Tobacco Health Information

Alternative Brands manufactures products that have significant and inherent health risks for a number of serious diseases, and may contribute to causing these diseases in some individuals.

There is universal awareness of the conclusions of the Surgeon General, and public health and medical officials that smoking causes serious diseases, including lung cancer and heart disease. Individuals should rely on these conclusions when making any decision regarding smoking.

Epidemiological studies (population studies comparing the incidence of disease between groups of smokers and groups of nonsmokers) have led the U.S. Surgeon General to conclude:

• Smokers have almost twice the risk of having coronary heart disease as nonsmokers.
• Smokers’ risk of getting lung cancer is approximately 14 times that of nonsmokers.
• Smokers’ risk for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease is approximately 10 times that of nonsmokers.

Congress mandated that the Surgeon General’s warning labels appear on all cigarette packaging sold in the U.S. beginning in January 1966. Since 1972, the Surgeon General’s warning labels have appeared on U.S. cigarette advertising as well.

The Surgeon General’s warnings required by the Cigarette Labeling and Advertising Act of 1965 have been amended over time, and the Act currently requires cigarette manufacturers and importers to print the following warnings, which are rotated on a quarterly basis, on cigarette packaging and advertisements:

• SURGEON GENERAL’S WARNING:
  Smoking Causes Lung Cancer, Heart Disease, Emphysema, and May Complicate Pregnancy.
• SURGEON GENERAL’S WARNING:
  Quitting Smoking Now Greatly Reduces Serious Risks to Your Health.
• SURGEON GENERAL’S WARNING:
  Smoking by Pregnant Women May Result in Fetal Injury, Premature Birth and Low Birth Weight.
• SURGEON GENERAL’S WARNING:
  Cigarette Smoking Contains Carbon Monoxide.

Smoking is an adult choice, and we do not encourage non-smokers to start smoking.  If you wish to quit smoking, below are a number of links to groups and information that may help.

Health Issues Links

www.4woman.gov/QuitSmoking/
www.americanheart.org/presenter.jhtml?identifier=3038010
www.ashline.org
www.cancer.org/docroot/PED/content/PED_10_13X_Guide_for_Quitting_Smoking.asp
www.cdc.gov/tobacco/quit_smoking/
www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smoking_cessation
www.fda.gov/fdac/features/1997/797_smoke.html
www.kickbuttsday.org
www.lungusa.org/site/pp.asp?c=dvLUK9O0E&b=33484
www.quitnet.com
www.quitsmoking.about.com
www.smokefree.gov
www.surgeongeneral.gov/tobacco/consquits.htm
www.tobaccofree.org/quitting.htm
www.whyquit.com
www.yourlunghealth.org/stop_smoking
www.quitsmoking.com/quitinfo.htm
www.webmd.com/smoking-cessation

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