World No Tobacco Day is soon upon us and I thought it might be useful to translate the original press release to reflect the real world implications of the FCTC treaty. Some of us will be following this up with a blog post or two on how this treaty helps to maintain high levels of […]
Monthly Archives: May 2011
A few centuries ago, tobacco would as often as not be used for ceremonial or therapeutic purpose and the received wisdom of the time was that it could heal much of what could ail you. This attitude still survives in Ayurvedic smoking practice. (The advantage of having a shorter lifespan is that even if something […]
I ran across a fascinating resource (Worldmapper.org) which maps various health outcomes onto regions of the world and thus produces a global picture which when compared against the typical map indicates imbalances or concentrations depending on your outlook. This first map is one of prostate cancer deaths; that is, a cancer unrelated to smoking history. […]
