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Smoking in Cooking Shows

Tuesday, March 5th, 2020

It is currently a typical scene in cooking shows as for instance “Top Chef” or “Hell’s Kitchen” – the stressed-out participants talking over several packages of cigarettes.

There are less and less TV shows these days that display smoking. However clouds of smoke have been a notable aspect of this season of Bravo’s “Top Chef,” as the participants worry over their preparing dishes, and rehash the earlier episode. On the final year’s season of Fox’s “Hell’s Kitchen,” Justin Antiorio of Lyndhurst – the show’s host was often seen smoking as he announced menus and dinner services.

Antiorio stated that cigarette use during the taping “was the unique thing we could actually control” in a firmly supervised environment under the continuous glare of television cameras. . “The only thing we could do is smoke and drink as many Red Bulls as we wished.”

That the food industry is stuffed of cigarettes won’t amaze anybody who’s ever seen chefs on a smoke break. One TV show known as “Blueprint to Quit” even lately chose a notable New York restaurateur, Joe Bastianich, as a paid spokesman.
Antiorio stated the stress of the show was so fantastic that certain of his fellow non-smoking participants were lighting up.
“When I worked at the 21 Club, I could run out and smoke a cigarette between services. After pre-theater, I would go to light up, not mostly for a cigarette, but simply because you are inside this building all the day, so you need a particular escape, to get out, even for five minutes.”

“Food advertisement is a big deal,” Dobbins pointed out. “Cooks need to think about the impact they’re producing on their peers and on people whose goal it is to become a chef like them – and take the chance to encourage a healthier lifestyle.”
Smoking “does changes your taste, 100 %,” Antiorio stated. But “you should keep in mind that our palates are so skilled – we do this each day. You would probably taste lobster once in two months; I can taste it for more than six times per week.”

Mexican American Smokers Smoking Trends

Monday, September 24th, 2019

Just published in the American Journal of Public Health, the research on migration-related changes in smoking habit also found that while the likelihood of starting or stopping smoking tobacco varies dramatically with migration from Mexico to the U.S., the number of cigs that smokers smoke each day remains not absolutely similar. Mexican Americans are more likely to start and to quit smoking than people in Mexico, but on an usual day, Mexican Americans who smoke tobacco consume only slightly more cigarettes than Mexicans who are smokers.

In contrast, the amount of cigarettes smoked per day by Mexican-American smokers is approximately half that smoked per day by non-Hispanic white smokers in the U.S.

Smoking tobacco among Mexican Americans remains a very important public health problem, in spite of the relatively low level of tobacco consumption per day.

“Everyone in the U.S. is smoking tobacco much less than in the past,” argued lead author Elisa Tong, an associate professor in the UC Davis Department of Internal Medicine who specializes in smoking-control investigation.

“But even light smoking is a risk factor for cardiovascular and pulmonary disease.” Tong adds, “Although U.S.-born Mexican Americans are smoking much more, they’re quitting more. Researches of this kind help us understand the cultural and psychological factors involved in quitting so that effective public health smoke-free programs can be developed to encourage even more smoking cessation.”

The study team, led by principal investigator Joshua Breslau, now a researcher at the RAND Corp. in Pittsburgh, Pa., includes researchers from both the U.S. and Mexico. “We have learned a great deal by investigating changes in physical health, mental health and health behavior associated with migration,” explained Breslau. “In this study, it was particularly valuable to observe a migrant population in both the originating and receiving countries.” Combining several population-based studies from both countries, the team examined differences in starting and quitting smoking and in tobacco consumption among every day smokers across a series of groups with raising contact with the U.S.

The groups included Mexicans with no familial connection to migration at one end of the spectrum through U.S.-born Mexican Americans at the other. The studies included several thousand participants on both sides of the border as part of a series of epidemiological psychology researches from 2001 to 2003.

Furtive Smokers Hide the Smoking Habit

Monday, July 30th, 2019

Most smokers who hide their smoking habit make it a point not to tell their parents, grandparents and kids, according to a recent investigation. Although half of the smokers interviewed are open about their smoking habit, 70 percent of those who hide it do so from their parents. A further 20 percent hide it from grandparents and 14 percent from their kids. This arose from a research carried out as part of the EU-wide Ex-smokers Are Unstoppable campaign that focuses on encouraging Europeans to quit smoking. Smoking tobacco continues to be the main cause of preventable death and disease in the EU, with 29 percent of Europeans smoking.

Many smokers, 44 percent, felt smoking tobacco prevented them from feeling healthy and in control of their health or from practising sports. A further 10 percent declared it can cause problems in bars. Around a third argued that they found it obstinate to resist having a cigarette when communicating with other smokers, when drinking alcohol and even after a meal. Others found it very difficult to resist when stressed and first thing in the morning.

A third of inhabitants told that they would feel proud if they never smoked again and a similar percentage thought they would feel healthy and motivated to keep their health. However, 19.8 percent declared that it would make them anxious and 14 percent said they would feel less sociable. The study also found that the most helpful factors in stop smoking were willpower and desire to do this. In fact, the biggest barrier to quit smoking was absence of willpower.

The “positive” aspects of smoking tobacco included stress management and enjoying a cigarette smoke when drinking. More than a quarter, 28 percent, expressed a wish to kick the smoking habit within a year and 14 percent argued that they wanted to quit but over a longer period.

Cigarettes Maker and New Packaging

Friday, May 11th, 2019

While governments of several countries are thinking of enforcing bans on attractive cigarettes packaging for to reduce the mortality rates linked with smoking habit, tobacco industries are out with much more attractive packs to allure young inhabitants. It has been found that the companies are going to bring out the new packaging very soon, which would be similar to fragrance or will be helped with lids that will throw open like a lighter.

Although, it has been realized from the past investigation that the companies’ plans to tempt young people has reduced meaningly since the past few years. It is being alleged that the new packs will be far more attractive than the previous ones and will alluring more teenagers for to start smoking.

Latest study put forth by the Department of Health, Cancer Research UK established the new tactics that the tobacco industry has utilized for the marketing of the smoking products are much more discouraging.

The research suggested that because of the attractive packs, as young as six year old kids fall into the smoking habit. The Director of smoking control for the charity, Jean King maintained that the children in the age group ranging between six and 11 are easily attracted towards the tempting packages.

He emphasized that the kids without acknowledging the side-effects of the smoking product in the due course of their life, just fall into this habit.

 

Smoking Habit Motive, Depression

Tuesday, April 24th, 2019

Current every day smokers have a more than triple increased risk for big depression, in comparison with ex-smokers. And while the link between smoking and depression is fully supported, the new finding adds another weave to the discussion between “shared-brittleness” and causal hypotheses about smoking cigarettes and depression.

“Our recent findings are compatible with the view that the heavy smoking to big depression pathway is causative in nature, rather than principally due to confounding by shared vulnerability factors,” reported Dr. Salma Khaled and her colleagues.

“Under the shared-vulnerability hypothesis, heavy smokers may be supposed to have the same raised risk for big depressive episode free of their smoking habit status during follow-up,” added Salma Khaled, Ph.D., in the April issue of the Journal of Psychiatric Research.

Dr. Khaled, who was at the Mental Health Center for Investigation and Teaching, Canada in Toronto at the time of this study, and colleagues looked at 3,824 smoking adults from the Canadian National Population Health Research. Participants in the study completed an interview between 1994 and 1995 and were potentially followed since then, with new interviews conducted every second year through 2006-2007.

To be included in the study, investigated people had to have maintained their smoking status as current, former, and never smokers throughout the study follow-up duration. “Heavy” smokers were defined as those subjects who smoked 20 or even more cigs per day.

“Ever-heavy smokers (current and former) may share similar genetic, behavioral, and environmental vulnerabilities, at least for heavy smoking initiation,” according to Dr. Khaled, who is now at the University of Calgary (Alta.), and her associates.

If these all factors were completely to censure for depression – as dictated by the shared vulnerability hypothesis – then we would expect former-heavy smokers and current smokers would have an equal likelihood of having a major depressive episode (MDE), she reasoned.

“However, if the persistence of the exposure (current as opposed to former) had the dominant effect on the risk for MDE, then current-heavy smokers would be expected to have higher risks of MDE relative to former smokers.”

In general, the 12-year risk of MDE for the whole sample was 13.2%, the authors discovered.

 

Smoking Teens – Stop this Vogue

Monday, April 9th, 2019

Smoking cigarettes should no longer to be considered a normal habit for all people, the Health Secretary has reported, as a law on tobacco advertisement comes into force. From this weekend all large stores and supermarkets in England must hide all cigs and smoking products from public view. He dismissed the suggestion that cigarettes smoking could become more alluring to teenagers if it is kept hidden and insisted the main issue was about “moving the culture”. “The culture is about moving to a new place where cigarettes smoking isn’t a part of normal inhabitants life: people don’t combat it normally, they don’t see this habit in their big supermarkets, they don’t see people smoking their favorite cigarette in places where are kids, they don’t see tobacco vending machines,” he explained.

“We are going to continue the fight against smoking for the a one main reason that most smokers want to kick the habit and it is main cause of early inhabitants mortality.”

Health Minister Anne Milton noted: “We cannot disregard the fact that teenagers are enrolled into smoking by colorful cigarette packs and ads. Most of adult smokers started the smoking habit when they were teenagers and we need to stop this info/vogue-style-vogue-cigarettes-advertising-campaign.

“Prohibiting displays of cigs and tobacco products will help minors resist to the pressure to begin smoking and help the thousands of adults in England who are trying to quit smoking.”

Big Tobacco Lawsuit in Montreal

Monday, March 12th, 2019

A groundbreaking trial gets underway in Montreal Monday against three leading tobacco companies which face a $25 billion lawsuit for allegedly failing to adequately warn smokers of the dangers of cigarettes. Plaintiffs have filed two separate class actions in what is Canada’s biggest-ever civilian lawsuit, against Imperial Tobacco, JTI-Macdonald and Rothmans Benson & Hedges in the Superior Court of Quebec.

The first class includes 90,000 current and former smokers in Quebec who say they have fallen ill with a range of smoking-related ailments including emphysema and cancer of the throat and larynx, and are seeking $105,000 Canadian per person.

The second suit was filed by 1.8 million current smokers who say they are unable to quit the tobacco habit, and are seeking $10,000 per person.

According to court documents, the plaintiffs accuse the Canadian tobacco companies of hiding research which has established a link between smoking and serious health problems like cancer.

The suit also alleges that tobacco firms in Canada have tried to manipulate the levels of nicotine in their cigarettes, increasing the levels of dangerous tar and have also added certain products such as ammonia.

Mario Bujold, director general of the Quebec Council on Tobacco and Health said told AFP that one of the witnesses will be Robert Proctor, author of “Golden Holocaust,” a book about alleged nefarious practices by the US tobacco industry.

Quebec is only one of several Canadian provinces seeking monetary damages from the tobacco manufacturers.

Several provinces, led by British Columbia, are also suing Canada’s tobacco companies in hopes of recovering billions of dollars spent by their health insurers to treat the victims of tobacco use.