Passive Smoking

           According to "your Health is in your Hands by Willies, Anxiety has been amounting for a number of years in the belief that “passive” or rather “side-stream” smoking has an ill effect on the non-smoker. These anxieties however are not groundless. A research results shown recently by British Medical journal editorial points out that cigarette smoke does contains over one thousand substances and that some of the these includes, the tar, carbon monoxide, and nicotine, are always found in a more concentrated form in the side stream smoke. Cacinogens such as nitrosamines have been found to be about fifty times much greater in concentration than in the main stream smoke. The editorial reports showed that the “investigators estimated that during one hour in a smoke room a non-smoke may inhale nitrosamines in the quantities equivalent to smoking about fifteen filter cigarettes; and nitrosamines in the air of an indoor room polluted by tobacco smoke may be over eighty time much higher than in the home of a non-smoker.”

           A number of recent studies does highlights the dangers of face by non-smoker in response to smoky homes and workplaces. New Zealanders who had never smoked were the subject of one such study. Their incidence of lung cancer and ischaemic heart disease was raised where the non-smokers worked or lived in smoky environments.

Calculating the risk.

                 Obviously it is difficult to calculated the risk that the non-smoker runs as it is well nigh impossible to quantify the precise amount of exposure each individual receives, but D.T. Janerich and colleagues have come up with a new idea for calculation which may help to place people and disease patterns in some perspective.

          They multiply the number of years an individual spends in a smoking residence by number of smokers in households. Coining a new phrase of “Smoker years: they estimate that a person having twenty five or more smoker years during childhood and adolescenece has double the risk of lung cancer compared to anon smoker not similarly exposed to cigarette smoke. The same study also reported that about 17 % of lung cancer occurring among the non-smokers were attributable to the high level of cigarette smoke exposure during the childhood years.

            Dr Jean Golding, a Briton researcher, reporting on the examination of placentas from women who had smoked during pregnancy, showed that there was a good reason to believe that smoking was implicated in the premature  birth and that the foetal development was retarded by the clumping of blood cell. Using multiple sources Golding further states that 2.04 per 1,000 babies born to women who smoked and in association with other common factors, developed cancer before the age of 10. Other studies show that children born to mothers smoke have two and half times greater likelihood of developing cancer. In homes where smoking is is a regular feature there are greater incidence of lower profile conditions such as “glue-ear” in children. Through the years of the non-smoker suffers sore eyes, headaches, running nose, sneezing and itching, stuffiness, coughs, and wheezing .contact lens wearers are particularly susceptible to the effects of smoke on the eyes. Passive smoking accelerates atherosclerosis and other circulatory problems.

Smoke free:

             It makes sense in the light of the foreign to keep works-places and as far as possible, homes free from tobacco smoke. A recent trend is the establishment of smoke free workplaces and the banning of smoking in the public. Coincidentally most traders actually agree with this decision and are always prepared to cooperate. Others however disagree that they are being denied their rights end at their neighbor’s nose. A recent Scottish study showed that about 760 businesses out of 850 surveyed had implemented either formal or informal smoking policies. Other areas show similar trends. This spells good news for the literally long suffering non-smoker.

How to Postpone Your Own Funeral

      The major killer diseases in the western world according to, “Your Health is in Your Hands” by Richard Willies, are largely preventable.

What sort of lifestyle can a child have? it will depend more on lifestyle than the advances in medicine.

Did you know that?

It’s true!

        Indeed, if the upshot of health research in the last half a century could be reduced to one sentence that would be it.

        It is very possible to postpone your own funeral; this infamous killer which keeps stalking you could be evaded to a very large degree.

           According to, Your Health is in Your hands” heart disease, heart related disease and cancer do account for about 74% of all the deaths, what is sad is that, majority of these diseases are very much preventable.

So does this necessarily mean that it is all down to taking pills and potions?

Hardly at all.

           But it will involve you in the revolutionizing your lifestyle, an across-the-board change in your habits, will this life change merely see to it that one do not die prematurely, needlessly?

No, that is just one of the positive side effects. The real benefits of lifestyle change begin to be felt almost immediately. Then when all the lifestyle changes have been made, you begin to feel better than you have ever felt before, physically, emotionally, mentally. You reap the rewards in the form of

1.      Greater resistance to routine disease.

2.     A far more positive outlook o life

3.       A greater ability to cope with, deal with life’s problems and problem people.

4.      Feeling and being for all practical purposes, years younger than you chronological( actual age)

5.      Brimful energy that will enable you to perform more effectively in the whole range of the physical activities from athletics and sports—to sex.

6.      Greater fulfillment within the family, in leisure activities and at work

7.      A sound sleeping patterns, so the lifestyle revolution will enable you to postponed your own funeral. It also enables you to live to the full in the fruitful years you have in store. To lock in this lifestyle there are some preliminary facts you need to hold of.

8.      About your heart , your heart is fundamental in your health.

9.      About your environment, you should realize that ecology is not just a buzz word, your polluted environment has a greater impact on your health potential. There are various ways you can health to improve it, and there are various ways you can help evade hazards.

10.  About how your minds, this is your mental health. The physical and mental health does interact  at a tremendous extent, your mind as well as your  body, ought to be fighting fit so as to be able cope with the stresses of the first lane life. When you master this Easy to grasp concepts, the lifestyle changes you need tp make become obvious. Below are just but a few clues:

11.  Millions of people in today’s world do commit suicide by knife and fork.

12.  Those who know how to handle stress not only get more out of life but also rarely fall foul of a whole range of aches and illness, even cancer,

13.  It is futile to beef about pollution from drains, industry, automobiles and about deforestation, should you choose to fill your own lungs and the atmosphere around you with an air pollutant calculated to cause cancer, heart disease, bronchitis and emphysema almost as a matter of course. However, before the lifestyle changes, the facts. And the facts fundamental to all are the facts about your heart, the pump of life

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Smoking and Cancer

        Smoking tobacco or rather inhaling the fumes of the toxic materials does affects the various parts of the respiratory system, thereby causing bronchitis, emphysema, and cancer. In fact a research conducted by the university of Oxford stated that the infamous lung Cancer do accounts for almost one quarter of all the deaths from cancer and almost 90% of those cancers are initiated by smoking. 

      Each and every year about 27,000 men and around 9,000 women in the united Kingdom along passes on as a result of cancer. Almost 25% of the whole lot of regular Cigarette smoker are likely to die premature death due to their smoking habit. Nor is the picture rosy for the future. Tobacco kills more than 500,000, women annually in the industrialized world and is a major problem in the developing countries. Despite the fact the lung cancer is a public disaster, and has been made public, it is still on the rise in the united states and its incidence did rise notably in the year 1960s and 1985.

          There are reckoned to be around 3,000 chemicals in the tobacco that we smoke and several other dangerous chemicals known as Carcinogens. Smoking does increases the risks of cancers to the Larynx (Voicebox), Mouth, Oesophagasus (Gullet), Bladder, Breast, Cervix and of course the other parts of the lungs.

The Problem

The problem does arise in the cells does line the bronchial tubes, Then a cancerous tumour forms a fibrous lump amid the air sacs (Alveoli). Cancerous cells break through the sacs and invade the other bronchial tubes.

Characteristics of cancer of the lungs

Cancer of the lungs can be characterized by

1.  chronic cough,
2. Developing pneumonia like symptoms with some shortness of the breath and having bloody sputum.
3. Loss of weight them follows, which is accompanied by some hoarseness and some difficulties ion swallowing.

    4.   And as the disease progresses fluids does accumulates in the pleural  cavity (Chest wall)

Treatments of lung Cancer.

           Surgery still remains to be the only treatments, alongside with symptomatic relief using the radiotherapy and the chemotherapy. And even at this stage stopping smoking will be a help in relieving breathing stress, Though quitting before cancer is initiated is the best idea. And after 5 years of quitting, if the exists no cancer signs at all, then the risk of developing cancer is reduced. And after 10 smoke free years the risk is about the same as that of a non-smoker. It is well worth the effort. 

         So if you think you are the only one struggling to quit this slavery, then just put on more effort, research has shown that more than 5 million people have quit smoking since 1980s