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09/20/2018 / By Ralph Flores

Science shows the longer you smoke, the more mutations you get in your lung cells, increasing the risk of many types of cancer

Smoking wreaks genetic damage to different organs of the body and causes mutations in the DNA. Researchers at the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute and the Los Alamos National Laboratory, as well as King’s College London, said that on average, smokers accumulate at least 150 extra mutations in every lung cell for each year that they […]

07/18/2018 / By Russel Davis

It’s working: Lung cancer rates have gone down in communities with strong smoking laws, study results reveal

Imposing strong smoke-free workplace laws may lead to a significant decline in lung cancer rates, according to a study published in the journal Cancer. A team of researchers at the University of Kentucky has examined how smoke-free laws affect lung cancer prevalence across the state as part of the study. Data show that Kentucky has more cases of lung […]

06/02/2018 / By Jayson Veley

The 7 risk factors for lung cancer you should be aware of

Many people believe that the 1.6 million people who die of lung cancer each and every year are just older citizens that have been smoking heavily for years. The truth is, however, that that couldn’t be more wrong. According to a new Norwegian-Greek study published in the Lancet-affiliated EBioMedicine Journal, those who are young and haven’t smoked […]

05/23/2018 / By Michelle Simmons

Third-hand smoke, or the smoke that transfers into surfaces and clothes, can damage your liver

Third-hand smoke, or the smoke that transfers onto surfaces and clothes, is extremely detrimental to health. A study published in the journal Clinical Science found that third-hand smoke can damage the liver. A team of researchers from the University of California, Riverside aimed to determine what health effects can third-hand smoke cause and how long […]

11/27/2017 / By Zoey Sky

Why “safer than cigarettes” doesn’t mean “safe” — understanding how e-cigarettes work

Less than 10 years ago, a lone company in China advertised the e-cigarette as an unheard-of product that was a safer and tobacco-free alternative to regular cigarettes. In 2010, the U.S. market welcomed vaping. Now, health officials, policymakers, and researchers are working double-time to stay updated with a “rapidly expanding, wildly controversial, and largely unregulated $3 […]

03/18/2017 / By David Gutierrez

Researchers develop less invasive way to diagnose lung cancer

Researchers claim they have developed a cheaper, less invasive way to test for lung cancer — but can the new method change fundamental problems with the country’s cancer screening system? The new method involves conducting a genetic analysis on cells collected from the lining of the nasal cavity, according to a study conducted by researchers […]

04/04/2016 / By David Rice

There’s no cigarette news … except QUADRUPLE the damage

So we looked for news on cigarettes lately–nothing. Of course, just Google the word cigarette and e-cigs populates everywhere. Electronic cigarettes, vaping, e-juice, and bad rumors about how dangerous it all is. That’s all purported by the cigarette industry because thousands of people are quitting smoking thanks to e-cigs. But … that’s another topic for […]

03/28/2016 / By David Rice

Attention 22 million American WOMEN who smoke – Your TOXIN overload is about to END!

No smoker in the world wants to hear other people telling them they should quit smoking, and how smoking is SO bad for you, and all the lectures about second-hand smoke. Most smokers already have guards, or “walls” they’ve put up–rules that their relatives, friends, coworkers, and even neighbors can’t talk to them about quitting […]

03/23/2016 / By David Rice

Cowboy Killers – The History of When Cigarettes Became So Deadly

Before the 1960s, none of the Big Tobacco manufacturers knew that they could cook tobacco with ammonia and the nicotine would be thirty-five times as potent. Sure, cigarettes before that still caused cancer, especially the tobacco coated with insecticides and herbicide, but if you wanted to quit smoking, say, in the 1940s or 1950s, you […]

03/04/2016 / By David Rice

The typical cigarette filter is made of glass “wool” fibers that cut your lungs to shreds over time

Why do you think the cigarette filters or “butts” that you find on the ground outside take up to 15 years to disintegrate? Do you know why? That’s not just some sponge wrapped tightly in paper, no, that little heat screen is made from glass wool that is VERY SIMILAR to the fiberglass insulation used […]

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