Tag Archives: smoking
President Obama 's Smoking Struggle moves Tobacco Insider to Reveal a Fresh, No-Nonsense Quit Method
As an Australian, let me be blunt, ONLY a smoker knows how bloody difficult it is to give up. ONLY a smoker knows the fear of no more cigarettes, ever. ONLY a smoker knows how often they have thought of giving up, have tried to give up, and have failed, leaving them feeling inadequate, and demoralised. I was a heavy … Continue reading
Art Spiegelman on MetaMaus and How He Needs a Cigarette
Art Spiegelman needs a cigarette. He needs about 30 Camel Blue cigarettes a day, to be precise, but at the moment he needs just one, so we are sitting in the Roof Garden at the Soho House while he exhales onto our already-quite-smoggy city. Whether he will be able to smoke is a decisive factor in everywhere that he goes, … Continue reading
Tobacco-free Weddings in China
The latest tobacco-free wedding campaigns has received less response from Chinese people since leading brands of cigarettes and wines are a must items at wedding banquets, reported Xinhua news agency on Wednesday. Recently, health experts and officers have initiated tobacco-free wedding campaigns nations wide as one of the effective way to raise public awareness. Tobacco is deeply rooted in the … Continue reading
Hair loss, divorce and smoking in women – links established
A new study showed that genetics aside, the next strongest predictor of midline (central) hair loss among women is their marital status, with the loss of a spouse (through either divorce or death) raising the risk for thinning hair above that of married or single women. “Most likely, stress is the aspect of a troubling divorce that appears to lead … Continue reading
Gwyneth Paltrow’s image goes up in smoke
And finally, to Elle magazine’s in-depth profile of Gwyneth Paltrow. In among the usual guff about her ongoing role as the light of the world – “people come up to me and say, ‘I want to have two kids and wear a bathing suit and not feel terrible about myself. I see how hard you work and it makes me … Continue reading
Youth too smart to be sucked in by smoking actors
An expert on youth, tobacco use and the media does not think that classifying films that feature smoking will make any difference to the habits of young people. A new European study has added weight to claims that young people are more inclined to take up smoking after they see it being done in films. The findings have led to … Continue reading
Heavy drinking + smoking = fire risk
Heavy drinkers may die needlessly in house fires that would otherwise have been escapable, researchers in Australia suggest. Lead researcher Dorothy Bruck of Victoria University in Melbourne examined coroners’ records for 95 fire victims and found that 58 percent had positive results on blood-alcohol tests – often with very high alcohol levels. The intoxicated victims were less likely than sober … Continue reading
Smoking a Cigarette, Making a "Twenty Cigarettes" Film
TORONTO — “Don’t be fooled by the smoke,” James Benning told a sold-out audience at the Toronto International Film Festival screening of his latest film “Twenty Cigarettes.” A collection of living portraits, in which 20 smokers, all friends of his, face the camera for the time it takes to consume a cigarette, it is both an homage to Andy Warhol’s … Continue reading
Less Americans Smoking Cigarettes
Smoking and exposure to secondhand smoke is the leading cause of preventable death and disease in the United States, killing an estimated 443,000 Americans each year. “Any decline in the number of people who smoke and the number of cigarettes consumed is a step in the right direction. However, tobacco use remains a significant health burden for the people of … Continue reading
