The jury awarded the widow of U.S. heavy smoker $ 8 million for the damage: This is a $ 3 million in compensation for damages and $ 5 million in punitive damages. Her lawsuit sought $ 130 million.
The victory may strengthen other lawsuits against the tobacco companies who deliberately manipulated and marketed products designed to addict customers, even if it killed them. Interestingly, many of the historic Big Tobacco (corruption, fraud, bribery, etc.) are now regularly practiced by Big Pharma, which also sells the toxic chemicals that kill people.
Councils for rendering assistance of your teenager far away from cigarettes
The tobacco use creates considerable problems with health at teenage age, including increase in number and weight of respiratory diseases, as an asthma and a bronchitis, and decrease in physical preparation. Cigarettes to use also increases risk of occurrence of a cancer, heart troubles, a stroke, an emphysema and other problems with health in the future. The first symptoms of nicotinic dependence between 12 - and 13-year-old children can appear within several days about several weeks after casual use begins, frequently even prior to the beginning of daily smoking. It is important to understand that children are exposed cigarettes from the earliest age, therefore it never too early to start to speak with it about health hazards from smoking. Use any possibility, such as films which represent people, smoking of tobacco and the situations connected with them you can see in your own area to begin conversation on why it is important not to start to smoke cigarettes or by means of other means. Some councils which will help your children cigarette-Free stay are more low resulted:
1. Roll to play with the fourth through the sixth-grader what to do, if someone offers it cigarettes or other drugs.
2. Ask the seventh after ninth-grader that it or she knows about harm of smoking and the use of drugs and to add to your child of knowledge on this question.
3. Focus on more direct consequences of smoking, such as an unpleasant smell from a mouth; smells, as cigarettes, having accepted boring a skin and hair, and the turned yellow nails and, being not in shape and choked.
4. To continue to encourage the 10-to a 12-go-grader for all positive elections it or it does.
5. Know, who friends of your child and if they to smoke or drink.
6. If your teenager searches for work, to call it apply only on smoking on workplaces.
7. Encourage your teenager to participation in command kinds of sports where your teenager can be more chances to meet friends who do not smoke.
8. Be convinced that your child knows rules (including refusal of smoking) your house, and that you will provide their performance.
Remember: the most important thing to continue struggle against smoking, anti-conversations of drugs in process of growth of the child.
To suggest to make for your teenager one of following actions if it or she feels how smoking at attempt to retire:
1. To pass to walk.
2. Call the friend.
3. To drink water or juice.
4. Make a deep breath and I consider till five years. Let your breath slowly. To repeat five times.
5. Tell to itself: "I can give up smoking".
1. Roll to play with the fourth through the sixth-grader what to do, if someone offers it cigarettes or other drugs.
2. Ask the seventh after ninth-grader that it or she knows about harm of smoking and the use of drugs and to add to your child of knowledge on this question.
3. Focus on more direct consequences of smoking, such as an unpleasant smell from a mouth; smells, as cigarettes, having accepted boring a skin and hair, and the turned yellow nails and, being not in shape and choked.
4. To continue to encourage the 10-to a 12-go-grader for all positive elections it or it does.
5. Know, who friends of your child and if they to smoke or drink.
6. If your teenager searches for work, to call it apply only on smoking on workplaces.
7. Encourage your teenager to participation in command kinds of sports where your teenager can be more chances to meet friends who do not smoke.
8. Be convinced that your child knows rules (including refusal of smoking) your house, and that you will provide their performance.
Remember: the most important thing to continue struggle against smoking, anti-conversations of drugs in process of growth of the child.
To suggest to make for your teenager one of following actions if it or she feels how smoking at attempt to retire:
1. To pass to walk.
2. Call the friend.
3. To drink water or juice.
4. Make a deep breath and I consider till five years. Let your breath slowly. To repeat five times.
5. Tell to itself: "I can give up smoking".
Electronic cigarettes on sale in Argentina
Sales of electronic cigarettes, designed to replace conventional, began this week in Argentina, told local media on Thursday.
Electronic cigarettes apparently do not differ from the usual: they are a tube consisting of a battery, a steam generator and replacement cartridges, filled with flavored liquid. The tip of the cigarette is lit during the delay, when the smoker inhales the "smoke" that allows to simulate the process of smoking.
Electronic cigarettes are already sold in many countries around the world, but the World Health Organization (WHO) and the Administration of the Food and Drug Administration USA (Food and Drug Administration, FDA) believe that they, as usual, pose a serious health threat. In the United States and Australia, their sale is prohibited.
According to the Argentine company's developer Oxigen, the main difference between electronic cigarettes, which went on sale in this Latin American country, is that it, unlike banned in the U.S. counterparts, "contains no nicotine or tar, but fluid in the cartridge has aroma of tobacco, mint, strawberry or vanilla.
"It's mainly electronic steam generator", - said spokesman Sebastian Gomez (Sebastian Gomez).
He assured that the new product is absolutely harmless both to the smoker, and for third parties, passed all the necessary checks and received all necessary quality certificates.
He added that the electronic cigarette is not worth considering as a means to help quit smoking.
"This product will not help to quit smoking, but it will help to moderate consumption of cigarettes", - said Gomez.
While electronic cigarettes Argentines can buy online or order by phone, but in November they arrive in the Argentine supermarket counters and drugstores. Price packages, including steam generator, the battery (shelf-life-year) and five replacement filters (each of which will replace up to 50 ordinary cigarettes) is about 270 pesos (about $ 70).
According to the Ministry of Health of Argentina in this South American country smokes about 33% of the adult population, 40 thousand people die from smoking each year, of which 6 thousand - passive smokers. Total live in the country 40.5 million people.
Electronic cigarettes apparently do not differ from the usual: they are a tube consisting of a battery, a steam generator and replacement cartridges, filled with flavored liquid. The tip of the cigarette is lit during the delay, when the smoker inhales the "smoke" that allows to simulate the process of smoking.
Electronic cigarettes are already sold in many countries around the world, but the World Health Organization (WHO) and the Administration of the Food and Drug Administration USA (Food and Drug Administration, FDA) believe that they, as usual, pose a serious health threat. In the United States and Australia, their sale is prohibited.
According to the Argentine company's developer Oxigen, the main difference between electronic cigarettes, which went on sale in this Latin American country, is that it, unlike banned in the U.S. counterparts, "contains no nicotine or tar, but fluid in the cartridge has aroma of tobacco, mint, strawberry or vanilla.
"It's mainly electronic steam generator", - said spokesman Sebastian Gomez (Sebastian Gomez).
He assured that the new product is absolutely harmless both to the smoker, and for third parties, passed all the necessary checks and received all necessary quality certificates.
He added that the electronic cigarette is not worth considering as a means to help quit smoking.
"This product will not help to quit smoking, but it will help to moderate consumption of cigarettes", - said Gomez.
While electronic cigarettes Argentines can buy online or order by phone, but in November they arrive in the Argentine supermarket counters and drugstores. Price packages, including steam generator, the battery (shelf-life-year) and five replacement filters (each of which will replace up to 50 ordinary cigarettes) is about 270 pesos (about $ 70).
According to the Ministry of Health of Argentina in this South American country smokes about 33% of the adult population, 40 thousand people die from smoking each year, of which 6 thousand - passive smokers. Total live in the country 40.5 million people.
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