How to quit smoking when you are pregnant
It's no surprise that smoking during pregnancy is dangerous - yet approximately 13 percent of women admitted to lighting up during the last three months of their pregnancies, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.www.foxnews.com
Scientists debate a license to smoke cigarettes
Yes, a license to smoke. Simon Chapman, a professor of public health at the University of Sydney in Australia, offers this radical proposal to help reduce the damaging health effects of tobacco, both for the user and the recipient of second-hand smoke.www.cbsnews.com
Quit Now! Tips to Stop Smoking
People know smoking is unhealthy, but just how bad is it? Smoking causes cancer of almost every organ system in the body, from the mouth, throughout the GI [gastrointestinal] tract, the lungs - every organ system can develop cancer through smoking.family.lifegoesstrong.com
Gruesome cigarette pack images sway smokers
Cigarette packs featuring images of cadavers, a field of weathered tombstones or yellow-toothed, cancer-riddled mouths may indeed convince smokers to quit, a new study suggests, and those kinds of pictures may have a particularly strong impact on ...www.wowktv.com
Day 2: 'Idiot' driver stops smoking, texting
Municipal Court Judge Pinkey Carr, unhappy that Shena Hardin was smoking and texting Tuesday, said she planned to personally supervise the defendant Wednesday, but then the judge later changed her mind.www.journalgazette.net
Serving Cigar Smokers
As the weather gets colder, product sales tend to increase dramatically, and for a very logical reason. "In most markets there are significant enough restrictions on indoor smoking so most people have to smoke outside," Kerstein said. "When the weather ...www.csdecisions.com
Smoking affects allergy-relevant stem cells
For the first time a team at the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ) has found evidence for this: Smoking affects the development of peripheral allergy-relevant stem cells in the blood.www.sciencecodex.com
They're not blowing smoke
Search the sporting good shops. There's no magic pill to improve your agility on the tennis court. There are no elixirs that guarantee a three-minute drop in your 5K time.www.chapelhillnews.com
Smokers' genes in study spotlight
Scientists at the University of Leicester are researching why smoking harms the lungs of some people more than others. Their joint project with colleagues from the University of Nottingham will be the largest- ever study of genetics and lung disease.www.thisisleicestershire.co.uk
ASU students protest smoking and tobacco ban that would affect all property ...
TEMPE, AZ - Arizona State University students will protest a smoking/tobacco ban Wednesday morning. Students for Liberty, a group that organized the rally, says the ban infringes on an individual's right to choose.www.abc15.com
Who's Smoking and Who's Voting: Pratt's Stats, via the Prattler
Although yesterday saw the launch of the Design Salary Guide, we were also interested to hear that Pratt's student-designed, -managed and -organized magazine the "Prattler" recently did a survey on the student body.www.core77.com
'No smoking' campaigns could have opposite effect
Researchers from Oxford University and American colleagues found that smokers showed more interest in cigarettes after being shown a series of images which contained "no smoking" signs in the background. The results suggest that campaigns against ...timesofindia.indiatimes.com
Smokers' group: High taxation on cigarettes 'not working'
He said: "Since 2002 the retail price of a pack of twenty cigarettes has nearly doubled. Since 2005, when the Office of Tobacco Control declared that the smoking rate had fallen to 23.5% of the population, it has risen to at least 29%. High taxation ...www.irishexaminer.com
Employers to workers: Shape up, quit smoking
The number of companies offering wellness perks, including everything from fitness club membership reimbursement to weight loss programs, has barely budged since the Great Recession started.lifeinc.today.com
Legalized pot: Smoke it or eat it?
The recreational use of marijuana is now legal in both Colorado and Washington, which means that (state) law-abiding Americans might soon have the choice to use a substance whose long-term health effects are still not well understood by science.www.foxnews.com
Meth-Smoking Man in Stolen Dodge Charger Leads Burien Police on Wild Ride
"Immediately afterwards he apparently pulled out a methamphetamine pipe and started smoking right there in front of everybody," McCurdy said.blogs.seattleweekly.com
Smoke 'em while you got 'em
President Dr. Robert Vartabedian signed a tobacco-free policy on Oct. 23 after being recommended by the Missouri Western Advisory Council on Oct. 16.www.thegriffonnews.com
Many say pot-smoking should be legal
"Smoking pot fries your brain, but if you're sick or old and sick, I say why not." Linda Kay Hobbs Baird agrees medicinal marijuana should be made available to approved patients in Oklahoma.tahlequahdailypress.com
Smoke-free beaches could be next
Smoking at the beach could join bans at playgrounds and sports fields in the latest moves to make Auckland smoke-free by 2025.www.nzherald.co.nz
Smoking in the car a rising problem, experts find
"Childhood tobacco smoke exposure in confined spaces should be considered an intervention priority in the pediatric setting because children's exposure to tobacco smoke is involuntary, and no one other than the child's health care provider may have the ...www.deseretnews.com
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