Do you feel sick in your stomach when you drive past a car full of kids and cigarette smoke? Depending on your age, maybe, the sight of an adult puffing away will brings back the memories of a childhood in a car full of tobacco fumes.

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Many U.S. citizens nowadays insist that tobacco products should completely disappear from our marketplace. They call tobacco companies “the merchants of death”, and rightfully so. As tobacco manufacturers now face a decline in sales, due to the fact that people know more about the hazards of cigarettes and therefore smoke less, these corporate monsters come up with new exquisite ways to boost their sales and further spread disease. One of the tricks is to hide nicotine in seemingly harmless products.

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Although most of us are aware of the facts that smoking causes cancer and lung disease, heart attacks, and strokes, the impact of tobacco on oral health is generally less known. Yet, the use of tobacco in the forms of smoking and chewing is the primary cause of oral health decay.

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According to numerous scientific research, tobacco is largely responsible for a worldwide current epidemic of many forms of cancer - a sobering reminder on the occasion of World Cancer Awareness Day. The incidence of tobacco-related forms of cancer around the world constitutes about 48 percent in men and 20 percent in women. It is estimated that about 40% of cancer deaths among middle-aged people are caused by consumption of tobacco.

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On November 3, 2007, the results of the newest tobacco (and cannabis) research were published by ScienceDaily. The study, conducted by the UAB Department of General Development and Educational Psychology Stress and Health Research Group (GIES) and entitled “Perceived emotional intelligence and its relation to tobacco and cannabis use among university students”, aimed to analyze, in particular, possibly existing links between tobacco smoking and the level of emotional intelligence in young individuals. In the course of the research, 133 students of psychology were studied in order to find the links.

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