They may be the reason why a deadly form of lung cancer is on the rise. Smoking cigarettes indisputably causes lung cancer. But does smoking “light” cigarettes—those with ventilation around the filters that dilutes the smoke with air—offer any protection as compared to the regular kind? Despite what the “light” descriptor implies, light cigarettes aren’t any […]
The secret weapon: Snus, tobacco that doesn’t kill people. I saw this chart on Twitter the other day and it blew me away: Published by the European Union last month as part of a survey 1 about attitudes towards tobacco in Europe, the chart lists the percentage of daily smokers in 28 countries. At the top of the […]
New research suggests they can protect your lungs. If you want to protect your lungs, quitting smoking is a no-brainer. But what you put on your plate can also help, too: Eating certain kinds of produce can help boost lung health, a new study in the European Respiratory Journal suggests. In the study, researchers asked 680 people, including never-smokers, […]
Smoking can make you physically ill. Quitting smoking can also make you physically ill. The difference, though, is that the long-term effects of quitting are a lot more preferable to the long-term effects of smoking. If you don’t quit, you could face the long-term symptoms that come with various cancers or emphysema. You will also […]
Just in case lung damage, heart problems, and cancer aren’t good enough reasons to quit. You must have had a brain fart the first day you decided to light up. Now, new research shows that continuing to smoke can shrivel your brain—it can actually cause key tissues in there to thin, according to a study […]