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U-Haul will no longer hire smokers in 21 states
U-Haul announced it will no longer hire nicotine users. The policy will take effect Feb. 1 in 21 states.
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Christmas tree made of cigarette butts in Seoul
Activists from the Korean Federation for Environmental Movement built a Christmas tree out of cigarette butts to call for a ban on the use of plastic for cigarette filters. Filters made with plastic are the second most littered single-use plastic product, according to the European Union.
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Smoking Fewer Than 5 Cigarettes a Day Damages Your Lungs Almost as Much as a Whole Pack, Study Says
It's another reason to quit
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Study provides insight into how mindfulness training works in the brain to help people quit smoking
New research provides evidence that a mindfulness-based app can help people stop smoking -- and it appears to help by reducing brain reactivity to smoking ...
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Cigarette butts causing ‘serious damage to environment’, study on impact to plant growth reveals
Cigarette butts are believed to be the most pervasive form of plastic pollution on the planet with trillions are discarded every year. Now new research has indicated they pose a significant risk to plant growth. Usually made of cellulose acetate fibre, a type of bioplastic, cigarette filters can take decades to break down. An estimated 4.5 trillion are littered each year.
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More adults wrongly think vaping is worse than cigarettes
The study, which appears in JAMA Network Open, finds the proportion of American adults who perceived e-cigarettes to be more harmful than cigarettes more than tripled from 2012 to 2017. During the same period, the percentage of US adults who perceived e-cigarettes to be equally as harmful as cigarettes also increased significantly.
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The Cigarette Company That Reinvented Television News
Television's first news anchorman and modern-style broadcast were brought to you by the fine people at Camel cigarettes.
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Study: E-cigarette flavors draw more kids than adults
E-cigarettes may help people kick the habit of smoking but they're also attracting new, younger people to the potentially toxic chemical nicotine. And many of those new e-cigarette users are likely to be young vapers, drawn to the fruit, candy and mint/menthol flavors of the product, according to new findings published Tuesday in Public Health Reports.
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Hookah smokers are inhaling toxic chemicals that may harm the heart - Science Nutshell
Smoking tobacco in waterpipes, more commonly known as hookahs, results in inhaling toxic chemicals, often at levels exceeding cigarette smoke, that may harm the heart and blood vessels, according to a new scientific statement published in the American Heart Association’s journal Circulation. Waterpipes go by many names – hookah, narghile, argileh, shisha and goza – and usually consist of a head or bowl that holds tobacco, a body, water base and hose that ends with a mouthpiece.
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Smoking Accelerates Biological Age, Says AI
In literature, characters that smoke are often described as haggard and older looking, with facial features that are associated with worn leather. While these depictions arguably carry over into reality, what is for certain is that the association between smoking, cancer, and cardiovascular disease is strong. Unfortunately, however, the connection between smoking and biological aging has been less clear. Yet, a new study from an international team of investigators led by scientists at Insilico Medicine may change how smoking is evaluated at the biochemical level.
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US cigarette smoking rate reaches new low
(CNN)Cigarette use among American adults is at the lowest it's been since the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention started collecting data on the issue in 1965, according to a report released Thursday. "The good news is that cigarette smoking has reached unprecedented lows, which is a tremendous public health win, down to 14 percent from over 40 percent in the mid-1960s," said Brian King, senior author of the report and deputy director for research translation at the CDC's Office on Smoking and Health. About 47.4 million Americans, or 19.3%, used any tobacco product in 2017, the report says.
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Sperm count 50% lower in sons of fathers who smoke
Studies have repeatedly linked maternal smoking during pregnancy with reduced sperm counts in male offspring. Now a research team at Lund University in Sweden has discovered that, independently of nicotine exposure from the mother, men whose fathers smoked at the time of pregnancy had half as many sperm as those with non-smoking fathers.
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US cigarette smoking rate reaches new low
Cigarette use among American adults is at the lowest it's been since the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention started collecting data on the issue in 1965, according to a report released Thursday. "The good news is that cigarette smoking has reached unprecedented lows, which is a tremendous public health win, down to 14 percent from over 40 percent in the mid-1960s," said Brian King, senior author of the report and deputy director for research translation at the CDC's Office on Smoking and Health.
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Smoking will be 'eradicated in England by 2030'
Smoking will be “eradicated” in England by 2030 as roughly a thousand people quit every day, health chiefs have predicted. More than a million smokers have kicked the habit since 2014, Public Health England said yesterday, leaving overall rates at their lowest ever, with just 14.9 per cent of adults smoking.
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Smokeless cigarettes not as harmless as claimed, study says
The new “heat not burn” smokeless cigarette devices are not as harmless as their manufacturer claims, according to a new study. iQOS – which stands for “I quit original smoking” – is made by Philip Morris International, best known as the manufacturer of Marlboro cigarettes. PMI, the biggest tobacco company in the world, says its future is “smoke-free”, and it is investing in heated tobacco products, such as iQOS, and e-cigarettes, both of which it says are safer options.
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Taking Up Smoking at the End of the World
In his late twenties, John Sherman finds a new fondness for cigarettes, despite everything he was ever taught about them.
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