One of our reader sent these photos of Ambreen Rubab from Rawalpindi (also known as

Pindi). What a beautiful look as you can see, smoking queen, Ambreen has. Ambreen is on a holiday in
these photos. I don’t know Ambreen you smoke regularly or occasionally but it looks awesome! While
on the other hand its not good for your health. Our readers, will sure request you to stop this smoking
habit. We all have heard the warnings– cigarettes can cause cancer and increase our risk of heart
disease. But the sad fact is that approximately 23 million women in the US (23percent of the female
population) still smoke cigarettes. Smoking is the most preventable cause of death in this country, yet
more than 140,000 women die each year from smoking related causes. The highest rate of smoking (27
percent) occurs among women between twenty-five and forty-four.

According to one of the researches, it has been found that the smell and taste of cigarettes play a
greater role in women’s smoking behavior than in that of men. Another study found that cognitive-
behavioral therapy aimed at changing attitudes about weight promotes smoking cessation by women.
Even if we compare their stats with men, we’ll be surprised to know that the guys who smoke are one
out of every three. However, while smoking as well as smoking-related deaths from such diseases as
lung cancer have been falling in men, they have been increasing in women. Smoking, in fact, takes a
greater toll on the health of women than men; a smoking woman loses, on an average, 15 years of her
life while a smoking man loses just over 13 years.

So what? We wish a long healthy life to you! Live with peace and prosperity.

Smoking and Health

Forest understands and fully accepts the health risks of smoking and the nature of that
risk. Indeed, the health risks have been known for so long (the US Surgeon General first
announced a link between smoking and lung cancer in 1964) we believe there cannot be a sane
adult in the UK who is not aware of the potential danger.

We do however have a problem with the tactics adopted by politicians and the health industry
who routinely use the health argument to say they are "protecting" smokers from themselves.
The health argument is then presented in one of several ways.

The first is to frighten smokers into believing that they will almost certainly die before their time
("Quit or die"). The problem with this message is that it is so obviously false. As a great many
families (and even doctors) will testify, many smokers live a long and healthy life, sometimes
outliving their non-smoking peers.
Moreover, with one major exception (lung cancer), none of the illnesses described as "smoking-
related" is exclusive to smokers and all are primarily diseases of the elderly. In reality, two-thirds
of all deaths in the UK are caused by "smoking-related diseases", despite the fact that only half
of those people actually smoke.

Other factors

Common sense would suggest that something else must be responsible for these "smoking-
related diseases" (and, no, it's not passive smoking!) which is unrelated to smoking. Diet,
perhaps, or genetic factors, or even general lifestyle (lack of exercise, for example). Or maybe
(horror of horrors) it's just old age.

One disease that smoking cannot ignore is lung cancer for the simple reason that it very, very
rarely afflicts non-smokers. (The average annual risk of a non-smoker getting lung cancer has
been calculated to be 0.01%.) Even for smokers, however, the quit or die message seems a bit
excessive. According to Professor Sir Richard Doll (the man who first  discovered a correlation
between smoking and lung cancer in the 1950s) research suggests that if you start smoking as a
teenager and quit aged 30, the risk of developing lung cancer is 2%; give up at 50 and the risk
goes up to 8%; give up at 70 (by which time you have been smoking for more than 50 years) and
the risk rises to 16%.

Surprised? Let's face it, these figures paint a rather different picture from the anti-smoking lobby
which gives the impression that most if not all smokers are going to die a horrible, agonising
death well before their time. Again, this isn't to deny the health risks, but let's get this in
perspective. In spite of what some people would have you believe, smoking is not a one-way
ticket to Death Row.

Beneficial qualities

Revealingly, the anti-smoking lobby refuses point blank to  acknowledge that smoking has

any beneficial qualities whatsoever. The health risks of smoking may outweight the health risks
of stress, for example, but there are many smokers who believe passionately that the former
helps reduce the latter.

Likewise, many smokers believe (rightly or wrongly) that smoking (and the occasional smoking
break) helps improve their concentration and makes them more efficient at work. Meanwhile,
instead of welcoming research which suggests  that smoking may help ward off Alzheimer's
Disease (one of most debilitating illnesses known to man), the anti-smokers pour scorn on the
idea. Why?

Finally, there is a clear lack of perspective in the smoking debate, a factor most clearly illustrated
by the anti-smokers' complaint that James Bond, in the 2002 film Die Another Day, was filmed
smoking a cigar. The fact that they had no problem with 007 having casual, unprotected sex,
driving dangerously fast or being in possession of a loaded gun (with intent to kill!) reveals more
about their narrow-minded obsession than it does about the dangers of smoking.