BMA Scotland has published a series of briefing papers providing evidence to support further legislation to crack down on tobacco promotions and ban cigarette vending machines in Scotland. The BMA is calling on MSPs to support the proposals contained in the Tobacco and Primary Medical services (Scotland) Bill and urging them not to be swayed by the ’scaremongering’ tactics of the tobacco industry and retailers.

Tobacco is the only consumer product which is grown and available legally and is lethal for human beings. At the current rate, the number of smokers dying every year in the world is likely to reach (10 million) 1 crore by 2020. In India tobacco kills 1 million (10 lakhs) people annually. Tobacco definitely is a global health epidemic, whose rapid spread around the world presents daunting challenges to policy makers and people engaged in public health concerns.

Smoking is unhealthy, unattractive and unpleasant. Finding a way to stop smoking is not always easy. There are some quick natural ways to try. Smoking is not a lot of fun. You spend all your money on a product that is slowly destroying your health.

Smoking can cause you to snore. It is just one more negative side affect of smoking. Even after you stop smoking you can continue to snore. Smoking and snoring go hand in hand. Chances are that if you smoke or are exposed to second hand smoke you will snore.

If you smoke but would like to quit now is a good time to do so. There are a lot of smoking cessation programs to help you quit. There is also a large variety of products such as Nicorette that will increase your chance of successfully quitting smoking.

Conceivably, you are a chain smoker and now want to kick that habit by executing any stop smoking treatment. These have helped lots of people and the best part is that you typically won’t go through the withdrawal symptoms or any of the other bad side effects that people go through when they try to quit smoking, such as weight gain, moodiness and depression.