All posts tagged "tobacco"
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Gateway Drugs that Every Mom Must Know About
Raising children can be challenging enough on its own. The presence of negative outside influence can make the task seem even more challenging. Parents who...
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Quit Smoking: 4 Awesome Alternatives to Going Cold Turkey
Over the years, a lot of research has been performed to come up with unique methods to help people stop smoking. Smoking is hazardous to...
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The Catch 22 of NCDs: Non-Communicable Diseases
There are four big categories of non-communicable disease, or NCDs and they the main cause of death for 6 in every 10 people on the...
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5 Tips to Improve Your Dental Health
The new year is getting closer, and now is a time when many people start thinking about their resolutions and goals for 2013. This season,...
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QUIT SMOKING BEFORE 30!
New research on women smokers has just been published in the online ‘Lancet’ journal. It suggests that they can have all the sophistication and peer...
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The Battle Against Illegal Tobacco
World lobbying groups against smoking are celebrating this week. A ground-breaking level of international cooperation has been achieved with a treaty to fight the prohibited...
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Cigarette Substitutes Are an On-going Cause for Concern
Many Americans are kicking the cigarette habit. However it is concerning that many of them are turning to what economists call ‘product substitution’. Cigars and...
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WHO Conducts Largest Ever Health Study on Tobacco Use
The World Health Organization has just completed the largest study on health risks posed by tobacco use in history. The Global Adult Tobacco Survey made some...
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The Effects of Smoking on the Brain
The lungs almost always take centre stage when it comes to the discussions about the negative effects of smoking; little is said about the effects...
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Quit Smoking – Get Fat
In a study published in the British Medical Journal, researchers analyzed the results of 62 studies and concluded that smokers who give up their smoking...
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Making Tobacco too Expensive Is Great Prevention
Pricing smokers out of the tobacco habit is the best way to improve public health and cut off the disturbing number of young people turning...
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The Sunshine State Is not for Big Tobacco
Benny Martin died of lung cancer in 1995 aged 66 after a lifetime of smoking. His wife Mathilde sued R.J.Reynolds Tobacco co. because they sold...
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$54 Million Campaign to Tell Us What We Already Know, Smoking Is Not Cool!
Big tobacco spends an astronomical $10.5 BILLION on advertising and promotion each year and instead of outlawing these health officials are going to spend a...
