| The Tobacco Reference Guide |
| by David Moyer, MD. |
| Chapter 38 Miscellaneous |
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| Poison control centers report that there are 15,000 cases each year in the U.S. of |
| children under age 6 who swallow cigarette butts or whole cigarettes. Many of these |
| end up with nicotine poisoning. |
| Dean Edell, MD, ABC TV, San Francisco, March 1, 1996 |
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| Glamour magazine in November 1993 ran a cover story "Health Payoffs: 20 little |
| changes to make now." In order to avoid problems like heart disease and cancer, the |
| magazine recommended measures including drinking pure water, wearing |
| sunglasses, seeing a dentist, and devoting time to your feet. But avoiding smoking did |
| not make the list. |
| Tobacco Control, Summer 1994, p. 103 |
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| In the early 1990's, it was estimated that the Veterans Administration and Medicaid |
| paid $210 million a year for home oxygen therapy, or 15% of the $1.4 billion annual |
| cost. In a study of VA patients on supplemental home oxygen, 21.3% of the veterans |
| who knew that they were coming to the hospital to re-certify for oxygen had recently |
| smoked tobacco, as indicated by a carboxy-hemoglobin level of greater than 2.5%. |
| The study authors posed two questions: "Is it cost-effective for the VA to continue to |
| fund long-term supplemental oxygen for their patients who continue to smoke |
| cigarettes? Would it be unreasonable to insist that hypoxemic patients who continue |
| to smoke cigarettes and wish to use home oxygen assume the cost through private |
| pay?" |
| Federal Practitioner, October 1997, pp. 62-63 |
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| Up to half of patients on home oxygen admit to smoking. In a study from Johns |
| Hopkins, 21 patients on home oxygen suffered severe burns when their oxygen |
| delivery system ignited while they smoked. |
| Burns 24:658, 1998 |
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