Turkey joins anti-smoke club with drastic ban


Ankara - Turkey went smoke-free on Sunday as the government introduced a ban in bars, cafes and restaurants - despite business owners' protests - in a bid to break the national addiction to nicotine.

Strongly supported by Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, a tobacco hater, the smoking ban came into effect at midnight as ashtrays were removed from tables inside these establishments and smokers stepped outside for a puff.

"The saying 'smoke like a Turk' is now a thing of the past," said the liberal Radikal daily on its front page, likening the ban to a "revolution" in a country where people could smoke even on buses 15 years ago. The popular Aksam daily simply said "The End".
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FDA wants to extinguish electronic cigarettes



Those who like to get their nicotine fix electronically will be disappointed to hear that a U.S. Food and Drug Administration report earlier this week found that electronic cigarettes, or "e-cigarettes," contain carcinogens and toxic chemicals such as diethylene glycol, an ingredient used in antifreeze.

The draw of e-cigarettes is supposed to be their ability to let smokers regulate their nicotine intake (nicotine is sold in disposable cartridges containing differing amounts) while producing water vapor, as opposed to secondhand smoke. The smoker inhales doses of nicotine vaporized with the help of a solvent such as propylene glycol. E-cigarettes, which were all the rage at this year's Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas, are battery-operated plastic tubes made to look like cigarettes (or in some cases cigars and pipes).

Concerned that e-cigarette products do not contain health warnings comparable to FDA-approved nicotine replacement products or conventional cigarettes, the agency has begun looking into how the products are being marketed. Besides finding traces of the toxic antifreeze component diethylene glycol, the FDA's Division of Pharmaceutical Analysis also discovered carcinogens such as nitrosamines in the samples it tested.

Put on the defensive by the FDA's seizure of e-cigarette shipments at U.S. borders, makers of these products have challenged in federal district court the agency's jurisdiction over this situation. In a May court filing, e-cigarette makers Sunrise, Fla.–based Smoking Everywhere, Inc., and Sottera, Inc., in Scottsdale, Ariz., (makers of the NJOY brand) sought a preliminary injunction against the FDA's seizures. The agency earlier this month responded with a document stating the confiscations should be allowed to continue because the e-cigarettes meet the definition of both a drug....

lol, i know this is old, but hey.. I have quit before.. when i had no job and no money.. and with not much stressing me out other then those 2 facts.. it was easy to stay calm and not smoke.. cause i'd rather eat.. then smoke.

I had 6 months of good times of no smokeing in those 2 years.. and can say taste and smells were enhanced.. mental capacity was increased, healing was slowed ??? that doesnt make any sense.. but some scratches took weeks to heal.. vs days during smokeing.. but i can't make those injuries identical and repeat them ahahah.. that would suck and i'd probably be dead..

2 years no cigarrets.. and then i started up again.. i try to make them last 3 or more days.. if i ever smoke a whole pack in a day i take the next day off. So my tolerance of the nicotene doesnt rise.. but stays the same or less.. I think if we did more to clean our air.. more people would quit smokeing, The smoke is what is killing us.. as well as thousands of chemicals in the air and in the cigarrettes.. but this is my opinion.. no ones brought anything factual forward yet.. stateing that without Smokeing it" there is no cancer or ill effects.. look at the gums and other means of not smoking it.. still causeing cancer of the mouth.. throught gums.. stomach intestines.. colon.. or atleast linked.. and not ruled out other influences..

nicotene being completely out of the body?? I've read several research papers telling me that it never completely leaes the body... but is reproduced by the body.. which triggers a need.. and you smoke to satisfy that.. and giving yourself that dose. Often produced when there is lack of nicotene in the body.. If i can find it on the net i'll link it here...

a week ago, a feral cat i've been careing for ate my cigs.. all 19 of them.. didnt puke, didnt cough.. nothing.. just ate it like it was some fish and it was starving.. would hormones on the cigs cause this reaction??
And force them instictualy to think it's food? or is this something they normally do in nature??