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Should you earn by selling poison while telling people not to use it? Never; that’s plain, impeccable logic. But the government’s business sense says sell it, earn huge taxes and at the same time spend a tenth of it on “educating’ people...
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Tobacco promotions and depictions of smoking in movies cause teenagers to start smoking, according to a sweeping report on tobacco in the media released on Thursday.
made popular Aug 23 2008
Tonight as I waited for my bus at the end of a long working day my eyes were drawn to a young lady drawing nervously and deeply on a cigarette. Nothing unusual about...
made popular Aug 20 2008
Hi, Im Seth, Im a med student and yes, I do smoke, infact a lot of our future doctors smoke. We like to blame it on the stress we get when its down to crunch time in...
made popular Aug 10 2008
While all forms of media are broadcasting about the perils of smoking, Fatih Baltas did something really unusual. He came up with this Smoker Bench that claims to soak...
made popular Aug 8 2008
Scientists attempting to create a nicotine pill to treat Alzheimer’s disease have suggested that smoking can help boost memory and concentration.
made popular Aug 3 2008
Everyone knows that smoking is bad for you. Perhaps now is as good a time as any to stop smoking when financial times are getting more difficult we could all use any...
made popular Jul 31 2008
After growing tired of being in the top 100 sexiest women list, Katherine Heigl not only scared us with horror movies such as ‘Valentine’ and being the...
made popular Jul 31 2008
AP, San Diego
Smoking appears to have sparked a fire that caused $70 million in damage to the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier USS George Washington, Naval officials said Wednesday.
made popular Jul 31 2008
AP, Berlin
Germany’s high court says smoking bans in two states are unconstitutional. The decision forces most state governments to review their own prohibitions.
made popular Jul 30 2008
AP, Fort Worth
A teenager shown on a video coaxing his 2- and 4-year-old nephews into smoking marijuana was sentenced Thursday to eight years in prison.Demetris McCoy, 18, pleaded...
made popular Jul 25 2008
Guys Britney is simply impossible, her nature is well known so these smoking snaps in a bikini wear don’t surprise or leave us shocked. Well good things are not...
made popular Jul 25 2008
AP, Fort Worth
A teenager shown on a video coaxing his 2- and 4-year-old nephews into smoking marijuana was sentenced Thursday to eight years in prison.Demetris McCoy, 18, pleaded...
made popular Jul 25 2008
AP, New York
Microsoft founder Bill Gates and New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg are pooling their piles of money to pour $375 million into a global effort to cut smoking.The...
made popular Jul 23 2008
Britney Spears has been in the news for all the wrong reasons lately and perhaps this time , she is in the news for the worst reason. She was caught smoking cigarettes...
made popular Jul 22 2008
Kids who can get their hands easily on cigarettes — say from friends or close acquaintances — are more likely to end up with a regular smoking habit, a new...
made popular Jul 21 2008
Something is better than nothing! This idiom came to my mind when I read about this news! It seems that the people in UK are getting hooked to this most recent...
made popular Jul 17 2008
Smoking can help boost memory and concentration, say scientists. The discovery offers hope of a nicotine pill that mimics these effects to treat Alzheimer’s...
made popular Jul 14 2008
Scientists attempting to create a nicotine pill to treat Alzheimer’s disease have suggested that smoking can help boost memory and concentration.
made popular Jul 14 2008
Actor-turned-politician Arnold Schwarzenegger scoffs at the suggestion that smoking should be banned from films aimed at children.
made popular Jul 12 2008
Want to quit smoking? Try the herbal chewable tablets developed by the National Botanical Research Institute (NBRI), Lucknow.
made popular Jul 12 2008
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AP, Beijing
Two Chinese tobacco companies are merging to form the world’s fourth-largest cigarette producer by volume, a financial newspaper reported Tuesday.
made popular Aug 26 2008
AP, Albuquerque
The president of the Navajo Nation has vetoed a ban on smoking and chewing tobacco in public places.
made popular Aug 8 2008
AP, Washington
A loophole in a sweeping tobacco regulation bill would give the industry a 21-month window to introduce certain new products without first getting federal approval.
made popular Aug 7 2008
AP, Washington
A loophole in a sweeping tobacco regulation bill would give the industry a 21-month window to introduce certain new products without first getting federal approval.
made popular Aug 7 2008
AP, Washington
The House has overwhelmingly passed legislation giving the Food and Drug Administration the power to regulate cigarettes and other tobacco products.
made popular Jul 30 2008
AP, San Francisco
The San Francisco Board of Supervisors voted 8-3 on Tuesday to ban the sale of tobacco in pharmacies beginning this fall, making it the first U.S. city to impose such a...
made popular Jul 30 2008
AP, Albuquerque
The Navajo Nation Council has approved a ban on commercial tobacco in public places on its vast reservation _ including such outdoor venues as rodeos and fairs.
made popular Jul 27 2008
AP, Albuquerque
The Navajo Nation Council has banned commercial tobacco in public places on the reservation _ including such outdoor venues as rodeos and fairs.
made popular Jul 26 2008
The tobacco plant - responsible for millions of cancer cases - may actually offer the means to treat one form of the disease, a study suggests.
US scientists used the...
made popular Jul 25 2008
A personalized vaccine made using tobacco plants — normally associated with causing cancer rather than helping cure it — could aid people with lymphoma in fighting...
made popular Jul 24 2008
AP, Albany
Many drug addicts, problem gamblers and alcoholics may find it harder to kick their habits in New York now that the state has become the first in the country to ban...
made popular Jul 23 2008
We’ve seen safety lockers for cash, jewelry and other collectibles that are worth their weight in millions and billions. But here’s a safe that is exclusively...
made popular Jul 23 2008
Science can do the impossible. This is going to be the best makeover and role reversal in medicine: well known cancer causing tobacco may be used to combat a certain...
made popular Jul 22 2008
AP, Washington
The Bush administration strongly opposes legislation to give federal health authorities the power to regulate tobacco products, a top official said in a letter to...
made popular Jul 22 2008
AP, Washington
Tobacco companies deliberately changed the menthol levels in cigarettes depending upon whom they were marketing them to _ lower levels for young smokers who preferred...
made popular Jul 16 2008
AP, Washington
Tobacco companies deliberately changed the menthol levels in cigarettes depending upon who they were marketing them to _ lower levels for young smokers who preferred...
made popular Jul 16 2008
AP, Washington
The Federal Trade Commission may rescind its guidance on tar and nicotine yields in cigarettes that are based on a test started more than 40 years ago.The FTC says if...
made popular Jul 8 2008
Chewing tobacco and snuff are less dangerous than cigarettes but the smokeless products still raise the risk of oral cancer by 80 percent, the World Health...
made popular Jul 2 2008
A British tobacco giant is breaking its own marketing code covering the sale of cigarettes to young people in Africa.
made popular Jun 29 2008
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Dinevo:
A woman collects tobacco leaves near the village of Dinevo, some 220 km (137 miles) southeast of the Bulgarian capital Sofia, early Sunday morning, Aug. 17, 2008. Tobacco cultivation is livelihood for most people in southern part of the country.
