Top Factors Affecting your Life Insurance Premium
Life insurance can be a great way to financially protect your loved ones while making future investments at the same time. Before accepting your application, an insurance company considers several factors when pricing More...
Do You Need An Emotional Detox?
We communicate by Facebook, Linkedin, Instagram, Twitter, and email across the world, yet cannot communicate with ourselves. We can access understanding and knowledge at the push of a few buttons, and have not More...
What Is Skin Tightening and How Does it Work?
Nobody likes to have saggy, loose skin. In fact, those of us who have it find it very embarrassing and it reduces the quality of our life. Unfortunately, no matter how much we work out or diet, there is very little More...
A Few Misconceptions about Pipe Tobacco
When it comes to pipe tobacco, there are actually a lot of misconceptions out there. One of the big ones is about how these pipes are actually made. This is a real shame, particularly when you consider that there More...
Factors That Could Have an Influence on the Future of E-Cigarettes
Over the last five years, e-cig sales have dramatically increased in both the US as well as other Western countries like the UK and Canada. In addition to increased sales, they have also become wider accepted, and More...
New study: Religion leads to ‘stronger worldviews’ which reduces use of alcohol, tobacco
Public domain image/Jon Sullivan A newly released study from researchers at the University of Florida examined teenagers’ worldviews and the impact these perspectives have on deterring drugs and alcohol, finding More...
Five Secrets for Quitting Smoking in 2015
Most smokers say they want to quit and many will make a New Year’s Resolution to quit in 2015. If this is your year to quit, the American Lung Association shares five tips to help you on the path to success: Image/CDC It’s More...
More than 1 in 5 high school students use a tobacco product: CDC
Almost 23 percent of high school students currently use a tobacco product, according to new data published by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in today’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR). More...
Lung cancer cases dropping: CDC
PRESS RELEASE Tobacco control efforts are having a major impact on Americans’ health, a new analysis of lung-cancer data suggests. The rate of new lung cancer cases decreased among men and women in the United More...
This Day in History: 50 years ago surgeon general announced dangers of smoking
The headlines focused more on bronchitis than cancer as the surgeon general, Dr Luther Terry, announced the risks of smoking and called for “appropriate remedial action.” Image/CDC Debate over the hazards More...
International health body, The Union, calls for ‘urgent regulation’ of e-cigarettes
Just months after the World Health Organization (WHO) released a statement advising against the use of e-cigarettes, another international health organization has come out against the smoking cessation aid. Members More...
Moody Bible Institute lifts ban on tobacco and alcohol use by employees
The Moody Bible Institute will no longer require employees to refrain from alcohol and tobacco consumption, a dramatic policy change affecting 600 workers in its radio, publishing and educational divisions. photo More...
E-cigarette use by US teens double according to CDC data
The percentage of U.S. middle and high school students who use electronic cigarettes, or e-cigarettes, more than doubled from 2011 to 2012, according to data published by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The More...
Palestinian anti-smoking campaign teaches replace cigarettes with machine guns VIDEO
A Palestinian Authority-based NGO, the Burj Luq-Luq Social Center Society organization, recently performed a puppet show for children in east Jerusalem to promote non-smoking. Anti-Smoking ad date 1905, public domain The More...
2010 Weirdest News Stories: Pierced cats, tattooed eyeballs, Shortest man Record
2010 delivered its fair share of freaky stories. From the “Joking Disease” to “A Zombie Christmas” to a grandmother who tried to sell her grandson and a 4-year-old sued for killing an elderly More...
FDA Unveils Proposed Graphic Warning Labels for Cigarette Packs
WASHINGTON — Federal drug regulators on Wednesday unveiled 36 proposed warning labels for cigarette packages, including one showing a toe tag on a corpse and another in which a mother blows smoke on her baby. Designed More...