokers need more help to kick the habit.

Although exact reasons for the difference in levels of cotinine in those who smoke early morning and those who wait are still unclear, researchers think that early morning smoking might “reflect a more intense way of smoking”, as their need seems to be greater than those who can wait.

The detailed study has been published in the Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers and Prevention.

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Quitting is certainly best way of dealing with smoking.
If you even quit you have to maintain a certain health supplement plan for at least five years after quitting.

If, however, you choose to smoke despite knowing the risks, taking antioxidants to combat some of the effects of smoking is advisable. Smokers tend to deplete the body of vitamin C, folic acid, thiamine and vitamin B6, so taking supplements may be recommended by your doctor.
Antioxidants may also enhance immune defense and therefore lower the risk of cancer and infection if you are smoker.
Several large scale surveys have measured the antioxidant vitamin status of smokers compared to nonsmokers and consistently report the following:

• Smokers have lower intake of antioxidant vitamins
• Smokers use up antioxidant vitamins more rapidly
• Smokers have lower blood and tissue levels of these vitamins

In other words smokers are nearly always deficient in the essential antioxidant vitamins which have shown a strong and consistent link with reduced risk of heart disease, lung cancer and a wide range of other ailments associated with smoking.
So if you are smokers then increasing the amount of fresh fruits and vegetables you eat to raise your intake of vitamin C and carotenes.

This is the best way to get your daily needs of these two vitamins as scientists believe fruits and vegetables may contain other as yet undiscovered protective nutrients.
As it is nearly impossible to get sufficient vitamin E from foods to reach the level at which protective effects have been found, taking supplements is the only way to go for this vitamin.

Antioxidant sources:

• Vitamin A: Carrots, broccoli, sweet potatoes, purple grapes, and other dark coloured veggies and fruits.
• Vitamin C: Strawberries, green leafy veggies, bell peppers, lime and oranges.
• Vitamin E: Nuts, seeds and whole grains (multi-grain rotis are a great way of including these in your diet).
• And Selenium, crucial to control cell damage is found in red meat, chicken, fish, eggs, garlic and grains. So if you’re a vegetarian you better make sure you’re eating all the grains you can get!

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Tobacco smoking is a major cause of lung cancer. Carcinogens in tobacco smoke can damage the cells in the lungs, which may lead to the development of lung cancer.
More than fifty chemical compounds in tobacco smoke have been recognized as known or probable human carcinogens, some of which may be formed during or smoking and some which may exist naturally in tobacco. Several groups of carcinogens in tobacco smoke are related to lung cancer, including polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs), aromatic amines, benzene, hydrazine, and vinyl chloride.
Smoking destroy bronchial and lung epithelium which leads to lung cancer. A very strong association between cigarette smoking and lung cancer has been consistently observed in studies done since the early 1950s.
These studies have shown that cigarette smoking precedes lung cancer occurrence. It has been estimated that cigarette smokers have a ten-fold higher risk of lung cancer, in comparison with nonsmokers.
With the increased number of cigarettes smoked per day, the risk is increased.
Beginning to smoke at an early age is also related to an increased risk, and the lung cancer risk declines with an increased duration of cessation.

The percentage of reduction in risk after quitting smoking depends on the duration of exposure to smoking. The observed relationship between cigarette smoking and the risk of lung cancer is consistent with different study designs and in studies of different populations all over the world. Over eighty-five percent of deaths from lung cancer can be attributed to cigarette smoking.

Smoking of other tobacco products, such as cigar and pipe smoking, is also associated with an increased risk of lung cancer. Like cigarette smoking, the risk of lung cancer is increased with the frequency and years of cigar and pipe smoking.
The promotion of smoking cessation is the most cost-effective tool against lung and other smoking-related cancers and diseases.

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Smoking cigarettes may cause more cases than the two so-called breast cancer genes combined.
Scientists have been intrigued for years by hints that smoking can induce breast cancer.  But for every study that purports to show a link between smoking and breast cancer, others fail to demonstrate any association.
Some researches even show that cigarette smoking decreases a woman’s risk of breast cancer. This is unrespectable because smoking causes so many other cancers, such as lung and bladder cancer. The reason for the discrepancy might be related to a complicated interaction among unidentified chemicals present in cigarette smoke.

It might lower estrogen levels in the blood of some women, thereby lowering their risk of breast cancer. Smoking also appears to lower the age at which a woman goes through menopause, which would also lower breast cancer risk because estrogen levels drop at menopause.
Although many previous studies do not implicate smoking as a risk factor for breast cancer, it is still unclear why breast tissue should be resistant to the harmful effects of cigarette smoke. Cigarettes contain roughly 3,600 chemicals, many of which are carcinogens.
These include aryl aromatic amines, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, heterocyclic amines and Nnitrosamines.
Researches show that many of these chemicals spur cells in the milk ducts to become cancerous. Other researches of breast tissue taken from women indicate that human breast tissue responds to the carcinogens in a similar way.
Studies have shown that half of all women are particular sensitive to the carcinogens found in cigarette smoke and so have a higher risk of breast cancer.

Quit smoking can considerably reduce of brest cancer.

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Stoners may be trading sexual highs for the chemical kind. Males who smoke marijuana daily are four times more likely to have trouble reaching orgasm than men who don’t inhale, finds a new study of 8,656 Aussies.

Other smokers had the opposite problem, experiencing premature ejaculation at nearly three times the rate of non-smokers, find a team led by Marian Pitts at La Trobe University in Melbourne.

Her team analysed data collected as part of a 2005 telephone survey of 16 to 64-year-olds. Overall, 8.7 per cent of respondents said they had gotten high in the last year, with twice as many men (11.2 per cent) admitting to marijuana use as women (6.1 per cent). People under 36 were more likely to smoke marijuana than older participants.

Even though many male smokers experienced sexual problems, they reported more partners than non-smokers. Marijuana users were twice as likely to have had two or more sex partners in the previous year than men who didn’t smoke pot.

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Pitts’ team found an even stronger trend for increased sexual activity among female smokers, who were also seven times more likely to have been diagnosed with a sexually transmitted infection in the last year than non-smokers. However, female smokers had no more problems in the bedroom than abstainers, Pitts’ team found.

Her team’s results generally back up prior studies connecting increased promiscuity and sexual problems to marijuana use.

For instance, a 2007 study led by Marie Eloi-Stiven at Weill Medical College of Cornell University in New York found that marijuana users were far more likely than others to take sildenafil (Viagra) recreationally. This is presumably to counteract the perceived libido-sapping effects of marijuana, her team concluded.

Complicating factors

However, the new study doesn’t establish a cause-effect relationship between marijuana and sexual performance, notes Sharon Johnson, an epidemiologist at the University of Missouri St. Louis, who has also found associations between drug use and sexual problems.

Many of the correlations between marijuana and sexual performance became apparent only after accounting for other factors, such as age, tobacco and alcohol use and occupation. “Why does it appear that the more marijuana you use the more sex difficulties you have,” Johnson asks. “There is a more complicated relationship out there somewhere.”

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Legitimate dealers deliver different strains of marijuana to the door of Californians for various kinds of medical use such as allergies and insomnia. You simply put it on your credit card and go about your daily business. The federal government says the weed is as dangerous as heroin and cocaine, but California disagrees when there are those who need it for medical relief.

A recent CBS News poll found that 41% of all Americans support marijuana legalization – not just for medical reasons but also for recreational use. A majority still opposes (52%), but the numbers seem to be building for at least taking another look at decriminalization. The West leads the nation in its support for legal marijuana, and maybe that is because California’s top tax collector estimates, if taxed like liquor, it could bring in $1.3 billion every year.

Arizona’s Attorney General in January of this year said there might be reason to consider the legalization of marijuana in the state. The statement came right after a huge drug bust when AG Terry Goddard reported that the drug cartels have been smuggling up to 400,000 pounds of marijuana into the state yearly since 2003. And the drug trade remains successful only because there is such a large demand for marijuana in the U.S., according to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

California has introduced legislation to regulate and tax marijuana, and if this doesn’t work, one group is planning a statewide initiative for the November 2010 ballot.

Arizona already has an initiative planned for 2010, only for medical marijuana, but it does have a provision for growing your own plants, and Oakland, CA voters have approved a sales tax for medicinal use.

If California can cover 5% of its $26.3 billion deficit by taxing marijuana, maybe it’s time to rethink the pros and cons of the much maligned cannabis.

Nicotine is a known carcinogenic i.e. cancer-causing chemical, and ingesting it on a daily basis can have severe effects on both your immune system and many of the systems that make up your body.
While nicotine affects the respiratory system more than the rest of the body, prostate health can also suffer as a result of smoking.
Men who had ever smoked were 66% more likely to have had the prostate cancer, when compared to those who never smoked.
Those who had smoked within the last 10 years had a risk increased by more than two and a half times, while the risk for those who were still smoking was more than three and a half times higher.
The risk of having more advanced disease was also related to the amount of smoking.
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Do you know what by smoking are your considerably increase your chances of developing various chronic diseases?

Here is a partial list of health effects caused by smoking:

• heart attack, circulatory problems, stroke; cancer of the lung, mouth, voice box, throat, kidney, bladder, cervix and bowel;
• lung disease including chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, emphysema, chronic bronchitis;
• flu, pneumonia, colds,peptic ulcer , tooth loss, osteoporosis, Crohn’s disease, gum disease;
• sleep problems, cataracts, thyroid disease;
• and menstrual problems.

Smoking is also has effects on infertility, sudden infant death syndrome and infant health problems. Based on the information you have provided, here are some potential health and budgetary costs to consider about your smoking.

Second-hand smoke childrens health effects

But although it is your choice to smoke your also expose to danger health effects of your family and people around.
There is a great deal of scientific evidence from all around the world that people exposed to second-hand smoke are more likely to develop and die from heart problems, lung cancer, and breathing problems. Most harmful health effects of smoking on children are proved by many researches. Unfortunately, many of the harmful products in smoke are in the form of gas.
Therefore, they cannot be filtered out through ventilation systems or special fans. Because children breathe faster than adults, they are particularly vulnerable. Parents who smoke increase the chances that their children will develop asthma by 200 to 400 per cent.
Children exposed to second-hand smoke are also more likely to develop ear infections.

Your decision to smoke is not only present affected your and children health but it also send a message to your children that it is OK if they start to smoke.

Second-hand smoke  effects on pets health

Finally, even your pets can be affected by your second-hand smoke. They too are more likely to develop cancer and other health problems. Keep in mind all dangerous smoking health effects and if you decide to smoke, please be careful where you smoke.