"One-third of the patients who are in our hospital are here today because of cigarettes." Still, this newest report is unusual because it devotes more than 700 pages to detail the biology of how cigarette smoke accomplishes its dirty deeds including the latest genetic findings to help explain why some people become more addicted than others, and why some smokers develop tobacco-caused disease faster than others
Figure 1.3.7 shows the prevalence of current smoking (daily, weekly, or less than weekly) from each of the major national surveys in Australia, the US, the UK, England, Canada and New Zealand since about 2010
It is a cloud of tiny, sticky, semi-volatile particles: tar, nicotine, resins, and acidic combustion byproducts that ride on microscopic droplets of oil
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