Showing posts with label cigarettes. Show all posts
Showing posts with label cigarettes. Show all posts
Friday, February 27, 2015

The Blunt Facts About Blunts

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Mixing tobacco with marijuana. People who smoke a combination of tobacco and marijuana, a common practice overseas for years, and incre...
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Wednesday, January 28, 2015

Smoking and Sadness

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The chemistry of sorrow during nicotine withdrawal. When you smoke a cigarette, nicotine pops into acetylcholine receptors in the br...
Wednesday, January 7, 2015

Rotting from the Inside

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Smoking and the decline of the body.  We all know smoking is bad for your health. It causes lung cancer and emphysema and contribu...
Wednesday, December 3, 2014

Cigarettes and Genetic Risk

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Evidence From a 4-Decade Study. Pediatricians have often remarked upon it: Give one adolescent his first cigarette, and he will coug...
Monday, August 12, 2013

Will Power and Its Limits

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How to strengthen your self-control. Reason in man obscured, or not obeyed, Immediately inordinate desires, And upstart passions, cat...
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Sunday, June 16, 2013

A Weak Smoker’s Vaccine Might Be Worse Than None

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New PET scans show wide responses to antibodies. One of the brightest hopes of addiction science has been the idea of a vaccine—an anti...
Friday, May 31, 2013

Big Tobacco Hasn't Given Up On Smoking. Have You?

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World No Smoking Day.
Thursday, March 28, 2013

Smokers’ Genes: Evidence From a 4-Decade Study

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How adolescent risk becomes adult addiction.  Pediatricians have often remarked upon it: Give one adolescent his first cigarette, and h...
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Saturday, March 16, 2013

Big Tobacco Easily Evades “Light” Cigarette Ban

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Color coding allows smokers to easily identify their former brands. The tobacco industry has once again made a mockery of the Food and ...
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Sunday, January 27, 2013

Novartis Gives Up On Nicotine Vaccine

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Another one bites the dust . Novartis, a leading health care products company, called it quits on its NIC002 nicotine vaccine project, ...
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Sunday, January 6, 2013

Have We Killed Half of our Soldiers with Cigarettes?

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Two long-term studies yield grim stats, and women are no exception. We know that smoking kills. But until the results of 50 years’ ...
Friday, December 14, 2012

States Quietly Defunding Anti-Smoking Programs For Kids

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Only 2 cents of each tobacco settlement dollar goes to smoking prevention plans. If there’s one thing we know about smoking, it’s that f...
Wednesday, October 24, 2012

The Encultured Brain: A Book Review

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How biology and culture jointly define us. Anyone who follows academia knows that the broad category of courses known as the Liberal Ar...
Tuesday, May 29, 2012

Science, Academia, and Tobacco

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A review of The Golden Holocaust: Origins of the Cigarette Catastrophe and the Case for Abolition Part III Academic collaborations come...
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Saturday, May 26, 2012

The Tobacco Industry as Disease Vector

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A review of The Golden Holocaust: Origins of the Cigarette Catastrophe and the Case for Abolition Part II The famous Surgeon General’s ...
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