Category: tobacco
Where There’s Smoke There’s Fire
It seems like the most obvious danger that a cigarette can pose. No, not cancer or some kind of illness; we’re talking about fire. However, fires caused by unattended cigarettes are still a major problem despite humans understanding the dangers of flame since caveman times.
Posted: April 24, 2014 | tobacco | cigarettes, fire, smoking, tobacco | 0 Comments
Little Help For Smokers With Lung Cancer
According to a new study, most lung cancer patients who acquire the disease thanks to smoking aren’t offered help in quitting as part of their treatment. Only one-third of doctors currently have the knowledge and background to offer cessation help but that number doesn’t look to be going up any time soon.
Posted: April 24, 2014 | tobacco | cigarettes, lunch cancer, smoking, tobacco | 0 Comments
E-Cig Usage Doubles
“If large numbers of adult smokers become users of both traditional cigarettes and e-cigarettes — rather than using e-cigarettes to quit cigarettes completely — the net public health effect could be quite negative.” – Tim McAfee, MD, MPH
Posted: April 24, 2014 | tobacco | cigarette, e-cig, electronic cigarette, smoking, tobacco, vaping | 0 Comments
Thanks But No Thanks
Politics can be a dirty game. Money talks and nonsense walks but things have a way of getting sticky when campaigns get shady donations. Every politician needs financial backing to run a campaign. Advertising and travel aren’t cheap, so they all rely on 3rd party supporters to donate money to their cause. Problem is, nothing
Posted: April 24, 2014 | tobacco | big tobacco, politics, tobacco | 0 Comments
Resolution: QUIT
Well folks, it’s a new year and like all the other beginnings of January that have come before this one, New Year’s resolutions are in full force. Those new running shoes are finally hitting some pavement, the Bow Flex is out of the box, you trashed grandma’s leftover sugar cookies that you had stashed in
Posted: April 24, 2014 | tobacco | cig, cigarette, new year's, quit, quit smoking, resolution, smoking, tobacco | 0 Comments
Big Tobacco Hikes Up Price Per Pack
It was just announced that three major American tobacco companies have banded together in a mutual price hike. The price increase is 6¢ per pack which doesn’t seem like anything too crazy upon first glance but when you consider the sheer volume of packs of cigarettes that sell in this country on a daily basis,
Posted: April 24, 2014 | tobacco | big tobacco, price, smoking, tobacco | 0 Comments
Smoking: Bad For Business
According to a new study conducted by the University of Nottingham, smokers are 33% more likely to take time off than non-smokers. Given the plethora of negative health effects that smoking brings with it, this isn’t altogether surprising but when the university put a monetary amount on what these absences cost business, the result was
Posted: April 24, 2014 | tobacco | bad for business, business, cigarette, smoking, tobacco | 0 Comments
Opportunity Up In Smoke
As if raising the price per pack wasn’t enough of an economic deterrent, nicotine users nationwide can expect to see a growing number of employers screening smokers. While not the first in the nation to do so, news broke about two Detroit-based health care companies that will start denying employment to applicants who smoke in
Posted: April 24, 2014 | tobacco | cigarette, heath care, smoking, tobacco | 0 Comments
Cigarette Burns Eye
We all know the dangers associated with smoking: lung cancer, heart disease and even impotence among others. With all the long-term health issues smoking creates we often overlook the short-term dangers.
Posted: April 24, 2014 | tobacco | burn, cigarette, eye, smoking, tobacco | 0 Comments
The Re-Barn Initiative
Throughout much of the southern United States, hillsides are sporadically pimpled with relics of an age long gone: the tobacco barn. Once serving as both a working tobacco curing facility and a predecessor to the modern billboard, tobacco barns were plentiful in their heyday. In the modern world, farming is on a decline and the
Posted: April 24, 2014 | tobacco | barn, cigarette, smoking, tobacco, tobacco barn | 0 Comments