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 ...
Dave Astor | Posted 08.01.2009 | Comedy
The general public doesn't mourn the deaths of less-famous people who might have continued to also do great things if they hadn't left us before their time.
Abby L. Ferber | Posted 07.29.2009 | Living
Providing universal health coverage is essential, but there are many, many other social policy avenues to pursue if we seek to improve the health of our citizenry.
postchronicle.com | Posted 07.11.2009 | Home
Last-ditch efforts by U.S. tobacco interests are unlikely to derail sweeping changes in laws governing how cigarettes are made and marketed, analysts ...
Yahoo! News | Serena GordonHealthDay Reporter | Posted 07.06.2009 | Living
WE Although some believe that certain people are destined to get cancer and nothing can be done to change their fate, that's just not the case, expert...
The Hill | Posted 07.06.2009 | Politics
A Republican senator who is also a doctor is calling for a new era of Prohibition -- outlawing cigarette smoking and other tobacco use....
The Butts Remain | Posted 06.29.2009 | Green
According to ButtsOut, cigarette butt litter is the world's greatest environmental litter problem with approx 4.3 trillion cigarette butts tossed onto...
Jeff Norman | Posted 06.20.2009 | Politics
I have a better idea tan making smokers pay an extra .33 cents a pack: raise the fine for befouling the community and start enforcing the law.
AP | LAURAN NEERGAARD | Posted 06.18.2009 | Living
WASHINGTON — It may be riskier on the lungs to smoke cigarettes today than it was a few decades ago _ at least in the U.S., says new research th...
Global Times | Posted 06.04.2009 | World
A regulation urging civil servants to smoke local cigarettes has not been banned despite nationwide controversy, according to the local authority yest...
AP | ERICA WERNER | Posted 05.09.2009 | Living
WASHINGTON — Smoking takes years off your life and adds dollars to the cost of health care. Yet nonsmokers cost society money, too _ by living l...
AP | RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR | Posted 04.29.2009 | Business
WASHINGTON — However they satisfy their nicotine cravings, tobacco users are facing a big hit as the single largest federal tobacco tax increase...
Ali A. Rizvi | Posted 04.17.2009 | Living
Vegetables give you gas and require vitamin supplementation. Cannibalism is illegal. And I'm too self-conscious to take my jiggling torso to a public gym.
Stanton Peele | Posted 04.07.2009 | Home
Our financial and emotional needs now dictate that state governments sedate their citizens, while picking their pockets, from California to Kansas to the Mid-Atlantic.
Ted Goeglein | Posted 03.28.2009 | Chicago
Like smoking, being a Cubs fan means committing oneself to something that starts out hot, burns out at the midpoint, and turns to ashes at the end.
Daniel Cubias | Posted 09.29.2009 | Home