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(Reuters Health) – Unemployed smokers have more difficulty finding a job – and when they do find one, they tend to earn less than their smoke-free counterparts, a study suggests. Among unemployed people in the San Francisco Bay Area, nonsmokers … Continue reading →

CHAMPAIGN, Ill., Feb. 23 (UPI) — While smokers and non-smokers agree in their disdain for graphic images on packs of cigarettes, smokers say the pictures still won’t stop them from lighting up. Researchers at the University of Illinois found the … Continue reading →

The U.S. government is criticizing electronic cigarette manufacturers for targeting teens. Companies spent $115 million to advertise e-cigarettes in 2014. (Photo: Getty Images) E-cigarette advertisements are responsible for millions of U.S. children and teens using the nicotine-delivering devices, according to … Continue reading →

Scientists have suggested that smoking may be a factor for developing psychotic illnesses like schizophrenia. The analysis by researchers from Kings College London, which was published in the Lancet Psychiatry journal, found that people who suffer from psychosis are three … Continue reading →

A tough new ban on smoking in public took effect at midnight in the Chinese capital, aimed at ending the era of tobacco fumes clinging to clothes and lungs. The estimated four million smokers in the city — one-fifth of … Continue reading →

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)cigarette smoking is the leading cause behind various diseases. Reportedly,cigarette smoking, has killed about 480,000 Americans as per a calculation on annual basis. CDC says that cigarette smoking is at all time … Continue reading →

For almost three decades, from the late 1950s to the late 1980s, Americans consumed an average of more than 125 packs of cigarettes a year. But the combination of higher taxes on tobacco products and more education on the dangers … Continue reading →

SMOKING had long been a hallmark of teenage rebellion when “Truth,” a campaign from Legacy, introduced its first antismoking commercial in 2000. In the commercial, young people gather at the New York headquarters of the Philip Morris tobacco company and dump 1,200 … Continue reading →