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Canada Urged to Follow Australia’s New Cigarette Packaging Law
One of the new cigarette packages with warning labels that will be used in Australia. (Australian Department of Health and Aging) With Australia’s recent High Court decision upholding the so-called...
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NYC Giving Free Nicotine Patches, Gum
A man smokes a cigarette at a coffee shop. (HOANG DINH NAM/AFP/GettyImages) NEW YORK—More than 846,000 Americans are living with cancer caused by smoking, according to the Health Department. To help...
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Smokers Urged to Quit for a Month
The giant Stoptober wheel will tour England throughout October and encourage smokers to stop smoking and take part in the campaign. (Department of Health) A government campaign urging smokers in...
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Disclosing Smoking in San Francisco Apartments
A man smokes a cigarette near the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco (file photo). (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images) SAN FRANCISCO—In a move to protect renters from secondhand smoke, San Francisco may...
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Kicking the Smoking Habit
A woman smokes a cigarette on a street in London, Ontario. With the season for New Years' resolutions in full swing, University of Alberta researchers have developed guidelines that aim to give smokers...
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San Francisco Street Festivals To Be Smoke Free
Cigarette butts in the streets of San Francisco in 2009. San Francisco will ban smoking at its outdoor festivals and fairs, the first big city in the United States to do so. (Justin Sullivan/Getty...
View ArticleDebi Austin Dies: Woman in ‘Voicebox’ Ad Dies at 62
Debi Austin dies: Debi Austin, the woman who appeared in the infamous anti-smoking ad showing her smoking through a hole in her neck, has died. Debi Austin, who appeared in the “Voicebox” anti-smoking...
View ArticleDebi Austin Dies: Knew She’d Be Remembered for ‘stupid things I did’
Debi Austin gives a wheezing cry followed by a reflection on the way she knew she would be remembered in an anti-smoking video. Austin died on Wednesday at the age of 62. “To die knowing that you’re...
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Dial 100 for Smoking Ban Violations in India
A farmer smokes a cigarette whilst sheltering from the rain under a chair in a political rally few years ago. The Indian government enacted tobacco ban in 2003 that makes smoking in public places an...
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Ukraine’s Battle with Smoking not Always Effective
‘Smoking causes lung cancer.’ (Rada.gov.ua) 'Smoking causes aging.' (Rada.gov.ua) Ukraine, once ranked 4th in the world for highest number of smokers, is changing tactics to push smokers to kick the...
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Smoking and Smog a Deadly Duo in China
Air not fit to breathe and smoking are together taking a steep toll on the health of the Chinese people. By 2025, China is expected to have one million lung cancer patients, which will be the most of...
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More Than Half of All Cigarettes Sold in New York Are Smuggled
According to a report from the Tax Foundation, 56.9 percent of cigarettes sold in New York are smuggled. This is an unintended consequence of high state taxes on cigarettes. Criminals have been...
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Smoking Mad: Tobacco Users Caught Up in Insurer’s Obamacare “Glitch”
Retired New Hampshire nurse Terry Wetherby doesn’t hide the fact that she smokes. She checked the box on HealthCare.gov saying she uses tobacco and fully expected to pay more for her insurance policy...
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Smoking, Plain Packaging, and Public Health: Report
Smoking is one of the leading preventable causes of death in the world. In most wealthy countries, smoking has been declining for decades. Public health experts and anti-smoking groups have for many...
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Liquid in E-Cigarettes Could Be Deadly (Video)
Doctors say the liquid nicotine in e-cigarettes is extremely toxic and can be lethal to small children and even pets
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Brain Scans Suggest Why We Take Risks
A new study correlating brain activity with how people make decisions suggests that when individuals engage in risky behavior, such as drunk driving or unsafe sex, it’s probably not because their...
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7 Headlines You Won’t Read Anywhere Else Today: June 1
Italy: Top mafia informer leads cops to AK-47s The most dangerous Italian mobster ever to turn State’s witness on Friday helped police find four AK-47s inside the home of another mafioso. … (Read more)...
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Remember These Facts the Next Time You Can’t Sleep
Sleep is vital for good health, but most of us don’t get enough of it. At least 60 million Americans are affected by insomnia, and two-thirds of chronic pain patients have sleep issues. Even those who...
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Are Unhealthy Diets a Greater Threat Than Tobacco?
The office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights has boldly stepped into the food wars, claiming that an unhealthy diet is a greater global health risk than tobacco. The statement...
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Asia’s Smoking Epidemic Linked to 2 Million Deaths
Tobacco smoking has been linked to approximately 2 million deaths among adult men and women in Asia in recent years, according to a new study that predicts the death toll will continue to rise. Roughly...
View ArticleCity Wins Tobacco Lawsuit
New York City prevailed in a big tobacco lawsuit against the city’s coupon ban, according to a court ruling Wednesday. “This is a huge victory for the City’s comprehensive efforts to reduce tobacco...
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Smoking May Contribute to Suicide Risk
Cigarette smokers are more likely to commit suicide than people who don’t smoke, studies have shown. This reality has been attributed to the fact that people with psychiatric disorders, who have higher...
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How Wall Street Tobacco Deals Left States With Billions in Toxic Debt
Politicians wanted upfront cash from a legal victory over Big Tobacco, and bankers happily obliged. The price? A handful of states promised to repay $64 billion on just $3 billion advanced. This story...
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Tracing the Bones of a Healthy City
This year, Washington was deemed America’s healthiest city—thanks to a low smoking rate and a strong presence of joggers and cyclists. The American College of Sports Medicine based their ranking on...
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Obese or Overweight Teens More Likely to Become Smokers
A study examining whether overweight or obese teens are at higher risk for substance abuse finds both good and bad news: weight status has no correlation with alcohol or marijuana use but is linked to...
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Smoking Costs California $18 Billion Every Year
LOS ANGELES—Tobacco smoke contains more than 7,000 different chemicals, hundreds of which are toxic, and about 70 that are linked to cancer, according to the Centers for Disease and Prevention (CDC)....
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How to Quit Smoking Naturally
By Kali Sinclair, Organic Lifestyle Magazine Smokers are adept in compartmentalized thinking. All the expense, the fuss, the mess, the smell, the frustration of addition, and the very real fear of...
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Great American Smokeout: Smoking Is Major Factor in Alzheimer’s Disease
Alzheimer’s disease, a severe form of dementia, affects an estimated 5.2 million Americans, according to 2013 statistics. Approximately 7.7 million new cases of dementia are identified every...
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Brain Scans Predict If Smokers Can Quit
Changes in the brain’s working memory may accurately predict who is more likely to quit smoking. Researchers say the findings—which go above and beyond current clinical or behavioral tools for...
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Smoking Still Causes Large Proportion of Cancer Deaths in the United States
A new American Cancer Society study finds that despite significant drops in smoking rates, cigarettes continue to cause about three in ten cancer deaths in the United States. The study, appearing in...
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Healthier Lifestyles Could Prevent 4 in 10 Cancer Cases (Video)
Around 40 percent of cancer cases could have been prevented by leading a healthier lifestyle, according to new statistics from Cancer Research UK. And the top lifestyle change suggested shouldn’t...
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Nicotine Patch Works Best for ‘Slow’ Smokers
How quickly your body breaks down nicotine may determine if a pill or a patch will be the most effective way to quit smoking. “In this new trial, we’ve shown that it is possible to optimize quit rates...
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Smoking Thins the Brain, and That’s Not a Good Thing
Smoking tobacco is the leading cause of preventable death, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control. Now there’s evidence of another negative side affect: thinning of the very important cortex...
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Women Smokers Concerned About Weight Are Less Likely to Try to Quit
Women who believe smoking helps them manage their weight are less likely to try quitting in response to anti-smoking policies than other female smokers in the United States. The study, published online...
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Want to Quit Smoking? Switching to E-cigarettes Won’t Help
A study published today in the leading journal Addiction might just change everything for electronic cigarettes (e-cigarettes). The study of 1,473 English smokers found those who didn’t use...
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E-Cigarettes Can Draw People Away From Cigarette Smoking
Dear Editor, I came across the article “Young People and E-Cigarettes: What We Know So Far” in Epoch Times’ Southeast Asia edition. The U.K. Department of Health recently came out with a report which...
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6 Natural Ways to Quit Smoking
The scent of black pepper essential oil helps reduce the craving for cigarettes. It’s one of the hardest things to do, but quitting smoking isn’t impossible–and it’s the single most important step...
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Proposed Smoking Ban Heats up Debate at LA Housing Complex
LOS ANGELES—At William Mead Homes, where people live in 415 tidy if aging red-brick apartments on the edge of downtown Los Angeles, opinions on the federal government’s proposed ban on smoking both...
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Proposals Would Set Age 21 as Minimum for Buying Smokes
BOSTON—As Boston considers raising the legal age for purchasing cigarettes and other tobacco products in the city from 18 to 21, Massachusetts lawmakers are weighing the possibility of a making such a...
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Rising Cigarette Taxes Tied to Lower Infant Deaths: Study
CHICAGO—When it costs more to smoke, fewer babies die, according to a new study that links rising cigarette taxes with declines in infant mortality, especially among blacks. With nearly 4 million...
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Secrets of Korean Medicine, Part 9: If You’ve Had Tuberculosis, You Must...
Around the world, hundreds of millions of people suffer from chronic respiratory diseases. By 2030, the World Health Organization predicts that chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) will be the...
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Video: Unbelievable Vintage Ad Shows ‘The Flintstones’ Smoking Winston...
This isn’t some clever photoshop job. It’s true. In the 1960s, “The Flintstones” was actually sponsored by Winston cigarettes and the ad spot showed our favorite prehistoric couples smoking. The ad...
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Why Do Airplanes Still Have Ashtrays?
If you think about it, airplanes have more no-smoking signs than passengers—they’re above every seat, on every safety card in in each seat pocket, and so on. So why in the world is there still an...
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China’s Tobacco Agency Says ‘No’ to Gory Warning Labels
Cigarette smokers in over 65 countries in the world are forced to reflect a little on their addiction when facing gory pictures of diseased lungs, throats, and other organs on their cigarette packages....
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Smokers Have a Harder Time Finding Jobs, Stanford Study Finds
We speak with Judith Prochaska, author of the study “Likelihood of Unemployed Smokers vs Nonsmokers Attaining Reemployment in a One-Year Observational Study” that came out April 11 in JAMA internal...
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Controversial E-cigarette Smoking Ad To Be Broadcast
Something unprecedented is about to take place on television in the United Kingdom (U.K). After nearly fifty years a person will be shown on screen smoking and will be promoted by a big e-cigarette...
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FDA Unveils New Regulations on E-Cigarettes Amid Spike in Youth Use
On May 5, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) extended its authority to all tobacco products. The extension will place its governing rules into effect in 90 days on: e-cigarettes, cigars,...
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Tobacco Use Remains Heavy in East Asia
When Christopher Columbus explored the New World in 1492, he found the natives smoking a native plant, tobacco, which they did both for medicinal and ceremonial purposes, and was the first to introduce...
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New Cigarette Taxes Could Be on Ballot in Hesitant States
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo.—An entire generation has come of age since the last time Missouri raised its cigarette tax, from 13 cents a pack to 17 cents, in 1993. Today, it’s the lowest tax in the nation. And...
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Getting to Know Third Hand Smoke
Evidence proving the chronic health problems that smoking causes dramatically changed society’s attitude toward the habit (eventually). Only a few decades ago, smokers were free to light up virtually...
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