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You May Lose Your Teeth from Smoking

You May Lose Your Teeth from Smoking A new study says that smokers, particularly among postmenopausal women, can actually lose their teeth. The first to look at the link behind tooth loss and smoking history, this study comprised over 1,100 women who were part of the famous...

Electronic Cigarettes- Facts: Are they bad for you?

Electronic Cigarettes- Facts: Are they bad for you?A new study from Germany suggest that eCigarettes often thought to be a healthier alternative to tobacco ones may not be safe after all.  Researchers at the Fraunhofer Institute for Wood Research WKI, in Braunschweig,...

Freedom gets smoked: Tobacco labels and what they really mean

Well that oughta do it. At long last those idiot smokers will finally get the message and drop their filthy habits once and for all. Why, you may ask, will they finally comply with sanity and stop lighting up?...

Light up my life

Cigarettes are bad for you This message is brought to you by the Health & Human Services Department because we have nothing else to do. We realize that we could have saved millions of lives if we had been awake...

The snake who's hooked on cigarettes - PHOTO

Smoking is a bad habit. Even for snakes. He should be out catching mice or maybe hibernating."the three-year-old reptile from Taipei in Taiwan has become hooked on nicotine, thanks to his owner Sho Lau's 20-a-day...

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...

Electronic cigarettes IS not a escape route :WHO

 Tobacco use is the single largest cause of preventable death worldwide, contributing to 5.4 million deaths from heart disease, stroke and other disease annually. world health organisation warned against...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...
 

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