Arkansas official warns about new Swedish tobacco product
Jump to full article: Gainesville (GA) Times, 2009-05-25
Author: Melissa Weinman
Intro: Everyone knows smoking is bad for you. But many do not realize the worldwide implications that tobacco has on health care and human rights, said Dr. Carolyn Dresler, the director for the Arkansas Department of Health Tobacco Prevention and Cessation.
"The tobacco epidemic is a global epidemic of which Georgia or the U.S. is just a piece of the puzzle," Dresler said. "For the most part what we treat are preventable diseases."
Dresler spoke to a group of medical professionals and representatives from community groups about the importance of tobacco cessation Tuesday at the Chattahoochee Country Club.
Dresler presented the group with some alarming facts -- for example, that smoking causes more deaths than AIDS, car crashes and alcohol and that 1.5 times more women die from lung cancer than from breast cancer.
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