Daily Archives: March 22, 2009

Electronic Cigarettes: Are They Safe?

They are touted as a safer way to smoke: a tobacco-free, batter-powered cigarette you can smoke anywhere and everywhere to get a nicotine fix. But are electronic cigarettes an interesting way to kick the habit or an illegal health hazard?…

Tobacco-free campus

Summit Middle School in Frisco, Colo., is a tobacco-free campus. Students who smoke cigarettes are suspended. But when a lunchtime crew of sixth-graders last fall started “smoking” Smarties, the tart, chalky candy discs wrapped in cellophane, lunchroom monitors and the…