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...

Topps yanks Madoff cards before they hit shelves

This years Topps Allen & Ginter Baseball cards have already hit store shelves, minus the highly anticipated rookie card of fraudster Bernie Madoff. Yeah, that's right!! The modern day Charlies Ponzi,...

China raises tobacco tax to curb smoking

China has raised taxes on tobacco by 6 to 11 percent to reduce the smoking in the world's largest cigarette market. Well this seems that now china government is quite conscious about the smoker community and wants...

Senator Richard Burr Defends Kid-Like "Tobacco Lollipops"

"On May 27, CNN’s Carol Costello reported on tobacco company R.J. Reynolds new dissolvable “smokeless products.” Noting that critics call them “tobacco lollipops” that are aimed at getting “kids hooked...

Professor: Tobacco Free Kids Will Help Kill Millions of Smokers

Tobacco Free Kids will contribute to the death of millions of smokers because of fanatical opposition to any tobacco products, a professor in medicine has claimed. Brad Rodu, a professor of medicine and holder of...

Tobacco Harm Reduction Author Urges Opposition to Tobacco Bill

In a mass email William Godshall, executive director of SmokeFree Penyslvannia and co-author of Tobacco Harm Reduction: An Alternative Strategy for Inveterate Smokers, has urged opposition to a Tobacco Bill set to enter the Senate next Tuesday.  According to tobacco harm...

Electronic Cigarette Association Launched

An Electronic Cigarette Association has been launched with a You Tube movie address by its President, former congressman Matt Salmon. The association, which has been formed by private companies involved in...

Alternative Tobacco Products are Safe Says Senior Doctor

Labels on alternative tobacco products that state they are no safer than regular cigarettes are simply not true.That's what one senior doctor told us in an interview on the electronic cigarettes, alternative tobacco products and the upcoming tobacco bill.Any increased risk of...

Engaging healthcare providers in tobacco control on Safe Saturday

Engaging healthcare providers in tobacco control on 'Safe Saturday'"The healthcare providers, particularly the young nursing and medical students can potentially strengthen tobacco control in all healthcare facilities. This was the key thought expressed at the 'Safe Saturday'...

1/3rd preventable deaths can be averted by healthy environment

One-third preventable deaths can be averted by healthy environmentIn the least developed countries, one third of death and disease is a direct result of environmental causes. Proper environmental management is the key to avoiding the quarter of all preventable illnesses which...

Tobacco Underground: Global Trade in Smuggled Smokes

Barry Artiste Op/Ed Forget the poppy fields of Afghanistan, or drug smuggling across our borders, there is and always has been a new Kid in town, smuggling legal cigarettes the world over.  Governments...

Kicking Butts

This title alone conjures up images of a fight, and I suppose in actuality it is referring to one. However, I'm not speaking of a physical fight, but what I'm referring to is the fight against tobacco. The conflict...

Healthy tobacco on the horizon

Opinio I am surprised that the funding for this research did not come from the tobacco industry.  I guess the next step is to teach lab mice to smoke.  " Scientists grow diabetes drug in tobacco plants Wed Mar 18, 2009 8:37pm EDT     var csvSymbolIds...

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...

Save 440,000 lives each year – with Cannabis. It's high time.

How? We can do it through the use of some innovative social technology: Mandate a compulsory substitution of cannabis for tobacco in all manufactured tobacco products. OK, I know you are already snickering,...

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