Source: Lifestyles Author: Nicole Printz Just like the trucks on every corner in Abilene, rings on back jean pockets are a common sight. Gruen Von Behrens, who visited Abilene High School on Wednesday, knows all about smokeless tobacco. He began with snuff at 13 years old. He asked the packed high school auditorium if the students knew someone who [...]
Continue reading...Saturday, February 20, 2010
Source: www.thesunnews.com Author: Mark Sherman The Obama administration asked the Supreme Court Friday to allow the government to seek nearly $300 billion from the tobacco industry for a half-century of deception that “has cost the lives and damaged the health of untold millions of Americans.” Both sides in a landmark, decade-long legal fight over smoking took their case [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, December 17, 2009
Source: www.keloland.com Author: Katie Janssen They look just like candy and gum; pop them in your mouth and they melt like mints. It may sound innocent enough, but they’re just as addictive as cigarettes. Tobacco companies are adding new products, and experts say they’re getting better at targeting them to kids. But a group of Mitchell [...]
Continue reading...Friday, December 4, 2009
Source: townhall.com Author: staff Cigarette maker Reynolds American Inc. has reached a deal to acquire a Swedish company whose nicotine gum, pouches and spray help people stop smoking, the second-largest U.S. tobacco company said Wednesday. The acquisition will let Reynolds offer products that can “reduce the risks of diseases and death caused by tobacco use,” CEO Susan M. [...]
Continue reading...Monday, October 26, 2009
Source: www.upi.com Author: staff A Swedish tobacco company adds a substance to snuff products to heighten dependency, an investigative report concluded. The usual level for snuff or ’snus’ is eight milligrams per gram but double that amount was found in one product produced by Swedish Match, the news program Kalla Fakta reported. The report alleges that Swedish Match [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, October 20, 2009
Source: news.ncmonline.com Author: Erin Marcus, M.D. Editor’s Note: In the debut of A Doctor’s Word, Dr. Erin Marcus wrote about an African-American man’s effort to quit smoking cigarettes. This week, she offers practical advice for all who would like to kick the habit. Dr. Marcus is associate professor of clinical medicine at the University of Miami Miller [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, October 13, 2009
Source: www.timesleader.com Author: Geri Anne Kaikowski It’s a misconception that just because you don’t smoke nicotine, it is less addictive and less dangerous than a cigarette. That’s the fallacy and danger behind a marketing ploy for a new take on a centuries old product, snuff. Whereas the old snuff, popular in the 1970s and 1980s in round paper [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, October 6, 2009
Source: www.postbulletin.com Author: staff A couple of months ago I ran into a friend I hadn’t seen in years. I didn’t recognize him. A once solid and athletic guy, now in his late 40s, he’d lost more than 50 pounds and his skin was the color of fireplace ash. A long, thin scar ran from his jaw [...]
Continue reading...Monday, October 5, 2009
Source: www.sciencedaily.com Author: staff Curcumin, the compound that gives curry powder its yellow/orange color, may inhibit the adverse effects of nicotine in patients with head and neck cancer who continue to smoke. In a paper presented at the 2009 American Academy of Otolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery Foundation (AAO-HNSF) Annual Meeting & OTO EXPO in San Diego, [...]
Continue reading...Monday, October 5, 2009
Source: www.us-marlboro.com Author: staff Sweden brought us meatballs, the Nobel prize, Ikea, the Saab and the Volvo. But the country’s latest mark on the U.S. is not so benign: an oral tobacco product known as snus. The moist tobacco, which comes in a tea-bag-style pouch that goes under the upper lip, has public health experts divided. Some say [...]
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