Judging by the comments on our last post, concerns persist on whether celery is a safe enough substitute for cigarettes. Normally, we would just refer you to our website but it seems we have been remiss in covering this lesser known alternative. But just like e-cigarettes a few years ago, using celery is becoming common […]
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Reported recently at FoxNews: US President Barack Obama has a secret weapon in his battle against his smoking habit — celery, he revealed in an interview gaining traction Thursday. First Lady Michelle Obama said earlier this month that her husband had not smoked a cigarette for almost a year. In an interview posted late Wednesday, […]
Spurred by the continuing injury rates in high school football and long term chronic health conditions associated with being professional players, Action on Sports or Health (ASH) is putting together a new task force. The first two appointees come following a distinguished career in tobacco control. ASH Director Borzon said that though this may seem […]
(Before I forget I must thank Patricia over at NicotineBuzz for distributing as much tobacco related news as she does; in the last few days amongst them were these two stories which otherwise I might easily have missed.) 1. ‘54% youth take to smoking due to Bollywood, regional cinema’ We have written before about the […]
Really super article in the UK Maidenhead Advertiser titled TV chef’s staff told to butt out. I thought this was worth repeating in its entirety because it is so groundbreaking, so edgy, and cuts straight to the heart of so many contemporary issues. This is journalism at its finest. So sit yourself down (but not […]
A colleague ran across this and just had to pass it on. Though it does not exactly qualify as harm reduction, it does raise some important issues. But first the citation and abstract: Clin Toxicol (Phila). 2010 Jun 19. [Epub ahead of print] A case of life-threatening rectal administration of moist snuff. Knudsen K, Strinnholm […]
Yesterday’s posting generated the most hits so far of any posting on our blog to date. It was, as most of you discovered, an exploration of how tobacco is reported in the news in the form of a parody. I strove to create something as perfectly camouflaged as possible so as to pass for the […]
-The following inadvertently ended up in my inbox via a BCC re a starting writer at a major newspaper who probably was not aware that it was intended to be confidential. There is little need to comment on this since it pretty well speaks for itself.-PLB. United Press Association Guidelines for Tobacco Reporting As a […]
This has only the slightest relationship to tobacco harm reduction issues but it is just too interesting not to mention. Just published in PLOS, the meta-review Social Relationships and Mortality Risks is bound to make the news for some time. And rightly so. While I can see many points of debate regarding the specifics within […]
At a strongly attended press conference today, Health Canada unveiled the new warning labels to be posted in the foyers of all anti-tobacco organizations and the requirements that these labels be prominently posted in all their advertisements and websites. The new Minister of Health, Shauna Whyte, took this high-profile step to signal a break with […]
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