WITH tobacco smoke containing more than 7,000 chemicals and 71 known cancer-forming agents, it is not difficult to appreciate that DNA—the genetic factor of ...
When Margaret Chan, director-general of the World Health Organisation, prefaced the WTO’s 2015 report on the economic and health benefits of tobacco taxation with the comment that “raising taxes on ...
A recent protocol from the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control, to which Israel is a signatory, outlines the ...
People who want to quit smoking benefit from lotteries as an incentive. This is evident from the Smoke-Free Lottery, a field experiment conducted by the RIVM, Radboud University and various Dutch ...
Smoking cigarettes is like a chemical assault on nearly every system in the body. Tobacco smoke carries thousands of toxic compounds, dozens of which are proven cancer-causing agents. Globally, ...
Supplements marketed to fight inflammation are everywhere. Do they actually work? Experts discuss the potential benefits and ...
Learn how Electronic Benefits Transfer (EBT) works, its uses in government assistance programs like SNAP, and how it aids ...
A new major study from Queen Mary University of London has found that smokers who use both cigarettes and e-cigarettes at the ...
Popular weight-loss drugs “probably have little or no effect” on a person’s risk of developing one of the 13 obesity-related ...
British American Tobacco Plc is seeing early benefits from a US crackdown on illicit vaping products, though it stopped short ...
The Romanian Competition Council has fined Philip Morris Trading, Interbrands Orbico, and Mediaposte Hit Mail with fines ...