GLENN ELLIS’ STRATEGIES FOR WELL-BEING: Strokes and Smoking
EURweb - Carbon monoxide from smoking or second-hand smoke damages this important layer of cells, allowing fats and plaque to stick to vessel walls. Nicotine then performs a double whammy of sorts. First, each time new nicotine arrives in the brain it
St. Ambrose task force fleshing out smoke-free policy
Quad-Cities Times - when the weather was so beautiful that the TIMES staff wondered how anyone could complain - anyway, this guy has his arm hanging out the window letting the smoke out into the atmosphere - heck, he doesn’t want to breathe his own second-hand smoke
Hospitals to banish smoking
Raleigh News & Observer - The hospitals already prohibit smoking inside; the new policies will ban tobacco anywhere on the property. It’s inconsistent with hospitals’ missions to allow smokers to hurt not only themselves, but also those who breathe their second-hand smoke
Restaurant owner not above the law
Alamogordo Daily News - While I know that many smokers are considerate of others WITH regards to second-hand smoke, this law was passed because of those who do not mind others health. More than likely, if these smokers would have been respectful of those around them
Tobacco bill worries local retailers
Register-News - number one preventable cause of death in America, killing more than 438,000 Americans every year, more than the number of deaths caused by alcohol abuse or any other health risk, Durbin stated in reply to Kaufman. Exposure to second hand smoke
Does Tobacco Money Taint Research?
Inside Higher Ed - Enstrom, a University of California at Los Angeles cancer researcher who takes tobacco money and has questioned the health impact of second-hand smoke. The whole purpose of a university is to provide an environment where people can pursue the truth