FDA intends to regulate e-cigs like tobacco
What are electronic cigarettes? Are they smoking devices marketed for delivering nicotine pleasure without all the chemicals in regular cigarettes, or are they drug-delivery devices designed to help...
View ArticleIs backlash looming on outdoor smoking bans?
I’m about as anti-smoking as anyone, being the child of two people who’ve smoked virtually their entire adult lives. But this prof at Boston University makes a lot of sense. Photo: "Untitled," posted...
View ArticleTobacco shops exempt from smoking bill
Smokers gather at the Red Cloud Fine Cigars Tobacco in Fullerton. Photo by Leonard Ortiz, the Register. The California Senate has approved a bill to tighten restrictions on smoking in the workplace...
View ArticleWill seeing dead people curb smoking?
CLICK TO VIEW A GALLERY OF THE LABELS. And we have some winners! The FDA on Tuesday unveiled its nine choices for imagery that will go on packs of cigarettes by next year. The best of the lot — or the...
View ArticleTop 10 least-helpful texts to quit smoking
Photo by Matt Cardy, Getty Images. This study showing the value of text-messaging as a tool to help smokers quit is fascinating. It seems to prove that smokers, like a lot of us, need human...
View ArticleOnly 53 took county’s free quit-smoking drugs
Smoking really isn’t that big a problem in Orange County. Less than 11 percent of adults in the county smoke, well below the state average of 13.1 percent, which is an all-time low. The national...
View ArticleState smoking rate hits record low
AP photo California’s adult smoking rate has hit another record low. The state Department of Public Health announced Wednesday that 11.9 percent of adults in the state were regular smokers in 2010,...
View ArticleSecondhand smoke may cause kids’ hearing loss
One of the proposed FDA warning labels for cigarette packages that didn't make the final cut, although I like it and it seems appropriate here. Yeah, you could say I’m anti-smoking. This is a blog,...
View ArticleTobacco companies sue over graphic warnings
When you get knocked on your rear, get back up and try again. That’s the goal of five big tobacco companies who are suing over the FDA’s power to put nine graphic warning labels on cigarette packaging...
View ArticleSome stores still dumb enough to sell kids smokes
Illegal sales of tobacco to min Photo posted to Flickr by Matt Whitlock. ors has dropped to yet another record level. During the state’s annual sting operation undercover compliance check of stores in...
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