What You Don't Know About Osteoporosis
This is the first of three articles on what helps keep bones healthy and strong -- and what does not. We will be covering both prevention of and treatment for osteoporosis for women as well as men.
This is the first of three articles on what helps keep bones healthy and strong -- and what does not. We will be covering both prevention of and treatment for osteoporosis for women as well as men.
AP | MICHAEL FELBERBAUM | Posted 11.09.2009 | Business
RICHMOND, Va. — Reynolds American Inc., maker of Camel cigarettes and Grizzly smokeless tobacco, is in talks to buy a Swedish company that helps...
Sadie Nardini | Posted 11.06.2009 | Living
Mr. President, I'm sure your stress levels are unbelievable. Yet, if you want to help create change we can believe in, then you must stop bumming cigarettes. I know you've done it, and may do it again.
LA Times | Mark Milian | Posted 11.01.2009 | World
With so many places around the world instituting smoking regulations, increasing taxes and, quite literally, kicking smokers to the curb, it's getting...
technologyreview.com | Posted 10.30.2009 | Technology
Smokers who regularly play a computer game that involves crushing virtual cigarettes could have a better chance of kicking the habit. At least, that's...
Erica Heinz | Posted 09.29.2009 | Living
Let's not neglect the little health routine that you've learned from smoking. The pattern is a long, slow inhale through pursed lips, and a long, deep exhale with a relaxed open mouth.
reuters.com | Amy Norton | Posted 09.29.2009 | Business
Researchers from the University of Michigan found U.S. life expectancy increased by 6 years between 1929 and 1932, from 57 to 63, with the increase oc...
Mother Jones | Tom Jacobs | Posted 09.28.2009 | Living
In June, President Obama signed a law requiring tobacco companies to post large, graphic warnings on cigarette packs. However, new research suggests t...
AP | MICHAEL FELBERBAUM | Posted 09.22.2009 | Politics
RICHMOND, Va. — The new federal ban on flavored cigarettes took effect on Tuesday, marking one of the first visible signs of the Food and Drug A...
USA Today | Liz Szabo | Posted 09.21.2009 | Living
Two separate analyses released Monday each found that heart attack rates fall 17% within a year after smoking bans take effect. One analysis, which in...
Michael Melcher | Posted 09.17.2009 | Living
I didn't fly to Spain to mainline other people's nicotine, but on the other hand I didn't fly to Spain to be crabby and obsessive. What to do?
Carolita Johnson | Posted 09.15.2009 | Comedy
I'm all for any kind of smoking ban, anywhere, anytime. Even my smoking friends complain about walking in the wake of someone's smoke outside. That's telling, isn't it?
AP | SARA KUGLER | Posted 11.14.2009 | New York
NEW YORK — New York City's famous parks may be going smoke-free. The city's health commissioner says the next goal in Mayor Michael Bloomberg's...
Eric Schurenberg | Posted 11.10.2009 | Business
The president announced a handful of new initiatives designed to make it easier for American workers to save more for retirement, that makes use of behavioral economics.
Daniel Cubias | Posted 09.29.2009 | Home
My family told my grandmother smokers were taking a grave risk, analogous to stealing a car in broad daylight.
Don McNay | Posted 09.13.2009 | Business
As we look at life after the financial crisis, we need to turn traditional thinking on its head. Picking up a copy of Chris Anderson's Free is a good place to start.
Global Post | Posted 09.07.2009 | World
By Seth Kugel SAO PAULO, Brazil -- As part of a campaign to promote the state of Sao Paulo's wide-reaching new "anti-smoking" regulations, an ad ru...
prevention.com | Daryl Chen | Posted 08.30.2009 | Living
Can you ever reverse the damage of a past smoking habit or the savage tans you sported into your 30s? Here, what's forgivable, what's regrettable, and...
Karen Stabiner | Posted 08.27.2009 | Living
In the name of transparency, yes, my late father lit one cigarette off the end of another from the time he was twelve until nine months before he...
TIME | JEFFREY KLUGER | Posted 08.25.2009 | World
It's easy enough to buy a smoke at Isa Yakubu's grocery store on a busy street in Lagos, Nigeria. Never mind if you don't have much money. Most local ...
Susan Blumenthal, M.D. | Posted 07.31.2009 | Living
Today, preventable risk factors including smoking, poor diet, lack of physical activity, and alcohol use account for approximately 38% of all deaths in the United States.
Jonathan Kim | Posted 09.25.2009 | Entertainment
The Obama administration just passed the Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act. So Will the Nick Naylors of the world soon become extinct? Not by a long shot.
AP | PAULINE JELINEK | Posted 08.16.2009 | Politics
WASHINGTON — Smoke 'em if you got 'em. The Pentagon reassured troops Wednesday that it won't ban tobacco products in war zones. Defense official...
nytimes.com | GARDINER HARRIS and DUFF WILSON | Posted 08.02.2009 | Living
Federal drug regulators warned Wednesday that patients taking two popular drugs to stop smoking should be watched closely for signs of serious mental ...
Joseph Sciabbarrasi, M.D. | Posted 11.12.2009 | Living