• Al Capone$44.00
• Astra$7.60
• Atis$15.30
• Avalon$12.40
• Beratt$15.10
• Bond Street$12.40
• Camel$17.00
• Chesterfield$15.10
• Cigaronne$20.10
• Classic$11.10
• Cosmos$9.43
• Davidoff$21.10
• Doina$10.10
• Dunhill$31.10
• Esse$16.70
• Eva$14.70
• Focus$11.10
• Fluieras$10.10
• Glamour$14.20
• Hilton$11.10
• Karelia$18.10
• Kent$18.90
• Kiss$13.90
• L&M$14.10
• Lady$13.80
• Leana$8.10
• LD$8.40
• Luceafar$9.60
• Lucky Strike$15.60
• Marengo$22.60
• Marlboro$18.70
• Monte Carlo$12.60
• Moods$56.60
• MT$10.60
• Nistru$8.60
• OK$13.10
• Orbita$9.60
• Pall Mall$15.30
• Parliament$22.60
• Plai$10.10
• Plugarul$10.10
• Prima Lux$11.60
• Prefect$12.40
• R1 Slim$17.40
• Red & White$11.10
• Rich$16.70
• Richmond$31.10
• Ritm$11.10
• Sobranie$38.70
• Style$12.10
• Temp$10.10
• Viceroy$11.60
• Virginia$17.70
• Vogue$21.10
• Wind$12.40
• Winston$15.60
• Zimbru$9.60

Smoking Cigarettes, a Bad Habit

In this year anti-smoking campaigns became more visible, that’s why the market for nicotine replacement therapies will also reestablish. In many countries tobacco kills more than one million people annually. For example about 14.1 percent of Indian teenagers are tobacco users, 17.3 percent among males and 9.7 percent among females, according to a 2008 World Health Organization (WHO) study.

In India, patients do not consider smoking as a serious addiction, till it starts showing its bad effects on physical and mental capacity, impotency, cancer etc. According to a recent study, tobacco consumption in India happens in two main ways - smoking (online cigarette, cigar, and beedi) and chewing tobacco (raw tobacco, gutka, and supari). There are approximately 200 million tobacco consumers in India, of which only 14 percent smoke cigarettes.

The low rate of cigarette consumption in India is the result of punitive and discriminatory taxation regime by governments. Therefore, Indian smokers are choosing lower value tobacco products like beedi and other chewing tobacco products over cigarettes. Unfortunately, smoking is not a disease that can be treated. Instead, it is a bad habit known to kill people. And the only way to stop this deadly habit was by self-control which was quite difficult for serious smokers.

Smokers can quit only using one of these two major types of therapies available in the market - nicotine replacements therapy (NRT) and other pharmacological therapies. NRT comes in transdermal patches, chewing gums, inhalers, nasal sprays and lozenges. Pharmacological therapies include Bupropion, and some leading brands include Bupron-SR, Smoquit-SR (Sun Pharmaceuticals), Bupep, Nicotex (Cipla), Zyben (GSK) and etc.

Alok Saxena, Director of the Elder Pharmaceuticals, said: "The best way to treat heavy nicotine addiction is through NRT and counseling for de-addiction but not a drug combination therapy." Apart from the above therapies, there are other therapies such as hypnosis, acupuncture, and counseling that are also used to reduce nicotine addiction. Scientists said that most of smoker may quit only for preventing collateral damage to the 'passive smokers' around him/her, especially family members.