Available at: accessed May 19, 2006
PMID 30679850
Smoking and tobacco-related products promote more aggressive tumors through increased proliferation, angiogenesis, migration, invasion, and resistance to cytotoxic therapy, and they cause adverse outcomes in patients with cancer through increased overall mortality, cancer- specific mortality, risk for developing a second primary cancer, and strong associations with increased toxicity from cancer treatment.2 In an effort to improve population health, the Finnish government aims to make the country tobacco-free by 2030
The reduction in harm thus also reduces the necessary health-care costs of treating those harms
For example, there are air-cured, fire-cured, flu-cured, sun-cured, and fermentation-cured tobaccos
At the beginning of the eighteenth century the average product of one man was from 1,500 to 2,000 pounds or in terms of acreage, from one and a half to two acres, plus six or seven barrels of corn