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What’s Your Reason to Quit?
Quitting smoking can keep you healthy, save you money, and protect your family. Discover your reasons to quit smoking; they can inspire you to become smokefree for good.
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"Any Reason"
This is a funny ad, but a quality campaign nonetheless. It's eye-opening, realizing it would be silly for anyone to judge you for not wanting to smoke.
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Judy Greer on Guerrilla Camping and Knitting in Traffic
When I moved to L.A., I’m embarrassed to say, I smoked cigarettes. I read in a fashion magazine that one way to quit smoking was to take up knitting, so I went to Suss Design on Beverly and signed up for classes. I’ve been knitting since I got here, and it worked. I quit.
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Tobacco Companies Still Battling Smoking-Cancer
While the industry publicly admits tobacco causes cancer, they’re still relying on an old-fashioned playbook in the courtroom to hide such a link in individual cases.
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Craving to Quit - Mindful
Mindful speaks to Craving to Quit founder Judson Brewer about the research behind the smoking-cessation program and accompanying app.
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Vaping Is 95% Healthier and 40% Cheaper Than Smoking
The pack-a-day smoker can save around $1,200 per year by vaping.
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A World Without Cancer (and Obesity)
Before driving cross-country a few weeks ago, I happened to see that Amazon now offers free audio narration with many of their Kindle books that are part of their Kindle Unlimited program. The first book I tried out was simply mind-blowing—Dr. Margaret Cuomo’s 2012 book, A World Without Cancer. Dr. Cuomo is a radiologist, and sister of New York Governor Andrew Cuomo.
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Raise age to buy tobacco to 21 pediatricians argue
Most people who smoke started in their teens. While the number of kids trying tobacco for the first time has declined since the 1970s, there are still new smokers every year and kids' doctors want to do something about it. The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) came out with a strong new policy statement that urges policymakers to raise the minimum age people could buy nicotine products, be they cigarettes or e-cigarettes, to 21.
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Norway wants to ban adults from buying cigarettes
Norway's biggest medical organisation wants to ban the sale of cigarettes to adults. In a drive towards a smoke-free society by 2035, the Norwegian Medical Association (NMA) is pressing the government to back its proposal for a ban on tobacco sales to citizens born after the year 2000. Marit Hermansen, the president of the NMA, told Norwegian newspaper Aftenposten that access to cigarettes was not a basic human right.
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Quitting smoking? New research shows most effective way
If you’re planning on kicking your cigarette habit, going “cold turkey” is the best option, new research published today in the journal Annals of Internal Medicine reports. According to the American Cancer Society (ACS), half of all smokers who keep smoking will end up dying from a smoking-related illness. In the United States alone, smoking is responsible for nearly 1 in 5 deaths, and more than 16 million people suffer from...
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E-cigarettes 'help more smokers quit'
The rise in popularity of e-cigarettes in the UK may have resulted in more successful attempts to quit smoking, according to UK researchers. The British Medical Journal work looked at trends in quit rates and support in England from 2006 to 2015. E-cigarettes seem to have had no effect on the number of people trying to quit, but more have actually managed to stop.
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Cigarette Smoking In The U.S. Continues To Fall
The number of cigarette smokers in the United States has dropped by 8.6 million since 2005 — and that fall could be accelerated by a tobacco tax just passed in California. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says smoking rates have fallen from 21 percent of the adult population in 2005 to 15 percent in 2015, when the agency conducted its latest survey. The smoking rate fell by 1.7 percentage points between 2014 and 2015 alone — a substantial decline, according to a report Thursday in Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report.
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Vaping 101: Battery Safety
Batteries can be dangerous whether in your cell phone, laptop and especially in your vape mod. Knowing what is safe and what is not can save you from injury, save you some money and can even provide you a better vape experience.
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When CVS stopped selling cigarettes, some customers quit smoking
The retail pharmacy company CVS Health helped its customers quit smoking by pulling cigarettes off the shelves two years ago, a new study suggests. Smokers who purchased cigarettes exclusively at CVS stores were 38 percent less likely to buy tobacco after the national chain stopped selling cigarettes, the study shows. In addition, cigarette sales dropped 1 percent - or by 95 million packs - in 13 states in the eight months after CVS left the tobacco market in September 2014, according to the report in the American Journal of Public Health.
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There are nearly 1 billion smokers on earth.
The researchers found that although the percentage of people who smoke has declined, the overall number of smokers has actually increased, thanks to population growth, according to the study, published April 5 in the journal The Lancet. The percentage of people who smoke is lower than it was 25 years ago.
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America’s new tobacco crisis: The rich stopped smoking, the poor didn’t
The nation has largely won the war on smoking, unless you’re uneducated or live in a rural area.
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Quit smoking campaign backs e-cigs
The annual Stoptober campaign in England is embracing e-cigarettes for the first time - in a sign vaping is being seen as the key to getting people to quit. Health experts have tended to shy away from explicitly promoting e-cigarettes. But the government campaign during October will feature vaping in its TV adverts for the first time. It comes after e-cigarettes proved the most popular tool for quitting during last year's campaign.
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Smoking age would be raised to 21 under Andrew Forrest's new anti-cancer plan
Australians would be prohibited from buying cigarettes until age 21 under a new cancer-fighting plan developed by billionaire mining magnate Andrew Forrest. Mr Forrest and his wife Nicola are spearheading a major lobbying campaign to convince federal and state governments to raise the legal tobacco purchase age from 18 to 21 – a move they say would stop young people getting hooked, save lives and save government coffers up to $3.1 billion a year.
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Potential deaths averted in USA by replacing cigarettes with e-cigarettes
Introduction US tobacco control policies to reduce cigarette use have been effective, but their impact has been relatively slow. This study considers a strategy of switching cigarette smokers to e-cigarette use (‘vaping’) in the USA to accelerate tobacco control progress.
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Big tobacco forced to run a year of ads admitting smoking kills
Big tobacco is forced to run advertisements saying that smoking kills, and cigarettes are intentionally designed to get people addicted. The companies will also pay for television ads running between 30 and 45 seconds with the same message to air on major television networks at prime time, five nights a week for a year.
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