NEU 365W Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Acute Myeloid Leukemia, Smoking Pipe, Botany
Document Summary
History of tobacco: americans 8,000 years for medicinal & ceremonial purposes. Efficient delivery tool led to more use and addiction. Medicinal use: disinfection/fumigation, treat upper respiratory infections, topically for local pain relief and skin infections, mixed with chalk to whiten teeth. Prevention and tobacco control act 2009: 21% used tobacco products (majority cigarettes) 60% are daily smokers & 40% smoke > a pack a day, addiction is common. First links to cancer: 1761 london botanist john hill nasal cancer by sniffing snuff (not substantiated, 1939 german causes lung cancer (substantiated) Susceptible to chronic lung infections: about develop emphysema (hollowing out of lung/scarring) over expansion, heart attack, cancer (except lung), stroke, lung cancer. Quitting tobacco improves mortality risk for all tobacco-related causes: improvement from many things: cancer risk, cardiovascular risk of the lung (barrel chests with poor air exchange, no improvement in fixed lung disease.
