Schwarzenegger has raised the morale of soldiers in Iraq cigars

The famous actor and California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger has visited Iraq to meet with American soldiers to raise their morale.
Schwarzenegger arrived at the military base Camp Victory in western Baghdad from Israel, where he participated in a conference devoted to security in the Middle East.
During the meeting, which lasted two hours, 13-times world champion in bodybuilding time to talk with about 400 soldiers. They shook hands, was photographed on his memory and gave some of these cigars.
"I have been here in 2003 and said," I'll be back "before departure" - said in his speech, Schwarzenegger, repeating a phrase he has played the legendary cyborg from the movie "Terminator".
Terminator always keeps its promises ", - said 62-year-old politician, a Republican.
The military operation the United States and its allies against Iraq began in March 2003. The formal pretext for the start of the operation was the so far unconfirmed statement by the American leadership about whether Iraq possessed weapons of mass destruction.
U.S. on June 30 completed the withdrawal of combat troops from Baghdad and other Iraqi cities. In Iraq, leaving only the unit, whose mission is teaching the Iraqi security forces and providing them with expert assistance. Complete withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq will be held before the end of 2011.
The American contingent has currently more than 130 thousand soldiers. Since the beginning of operations in Iraq, according to Western media, have killed at least 4 359 American servicemen.

Cigarettes replace ... eggplant?

Nicotine is found not only in tobacco, but also in some other plants of the family Solanaceae. In small amounts of nicotine in eggplant. But this concentration is enough to reduce the unpleasant sensations that occur during smoking cessation. Nicotine - a drug. Man, quit smoking, is experiencing "breaking". Eggplant will help to cope with this condition. German drug treatment argue that eggplant can replace the nicotine patch, it softens the syndrome of "breaking up" as effectively.
Those who decided to quit smoking, the German drug treatment is recommended to include in the daily diet of eggplant. According to scientists, if you eat only 10 grams of eggplant, the organism enters a microgram (mcg) of nicotine. But this dose is absolutely safe for the body and not bring any harm. For comparison - one cigarette contains up to 1000 or more micrograms of nicotine.

Transition to "easy" cigarettes complicates refusal of smoking

Experts know for a long time that cigarettes with the lowered maintenance of pitches, so-called "easy" cigarettes, are not more healthy at all than usual tobacco products. New research has shown even more: transition to the facilitated cigarettes does refusal of smoking by much less probable.
Within the limits of the new research which results are published on November, 3rd in it-lajn magazine Tobacco Control versions, experts have studied the data of interrogation of 2003 spent among 30800 smokers at least within year of inhabitants of the USA. 38 % from them have passed from usual cigarettes to lungs. The majority (26 %) the passed have informed that have made it because of the best taste of light cigarettes. 43 % were mentioned by two and more reasons of transition also the desire to give up smoking, in particular, was mentioned. Nevertheless, at people who have passed to the facilitated cigarettes, chances to refuse a bad habit it has appeared on 46 % less, than at those who continued to smoke usual cigarettes.
Why people who pass to light cigarettes, with smaller probability give up smoking? Researchers assume that transition to the facilitated cigarettes can resolve когнитивный a discord of the smoker. He thinks: «Well, as I smoke less harmful cigarettes, I do not need to worry about a cancer of lungs, heart diseases, an impotence, wrinkles, premature death (necessary to underline)». Such rationalisation forces conscious smokers to continue to smoke. However there is also other possible explanation. It is quite probable that the people passing to light cigarettes, are much more strongly dependent on smoking. Without dependence how name a cigarette, all of them are equally hazardous to health, authors of research remind.