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Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act; Long title: To protect the public health by providing the Food and Drug Administration with certain authority to regulate tobacco products, to amend title 5, United States Code, to make certain modifications in the Thrift Savings Plan, the Civil Service Retirement System, and the Federal Employees’ Retirement System, and for other purposes.
Smoking cessation, usually called quitting smoking or stopping smoking, is the process of discontinuing tobacco smoking. [1] Tobacco smoke contains nicotine, which is addictive and can cause dependence.
The Islamic views on tobacco vary by region. Though tobacco or smoking in general is not explicitly mentioned in the Quran or hadith, contemporary scholars have condemned it as completely harmful, and have at times prohibited smoking outright (declared it haram) as a result of the severe health effects that it causes.
Cigarette taxes in the United States are imposed on the sale of cigarettes and vary widely by state.
merokok dapat menyebabkan kanker, serangan jantung, impotensi dan gangguan kehamilan dan janin (Smoking can cause cancer, heart attacks, impotence and disorders of pregnancy and the fetus) The last recorded usage of this warning in TV advertisements was an Esse Mild advertisement from late February 2014.
Nicotine is a naturally produced alkaloid in the nightshade family of plants (most predominantly in tobacco and Duboisia hopwoodii) [9] and is widely used recreationally as a stimulant and anxiolytic.
Warnings on cigarette packaging are shown, as of 2018 old warning was replaced by "Because smoking, I suffered throat cancer" (Indonesian: Karena merokok, saya terkena kanker tenggorokan). Recent warnings also include 18+ signs and a quitline.
Aztec women are handed flowers and smoking tubes before eating at a banquet, Florentine Codex, 16th century. Smoking's history dates back to as early as 5000–3000 BC, when the agricultural product began to be cultivated in Mesoamerica and South America; consumption later evolved into burning the plant substance either by accident or with intent of exploring other means of consumption. [1]