Throw a cigarette. Today is World Day of quitting

The meaning of this addiction does not explain to anybody. "Just having nothing better to do?" - But we do not always have enough in the day at least another hour. Then, on the contrary - to relax, rest and think. However, you can simply think so, but for the entourage to pick up, for example, a pencil ... Every year on the third Thursday of November in most countries of the world celebrated the International Day of quitting. So excuse to forget cigarettes at home and simply ignore the tobacco kiosk available.
This day was established in 1977 by the American Cancer Society. And although the direct relationship between smoking and fatal disease is not clear, a risk factor for cancer in smokers increased many times.
Indicative such statistics promulgated by the World Health Organization:
- In the world 90% of deaths from lung cancer, 75% of chronic bronchitis and 25% of coronary heart disease - caused by smoking;
- Every ten seconds on the planet is dying, one heavy smoker (in 2020 this rate could rise to one person for three seconds);
- Every second smoker gets acquainted with a cigarette still in high school;
- Regular smokers today include 50-60% of men (among certain categories of citizens, this figure reaches 95%).
As Mark Twain said, "quit smoking easily - I'll throw a hundred times, still in school." This is no panacea. It is noteworthy that no matter how much to raise prices on cigarettes, smokers will still buy them. The man who begins to smoke, do not deny yourself this "pleasure" - a habit's not included. How then to reduce the statistics of the negative effects of smoking?
The purpose of the International day of non-cigarette - help to reduce the prevalence of tobacco dependence, involvement in the fight against smoking all segments of the population, and physicians of all specialties, prevention of tobacco use and inform the public about the harmful effects of tobacco on health.
Just do not say you know about everything. In this revealing survey conducted by WHO. Asked about the consequences of tobacco use 22% of respondents found it difficult to answer. The result of tobacco use, consider: lung cancer - 35% of the population surveyed, bronchitis and other lung diseases - 25% of the respondents, 12% said cardiovascular disease, 6% - for TB.
According to 12% of respondents who quit smoking - easy, 56% believe that it is difficult, 4% believe that it is impossible, 28% did not think about it. Thus 21% of those questioned townspeople tried to quit, but mostly unsuccessfully.
It should be noted that in a good awareness of the harm of smoking to health, few of the townspeople try to get rid of nicotine addiction. Either the person does not realize the gravity of the consequences of tobacco use for their health, or believes that his illness will not affect, or the habit of smoking is so strong that it is not possible to abandon it

Expensive Cigars

Ukrainians again expects a rise in price of cigarettes. But this time, excise duty, because of the rise in prices which occurred before, not to blame. According to Oleg Minashkin, director of Kremenchug branch of "Demeter", one of the suppliers of tobacco in our city become more expensive raw materials. Almost all brands of cigarettes to rise by about three of the hryvnia.
First rise in the price of 80% of the range, the other 20% catch up after a few weeks. But suppliers of cigarettes are not very worried because of the fact that smokers with these prices will be lower.
- People like smoking, and smoking will be, - the director of the branch. - The only thing that has changed - people started to buy cheaper brands. A demand for cigarettes without a filter.

Cosmos Cigarettes

Cosmos popular brands of cigarettes of high quality at affordable prices. With selected tobacco and the lack of flavors, these cigarettes are distinguished by their rich, noble taste, which reflects all the advantages of pure tobacco.

Cigarettes produced for Oriental Blend. Cigarettes aroma and flavor produced natural combination of the best oriental tobacco, as well as Virginia and Burley tobacco, which are purchased in Brazil, Greece, Italy, India, Greece and China.

Tobacco products and materials for cigarettes Cosmos provides the world's leading companies, which guarantees high quality of all components of cigarettes. Cigarette paper is produced Glatz company (Germany), and the paper filter is Tannpapier company, Austria.

Order to reduce tar and nicotine content and improving the characteristics of smoking cigarettes, manufacturers use modern substitutes for tobacco - tobacco restored (LTR, France) and the expanded stem cells (Grosstems).

Kiosk is not afraid to sell alcohol to school children

People's deputies of Ukraine proposes to toughen the penalties for selling alcohol and cigarettes. "Evening Kharkiv" held its own "investigative experiment": we checked whether the fear in Kharkov kiosks selling children "poison"
Alas None of the tested our stalls to earn a children's health did not hesitate.
Grouplets young smokers with school knapsacks, meet at the underground "Soviet". 13-year-old girls feel shy, but recognized that they have never refused to sell beer and cigarettes. Interestingly, polluting the young ladies themselves amazed at the indifference of adults.
- Quietly buying smokes at any kiosk - assures eighth-Jan. - At least, none of the sellers are still not even think to ask about age.

- Oh, yes, we smoked even small fry - pyatiklashki! Is it a cigarette in the school, parents issue? Of course, themselves buying. The child, not a child - for the aunts in the stands there is no difference - inhaling, resents her friend Sonya.
- Buy any slaboalkogolku or beer in kiosks can without any problems. Well, I just yesterday bought a easy to a brandy in the shop - boasts devyatiklassnitsa Dasha.
To check whether so indifferent "skurivayut and solder rebyatnyu, we went on the stands with the" adult "tobacco-alcohol range.
Shoppers agreed to become a 15-year-old schoolgirl. By the investigative experiment prepared carefully. Today's teens often try to look older, but we decided to help even a little bit "careless" to sellers of alcohol and smoking: a girl dressed in a stressed teenage things. And to crown the image of Our Children "actress" resolutely refused to make-up.
- What are you, madam? - Apparently spotted the young age of the women customers, ironically asked the saleswoman, middle-aged. And, without delay, gave the child a pack of cigarettes.
At another kiosk crowded gaggle of adolescents. Counted the money, the children "at all" ordered a few cans of beer and chips.
- Book more - hurried our "model" and also not buy beer.
- I was always looked as if I were chewing gum or candy please - shared experiences, our helper. - Do not even thought for a minute.
However, we decided to give the kiosk last chance. In the hope remains the conscience of those who sell their children to "adult" products, "rejuvenated" "model" to the maximum: the school openly tied ponytails and agreed that it will communicate with vendors emphasized children's voice and very indecisive. It turned out, in vain tried: our beer "Centerfolds" would be issued, probably even if it only has "agukala" in a baby carriage, and was in the infant cap.
None (!) From a dozen kiosks did not disdain to make children's health.
Now, according to the Administrative Code, the penalty ranges from 5 to 20 non-taxable minimum incomes.
Fines increase tenfold
If the Criminal Code will make a change, merchants who sell to persons under 18 years of age, alcohol, alcoholic or tobacco products will be fined the amount ranging from 300 to 500 tax-free minimum incomes of citizens. For repeated violation of the seller shines arrest up to six months, restriction of liberty for up to two years or by imprisonment not exceeding one year, with disqualification to hold certain posts or practice certain activities for up to three years.

Mysterious disease of the Americans in Iraq caused by cigarettes

American military doctors suspected that smoking was a cause of unexplained pneumonia cases among soldiers who performed the task of command outside the United States. Most of them at the time of the disease were in Iraq or far from it, therefore, the cause of illness and death of several recognized combination of tobacco smoke, dust and heat.

Cases of mysterious illnesses occurred since the beginning of March this year.

The first victim was a twenty-specialist Josh Noyshe (Josh Neusche). Initially, his condition was regarded as a normal pneumonia.

Then, due to intoxication from Noyshe developed loose muscles, liver and kidneys. He fell in, and who died July 12 in Germany, which was evacuated.

To identify the causal agent of disease in Noyshe and the remaining patients could not be saved.

Chief United States Army physician James Peak (James Peake) has sent several teams of epidemiologists and physicians to conduct research in the Middle East. To find the causative agent of disease in Iraq and neighboring Kuwait analyze soil, water and air.

As a result, the development of the mysterious illness was associated with smoking.

On the findings of military experts said the military chief sanitary doctor of the U.S. Army Colonel Robert De Freyts (Robert DeFraites): "This is not an accident, the link with smoking. We know that it irritates the lungs and is a risk factor for pneumonia in general." Of the 19 cases of pneumonia since the beginning of March, four were associated with bacterial infection. In most of the remaining cases, the main suspicion falls on smoking.

As noted, ten patients had elevated blood levels of one of the types of leukocytes - eosinophilia. Usually this is due to parasitic infection or allergic diseases. However, the increase in the 3-11 times are ascribed to some irritating agent, possibly, tobacco smoke. Nine of these ten soldiers began smoking shortly before the illness.

According to de Freytsa and other war, the incidence of pneumonia was not unusual. Investigate the causes were due to the unusual severity of the disease, which required the use of artificial ventilation of the lungs. Two patients in the group with high eosinophilia died of pneumonia, the reasons which have remained until the end is not clear, 17 patients fully recovered.

Camel Redesign

A redesign of the Camel Lights packaging (the first since the brand's inception in 1913), coupled with a remix of the cigarette's long-standing recipe, poses a challenge to consumer brand loyalty.

The graphics on the package have been streamlined and stylized with bolder metallic colors and the cigarette has been enhanced with a blue stripe. It's still too early to tell what, if any effect the rebranding, launched in March, will have on sales, says RJ Reynolds Tobacco spokesperson David Howard. Camel Lights sell higher than all other Camel styles but Howard says, "part of the push behind this packaging refresh" was that the Lights' share of the market had become relatively flat. "In our focus group testing with adult smokers, both franchise smokers—current Camel smokers—as well as smokers of competitive brands, the response was very positive. Franchise smokers said that they liked the packaging as much if not more than the current packaging, they also liked the blend as much and found it at parity with Camel."

Rosie, a 22 year old from Allston and a Camel Lights smoker, was confused by the under-the-radar switch. "I thought I had mistakenly been sold a package of Camel Turkish Golds." The new design may have colored her impression of the cigarette's flavor at first. "I checked the package and thought maybe the taste was in my head, like I had just gotten a stale pack."

Elizabeth Miller, assistant professor of marketing at Boston College, says history has proven such switches risky. "There is always a danger when you change your formula when you're trying to attract new people, that you might make loyal users upset," she explains. "The classic example, of course, is Coke, when they changed their formula in the 80s. People were extraordinarily upset and they had to change it back."

Retaining the base of their franchise smokers was a priority for the Winston-Salem, North Carolina tobacco company, as was catching the attention of smokers of competitive brands. Whether either goal is ultimately achievable, particularly with smokers—who are, perhaps more than any other type of consumer, drawn to the predictability of ritual and the familiarity of their brand of choice—is debatable.

Susan Fournier, associate professor of marketing at Boston University, conducted six months of research on consumers' reactions to change. Products like cigarettes or caffeine tend to breed more resistance. "These are literally addicted people, and brand-addicted people," she says.

The experiment found that the stronger the subject's relationship was with the brand—"people who had a metaphoric relationship more akin to a partnership"—the more jarring the reaction when a product was altered. People with weaker relationships to brands, what Fournier calls "flings," were more open to change. "For people who were in flings, they thought of changes as exciting, because it brought new vitality to the brand," Fournier says. "Whereas the other people felt betrayal, like, 'Oh! You're not the brand I married!'"

As with romantic relationships, many react to perceived scorn by acting out. "I will definitely try out new brands," says Rosie. "I'll probably switch at least for a while, in the hopes that other folks do too and the new Camel Lights end up losing them money."

Joshua Sheppard, 21, used to buy Camel Lights by the carton. "But now I am hesitant to even pick up another pack," he says. "Even though it breaks my heart, I've been favoring Parliament Lights lately."

These reactions seem incongruous with the intent of Camel Lights' redesign and the new "higher end" recipe which calls for "premium" tobacco, using more leaves from higher on the tobacco plant's stalk.

"It doesn't taste like higher grade tobacco at all," says Rosie. "I suppose it's more 'flavorful,' but personally I think less is more. It's harsher, and the smell is way more intense."

Howard acknowledges iconic branding creates resistance to change, but insists, "Innovation cannot be restricted to brand new things. You've got to be willing to even take something as iconic as your Camel base and say, 'Hey, can we take something that's already great and utilize innovation to make it even better.'"