Historically considered a male habit, the feminization of smoking took place in parallel. In addition to the advent of fashion brands or trademarks of cigarettes marketed specifically to women who use these brands as a way to increase or enhance their sexual attractiveness. It focuses on conscious damselflies of professionals who are the target demographic for these brands, which are differentiated by slimness and added length over traditional brands of cigarettes.
These brands include decorative as Eve, strictly to women like Virginia Slims, or if styles like Sobranie evening cocktail or Sobranie black Russian on the market. Many fashion houses have given their name (with a volume license) on cigarettes; Yves Saint Laurent is probably the most successful of these, (although he has given an interview to 1968 he smokes, but not its namesake brand, as it "don't like the taste"), although they have many other brands, all the time, then, in select international markets: Givenchy, Versace, Christian Lacroix and Cartier, Pierre Cardin (a jewellery House).
In the 1980s and the beginning of the 1990s, established manufacturers, MIL 204 by inch versions of several ladies of cigarettes, an example which can be seen in the video Madonna "Vogue". However, you have a small niche in the market, the machines they have since been dismantled.
With the anti-smoking movement in the United States, have transformed the manufacturers of cigarettes in Asia, where there is a separate market for female oriented brands and the new rich in Russia.
Effects of tobacco on health
Effects of tobacco on health are the circumstances, the mechanisms and factors of smoking on human health. Epidemiological studies have focused on the cigarette smoke tobacco, which is more widely studied in any other form of consumption.
Tobacco is the largest preventable cause of death in the world. Tobacco consumption usually leads to diseases of the heart and lungs, with smoking being an important risk factor for heart attack, stroke, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) (including emphysema and chronic bronchitis) and cancer (particularly lung cancer, cancer of the larynx and mouth and cancer of the pancreas). It causes also hypertension and peripheral vascular disease. Depend on the number of years that a person who smokes and how the person who smokes. Start smoking earlier in the life and the tar in the cigarette smoking increases the risk of these diseases. Cigarettes sold in developing countries tend to have high content of tar and are less likely to be filtered, potentially increasing the vulnerability to tobacco disease in these areas.
World of the Health Organization (who) estimated that tobacco killed 5.4 million in 2004 and 100 million deaths in the 20th century. It also describes the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and prevention tobacco use as "single most important preventable risk to human health in developed countries and a major cause of premature death in the world.".
Smoke contains several carcinogenic pyrolytische that bind to DNA and make many genetic mutations. There are more chemical carcinogens 19 products in cigarette smoke [citation needed]. Tobacco contains the nicotine, which is also a strong dependence on chemical psychoactive. When tobacco is smoked, nicotine causes physical and psychological dependence. The use of tobacco is a major factor in miscarriages among pregnant smokers, contributes to a number of other threats to the health of the fetus that birth weight premature and low and increased from 1.4 to 3 times the risk of sudden death syndrome (SIDS) infant. Seems the result of scientific studies on rats indicate that exposure to cigarette smoke in utero may reduce brain could recognize a fetal hypoxia, making the likelihood of accidental asphyxiation. The incidence of impotence is approximately 85 percent higher in smokers compared to non-smokers and is an important factor that causes dysfunction (erectile dysfunction).
