It is believed that smoking increases the risk of these and other respiratory tract infections both through structural damage and through effects on the immune system
More than 80 percent of smokers live in middle- and low-income countries, where pricier products like e-cigarettes arent likely to get off the ground in the near future and traditional cigarettes still find favor with consumers
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This means that for a smoker, a significant portion of their bloods oxygen-carrying capacity is taken up by a useless, toxic gas
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As University of Ottawa law professor David Sweanor, a tobacco control expert, told Sally Satel, who discussed the case in a Wall Street Journal op-ed piece on Monday, selling e-cigarettes "shouldn't even be a crime in the first place," and "a three-year jail sentence is so extreme and unjust it amounts to a serious and arbitrary abuse of human rights." Lest you think that Kaushik is a freelancing hardass, her ruling was greeted enthusiastically by Punjab's health secretary, Vini Mahajan