Smoking
the overall health burden of obesity has increased consistently since 1993, while smoking rates have fallen. So obesity has become "an equal, if not greater, contributor to the burden of disease as smoking Medical News: Obesity Disease Burden Similar to Smoking – in Primary Care, Obesity from MedPage Today I don’t know about you, but [...]
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Image Source: British Council.org NicVAX is designed to stimulate the immune system to generate antibodies that latch on to nicotine in a smoker’s body and actually prevent nicotine from ever entering the brain. The testing began last week Trial drug may help smokers kick butts – CNN.com Hmm.. A vaccine being developed to help [...]
Study recommends total ban on smoking for soldiers – CNN.com. This is a tough one. How can we tell a soldier after being up for 20-some hours on duty protecting that which we treasure most they can’t have a cigarette? That nicotine probably keeps him/her up long enough to endure. Maybe not a cigarette. It [...]
FDA: Stop-smoking drugs Chantix, Zyban must carry suicide warning – USATODAY.com. A double whammy. Now, not only does the habit itself cause mortal damage to your body, but some of the drugs that help you stop the filthy habit have a set of their own possible life-threatening damages. This time in the form of suicidal [...]
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Man allegedly drenches wife with hose for smoking – Yahoo! News. OK.. this was funny and not so funny. I had to chuckle. What would you do if someone was smoking in your house?
