Anti-smoking:
The authors conclude that retail shops who display tobacco-related promotional items, called "point-of-purchase" marketing, increase the incidence of cigarette smoking by high school students.
Read on »
Posted on November 28, 2007 9:02 AM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
The more I hear about what is going on in China, the more I wonder if the goons running that country have any clue about the health catastrophe lurking at the palace doors.
Posted on August 30, 2007 9:02 PM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Ever wonder what goes through the mind of someone smoking their first cigarette? I've often wondered what first-time smokers think of as they light up: "I'm so excited." "This tastes weird." "I hope I'm doing it right." "Finally I fit...
Read on »
Posted on August 14, 2007 10:15 PM • 10 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Smoking is looked on as a cool and glamorous way to give your parents, teachers and other authority figures the finger, until the actual addiction sets in...
Posted on July 3, 2007 3:21 PM • 8 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Smoke-contaminated clothing is more likely to pass nicotine along to a swaddled babe when the kid is lying next to the smoker...
Read on »
Posted on June 19, 2007 1:28 PM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Message to all those who are thinking of smoking their first cigarette today:
Posted on February 20, 2007 9:14 PM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
You gotta love cigarette smokers, if for nothing else but their cognitive dissonance.
Read on »
Posted on December 7, 2006 7:53 PM • 9 Comments • 1 TrackBacks
In a hypothetical setting one could tell a teenage daughter who smokes and is sexually active that if she were diagnosed with HPV-16 infection now, her risk of developing cervical cancer over the next decade is 1400% higher.
Read on »
Posted on November 18, 2006 12:25 PM • 10 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Smoking - the gift to kids that keeps on giving...
Posted on November 9, 2006 8:23 PM • 7 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Do you get a feeling of relief whenever you see an anti-smoking advertisement directed toward teenagers? If you do you may want to sit down. Now there is a freshly published study out of Australia that concludes the following: Exposure...
Posted on November 3, 2006 9:10 PM • 12 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
There are enough examples of utter stupidity bouncing around our modern world without having to worry about pregnant teenagers smoking in order to reduce their labor pains.
Read on »
Posted on October 4, 2006 12:58 PM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Somewhere in this country someone is laughing at you right now, just waiting for you to slap down another wad of your hard-earned dough for a carton.
Read on »
Posted on September 6, 2006 8:48 PM • 7 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
It looks like this is the end for the 48 million smokers in this country who love to light up a Luckie in the neighborhood saloon or beanery. I wonder if our airports will be able to accommodate the mass number of citizens emigrating to Parisian apartments?
Read on »
Posted on June 28, 2006 2:15 PM • 13 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
In 1994 researchers from Denmark studied the faces of 13,186 men and women between the ages of 30 and 80 and recorded the severity of wrinkling in the right lateral part of the orbit where "crow's feet" appear. They then...
Posted on June 13, 2006 8:56 PM • 1 Comments • 1 TrackBacks
