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"The case against cigarette smoking is well-known. Smoking is the single most preventable cause of premature death in the United States. Each year, about 438,000 Americans die from cigarette smoking, a loss of about five million years of potential life span, associated with an annual cost of $92 billion in productivity loses. One in every five deaths is smoking related.15 These mind-boggling numbers overwhelm any potential health gain from the various procedures and treatments reviewed in our first seven chapters." - Gerald E. Markle and Frances B. McCrea, What If Medicine Disappeared? (Get the book.)

"Better, it appears, than high blood pressure, high cholesterol levels, obesity, cigarette smoking, diabetes, and physical inactivity. The greater your calcium score, the greater your plaque burden and the greater your risk for experiencing a coronary event. Even more telling is the rate of change in your calcium score over time. On average, coronary calcium progresses at a rate of 40 percent per year. Individuals with static or slowly progressing scores are at lower risk." - Stephen Sinatra, M.D. and James C., M.D. Roberts, Reverse Heart Disease Now: Stop Deadly Cardiovascular Plaque Before It's Too Late (Get the book.)

"The study found that other factors were just as significant as low HDL cholesterol in increasing the risk of stroke: untreated blood pressure, lack of exercise, cigarette smoking, heavy drinking, not graduating from high school, and being uninsured or on Medicaid. In fact, the authors of this article had used data from the same case-control study in an article published in 1998 to show that even light to moderate physical activity reduced the risk of stroke in the same people by 61 percent and that heavy exercise reduced the risk of stroke by 77 percent." - John Abramson, Overdosed America: The Broken Promise of American Medicine (P.S.) (Get the book.)

"When you've done something for 34 years, whether it's cigarette smoking, biting your nails, or you're phobic about something, or engaged in bulimia, you have to wonder how it would be possible that in four or five days, such an obsessive-compulsive type behavior would just disappear. Five years later, she had not gone back to binge-purging. More important, she was provided no therapy. I never actually met her; the protocol was given to her by a staff member." - Gary Null and Amy McDonald, The Food-Mood Connection: Nutrition-based and Environmental Approaches to Mental Health and Physical Wellbeing (Get the book.) "Now when we made the connection to his cigarette smoking, he stopped smoking. Thirty days later, after he had been depressed for four years and hadn't been able to work, he was back in school teaching. And I remember this clearly because the insurance company that was then paying his monthly pension was so astounded at this dramatic response that they sent one of their agents to see me, to find out what the magic wand was that I had waved to get this patient off their rolls. This is a classic case of an allergy to tobacco that was causing this man's depression. —Dr. Abram Hoffer Dr." - Gary Null and Amy McDonald, The Food-Mood Connection: Nutrition-based and Environmental Approaches to Mental Health and Physical Wellbeing (Get the book.)

"Chronic cigarette smoking has been found to markedly aggravate insulin resistance for Type-2 diabetics.75 Lack of exercise certainly helps to activate the expression of Type-2 diabetes.76 The good news is that even mild exercise can help stave off cigarette cravings and withdrawal symptoms as well as decrease a smoker's chance of reaching for a cigarette, according to a study published in the journal Addiction. Researchers from the University of Exeter and the University of Toronto reviewed fourteen previously published studies and compared the results." - Gabriel Cousens, There Is a Cure for Diabetes: The Tree of Life 21-Day+ Program (Get the book.) "A later study found that cigarette smoking was associated with a twofold increase in risk.81 Studies also show that smoking increases the chances of developing gum disease, a contributing factor in poor glycemic control. In fact, smokers are five times more likely than nonsmokers to have gum disease. For smokers with diabetes, the risk is even greater. If you are a smoker with diabetes, age 45 or older, you are twenty times more likely than a person without these risk factors to get severe gum disease." - Gabriel Cousens, There Is a Cure for Diabetes: The Tree of Life 21-Day+ Program (Get the book.)

"Special populations: People who may be more sensitive to chemical exposures because of specific factors such as age, a preexisting disease, occupation, sex, or certain behaviors (like cigarette smoking). Children, pregnant women, and the elderly are often considered special populations. Synergistic effect: A health effect from an exposure to more than one chemical, wherein one of the chemicals worsens the effect of another chemical. The combined effect of the chemicals together exceeds the effects of any one chemical in isolation." - Deirdre Imus, Growing Up Green: Baby and Child Care: Volume 2 in the Bestselling Green This! Series (Green This!) (Get the book.)

"Over time, the Framingham research singled out age, family history of CVD, blood cholesterol, blood pressure, cigarette smoking, and diabetes. The research said that the more risk factors you have, the more you are at risk for heart attack. For example, if you have high blood pressure, high cholesterol, high triglycerides, and are a smoker, you stand a higher risk to develop a cardiac event than if you had just one or two factors. A cardiac event refers to a blockage of life-sustaining blood and oxygen in an artery leading to the heart." - Stephen Sinatra, M.D. and James C., M.D. Roberts, Reverse Heart Disease Now: Stop Deadly Cardiovascular Plaque Before It's Too Late (Get the book.)

"Polymorphisms in XRCC1 modify the association between aromatic hydrocarbon-DNA adducts, cigarette smoking, dietary antioxidants and breast cancer. Cancer Epidemiol. Biomarkers Prev. 14, 336-342. 52. Holick, M. F. (2007). Vitamin D deficiency. N. Engl. J. Med. 357, 266-281. 53. Barnard, R. J., Gonzalez, J. H., Liva, M. E., and Ngo, T. H. (2006). Effects of a low-fat, high-fiber diet and exercise on breast cancer risk factors in vivo and tumor cell growth and apoptosis in vitro. Nutr. Cancer 55, 28-34. 54. Martin, K. R. (2006). Targeting apoptosis with dietary bioactive agents. Exp. Biol. Med." - Ann M. Coulston and Carol J. Boushey, Nutrition in the Prevention and Treatment of Disease (Get the book.)

"The smokers were randomly assigned to take a placebo or a 5 mg folic acid pill every day over a one-month period. cigarette smoking increases homocysteine concentrations, endothelial dysfunction, and arterial stiffening. Homocysteine per se induces endothelial dysfunction and arterial stiffening, and might at least partly account for the vascular abnormalities observed in smokers. At the end of the short study, the researchers reported reduced homocysteine levels, enhanced arterial dilation (a sign of improved endothelial function), and lowered blood pressure among the supplemented smokers. " - Stephen Sinatra, M.D. and James C., M.D. Roberts, Reverse Heart Disease Now: Stop Deadly Cardiovascular Plaque Before It's Too Late (Get the book.)

"Any attempt to blame cell phones for the massive increase of cancers in the world is ridiculed and squashed, just like cigarette smoking was not too long ago. Some people are OK with waiting until finally there is solid "evidence" that radio waves can cause cancer before they give up their beloved cell phones. Others continue using them just as many continue smoking, although the risks for the latter are known. It is really up to each individual to decide what 24 Those who used modern cellular phones for more than 2,000 hours in their lifetime had the highest risk increase." - Andreas Moritz, Cancer Is Not A Disease - It's A Survival Mechanism (Get the book.) "There is no point trying to persuade someone, for this can cause resentment, a much more serious cause of illness than radio waves or cigarette smoking. I am currently researching a simple device that can protect the body from the harmful rays and electromagnetic fields almost constantly surround and bombard us (e.g., cars, computers, cell phones, electric appliances, cell towers, fluorescent lights, harmful chemicals in foods and the environments, and other common stress factors)." - Andreas Moritz, Cancer Is Not A Disease - It's A Survival Mechanism (Get the book.)

"Other factors were just as important as T score: increased frailty, muscle weakness, the side effects of other drugs, declining vision, and cigarette smoking. As a result of the WHO study group's definition of osteoporosis, however, women and their doctors mistakenly latch on to the results of BMD testing as the sole • T scores of lower than -4, or lower than -3 with a major risk factor for hip fracture. or primary predictor of fracture risk. Routine BMD testing may not be the best way to help women prevent hip fractures, but it is an excellent way to sell more drugs." - John Abramson, Overdosed America: The Broken Promise of American Medicine (P.S.) (Get the book.) "A two-step assessment of risk is then suggested: First, "major risk factors" are identified, including cigarette smoking, high blood pressure, low HDL (good) cholesterol (less than 40 mg/dL), a strong family history of coronary heart disease, and older age—i.e., men who have reached the age of 45 and women who have reached the age of 55. For people with two or more 129 major risk factors, the probability of developing coronary heart disease over the next 10 years is then calculated based upon a "risk score" developed from the findings of the Framingham Heart Study." - John Abramson, Overdosed America: The Broken Promise of American Medicine (P.S.) (Get the book.) "The Nurses' Health Study researchers statistically adjusted their results for many potentially confounding factors: body weight, cigarette smoking, high blood pressure, high cholesterol, early heart attack in a parent, history of breast cancer in mother or sister, previous use of birth control pills, number of children, age of onset of period, diet, alcohol use, multivitamin use, vitamin E use, aspirin use, and regular exercise. Despite this meticulous statistical caution, however, the most elegant aspect of the Nurses' Health Study may also have been its tragic flaw." - John Abramson, Overdosed America: The Broken Promise of American Medicine (P.S.) (Get the book.)

"Tobacco Smoke Cigarettes are arguably the most preventable cause of cancer. cigarette smoking alone is directly responsible for approximately 30% of all cancer deaths annually in the United States. Why does cigarette smoke cause cancer? Tobacco smoke contains thousands of chemical agents, including over 60 substances that are known to cause cancer. Just to list a few, cigarettes include carbon monoxide, tar, arsenic and lead." - Allison Tannis, Probiotic Rescue: How You can use Probiotics to Fight Cholesterol, Cancer, Superbugs, Digestive Complaints and More (Get the book.)

"This result was particularly impressive considering all of the behaviors that would be expected to increase the risk of heart disease in the French population, such as cigarette smoking and a high-fat diet. This incongruity of a high-fat diet and high rates of smoking combined with a low risk of heart disease due to drinking red wine was dubbed the French Paradox. What is it in red wine that exerts such powerful health protection that it can shield the body from the damage of fatty foods and cigarette smoking?" - Lester A. Mitscher and Victoria Toews, The Green Tea Book (Get the book.)

"Besides HPV, other risks include early age at first intercourse, giving birth before age 22, cigarette smoking, low socioeconomic status, number of lifetime partners, and possibly, although not conclusively, oral contraceptive use. Women with five or fewer lifetime heterosexual partners had higher rates of regression of untreated CIN 1 and CIN 2 than did women with more than five partners, independent of barrier contraception method use (condoms or diaphragms)." - Tori Hudson, N.D., Women's Encyclopedia of Natural Medicine: Alternative Therapies and Integrative Medicine for Total Health and Wellness (Get the book.) "Women whose father had a heart attack or stroke before age 50, or mother before age 65 (unrelated to cigarette smoking), are at a genetic disadvantage. It's important for these women to work harder in the areas of prevention because they are at increased risk just by virtue of their family history. Hypertension is the most common chronic disease in older women and a significant risk factor for stroke, congestive hearr disease, and kidney disease. Beginning at age 50, hypertension is more common in women rhan in men and even more so in black women. See Table 9." - Tori Hudson, N.D., Women's Encyclopedia of Natural Medicine: Alternative Therapies and Integrative Medicine for Total Health and Wellness (Get the book.) "While family history and genetic predisposition play an important role in cardiovascular disease, risk factors such as cigarette smoking, exercise, dietary habits, and stress can be modified to reduce a person's risk. In fact, a recent study found that the following factors are to be correlated to increased hypertension: excessive sodium intake, low potassium intake, physical inactivity, low intake of fish oil, low calcium intake, low magnesium intake, excessive coffee consumption, and excessive alcohol intake." - Tori Hudson, N.D., Women's Encyclopedia of Natural Medicine: Alternative Therapies and Integrative Medicine for Total Health and Wellness (Get the book.) "Several factors have been associated with the development of BV, such as cigarette smoking and racial background. Hispanic women are 50 percent more likely than Caucasian women to develop BV, and African-American women are twice as likely as Caucasian women to have BV.12 The reasons for these differences are not clear but may be due to less condom use in Hispanic women and increased douching in African-American women. The alterations in vaginal immune response and vaginal microflora associated with BV leave women more susceptible to other infections, including HIV and gonorrhea." - Tori Hudson, N.D., Women's Encyclopedia of Natural Medicine: Alternative Therapies and Integrative Medicine for Total Health and Wellness (Get the book.)

"Understanding Nicotine and Tobacco Addiction Gregory Bock and Jamie Goode Symposium on Understanding Nicotine and Tobacco Addiction ISBN: 0470016574 Book Description: cigarette smoking is estimated to lead to 4.9 million premature deaths per year worldwide. This is predicted to rise to 10 million by 2020. Topics covered include the nature of the worldwide health problem posed by cigarette smoking, the psychodynamics of cigarette addiction and the basic pharmacology and biochemistry of nicotine and its effect on the brain." - Craig Pepin-Donat, The Big Fat Health and Fitness Lie (Get the book.)

"Or would it be governmental regulation of cigarette smoking or the food industry? To the great detriment of each and all of us, our society focuses on the former. To understand why, we need to pose one final question: CUI BONO In the classic murder mystery, the detective solves the crime by asking the question: cui bono, who benefits? In the final section of this book, we ask three questions: who makes money from our illnesses? Who spends money to keep us well? Who makes money from keeping us well? The answer to the first question—who makes money?" - Gerald E. Markle and Frances B. McCrea, What If Medicine Disappeared? (Get the book.)

"A limited number of health risk behaviors, such as cigarette smoking, poor nutrition, physical inactivity, and underuse of prevention practices, are linked to chronic diseases. But as thp evidence mounts on the contribution of toxins to the progression and sustainability of chronic disease, there is a call to action. I continue to be amazed by how effective a detoxification program can be for a person—even someone who didn't think he or she was "toxic" and who doesn't have any specific health concern." - Brenda Watson and Leonard Smith, The Detox Strategy: Vibrant Health in 5 Easy Steps (Get the book.)

"The investigators were undaunted, however, statistically modeling the data to account for differences in age, bmi, cigarette smoking, hypertension, blood cholesterol, type 2 diabetes, and the like to come up with relative risks that suggested a statistically significant protective effect of eating fish. Of course, the absolute reduction in risk was miniscule and not apparent until the data was massaged statistically. Such modeling of small effects is susceptible to confounding." - Nortin M. Hadler MD, Worried Sick: A Prescription for Health in an Overtreated America (Get the book.)

"The biggest threat to improving our lifestyles has been cigarette smoking. That trumps everything else. Once you're a nonsmoker, I would try to get you to learn to develop a moderate lifestyle in regard to your weight to build into your daily routine enough exercise to keep you going. DOES GOING TO THE GYM HELP? Robert Kane: Exercise has several quite distinct functions. You have cardiovascular exercise, which we describe as aerobic exercise, which increases your body's capacity to process oxygen. That's where you go out and work really hard and raise your heart rate." - Dan Buettner, The Blue Zones: Lessons for Living Longer From the People Who've Lived the Longest (Get the book.)

"However, it is not so widely known that cigarette smoking uses up Vitamin C in the body. Levels of the vitamin have been measured in smokers and it has been shown that one cigarette can use up to 25 mg of Vitamin C. It is therefore doubly important that asthmatics who smoke supplement their diet with Vitamin C. Obviously the best solution would be to stop smoking altogether, and you will find suggestions to help you do so in Chapter 15. VITAMIN B6 Researchers studying the effects of Vitamin B6 on anaemic patients discovered that it was also beneficial to asthma." - Dr Ron Roberts, Asthma Controlled Naturally: Techniques That Work (Get the book.)

"You may not be surprised that one death out of five each year is caused by cigarette smoking, but did you know that an equal number of deaths are caused by obesity? Indeed, obesity has a number of negative health consequences, including early mortality. Heart disease, diabetes, cancer, hypertension, and an overall reduced quality of life are a few of the major problems overweight people face. The rate of obesity-related ailments like type 2 diabetes has doubled every ten years." - J. Douglas Bremner, Before You Take that Pill: Why the Drug Industry May Be Bad for Your Health (Get the book.)

"Yet after taking into account all known risk factors, the researchers for this study found that the single best predictor for why one twin got cancer and the other did not was exposure to environmental toxins and lifestyle choices, such as cigarette smoking.22 As you will see in part 3, the NES system of health care takes environmental factors—from geomagnetic fields and electromagnetic pollution to chemical toxins and dietary factors—into consideration in the analysis of your body-field, giving you a truly holistic picture of your state of well-being." - Peter h. Fraser and Harry Massey, Decoding the Human Body-Field: The New Science of Information as Medicine (Get the book.)

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