Category: smoking

Why the New Field of Epigenetics Is Changing the Way We Look at Smoking

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Epigenetic Reprogramming and the Smoking Burden In this day and age, it is quite impossible not to uncover all of the dangers associated with smoking cigarettes. Not only has Johns Hopkins recently discovered over 7,000 related chemicals that are associated…

Effects of Smoking on the Respiratory System

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  Many people are aware of the common knowledge of the negative effects that smoking has on the respiratory system. What’s really alarming in the fact that destruction to the human body happens to both regular smokers and those that…

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Mental Effects of Smoking – What are the Mental Emotional Effects of Tobacco?

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  Even though the majority of people understand that there are consequences to smoking cigarettes, over twenty five percent of the population still continue to smoke. Research continues to uncover the underlying themes of reasons why people smoke and the…

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Reasons to Quit Smoking Now

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Need reasons to quit smoking!? If you are among the many people who are apparently dependent on smoking cigarettes, you most likely would like to give up the habit. In fact, there are many reasons to quit smoking. By considering…

Don’t Be Afraid of Your Very Last Cigarette

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by Mark Barrus Look forward to crushing it out in the parking lot right before your appointment Your smoking habit is a ritual of one cigarette after another, and another. Plus futzing with the lighter, and making sure you have…

Should the Smoking Age Be Raised to 21?

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  by Mark Barrus Michael Winter of USA TODAY wrote an article Friday about how the states of Utah and Colorado could be raising the smoking age to 21   I was unaware that New York City and Hawaii County…

Who are these “Experts” that are contemplating the end of smoking?

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http://youtu.be/dzYvSL_sct4 by Mark Barrus Mike Stobbe of the Associated Press (AP Medical Writer) Wrote a very good article recently, with a very provocative title called Experts increasingly contemplate end of smoking   AP Photo-Dan Grossi.jpg   I just wanted to…

Why Are They Marketing E-Cigarettes to Children?

by Mark Barrus The FDA has announced an intent to regulate E-Cigarettes, according to Tobacco Free Hall County and will change its jurisdiction to include e-cigs along with all other tobacco products. Great…. but what’s the timetable? How long will…

Orange County Tobacco Education Coalition Meeting – Next Tuesday, January 14, 2014

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9:45 a.m. Networking 10 a.m. – 12 p.m. Meeting Where: American Heart Association 4600 Campus Drive, Irvine 92617 (On the UC Irvine Campus at the corner of Campus Dr. and California Ave.) Free Parking (Obtain parking pass from AHA office)…

Do You Want to Break the Habit of Smoking?

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“Do You Want to Break the Habit of Smoking?” By Jackie Foskett, Certified Hypnotherapist & Hypno-Coach Stress Relief Specialist  The American Cancer Society’s The Great American Smoke-Out Day is a great time to break the habit of smoking! We would…