Tobacco's Impact on Seniors
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Introduction: The Health Facts
The suffering and pain, the lack of normal physical mobility, and the dependency which accompany so many smoking-related illnesses cannot be communicated adequately just with statistics.
Given the health facts, indoor public places and worksites should be smoke-free:
Seniors, Nicotine Addiction & Smoking Cessation
Smoking is a direct or indirect factor in the quality of life surrounding each of these three characteristics.
They echo the U.S. Surgeon General > 1990 Report on The Health Benefits of Smoking Cessation
Smoking Cessation Improves Seniorsí Health Immediately
Longer-Term Benefits of Quitting
James Morgan Deposition Broin Case (April 14, 1997)
"The primary incentive to cigarette smoking is the immediate salutory effect of inhaled smoke upon bodily function...
"Without nicotine... there would be no smoking. Ö No one has ever become a cigarette smoker by smoking cigarettes without nicotine...
"Why then is there not a market for nicotine per se, to be eaten, sucked, drunk, injected, inserted or inhaled as a pure aerosol?...
"The answer, and I feel quite strongly about this, is that the cigarette is in fact among the most awe-inspiring examples of the ingenuity of man. Let me explain my conviction.
"The cigarette should be conceived not as a product but as a package. The product is nicotine. The cigarette is but one of many package layers.
"There is the carton, which contains the pack, which contains the cigarette, which contains the smoke.
"The smoke is the final package. The smoker must strip off all these package layers to get to that which he seeks.
"Think of the cigarette pack as a storage container for a day's supply of nicotine.
"Think of the cigarette as a dispenser for a dose unit of nicotine...
"Think of a puff of smoke as the vehicle of nicotine...
"Smoke is beyond question the most optimized vehicle of nicotine and the cigarette the most optimized dispenser of smoke. William L. Dunn, chief of Behavioral Research Group, Philip Morris, Motives and Incentives in Cigarette Smoking...
1963 "... Moreover, nicotine is addictive. We are, then, in the business of selling nicotine, an addictive drug effective in the relief of stress mechanisms...
NICOTINE MANIPULATION
1. RECONSTITUTED TOBACCO
2. BLENDED TOBACCO
3. AMMONIA CHEMISTRY
4. FILTER TECHNOLOGY
5. VENTILATION TECHNOLOGY Employing patented laser technology to produce hidden ventilation holes in cigarette filters that dilute nicotine delivery in machine tests (resulting in lower advertised nicotine levels), but which are covered by the fingers and lips of unsuspecting smokers, who consequently inhale much higher levels of the drug.
6. GENETIC ENGINEERING Genetically engineering super-charged tobacco plants to substantially increase nicotine content.
7. PSYCHOACTIVE ADDITIVES
What You Can Do...
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