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Eddie Van Halen thinks he developed cancer from sucking on metal guitar...
Eddie Van Halen blames his metal guitar picks for developing mouth cancer, according to TMZ. He also theorized about the cause in a 2015 interview with Billboard.Sources told TMZ that Van Halen has...
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Juul halts US sales of its fruity-flavored vaping pods as regulators...
Juul Labs halted all US sales of its fruity-flavored e-cigarette pods on Thursday under mounting regulatory pressure to stop marketing them towards minors.Hours earlier, rival Philip Morris took pains...
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Banning legitimate vaping is 'absolute madness'
All panics begin with a rational fear that quickly turns dangerously irrational. The bans on legal nicotine vaping products in the US is an example of such a panic. It doesn't seem to matter that...
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The first 'Marlboro Man' on television died after never smoking a day in his...
Robert Norris, the first Marlboro Man to appear on television, died at age 90.Norris served as the popular icon for Marlboro cigarettes for more than decade, though he was never a smoker.He quit the...
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Can you get life insurance if you vape? The answer is complicated.
Vaping is still a relatively new practice, so life insurance companies haven't yet standardized the way they treat vape users — as smokers, non-smokers, or something else entirely.According to the life...
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Vaping may feed lung disease-causing bacteria just like smoking
A new study, published today in the journal Respiratory Research, suggests vaping is just as bad for a person's lung health as traditional smoking when it comes to its affect on lung bacteria. The...
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7 ways smoking affects your skin, from premature aging to increased skin...
Smoking is harmful to your heart, your lungs, and your skin.Puffing on cigarettes can cause premature aging, wrinkle development, scarring and pigmentation, and darkening of the lips.Smoking can also...
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As the FDA cracks down on e-cigarettes, vapers are starting to become...
The US Food and Drug Administration recently continued its crackdown on vaping, issuing a ban on flavored e-cigarette pods, excluding tobacco and menthol varieties. While the new rule prohibits the...
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The best way to ditch bad habits, according to science
Ian Hamilton is an associate professor of addiction and mental health at University of York, and Sally Marlow is an addictions researcher at King's College London.When it comes to breaking a bad habit,...
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The US cancer rate just had its biggest-ever 1-year drop, and it's because of...
Cancer is one of the leading causes of death in the world, but between 2016 and 2017, the cancer rate declined more than ever before.This is due to a decline in smoking, early cancer screenings, and...
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Today is the 100 year anniversary of Prohibition. Its history shows us that...
Jay L. Zagorsky is a senior lecturer in the Questrom School of Business at Boston University.While alcohol consumption fell in 1920, the first year of Prohibition, but reached about two-thirds of...
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Drinking alcohol every day can speed up brain aging by one week per session,...
Researchers at the University of Southern California looked at more than 17,000 brain scans to see if daily smoking and drinking advanced brain age. The study found that every gram of alcohol consumed...
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A luxury cigar company from Mozambique is looking to challenge Cuba as...
Bongani Cigars is a Mozambique-based firm that considers itself Africa's first luxury cigar brand.Workers for Bongani hand-roll 10,000 cigars every month with locally grown tobacco.A typical Bongani...
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Juul took out ads on Nickelodeon, and even its board of directors thought the...
A new lawsuit says, in 2015, Juul advertised on Nickelodeon, Cartoon Network, Seventeen Magazine and College Confidential, a forum for teens to talk about college rankings and SAT scores. Juul...
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Men represent the majority of coronavirus cases so far. Researchers think...
Early research has shown that the new coronavirus that originated in Wuhan, China, has infected more men than women. A recent study of nearly 140 coronavirus patients showed the virus was most likely...
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People who vape show DNA changes similar to smokers and that are linked to...
A University of Southern California study has found that vapers exhibit similar chemical modifications to people who smoke cigarettes – modifications commonly found in nearly all types of human...
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It's been 20 years since smoking was completely banned on all US flights....
Smoking and airplanes once went hand in hand but the practice is now largely banned the world over. US government regulations on smoking on airplanes first began in the 1970s and culminated in smoking...
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COVID-19 is a '1-2-3-punch' disease: Doctors describe how the coronavirus...
Most people who get sick with COVID-19, the illness caused by the novel coronavirus, experience mild symptoms and will fully recover.However, some people are more likely to have severe lung...
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France has banned online sales of nicotine substitutes after a study showed...
France has banned online sales of nicotine substitutes, and limited sales in pharmacies.The idea is to prevent a run on nicotine replacements, after a widely reported study from a Paris hospital found...
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The coronavirus pandemic has urged many smokers to quit. Here's how you can...
Amy Harrington is an assistant professor of psychiatry at the University of Massachusetts Medical School.She says many of her patients who smoke or vape are deciding to quit because of the coronavirus...
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