Tag: tobacco
New Drug Gives Smokers A Little Hope
Hey! Good news if you’re a smoker who developed lung cancer as a result of smoking: now there’s an outside chance that you might be able to reduce the size of your tumors by small enough margin to prolong the spreading of the cancer for a few years.
Posted: April 24, 2014 | tobacco | cessation, medication, smokers, smoking, tobacco | 0 Comments
Quitting Smoking Resets Your Heart
“It’s never too late to quit smoking. This study clearly shows that stopping smoking lowers the risk of heart attacks and death to the level of never smokers.” – Dr. James K. Min According to a new, multinational study lasting over two years, quitting smoking will eventually lower your rate of heart attack to
Posted: April 24, 2014 | tobacco | health, heart, quit, smoking, tobacco | 0 Comments
Pay Up
The funny thing about smoking is that nobody is denying its dangerous side. Every smoker knows the health risk they’re taking and these days, even big tobacco openly admits that they sell harmful products. Yet the products still exist, people still buy smokes and big tobacco sees the common knowledge regarding smoking’s danger not so
Posted: April 24, 2014 | tobacco | Eclipse, RJ Reynolds Tobacco Co, smoking, tobacco | 0 Comments
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