Many Prides in California have already gone tobacco-free including San Francisco, San Diego, Santa Cruz, San Gabriel Valley and Bakersfield.
On paper, this means a TEREA stick delivers about half the nicotine of a cigarette
Nicotine can cause an individuals blood pressure and heart rate to increase, contributing to the narrowing of arteries, and ultimately damaging the flow of blood to the heart and body
Patients are not protected legally if they smoke medical cannabis
agent (B95-B97) occupational exposure to environmental tobacco smoke (Z57.31) tobacco dependence (F17.-) tobacco use (Z72.0) Excludes2: acute sinusitis (J01.-) J32.0 Chronic maxillary sinusitis Antritis (chronic) Maxillary sinusitis NOS J32.1 Chronic frontal sinusitis Frontal sinusitis NOS J32.2 Chronic ethmoidal sinusitis Ethmoidal sinusitis NOS Excludes1: Woakes' ethmoiditis (J33.1) J32.3 Chronic sphenoidal sinusitis Sphenoidal sinusitis NOS J32.4 Chronic pansinusitis Pansinusitis NOS J32.8 Other chronic sinusitis Sinusitis (chronic) involving more than one sinus but not pansinusitis J32.9 Chronic sinusitis, unspecified Sinusitis (chronic) NOS J33 Nasal polyp Use additional code to identify: exposure to environmental tobacco smoke (Z77.22) exposure to tobacco smoke in the perinatal period (P96.81) history of tobacco use (Z87.891) occupational exposure to environmental tobacco smoke (Z57.31) tobacco dependence (F17.-) tobacco use (Z72.0) Excludes1: adenomatous polyps (D14.0) J33.0 Polyp of nasal cavity Choanal polyp Nasopharyngeal polyp J33.1 Polypoid sinus degeneration Woakes' syndrome or ethmoiditis J33.8 Other polyp of sinus Accessory polyp of sinus Ethmoidal polyp of sinus Maxillary polyp of sinus Sphenoidal polyp of sinus J33.9 Nasal polyp, unspecified J34 Other and unspecified disorders of nose and nasal sinuses Excludes2: varicose ulcer of nasal septum (I86.8) J34.0 Abscess, furuncle and carbuncle of nose Cellulitis of nose Necrosis
