Smoking Rates In England Fall To Lowest On Record

[mikey4444]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-37406105

Looks like we are beginning to win the battle. Congrats to anyone who has given up recently !

[Gromit]

Deaths from smoking are still high, and are still rising amongst women.
So a very small incrematal in the numbers of smokers is probably due to the still very large numbers of them dying, rather than the success of vaping.

[EDDIE51]

Ummmm, Here is the information.
http://www.news-medical.net/health/Nicotine-Toxicology.aspx
Just 50mg ( 0.0005g) is the lethal dose for an average human !
Nicotine is VERY hard to absorb by smoking/ vaping but it is easier to absorb through the skin as in an 'anti smoking' patch which is in constant contact with the skin for hours or days at a time.
There have been many substantiated deaths due to Nicotine poisoning via anti smoking patches.

[hc4361]

I did say VAT was much lower.

Hopefully fire officers will be finding fewer people burned to a crisp in their beds. I saw such a body years ago and it still haunts me.

200 people a day are still dying from smoking related diseases in this country. Still far too many. One of my friends developed emphysema quite young and it is a dreadful condition. She wanted to go in to schools to talk to children about this effect of smoking but the powers that be felt it would be too distressing for the children to see her.

[hc4361]

It was the patches that helped me to quit. Thankfully I had no side effects from them.

[andy-hughes]

When I was a teenager, and in my twenties, I was in a really small minority among my peers in that I didn't smoke. I never minded people smoking around me.

As I have grown older, I have come to not only detest the smell of smoke near (and indeed on!) me, I have come to regard smoking as a ludicrous habit.

It has absolutely no redeeming qualities whatsoever, it smells, it's potentially fatal, and it looks terminally ridiculous.

I am mystified why anyone would take it up in this day and age.

[EDDIE51]

The thing that amazes me about that link mikey is the difference between various areas of England. Hull is over 27% smokers while Wokingham is less than 10%. 3x difference! Anyone got an idea why?

[mikey4444]

Eddie...smoking has always been higher in lower-income places and lower educated places, then in higher. ( I am choosing my words carefully here !)

Even in quite small areas or districts, smoking goes up as soon as you leave better educated places.

It used to be said that being poor meant you smoked, but these days its increasingly smoking that makes you poor in the first place.....see hc's post at at 09:32.

[Baldric]

Interesting read

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/women/womens-health/11058158/E-cigarette-WHO-ban-I-thought-vaping-was-safe.html

///'I thought my e-cigarette was a miracle. Turns out, I was smoking the equivalent of 40-a-day'///

[EDDIE51]

^^ The 'bliss' the author of that link mentions is actually the 'hit' as the nicotine initially satisfies her craving. That craving is the reason Nicotine is actually more addictive than its close chemical relation Heroine. They are both addictive opiates, and chemically, virtually identical in structure.
The author of that piece is/ was a high dependency Nicotine addict. For most people cutting down or eliminating Nicotine would be the option of choice and E cigs would not cause a problem.

[Mamyalynne]

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[mikey4444]

What happened there Mamy ?

[Mamyalynne]

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[mikey4444]

Ah !...thanks

[tamborine]

You need welfare to afford cigs. Any chance of NHS scripts?

[EDDIE51]

You can get prescriptions for nicotine patches and nicotine inhalers , my wife has had them several times.