Tobacco free

Remove the smoke

Congratulations! You are about to experience a new freedom … and a new life. Just dropping a cigarette, because you know it’s a healthy thing to do “is not the only factor. Of course, I want you healthy, but there…

Quitting smoking alternative

Acupuncture and hypnosis are advertised as a drug-free ways to help smokers quit, and there is some evidence that they work, according to new studies. There are still many questions – including how effective alternative treatments can be, and how…

Nicotine Free Mountain Empire

Everything – from a random person on the street to an elementary school child – knows that smoking is harmful to health. But few people realize that “smoking kills more people than alcohol, AIDS, car crashes, drugs, murders and suicides…

Tobacco-free solution

The University of California has proposed a plan that would permanently stifle cigarette smoke, but UC Merced students like Diana Gonzalez aren’t worried. Gonzalez, 18, supports the plan to make all UC campuses smoke- and tobacco-free. She knows from personal…

Non-Smoking Week

For over three decades, the National Non-Smoking Week is designed to help Canadians make a break from smoking. This year, the Canadian Council on Tobacco Control seeks to highlight the complex relationship of Canadians, who smoke cigarettes have with them,…

Prevent Teen Cigarette Smoking

Visual cues play an important role in the direction of early adolescent cigarette smoking. So much so that anti-smoking activists have fought for legislation to remove tobacco-related visual cues from cigarette packaging, television programs and movies. Ironically, the anti-smoking movement…

Housing smoke ban

Balance between people’s rights and wishes needed before smoking is banned! A lot of Ontarians want smoking banned in apartment’s rooms, according to the results of a recent survey. The study, conducted by the Canadian Cancer Society in November, showed…

Justice Dept settles with tobacco cos on database

The nation’s two biggest tobacco companies, Philip Morris USA Inc. and R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co., have agreed to pay $6.25 million to support the country’s largest online collection of internal tobacco industry documents, the Justice Department announced Wednesday. The settlement…

Concerns to smokeless tobacco

Weight gain It’s well known that smokers often gain weight when they quit, but fewer studies have been done on quitting smokeless tobacco. Researchers in a small 2007 study looked at people who were trying to quit smokeless tobacco. They…