By admin on Mar 12, 2010 in Uncategorized | 0 Comments
In the heyday of cigarette smoking, a pack a day was “just what the doctor ordered.” Of course, the purported health benefits of smoking have been largely debunked, and cigarettes today are associated with serious health hazards.
But smoking may still have at least one advantage: protection against the development of Parkinson’s disease. [...]
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By admin on Sep 10, 2009 in Uncategorized | 0 Comments
Avis Budget Group, Inc. announced that Avis Rent A Car and Budget Rent A Car vehicles in the United States and Canada will be smoke-free under a new policy that prohibits smoking in its rental vehicles.
There are 65 + million smokers in the United States.
Why not offer an option that will keep your smoking customers [...]
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By admin on Sep 10, 2009 in General Tobacco News | 0 Comments
The Tobacco Smoke Enema was popular in the mid 18th century (1750s-1810s). The tobacco enema was used to infuse tobacco smoke into a patients rectum for various medical purposes, primarily the resuscitation of drowning victims. A rectal tube inserted into the anus was connected to a fumigator and bellows that forced smoke towards the rectum. [...]
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By admin on Sep 9, 2009 in General Tobacco News | 0 Comments
Avis Budget Group, Inc. today announced that beginning next month Avis Rent A Car and Budget Rent A Car vehicles in the United States and Canada will be smoke-free under a new policy that prohibits smoking in its rental vehicles effective October 1.
“Tobacco smoke leaves a residue on fabrics, fibers and surfaces of vehicles, which [...]
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By admin on Sep 2, 2009 in TidBits | 0 Comments
There is evidence that tobacco was first grown over 5000 years ago. Native to the Americas it stayed there until the era of the great explorers. Columbus is credited with introducing tobacco to Europe in the mid 15th Century. Who introduced it to Britain is disputed, Sir Walter Raleigh, Robert Grenville and Sir Francis Drake [...]
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By admin on Sep 2, 2009 in General Tobacco News | 0 Comments
Here is the rundown on the smoking rules in European countries.
Austria
The Austrian republic is one of Europe’s last refuges for smokers; it is still resisting the smoking bans in effect in other EU countries. However, the state-run railways OeBB have been non-smoking from September 1, 2007. Austria’s Health Minister Andrea Kdolsky is considering introducing smoking [...]
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By admin on Sep 2, 2009 in Reality Check | 0 Comments
Smoking bans are ridiculous. Period. If this were 1989 instead of 2009, next to nobody would have a problem with smoking in public. And in fact, almost nobody did until 1993, when the EPA declared that “secondhand smoke,” a term unheard of by most of us until 1990 or so, was declared to be a [...]
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By admin on Sep 2, 2009 in Reality Check | 0 Comments
Smoking helps soothe anxiety, suppress unwanted emotions, and dumb down the pain of living. It’s all to do with the nicotine receptors in the brain and the resultant pleasant hormones like dopamine that are produced.
So is roughly 30% of the world going to go raving mad? What is going to happen with all these [...]
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By admin on Jul 12, 2009 in Smoking News | 0 Comments
Hailey, Idaho July 12, 2009 Airlines, smokers and non-smokers welcome a new green air friendly tobacco inhaler.
Smoking has been banned on aircraft for over 20 years, yet stress and tension levels associated with flying have increased. SmokeScents, a fire cured tobacco inhaler can now be used on aircraft and other places where smoking is restricted. [...]
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By admin on Jun 8, 2009 in TidBits | 0 Comments
A college student I know said while she was in Las Vegas she paid $8 for a pack of cigarettes. Another student regularly pays $6 a pack. College students don’t have much money, but they spend a fortune on cigarettes. I guess the ones who are considering quitting are doing so for financial reasons. Hooray [...]
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