Once again we see the headline E-cigarettes could hook a new generation on nicotine, experts warn. This is a reprint of the Canadian Press article I previously wrote about. I need to also iterate a previous point – addiction is a concern if the results impact health negatively. If the article had been titled …..hook […]
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I have noticed that within the last few years very few misleading articles about e-cigarettes have managed to avoid an overwhelming number of critical comments (for example this latest from National Geographic). In most cases it seems that the readers have a more in depth knowledge of the topic than the writer does. So where […]
Chris Snowden had a good post the other day regarding concerns about the aged drinking too much. Not only were the statistics suspect but the conclusion that such drinking would have long term health effects was laughable. Its no different that worrying about any drug use which has minimal immediate consequences, smoking included, past a […]
Whatever will the movies do without cigarettes? I’ve been thinking about this for a while and I am not alone. I just finished watching the second season of The Killing (highly recommended by the way) and Sin City once again. Its these kind of movies that make you realize how fundamentally different vaping is from […]
Given how many bad knockoff articles in papers about vaping surface every few days I have been ignoring them but I just had to say something about this one because there are a lot of people who take Oprah’s former court physician Mehmet Oz as a source of wisdom. Oz has attracted some negative attention […]
Inside the world of vapers, the subculture that might save smokers’ lives by Andrew Couts at Digital Trends
My apologies but I find this an entertaining topic. And lately what I’ve been wondering is why hasn’t someone done a content analysis of smoking in the movies? Glantz and his minions appear to believe that one cigarette or smoke is much like the other and all you need to do to judge the given […]
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 […]
Though it seems to be so much more common and easier to divide behaviors into good and bad, the problem with drug use is that it is so much more complicated than that. Drug users are as varied as anyone, and since almost everyone is a drug user of some kind, its pretty specious to […]
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