No Explanation for why Teenagers Smoke

"What are the main causes which make teenagers to take up smoking? Unfortunately nobody especially adults can’t explain that. And so, concentrating on one single risk factor is not likely to help adolescents abstain peer pressure to smoke, or help improvement the...

FDA Finds Toxic Chemicals In Electronic Cigarettes

7/22/2009 Alida Antonia Cornelius The FDA is notifying healthcare professionals, patients, and consumers about their laboratory testing of the ingredients from cartridges from two leading brands of electronic...

Tax chocolate says Scottish doctor

A family doctor from Scotland has called for a tax to be set on chocolate to help pay for the fight with obesity and type 2 diabetes. The doc thinks a system should be set-up similar to cigarettes and alcohol....

Cigarette Machines, Tobacco Displays to be Banned in Scotland

In an effort to curb child smoking in Scotland, cigarette vending machines and tobacco displays in shops will be banned under proposed legislation.  Retailers would also have to partake in a registration...

Cigarette Butts, Packaging, Make Up 90% of All Litter

It seems that cigarettes don't just add to air pollution, they make up the majority of street pollution as well.  An experiment conducted in Nova Scotia, Canada, identified cigarette butts and cigarette...

Lowest Number Ever of Smokers in UK

Aggressive health campaigns banning smokers from lighting up at work and bars have had the desired effect of decreasing the percentage of smokers in the UK.Officials now state that 21% of residents are smokers, down...

Butting Out: The Slow Death of Smoking in Canada

Barry Artiste Op/Ed This story and the links tells you virtually everything you wanted to know about smoking from the cradle to the grave. Pretty insightful. "Butting Out: The Slow Death of Smoking in Canada Not...

First Nations, the anti-Tobacco agenda, and Extraterrestrials

Tobacco used to be appreciated as both a medicine and as something of a great spiritual significance. You may have, for example, heard of the use of the Peace Pipe among First Nations. Now, through cigarettes, it has become synonymous with a nasty habit, and a...

Fire Safe Cigarettes Mandated in 5 More US States

As of January 1 2009, 5 US more states put into effect a mandate which requires that stores sell only fire-safe cigarettes from now on. " Delaware, Iowa, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania and Texas on Thursday joined 17...

Smoking hasn't been cool since the Clinton clan rolled into town

Smoking, in America has not been cool since the Clinton clan rolled into the White House. Instead smokers have been pushed to the back burner, cornered, boxed in, ostracized and finally knocked of the...

UK cigarettes to be sold under the counter

The UK government has passed unprecedented legislation to force shopkeepers to keep cigarettes under the counter rather than display them. New restrictions on cigarette vending machines are also to go into force....

The Great American Smokeout 2008: Quit Smoking Today

Today is the day to quit smoking - for 24 hours, anyway.  The Great American Smokeout was launched in 1997 by the American Cancer Society in an effort to encourage smokers to butt out for at least 24...

13 year-old girl rewarded with cigarettes

Sex, drugs and rock and roll. 13 year-old Sam Holt does all that, and more, with her mother's knowledge and support. In cases when the young teenager does something right, her mother rewards her with cigarettes....

Alleged thief leaves his signature

"Alleged thief leaves his signatureIOWA CITY, Iowa – Police didn’t have much trouble finding a man accused of using a stolen credit card — he signed his own name on one of the receipts. The 21-year-old Iowa City man is accused of using the credit card to buy a latte at...

“Songbird” McCain got sex, drugs and cigs from his North Vietnamese capto...

John "Songbird" McCain and his followers are in feigned huff about "character".  Whilst John McCain may indeed be a character, he is more than lacking in character.His "heroic" time as a prisoner of war...

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