Maple Leaf netminder Jonas Gustavsson marvelled this week at a little known statistic about former NHL star Steve Larmer that doesn’t appear in record books: He puffed his way through more than a pack of cigarettes each day of his…
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Tobacco has no place in baseball
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Young athletes often spend time imitating their sport’s role models. Mannerisms, attire and style of play are all elements of their admiration. Unfortunately, dangerous behaviors are also often imitated. Tobacco use in the sport of baseball dates back to its…
Cigarettes and sports
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Tobacco and healthy activities like sports don’t go together. Perhaps realising this, the federal sports minister clarified the remarks he had earlier made linking the two. At a meeting of the prime minister’s task force on sports Aijaz Hussain Jakhrani,…
Exercise Makes Cigarettes Less Attractive To Smokers
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Exercise can help smokers quit because it makes cigarettes less attractive. A new study from the University of Exeter shows for the first time that exercise can lessen the power of cigarettes and smoking-related images to grab the attention of…