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Cigarette butts are causing damage on a scale you can't imagine. Here's how one city in Europe is trying to transform them into something useful.
The island nation's goal is to become smoke-free by 2025.
The culprit is a substance called Vitamin E acetate, and it can be traced back to counterfeit e-cigs.
They might be viewed as a healthier alternative, but they're not.
Fewer people are addicted to tobacco in the UK than ever.
Tobacco smoking represents the leading preventable cause of death worldwide. We just realized it's even worse than we thought.
Quitting smoking is the best thing you can do for your health and vitality -- but it's sure not easy.
Men who smoke around pregnant women can cause congenital heart defects in their offspring.
Gaining a couple extra pounds is still less harmful than smoking itself for people with diabetes.
So, you know. Don't smoke.
Science to the rescue.
The scale of this conspiracy is shocking.
An... unusual take on the issue, to say the least. But in theory, it should work.
Researchers recommend people quit both smoking and vaping.
Anti-smoking measures really work.
Even a single cigarette can be very bad for you.
Put that cigarette down, and forget that extra beer.
Marijuana smoke is still smoke -- and it might clog arteries just as bad as tobacco.
Even one cigarette a day is still one too many.
A global study suggests that 69% of the people who tried smoking became daily smokers, even if temporary.
If you want to quit smoking, you should definitely try physical exercise more.
The results aren't clear-cut.
Sometimes I feel a burning need to spell 'conflict of interest' in capital letters. This is one of those times.
A small increase to bring about huge change.
Having problems quitting smoking? A CT scan might help you.
The method can be used for any type of damage where the cell has to replace bits of DNA.
For science!
Hint: it's smoking in.
Smoking tobacco with hookah pipes is not harmless at all, despite what you might have heard.
Vape -- not so safe.
No smoking here. Only vodka.
Quitting smoking is one of the most popular New Years resolutions, but how many actually keep it?
The real-life Bender could be a life saver.
Smoking is bad for your health, and that includes genes too.
It's amazing how deception can fool even one of the strongest physical addictions.
Just don't do it.
In Europe and the United States, an increasing number of employers have adopted a smoke-free policy and may not hire people who smoke. This is because of the negative perception of smoking. Stanford researchers wanted to quantify just how large the economic burden of tobacco use is on the labour market. Their analysis suggests that nonsmokers are twice as likely to get hired than smokers. Tobacco users also earn $5 less per hour on average than nonsmokers.
The Ontario Center for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) mailed free nicotine patches to smokers to see if they really help you quit without any behavioral support. And for one in four of participants who kept to the treatment, it did.
Using functional magnetic resonance imaging, scientists from the universities of Michigan and Pennsylvania scanned the brains of 50 smokers while they viewed anti-smoking ads. They recorded their neural activity spikes as they watched the sample of 40 images one at a time, looking for increase activity in the medial prefrontal cortex, the area that handles decision making processes.
Drivers and passengers who light one up while kids are in the car now face fines in England in Wales, in an attempt to curve down the effects of passive smoking.
Smoking is bad. We’re way past the point of discussing that one; it’s bad for your health, it’s bad for the ones around you, and it’s bad for the environment. Cigarette filters are made from thousands of polymer chains of cellulose acetate; once discarded into the environment, these filters create a huge waste problem. Cigarette […]
For most smokers, the message that cigarettes are fatally bad for their health often doesn't come across. But if that message came written in ink made from pitch black lungs? It's a morbid concept, one that was actually followed through by BBDO Proximity Thailand, an agency which commissioned the charcoal ink, part of an anti-smoking effort for the Thai Health Promotion Foundation.
A longitudinal study that spanned 26 years found that kids exposed to their Finish parents cigarette smoke are at risk of developing plaque in their carotid arteries as they grow into young adults. Previously, second-hand smoke exposure at a young age was linked to later breast cancer and a predisposition to nicotine addiction. Psychologically, having parent smokers may influence children to become smokers themselves when they grow up, triggering a cascade of other health risks.
If you're a smoker, I've got some (more) bad news for you - long term smoking thins the cerebral cortex, the outer layer of the brain, responsible among others for memory, perception and language. The good news is that if you've quit smoking, then the effect is reversible.
It’s been well established that smoking substantially affects health for more than a century (a bit less than that in official gov records), yet its long term effects on future generations may be more dangerous than anyone might have guessed. The perils of second hand smoke have been proven for a while, but scientists will have […]
As a non-smoker with many smoking friends living in a country without a smoking ban, going out can be quite a hassle sometimes. Staying in smoky rooms, the way the clothes smell after getting home… I feel like I may be smoking just as well. But as it turns out, smoking bans help smokers just […]
A study from Yale University found that some eight million premature deaths have been adverted as a result of anti-smoking measures which first began 50 years ago with the groundbreaking report from the Surgeon General outlining the deadly consequences of tobacco use. In 1964, the then Surgeon General Luther Terry dropped a bombshell that made […]
A new study suggests that U.S. businesses pay almost $6,000 per year extra for each employee who smokes, compared to an employee which doesn’t smoke. Researchers claim this is the first study to focus on the cost of employing smokers vs non-smokers. So why does this happen? By drawing data from previous researches, focusing on […]
If you’re a woman who just can’t give up smoking, but you’ve toned it down, even to just one cigarette per day, then don’t think you’ve eliminated the risks; according to a new research published in the Journal of American Heart Association, even very light smoking doubles the risk of heart failure in women, while […]
According to two new studies, after smoking is banned indoors the number of people suffering from heart attacks considerably drops within months. Some of the researchers believe this data offer substantial evidence to the claim that second-hand smoke does in fact affect people’s health. Besides the obvious health benefit, the researchers argue that preventing second-hand […]
