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The Health Consequences of Smoking
When your parents were young, people could buy cigarettes and smoke pretty much anywhere — even in hospitals! Ads for cigarettes were all over the place. Today we’re more aware about how bad smoking is for our health. Smoking is restricted or banned in almost all public places and cigarette companies are no longer allowed to advertise on TV, radio, … Continue reading
O’Fallon smoking ban starts Thursday
The lines were clearly drawn at last week’s charity bingo night at Elks Lodge 2587, with smokers sitting on one side of the large hall and non-smokers on the other. That all changes Thursday when O’Fallon’s new smoking ban takes effect and smokers must go at least three feet outside to light up. The ordinance, which was enacted overwhelmingly by … Continue reading
Smoking Facts for Parents and Teens
Parents are the single biggest influence in their children’s lives. Use your voice and let your kids know that smoking is bad news. Your teens may seem to be tuning you out and accuse you of lecturing, but they are listening. Discuss the dangers of teen smoking with them early and often. The smoking facts in this article have been … Continue reading
Exposure to Cigarettes Fosters Tween Smoking
Exposure to secondhand smoke can create symptoms of nicotine dependence in non-smoking preteens, according to a new study from Concordia University and the University of Montreal. Published in the Oxford journal Nicotine & Tobacco Research, the study also found that tweens who repeatedly observe a parent, sibling, friend or neighbor consuming cigarettes are more likely to light up themselves as … Continue reading
Report Finds Global Smokers Consider Quitting Due To Graphic Health Warnings On Packages
Health warnings on cigarette packages prompt smokers to think about quitting, according to a 14-nation study. Effective warning labels as a component of comprehensive tobacco control can help save lives by reducing tobacco use, said a report released by CDC. The study, published in today’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, finds adult usage of manufactured cigarettes varied widely in the … Continue reading
Adele Prefers Smoking to Sound
Adele decided against giving up smoking because her life was “boring”, but knows the habit affects the quality of her singing. Adele would rather her voice sounded “s**t” than give up smoking. The 23-year-old singer quit the addictive habit for two months and adopted a healthier lifestyle, but found her new routine “boring”, even though she could hear a difference … Continue reading
Santa Fe Housing Authority Plans to Ban Smoking
Virginia Soto was 11 years old when she started smoking. The little girl was hooked soon after her grandmother and great-aunt began asking her to roll cigarettes for them using some paper and a little tin of tobacco. And 71 years later, Soto is still going strong. She puffs away every day at her home in the Alta Vista Senior … Continue reading
Mouse Study Reveals How Smoking Helps Keep People Thin
The notion that smoking somehow helps keep smokers thin has gotten new support from a study in mice — and the finding might one day be parlayed into new drugs to control weight gain. It’s always a leap to extrapolate from animal experiments, one expert said, but this new research does open up interesting possibilities. “Humans have basically the receptors … Continue reading
Study Offers New into Insight Helping Latinos Quit Smoking
Latinos are the largest, fastest growing minority population in the country, based on U.S. Census data. Smoking prevalence among Latinos is 15.8 percent and is even higher among those who are more adapted to U.S. culture. Overall, Cubans have the highest rates of smoking, followed by American-born Mexicans, Puerto Ricans, Central and South Americans, immigrant Mexicans and Dominicans. Although previous … Continue reading
Proactive telephone counseling helps increase long-term smoking cessation
Proactive telephone counseling helps smokers quit regardless of how they are recruited to a telephone quitline, according to a study published online June 10th in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute. Smokers who use telephone counseling quitlines may do so in response to active recruitment methods, such as physician referral or direct mail or phone calls, or passive methods, … Continue reading
