Healthline Blogs
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Use of the cigarette pack to help smokers quit
You may have noticed that over the past few years the cigarette companies have been trying to persuade the pubic that they are really nice people trying to make the world a better place. For example, at the start of this decade in the U.S. we saw ...
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Effects of smoke-free workplace legislation on heart attacks
There is no doubt whatsoever that exposure to other people’s tobacco smoke pollution, over a long period of time, can cause various diseases (as summarized in a previous posts):Health effects of Tobacco Smoke Pollution. 8/6/07 http://www.healthli...
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Cold Turkey- 2
In 1969, Philip Morris Tobacco Company commissioned a research study on the town of Greenfield, Iowa to record the effects of the anti-smoking campaign and the experiences of the smokers who tried to quit (in connection with the filming of the mov...
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Think you don’t really smoke for nicotine?
When talking to smokers about why they smoke, I quite often hear people say something like, “I don’t really smoke for the nicotine..I just like the ritual, the taste and the feel of the smoke hitting the back of my throat…its not an addiction for ...
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Unwise to cut tobacco control funding in tough times
The U.S. and many other economies across the globe are going through tough financial times just now. In these tough times, legislators and policy makers have to make tough choices about how to spend limited budgets. In recent times in the United S...
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Effects of nicotine replacement for smoking reduction
This week, Dr David Moore and colleagues at the University of Birmingham (UK) published a review of randomized controlled trials of nicotine replacement for reducing smoking in smokers who initially did not plan to quit. The review, published in ...
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Whats the problem with Accomplia/rimonabant (Zimulti) the weight-loss drug that also helps you quit smoking?
Rimonabant is the name of a drug that has been developed as an aid to weight loss in people who are obese. It is a novel cannabinoid receptor blocker – basically giving an effect a little bit like the opposite of the “munchies” reported by people ...
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Which smoking cessation aids work?
Every week I hear about another new product claiming to help people to quit smoking. Unfortunately the vast majority of them have no solid evidence that they actually do anything useful. Most are marketed in the hope that there is a gullible idiot...
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Celebrities killed by tobacco-caused illness
Many of us watched the Oscar award ceremony over the past weekend, which is always very entertaining and includes a good deal of reminiscing about past great actors. As I watched some of the great old faces flash across the screen I was reminded h...
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As the Smoke Clears
Carrie here! Well, I hope everyone had a nice holiday and brought in the New Year with merriment and laughter. I have to say I almost slept threw it. Watching the amount of football I did over the holidays, seems to have the same effect on me like...
