Tag: tobacco
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
$47.7 Million To Save $1
Big tobacco spends $47.7 million to save a buck…kind of.
Posted: April 24, 2014 | tobacco | American Heart Foundation, American Lunch Association, ballot, big tobacco, California, California ballot, cancer research, Cancer Society, cigarettes, million, prop 29, smoking, tobacco | 0 Comments
Legal Wrangling by Big Tobacco
It has long been suspected that big tobacco has known about the health risks associated with smoking for decades. Many believe that tobacco companies choose to ignore, or in some cases even lie about or cover up, the truth. The truth in this case, is that smoking can cause cancer and other serious health problems.
Posted: April 24, 2014 | tobacco | legal, lie, 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
Money Well Spent
Despite the country being in a state of recession, funding is still allocated both federally and locally for healthy lifestyle promotions. The largest amount of money goes to anti-smoking advertising and has for some time now. With tough economic times upon us, we’ve seen the amount of money given to anti-smoking campaigns dwindle but never
Posted: April 24, 2014 | tobacco | cigarette, smoking, tobacco | 0 Comments
Cigarette Butts Are Poisonous To Fish
It’s estimated that some 4.5 trillion cigarette butts are thrown on the ground or in bodies of water each year. For the record, there are 12 zeros in a trillion, that’s a whole lot of litter.
Posted: January 2, 2012 | tobacco | cigarette, cigarette butts, environment, fish, pollution, smoking, tobacco | 0 Comments