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smoking
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How To Stop Smoking – E-Cigarettes Are Winning The Race
14 Aug 2014 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
A new study reveals that e-cigarettes are proving to be a more reliable deterrent for people to quite smoking.
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Thursday Morning Spice
14 Aug 2014 by Seth Rotherham / No Comments
Black middle-class driving cigar sales. Why Facebook wants you to use messenger. Zuma caught in minefield. Blackout would cripple SA: Eskom. Lopez works her ‘booty.’
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Everyone’s Freaking Out Over This Toddler Smoking [Video]
09 Jun 2014 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
A controversial video of a toddler smoking a cigarette in China has caused outrage online, with the internet community up-in-arms about the by-passers who just laugh at the situation.
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Over 60% Of All Men Smoke In Which Country?
05 Jun 2014 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
A decade or two ago, this could have been true in almost any country but with increased focus on the health hazards of smoking, rates are on the decrease almost everywhere… except here. Think you know where this is?
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Apple Just Pulled This Chart-Topping Weed Growing App-Game [Video]
23 May 2014 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Oh dear, sweet, Apple. Did making a game out of selling and growing weed suddenly get too much for your sensitive soul to bear?
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E-Cigs Are 60% More Effective To Quit Smoking
21 May 2014 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
Social smokers, Drunken smokers, every-Monday-morning quitters and anyone else who just isn’t as in love with that cigarette smell as you used to be, this is a must-read for you!
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Yes, They Have Made An E-Cigarette For Marijuana [VIDEO]
22 Apr 2014 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Open Vape sells one of the fastest growing products in legal pot — the vape pen –similar to an e-cigarette but with marijuana oil. Chief Revenue Officer Todd Mitchem tells NBC News’ Harry Smith it’s only a matter of time before his company is worth billions.
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Tuesday Morning Spice
28 Jan 2014 by Seth Rotherham / No Comments
Another Marlboro Man dead from smoking. Bitcoin Exchange CEO arrested. Rand hits 5-year low. Farting cows cause explosion. Queen ‘down to last million.’ SANPARKS employee bust arranging secret hunts. TATA boss suicide.
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Smoking Is Far Worse For You Than You Ever Imagined
20 Jan 2014 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
It’s getting harder and harder to get away with smoking cigarettes without coming under fire from all and sundry – and it’s going to get that little bit more difficult.
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They’re Back! Now That Pot’s Legal In Colorado, Check The Baby Boomers GO!
16 Jan 2014 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
Since Colorado legalised recreational marijuana use and distribution a few months ago, dispensaries have been inundated with baby boomers who have finally got what they’ve wanted all along.
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Leonardo Is Sucking On E-Cigarettes These Days [PHOTOS]
14 Jan 2014 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
California banned smoking in public places over 20 years ago, which is why the site of DiCaprio having a smoke inside the Golden Globe Awards ceremony caught some people off guard. It’s all good though, he was just taking a hit of his e-cigarette. Meanwhile, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, who was sitting alongside a surprised-looking Reese Witherspoon, was […]
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This Is Why Anti-Smoking Lobbies Are Shouting Down E-Cigarettes
16 Oct 2013 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Organisations like the WHO, the British regulator MHRA and other health-oriented NGOs are all putting in as much effort as they can to spread the bad news about e-cigarettes. They’ve even gone so far as to publish false information about e-cigarettes, backed up by fake surveys. So what gives?
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US Regulators Scramble As E-Cigarette Industry Explodes
27 Aug 2013 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
E-Cigarettes have become more popular than sliced bread. Celebrities have hopped on the bandwagon and e-cigarette companies are now sponsoring sports stadiums. The trend is growing so rapidly that the market is expected to exceed $1 billion this year. Having been caught rather by surprise, the US government is looking at how they can regulate this market.
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Controversial E-Cigarette Ads Show Celebrities Smoking, Being Cool [PICS + VIDEO]
12 Aug 2013 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
The well-documented harmful effects of cigarettes have resulted in higher taxes on tobacco and advertising bans. You might recall the tobacco advertising of old glamourised smoking through celebrity endorsements. And it worked. Remember when you tried your first cigarette? Cool factor, baby.
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Eat This Twice A Week And You Can HALVE The Risk Of Lung Cancer
07 Aug 2013 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
A study conducted by scientists at Jiangsu Provincial Centre for Disease Control and Prevention suggests that the regular ingestion of raw garlic can lower your risk of lung cancer. Participants who ate the herb on a regular basis reduced their risk by 44%. In smokers, the risk of lung cancer fell by 30%.
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You Don’t Need To Stop Smoking Until You’re 40
24 Jan 2013 by Seth Rotherham / 7 Comments
Good news for those of you who promised to stop at 30, but didn’t – you’re good for another 10 years. In the most “recent study,” some nerds “discovered” that you will regain all the years you’ve lost, if you stop at 40. Read on.
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Australia’s World-First Plain Packaging Cigarette Laws Come Into Effect
03 Dec 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
Australia’s world-first laws on cigarette and tobacco plain packaging have come into full effect on Saturday. All brand logos and colours have now been replaced with generic olive green coverings, gruesome pictures of diseased body parts, or depictions of children and babies made ill by their parents’ smoking.
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Smoking “Rots” The Brain
26 Nov 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
A new study conducted by researchers from King’s College London, and just published in the journal Age and Ageing, has found that smoking “rots” the brain by damaging memory, learning and reasoning.
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New Smoking Laws For South Africa Around The Corner
21 Sep 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 3 Comments
Following the landmark decision made in Australia recently, South Africa is looking to implement a similar strategy of reducing cigarette packets to nothing more than a box with text. This is part of government’s new plan to bring South Africa’s smoking regulations in line with “international best practice.”
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Australia Now Considering Ban On Sale Of Cigarettes To Anyone Born After 2000
28 Aug 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 2 Comments
It’s not a good time to be a smoker in Australia right now. Right off the back of the news that the Supreme Court has upheld the decision to strip all cigarettes of their branding, the state of Tasmania is now considering banning the sale of cigarettes to anyone born after the year 2000.
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US Appeals Court: It’s Against Free Speech To Display Graphic Images On Cigarette Packs
27 Aug 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Bucking international trends such as what we have just witnessed in Australia, a US appeals court on Friday upheld a lower court ruling that would block the federal government from requiring tobacco companies to put graphic anti-smoking images on cigarette packaging.
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Australia Strips All Branding Off Cigarette Packs
15 Aug 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 2 Comments
International cigarette companies are busy scrambling after an Australian court has held that it’s perfectly legal to strip cigarette packs of all their branding. Instead, cigarette boxes will come in a uniform olive drab box, covered in health warnings and only stating the brand and variant of cigarette in a standardised font.
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Inactivity Is As Deadly As Smoking
18 Jul 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
A new study suggests that not enough exercise is causing as many deaths as smoking across the world. This is especially chilling news for smokers who do not excercise, as they are expected to drop dead at any moment.
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Meet The Mother Of The Year Who Smoked 3500 Cigarettes During Pregnancy
01 Jun 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 7 Comments
The Mother Of The Year title so far for 2011 has to go to this young lass from the UK. She just gave birth to a premature and underweight baby, who also endured carbon monoxide levels SIX TIMES higher than the level considered safe for a baby before birth. Why? Because mum smoked 3 500 cigarettes during pregnancy. Read her priceless reasoning behind it inside.
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Smartphone Cigarette Sharing: Marlboro ‘Bump A Smoke’ App
31 May 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 2 Comments
The concept for a Marlboro cigarrette-swapping smartphone app has been making the rounds – the idea being that social smokers would be able to trade digital cigarettes for real ones using bump technology, and ‘hardcore smokers’ would be able to redeem the digital smokes for real ones once they’d accumulated enough.
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