For example, many heart attack patients have undergone thrombolysis, a procedure that involves injecting a clot-dissolving agent to restore blood flow in a coronary artery (View an illustration of coronary arteries). This procedure is administered within a few (usually three) hours of a heart attack.
Hon Lik invented the e-cigarette to quit smoking â but now he's a dual user. Hon Lik, inventor of the e-cigarette, uses one of the devices in London on Tuesday. Hon Lik, the inventor of the e-cigarette, had hoped to kick his heavy smoking â the habit that killed his father. But the pharmacist, from Shenyang in north-east China, did not manage to quit. He now uses both â but says he only smokes tobacco because he has to check the flavours in his devices.
The tar derby. The cigarette makers first began making noises about safer cigarettes in the 1950s during a period now known among historians as the tar derby.. As a result of growing public concerns about smoking and health, the cigarette makers responded with a variety of new filter cigarettes that would ostensibly reduce tar levels. But the rise of the filter cigarette was more a marketing ploy than anything else.