tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14162253.post113141193400437840..comments2024-03-28T18:57:15.124-06:00Comments on Wash Park Prophet: Aromatherapy For MenAndrew Oh-Willekehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02537151821869153861noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14162253.post-1131426929071939382005-11-07T22:15:00.000-07:002005-11-07T22:15:00.000-07:00A scientific journal abstract has this to say:"BAC...A <A HREF="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=8860273&dopt=Abstract" REL="nofollow">scientific journal abstract</A> has this to say:<BR/><BR/>"BACKGROUND. National pipe-smoking prevalence data have rarely been reported, and mortality associated with pipe smoking has not been estimated. <BR/><BR/>METHODS. We analyzed National Health Interview Survey data from 1965, 1966, 1970, 1987, and 1991 to estimate adult pipe-smoking prevalence in the United States. For each of these years, we estimated pipe smoking-attributable mortality from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and cancers of the oral cavity, larynx, esophagus, and lung. <BR/><BR/>RESULTS. From 1965 to 1991, the prevalence of current pipe smoking for men declined 12.1 percentage points (from 14.1% to 2.0%) while pipe smoking remained very uncommon among women. By 1991, pipe smoking was a behavior found primarily among men age 45 years or older. Most men who smoked pipes also used other tobacco products, especially cigarettes. About 830 deaths (range 720-2,495) in 1965 and 1,095 deaths (range 655-2,820) in 1991 were attributable to pipe smoking. <BR/><BR/>CONCLUSIONS. If current trends continue, pipe smoking will become extremely rare in the United States by the year 2000. Reasons for the decline in pipe smoking may include the lack of appeal of pipe smoking to women and adolescents or the increasingly unfavorable image of smoking behavior in general. Prevention and cessation efforts need to be directed against all forms of tobacco, including smokeless tobacco use, cigar smoking, and pipe smoking."<BR/><BR/><A HREF="http://www.pipes.org/Articles/pioneer.html" REL="nofollow">A miniscule number of women smoke pipes -- less than 0.05 percent.</A><BR/><BR/>In <A HREF="http://www.statistics.gov.uk/cci/nugget.asp?id=313" REL="nofollow">the UK</A>:<BR/><BR/>"Pipe smoking<BR/>Overall, 2% of men in 2001 said they smoked a pipe. Among the 60 and over age group 4% of men smoked a pipe. This was a higher proportion than among any other age group; among men aged under 30, fewer than 0.5% smoked a pipe. <BR/><BR/>Cigar smoking<BR/>In 2001, only 5% of men smoked at least one cigar a month, compared with 34% in 1974. However unlike pipe smoking the number of cigar smokers was not concentrated in the 60 and over age group: 4% of 16-19 year old men said they smoked at least one per month.<BR/><BR/>Women and Cigars<BR/>Only a small number of women smoked cigars in 1974, and since the late 1970s the percentage of women smoking cigars has been so small that it is scarcely measurable"<BR/><BR/>About 1.1% of people over age 12 <A HREF="http://oas.samhsa.gov/NHSDA/tobacco/chapter2.htm" REL="nofollow">in 1999 in the U.S.</A> currently used a pipe and about 17.7% had ever done so.<BR/><BR/>In Australia <A HREF="http://www.quit.org.au/quit/pdf/12Cigar.pdf" REL="nofollow">1-2% of adults</A> smoke pipes.<BR/><BR/>The <A HREF="http://www.lungusa.org/atf/cf/%7B7A8D42C2-FCCA-4604-8ADE-7F5D5E762256%7D/SMK1.PDF" REL="nofollow">American Lung Association</A> put pipe use at 7.4% in 2000 (presumably more than regular use) and notes that cigarette consumption is down to 1939 levels.Andrew Oh-Willekehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02537151821869153861noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14162253.post-1131425554079626452005-11-07T21:52:00.000-07:002005-11-07T21:52:00.000-07:00Heresy!Heresy!Andrew Oh-Willekehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02537151821869153861noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14162253.post-1131424388129477952005-11-07T21:33:00.000-07:002005-11-07T21:33:00.000-07:00If they can make room sprays that smell like a rai...If they can make room sprays that smell like a rain forest, why not pipe tobacco?Julie O.https://www.blogger.com/profile/07953511804910482985noreply@blogger.com