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Public Health England (PHE) has released a new film showing the devastating harms that come from smoking, and how this can be avoided by switching to an e-cigarette or using another type of quit aid.
The film has been released as part of PHE’s Health Harms campaign, which encourages smokers to attempt to quit this January, by demonstrating the personal harm to health from every single cigarette.
The film features smoking expert Dr Lion Shahab and Dr Rosemary Leonard, visually demonstrating the high levels of cancer-causing chemicals and tar inhaled by an average smoker over a month, compared to not smoking or using an e-cigarette.
The results of the demonstration visually illustrate the stark contrast between the impacts of smoking and vaping. Research estimates that while not risk-free, vaping is at least 95% less harmful than smoking.
Around 2.5 million adults are using e-cigarettes in England, and they have helped thousands of people successfully quit – but many smokers (44%) either believe that vaping is as harmful as smoking (22%) or don’t know that vaping poses much lower risks to health (22%).
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(Score: -1) by fakefuck39 on Wednesday January 02 2019, @01:40AM (1 child)
what percentage of your body is fat? 6% for me. just curious if you regularly work out. Do you consume alcohol? I don't, at all. I do drink 10 cups of coffee per day, and smoke half a pack of cigs if not more. Sometimes I don't smoke at all (like now, when it's too cold to go outside). Sometimes I vape.
That period when I vape is better for my body than if I smoked. If when I vape I couldn't vape, I would smoke instead, not quit instead.
Smoking increases your chance of lung cancer from about 1% to about 10%. I bet I could find a whole bunch of non-ideal behavior in your life.
It's not lack of willpower that causes me to keep smoking - it's choice, just like the food you eat, and how much you work out. BTW, being overweight - twice as bad for you as smoking. Fat people worry me. They're lazy and they don't have the will power to stop eating when they're full and do 30min of pushups in the morning. Weight is going to affect your decisions, your attention span, your will, your comfort, the comfort of everyone around you if you get the center seat on the plane, everyone's healthcare costs, you'll die from it also.
No one is saying being addicted to nicotine is a badge of honor. Tu parle un peu le francais, ou tu es simplement un debile dyslexique? I guess if something is not a badge of honor, we should all just stick to something that's really bad for us, instead of no worse for us than the exhaust of a hybrid car? I think your lack of exercise and your weight is effecting your logic there buddy.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 04 2019, @02:27PM
Your breath must smell like three week old unwashed ass crack. When you talk to people, do you notice them slowly backing away or strategically putting their hands in front of their faces?