F.D.A. Issues New Images to Add to Warnings on Cigarette Packages - NYT Aug 2019
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Big tobacco had more money than the US FDA
Big tobacco was not successful in many other countries
Update FDA to require graphic warnings on cigarettes Jan 2026
CSPDailyNews Nov 2024
"The U.S. currently ranks last globally in cigarette warning size, with 138 other countries already implementing graphic warnings"
Perplexity AI Nov 2024
See also VitaminDWiki
- Low Vitamin D is worse for your health than smoking
- Tobacco smoke is radioactive – 1 year is the same as 300 chest Xrays
- Each ng extra vitamin D associated with better breathing (and 2X better for smokers) – March 2018
- A smoker costs a company 5816 dollars every year – Aug 2013
- FDA in VitaminDWiki title (35 as of Nov 2021)
Smoking reduces vitamin D - many studies contains the following
Two pathways are often proposed for how smoking decreases vitamin D:
1) Smoking decreases Calcium. and Vitamin D is used up in replacing the Calcium
2) Smoking injures the body, and vitamin D is used up in repairing the body
It appears that taking Vitamin D while smoking will:
1) Decrease the incidence of the many health problems associated with smoking - even lung cancer
2) Decrease the desire to smoke (perhaps take fewer smoking breaks?)
3) Increase breathing capacity
Opinion: If you must smoke, have recently smoked, or are getting 2nd hand smoke:
take Vitamin D and perhaps Omega-3
They will extinguish much of the inflammation caused by inhaling tobacco smoke.
Vitamin D should also help people quit smoking
1) Reduces weight gain associated with quitting smoking
2) Reduces depression associated with quitting smoking
Canadian Cancer Society summary of global cigarette warnings
Sample of warnings outside of the US
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