Performing preventive services: a bright futures handbook [Available from: Futures Documents/Anticipatory Guidance.pdf
Here are just a few: Tooth decay severe enough to lose teeth or to need teeth extracted Gum/periodontal disease resulting from nicotine plaque buildup at the gum line A weakened immune system, which increases your risk of: Deterioration of the jaw bone Movement of the teeth Lowered rate of salivation Infection after an oral surgery like a tooth extraction or tooth replacement Other mouth-related consequences of smoking tobacco can include reduced taste and smell, chronic cough, voice changes, and, of course, the decreased immune function that contributes to increased risk of oral diseases and cancers
Housed in gold plastic box, an imitation of a cigarette packet
As of Tuesday morning, the tax on a pack of cigarettes in Indiana has increased from about a dollar to about three dollars
A single 90-minute telecast of the Marlboro Grand Prix IndyCar race in 1989 featured over 5,000 visual and verbal mentions of Marlboro, thus circumventing the federal ban on tobacco advertisements on television, and providing primetime juxtapositions of athletes and cigarettes for tens of millions of young viewers
