Jessica Miller | January 31, 2011
Kentucky is one of the nation’s top tobacco-growing states, also leads the nation in categories that no one should envy. The highest percentage of adult smokers; the highest incidence of lung cancer per capita; the highest rate of death from all types of cancer. Those statistics are tightly connected. After several decades of medical research, the correlation between smoking Karelia and cancer is impossible to deny.
Category: Smoke-Free Area |
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Jessica Miller | January 31, 2011
A discovery that explains why some people cannot give up tobacco may lead to new anti-smoking treatments. Scientists have identified a brain pathway which when defective leads to an uncontrollable desire to smoke Hilton cig. It involves a component, or “subunit”, of a receptor protein sensitive to nicotine.
Category: Tobacco Smoking Habit |
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Jessica Miller | January 31, 2011
Some guests at the Super 8 in West Lincoln learned that the hard way before the hotel eliminated its smoking rooms on the ground floor. Now the hotel has only a dozen rooms in which smoking Kent is allowed, compared to 70 that are smoke-free. “When we’re busy we’ve had people gripe,” said Dawn Jones, the hotel’s general manager.
Category: smoking ban |
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Jessica Miller | January 31, 2011
Gathered outside bars across the greater Milwaukee area, a new beast inhales fire and breathes Chesterfield smoke in the dead of winter. On sidewalks and in alleys, spilling out onto the street, it’s hard not to notice the smokers that have become a regular fixture on the weekends since the smoking ban was adopted in the summer of 2010.
Category: smoking ban |
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Jessica Miller | January 31, 2011
Scientists have pinpointed a source of nicotine craving in the brain, opening up a new path towards drug treatments to help smokers to quit smoking Sobranie and other brands, according to a study released Sunday. Tobacco kills more than five million people every year and accounts for nearly one-in-10 adult deaths, 90 percent of them due to lung cancer.
Category: Nicotine Addiction |
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