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12/24/2017 / By Frances Bloomfield

Education and intervention: New training lab uses virtual reality to dissuade teens from smoking

Virtual reality has a wide variety of uses, ranging from augmenting entertainment experiences to helping pilots train for actual flight. Now, research scientists from the Yale Center for Health & Learning Games are working towards newer, more noble applications for this technology. One of these is smokeSCREEN VR, the virtual reality adaptation of PlayForward: smokeSCREEN, […]

12/12/2017 / By Ralph Flores

New study finds smokeless tobacco causes mouth cancer, with more than half off all cases occurring in Asia

One thing you can rely on about tobacco: It’s bound to give you cancer if you put it in your body. Most of you may think that statement only applies to smoking tobacco. However, a study in Myanmar puts chewing tobacco in the same category. A recent study has discovered that almost all cases of mouth cancer […]

11/27/2017 / By Zoey Sky

Why “safer than cigarettes” doesn’t mean “safe” — understanding how e-cigarettes work

Less than 10 years ago, a lone company in China advertised the e-cigarette as an unheard-of product that was a safer and tobacco-free alternative to regular cigarettes. In 2010, the U.S. market welcomed vaping. Now, health officials, policymakers, and researchers are working double-time to stay updated with a “rapidly expanding, wildly controversial, and largely unregulated $3 […]

11/19/2017 / By Rita Winters

Huge study proves drinking and smoking does make you look older

If you still don’t know – smoking and drinking too much will literally make you look older. Researchers from Denmark found that there is a relationship between indulging in these unhealthy habits and early signs of aging. Heavy smokers and drinkers were more likely to develop wrinkly skin and have gray rings around the cornea […]

11/13/2017 / By Russel Davis

CDC reports 1 in 5 American adults are addicted to tobacco, the number one cause of preventable disease

A report by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reveals that one in five American adults use tobacco on a regular basis despite the increase in electronic cigarette use. The report, based on the National Health Interview Survey, also shows that 15 percent of the country’s overall population smokes tobacco. Likewise, the results show […]

11/10/2017 / By Isabelle Z.

Peer pressure turnaround: New research shows a reduction in youth tobacco use when friends stage an intervention

Despite an abundance of smoking cessation aids available, many people struggle to kick this dangerous habit. It’s not surprising that some adults who have been smoking for decades cannot imagine living without their cigarettes, but are the chances any better of getting young people to abandon the habit? A study that was recently published in […]

03/31/2016 / By David Rice

Nicotine is MORE addictive than cocaine, morphine, heroin or alcohol

Nicotine is MORE addictive than cocaine, morphine, heroin or alcohol – affecting BOTH sides of your brain. You see, on the right side of your brain, you’ve got the ability and functions for art, creativity, imagination, intuition, insight, holistic thoughts, music awareness, and of course, left hand control. Then, on the left side of your […]

01/29/2016 / By David Rice

You’re addicted to your own chemical imbalance and it’s synthetically engineered by Big Tobacco

With the industrial revolution came industrial chemicals, but with the 2nd chemical revolution came industrial chemicals in food, cigarettes, drinking water, pharmaceuticals and eventually, chemotherapy and GMO. After World War II, the cigarette manufacturing companies went right to work on domestic cigarettes – marketing to unsuspecting Americans a new toxic breed of chemicals with tobacco, […]

10/08/2015 / By David Rice

Nicotine damages dopamine production for smokers – ground-breaking course reveals keys to replace and naturally replenish

Cigarette addiction is powerful. The lethal toxins found in cigarettes include pesticide, ammonia and a laundry list of other elements that most people are unaware of, and overcoming the addiction is thus more complicated and difficult than people expect. Let’s clear the clouds of doubt – the questions you have, and every reason we can […]

09/18/2015 / By David Rice

Smokers’ test: 10 facts you never knew about your habit – plus a natural escape

Here are the facts about cigarettes AND the ones that have you hooked; however, once you know them, realize them, account for them, and attack them with the remedy, you can once again be free from the smoker’s prison. How many FACTS do you already know of these? One, two or three? If you know […]

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