Smoking Facts and Figures
A random list of statements, facts and figures relating to smoking. Hopefully this list will give you the final push to be committed to giving up smoking. When you have read it, visit www.abouthowtoquitsmoking.com for further information, help and advice. If you smoke more than 25 cigarettes a day are 25 times more likely to die from cancer and almost twice as likely to die from heart disease. Each cigarette on average takes 11 minutes off your life.
Fifty diseases are caused by smoking causes. Twenty of them are fatal. Seven out of ten smokers say that they want to give up. Nicotine stimulates the central nervous system, which increases the heart rate and blood pressure. If you carry on smoking you have a one in two chance of dying from it.
Smoking is the number one avoidable cause of premature death in the UK. Smoking related diseases cost the UK National Health Service about ?1.7 billion a year. If you want facial wrinkles at an early age just carry on smoking. ?1,600 that's how much you could save if you gave up your twenty a day habit. Nicotine is an insecticide.
?800 is what the average smoker give to the UK government in tax each year. The risk from smoking pipes can be as great as smoking cigarettes. Cigarettes contain tar, a complex mixture of chemicals, many of which are known to cause cancer. As each year passes, your addiction will become greater and will increase the difficulty of quitting. Any children growing up in a house where tobacco is regularly used are more likely to get asthma, pneumonia, ear infections, bronchitis and become tobacco users themselves.
The benefits start as soon as you stop. Stomach ulcers are made worse by smoking. In the UK, about Three Hundred people are killed everyday, simply because they were smokers. You can always benefit from quitting smoking. Even if you are over 70 years of age.
Cigarette smoking increases the risk of having a heart attack by two or three times. Every year 17,000 children under the age of five are admitted to hospital due to the effects of passive smoking. Smoking causes at least 80% of all deaths from lung cancer. Less than 10% of lung cancer patients survive five years. 83% of smokers say they would not smoke if they had their life again.
Teenage smokers experience more asthma and respiratory symptoms than non-smokers. Chemicals that can be found in tobacco smoke:
- Benzene - A poisonous gas found in petrol fumes. Known to cause leukaemia.
- Butane - Lighter fuel.
- Ethanol - Used in anti-freeze.
- Methanol - Used in rocket fuel.
- Ammonia - Used in many cleaning products.
- Acetone - Used in paint stripper.
- Cadmium - Used in car batteries. Known to cause cancer.
- Arsenic - Poison.
- Toluene - Industrial solvent.
How Adult Day Care can help you maintain your sanity while caring for your loved one with Alzheimer?s Disease
Adult Day Care provides comfort, support, care, companionship and counseling for elderly or Alzheimer's patients who require supervision during daytime hours. It offers patients the opportunity to socialize and to receive health and social services in a stimulating and supportive environment.When you have chosen your Day Care, make sure that their license is current and do not hesitate to ask questions. Among others,?Ask to see results of their state inspections and if there were any deficiencies, ask if they have been corrected.?Observe if the patients are involved in activities.?Does the staff encourage the participants to be as independent as possible??Ask about the staff to client ratio. For Alzheimer's patients, the ratio should be at least one staff member for every eight patients.?Meet the director and the staff.?Is there a lot of staff turnover??What are the emergency procedures??Do they serve meals and how are they prepared? Do they offer food for patients of special dietary...
How Adult Day Care can help you maintain your sanity while caring for your loved one with Alzheimer?s Disease
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3 Easy Step To Locate A Real Bargain On Laptop Batteries
Looking for a real bargain on laptop batteries? How do I know the batteries are running good as advertised? Which merchants are offering quality rechargeable cells? Where can I get the bargain? Where to buy?Many of you have some of these questions? Certainly!!. We surely want to saving our hard to earn $$ and only buy quality cells. Here are the simple 7 ways to to locate the real bargain.1. Shop online Why? Most of suppliers/distributors are now targetting retail consumers themselves. The online store overheads are much less than retail stores.
No store leasing, No utitlity bills and much less employee payrolls. With all these, they can pass the big savings to customers. Importantly, they have the same guarantee and warranty as retail stores..plus...it's convenient!!! Quailty merchants offer FREE shipping!!2. Find the saving couponsThis is the beauty!!...."saving coupons"....Online marketting is highly competitive. They are million of stores out there.
Merchants want to...
3 Easy Step To Locate A Real Bargain On Laptop Batteries
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Texas Memory Systems Introduces 400MB/s Entry-Level Solid State Disk
Texas Memory Systems, Inc., manufacturer of the World's Fastest Storage?, announced today availability of a new entry level solid state disk, the RamSan-120 ? the fastest 1U solid state disk on the market and the first solid state disk ever to implement RAID (redundant array of independent DIMMs) -protected dual inline memory modules for the highest levels of reliability. The RamSan-120 delivers over 70,000 random I/Os per second and up to 400 megabytes per second of bandwidth. Its 8-gigabyte capacity is housed in a slim one rack-unit (1U) chassis and is ideal for accelerating smaller databases, database logs and email queues. For Texas Memory Systems, known for its high-end systems, the RamSan-120 establishes a new entry level offering for customers of all sizes and budgets. "Our own tests have shown that a solid state disk like the RamSan-120 can be used to remove I/O bottlenecks that persist even after significant SQL tuning and adding memory to a server," said Donald Burleson, one...
Texas Memory Systems Introduces 400MB/s Entry-Level Solid State Disk
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Who else wants to know if they are heading for "Burn out" syndrome ?
Are you feeling tired, fed-up or irritable? Have you lost interest
in work, hobbies or
your partner/spouse?
If the answer is YES then you could be suffering from
" burn-out".
For years doctors have recognised that stress is the biggest
killer around. It causes - or makes worse - a staggering nine
out of ten illnesses. You see, a good day's work never killed
anyone. A good day of worry has killed many.
The tight work deadline. The commute home through
traffic lasting up to two hours.
The raise you had been
promised falls through and you are sinking up to your
eyes in debt.
Do you remember a film with Michael Douglas called
"Falling Down" ? An average guy quite literally falls
apart and goes beserk!
Stress doesn't just cause physical symptoms and diseases
such as asthma, eczema, heart disease, high blood pressure and
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3 Easy Step To Locate A Real Bargain On Laptop Batteries
Looking for a real bargain on laptop batteries? How do I know the batteries are running good as advertised? Which merchants are offering quality rechargeable cells? Where can I get the bargain? Where to buy?Many of you have some of these questions? Certainly!!. We surely want to saving our hard to earn $$ and only buy quality cells. Here are the simple 7 ways to to locate the real bargain.1. Shop online Why? Most of suppliers/distributors are now targetting retail consumers themselves. The online store overheads are much less than retail stores.
No store leasing, No utitlity bills and much less employee payrolls. With all these, they can pass the big savings to customers. Importantly, they have the same guarantee and warranty as retail stores..plus...it's convenient!!! Quailty merchants offer FREE shipping!!2. Find the saving couponsThis is the beauty!!...."saving coupons"....Online marketting is highly competitive. They are million of stores out there.
Merchants want to...
3 Easy Step To Locate A Real Bargain On Laptop Batteries
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Power Technology Closes on $5.5 Million Capital Commitment
(ContentDesk) September 2, 2004 -- Power Technology, Inc. (PWTC:OTCBB) announced today that the Company has closed on a new $5.5 million round of equity and debt.
The transaction closed on Friday, August 26, 2004, and the first round of funding was received by the company yesterday.
Chairman and CEO Bernard J. Walter commented "This round of capital funding will allow the company to begin the commercialization of its unique, patented technology for batteries.
We intend immediately to begin pre-production engineering and development, and we expect to begin producing batteries for sale by 2005. This is a major milestone in the life of the company and I would like to personally thank our shareholders for their support."
Houston based Corporate Strategies Merchant Bankers www.corporate-strategies.net advised the Company on the $5,500,000 transaction.About Power Technology, Inc....
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