Are you gearing yourself up for an attempt to quit your smoking habit? It’s definitely not easy; thousands of people tried it and failed countless times. While there is a variety of medical and clinical assistance available to help you quit, it should be noted that your motivation is the core key to open the [...]
The real costs of smoking are not just the health risks, but also the financial burden and social stigma that smokers face. Kids may not be persuaded by arguments based on health risks later in life, but the impact of smoking on their somewhat limited finances or blossoming social life may be more convincing.
Parents are [...]
Tobacco is known as the most widely abused substance in the United States. According to a survey conducted in 2004, about 70.3 million Americans, ages 12 years old and above are currently using tobacco products.
Tobacco is also the leading preventable cause of death in the country. More than $75 billion worth of health care costs [...]
Electronic cigarettes have been marketed as the best alternative to tobacco products like cigars, cigarettes and cigarillos. E-cigs are battery-operated gadgets that enables a smoker to inhale his or her daily dose of nicotine through vaporized nicotine solution.
They are usually designed to resemble a real tobacco smoking product. Even the mechanism tries to mimic how [...]
Second-hand smoke or passive smoke is medically known as environmental tobacco smoke. Simply put, it is the smoke that may harm nonsmokers. There are two sources of secondhand smoke: mainstream smoke and sidestream smoke. Mainstream smoke comes from the smoke exhaled by a smoker while sidestream comes from the smoke emitted by a lighted tobacco [...]
