Our aim in this study was to find out how smokers respond to cigarette pack warning labels that use photographs of real people whose health has been affected by their own, or by someone elses, smoking, says the lead author Emily Brennan, Ph.D., David Hill Research Fellow at the Cancer Council Victoria in Australia
JSTOR, Accessed 22 Aug
PMID 11015814
A BMJ report on the review led by Allan Hackshaw, a professor at University College London in the United Kingdom He and his colleagues calculated that the risk from smoking about one cigarette per day is around half that for people who smoke 20 per day. The findings challenge a widely held view that smoking just a few cigarettes per day is relatively safe. Instead, the report concludes that: No safe level of smoking exists for cardiovascular disease. Tobacco is the only legal drug that kills many of its users when used exactly as intended by manufacturers, The latest WHO estimates In the United States, smoking is the most preventable cause of premature death, according to the American Heart Association, Smoking raises the risk of developing many persistent health problems, including atherosclerosis, a condition in which fatty deposits build up inside arteries, thereby raising the risk of stroke and coronary heart disease
The act of inhaling toxic smoke can symbolize internal conflicts or unresolved issues that pose a threat to one's well-being
