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Stay Metal Giveaway
Cigarette smoke contains over 7,000 chemicals, including chemicals that can be found in heavy metals. Stay metal, don’t smoke it. Take our quiz to find out how much you know about metal music, and you’ll be entered to win weekly prizes, including Miss May I merch bundles and 5th generation 32gb iPods. Watch our video
Posted: March 2, 2015 | the scene, tobacco | cigarette, giveaway, merch, miss may i, prizes, quiz, smoking, stay metal | 0 Comments
Win Tickets To Warped Tour
4.5 trillion cigarette butts are littered every year worldwide. Join Blacklist & Crown The Empire in exposing the damage that cigarette litter does to our world. You could win tickets to Vans Warped Tour or a behind-the-scenes class with the band. All you have to do to enter is vote for your favorite video by
Posted: April 30, 2014 | the scene, tobacco | behind-the-scenes, cigarette, crown the empire, litter, warped tour | 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
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
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
The Nicotine Wean
Quitting sucks. Just ask anyone who’s ever tried. Nicotine has a strangle hold on smokers that is so incredibly tough to break that most smokers aren’t able to successfully quit on their first try. Not only is there a strong chemical addiction to nicotine that the body has a hard time shaking but there’s also
Posted: April 24, 2014 | tobacco | cigarette, nicotine, smoking, tobacco | 0 Comments
E-Cig Explodes…In Someone’s Face
Everyone knows that smoking isn’t safe. Even electronic cigarettes have their risks; while they contain fewer chemicals than a normal cig, they have higher amounts of nicotine per puff and make quitting tough even though they’re marketed as a “healthier” alternative to traditional smoking. But for one Florida man, the danger of smoking an E-cig
Posted: April 24, 2014 | tobacco | cigarette, e-cig, electronic cigarette, smoking, tobacco, vaping | 0 Comments