Cigar Smoking Facts

The facts about cigar smoking might surprise you -- they are dangerous and hazardous to human health.

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Nicotine Profile

Nicotine is a colorless, poisonous chemical, derived from the tobacco plant. Nicotine is also extremely addictive.

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Green Chemists Looking to Improve Biodegradable Filters

With the copious amounts of cigarettes consumed every day throughout the world, one burning question (no pun intended) remains: what happens to the roughly 2.1 billion pounds of filters that are discarded each year? Unfortunately, when most people think of how cigarette butts are discarded, most immediate reactions are simple flicks in any direction rather than in the garbage. Many may think this is acceptable due to their paper appearance, and assume the breakdown will be quick. However, the truth is these butts contain cellulose acetate plastic, which takes years to break down naturally. As a matter of fact, the...

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Nicotine Lozenge Facts

The nicotine lozenge is a nicotine-based quit aid that comes in the form of a small, candy-like tablet.

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Are Criminal Background Checks for Doctors Justified?

It is hard to determine which is more concerning: the fact that state medical boards are now doing background checks on their physicians or that prior experience suggests that they have to in order to protect public safety.

According to American Medical News, 2/3rds of state medical boards are now conducting criminal background checks on their members. The goal? Physicians with a criminal record can “be�denied a license, have restrictions placed on their practice or face no repercussions, depending on the will of the board in a particular state.”

Furthermore, AAMC has suggested since 2006 that all medical school applicants have criminal background checks and now 102 or 137 run those checks as part of the admissions process.…

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Quit Smoking Toolbox

The quit smoking toolbox gives you links to information and the support necessary to build a solid quit smoking program for yourself. If others can successfully beat the addiction to nicotine, you can too.

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Bidi Cigarettes

Bidis (pronounced bee-dees) are small hand-rolled cigarettes manufactured in India and other southeast Asian countries.

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Squamous Cell Cancer

Squamous cell cancer refers to cancer which is located in the middle layer of the skin.

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Emphysema Treatments

There are a wide variety of emphysema treatments available today. If you've been diagnosed with emphysema, learn which treatments may be right for you.

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Fear of Quitting

Why Am I So Afraid to Quit Smoking? I'm about to quit smoking. I have one cigarette left, and after I smoke it, that's it. Even though in a lot of ways I am looking forward to quitting, the most prevalent emotion I feel is fear.

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Why Quit Smoking Is A Protected Term

Using the term “quit smoking” seems to be comparable to “curing cancer” in the eyes of government health agencies (FDA, CDC, Health Canada, UK Dept. of Health, WHO, etc) as well as many of the public health organizations (Tobacco Free Kids, American Cancer Society, American Lung Association, etc). So is there a difference between claiming [...]

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Yellow Fever

So Anouk's opening line goes like this, "Yellow fever is..." and I said out loud, "I have this." I've never been to the sub-Saharan desert but I'm sure a mosquito could have made it here thanks to some jetwash or jetstream or whatever it's called. It's definitely a jet's fault. Read More...

• West Nile Sounds Has Too Pleasant of a Name
• Why the Flu Vaccine Doesn't Work

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Adderall: It?s Everywhere.

At least if you look around news outlets today. Two important stories: counterfeit Adderall is being sold on the Web says FDA�(no harm reported yet, but you can bet it’s coming) and high school and college students able to score Adderall in 15 minutes or less�(and whether they are scoring the real thing isn’t the point). Neuroenhancement is here to stay and increasingly it starts younger and younger. Concerns about addiction to ADHD meds are increasing in children and adults–and what happens to your brain when you STOP taking them?…

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Fear of Smoking Relapse

I have a nagging fear that I can't seem to shake. I am stable in my quit right now, but the addict in me is telling me that 5,6,7 or 10 years from now I'm just going to pick up the habit again so what's the point of celebrating the fact that I'm a non-smoker now? Am I doomed to fail eventually? I know people who have started smoking again after YEARS of abstaining. It scares me.

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COPD Images

This group of COPD images and videos shows us not only what healthy lungs should look like, but how COPD impairs lung function.

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Arthur Caplan Says ?No? To Prisoner Organs

In the October 2011 issue of AJOB, Arthur Caplan argues in his Target Article “The Use of Prisoners as Sources of Organs-An Ethically Dubious Practice” that the great demand for cadaveric organs for donation around the world does not justify harvesting them from prisoners.

To learn more about Dr. Caplan’s position, listen to his podcast from the Bioethics Channel and read his article on bioethics.net.

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Back To The Beginning...

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In Memoriam: Fr. Kevin O?Rourke

From the Loyola University Chicago Neiswanger website:

Kevin O?Rourke, O.P., J.C.D., S.T.M., Dominican priest, canon lawyer, and health care ethicist died on Wednesday. �He is one of the seminal figures in Roman Catholic health care ethics in the United States. He is the author of numerous articles but his best-known publications are text books, especially a co-authored work (with Benedict Ashley, O.P.) published by Georgetown University Press,�Health Care Ethics: A Theological Analysis, fourth ed. (2007). He has been a leader in promoting respect for patients and their families to refuse unwanted and burdensome treatment at the end of life.…

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The Most Interesting Neuroethicist and Philosopher You?ve Never Met.

The Atlantic calls him “a Timothy Leary for the Viral Video age.” Jason Silva is a self-proclaimed “performance philosopher” who presents novel ideas and even more cutting-edge messaging about biotechnology, neuroscience and bioethics. Silva argues that “philosophical ideas are diluted by their academic packaging” and that academics don’t know anything about packaging. He’s probably right. We could all help ourselves and our scholarship and our ideas if we thought as much about the medium as the message.

Summer Johnson McGee, PhD…

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A Dark Side to Facebook?s Organ Donation Status?

I agree, mostly, with Art Caplan’s analysis of Facebook’s decision to add “Organ Donor” as a Life Event on their website. I agree that the DMV is about as poorly suited as a state organization could be to engage with citizens about the possibility of being an organ donor. �Facebook is undoubtedly the world’s largest megaphone for raising social awareness about issues–the media attention alone is likely to spur many Facebook users to think about being an organ donor, and maybe, if we’re lucky, to have a conversation with friends and family about it.…

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Cigarette Litter Facts

Cigarette litter is a hazard to our environment, with trillions of cigarette butts tossed out annually on the planet.

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Gratitude Quotes

Quotes about gratitude.

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Lung Cancer Risk Reduction

Reducing the risk of lung cancer: Two studies published in JAMA indicate that smoking reduction and a diet rich in phytoestrogens may lower the risk of lung cancer.

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One Year Smoke-Free Certificate Gallery

Use this milestone certificate gallery to select a certificate to commemorate the one year anniversary of the day you quit smoking.

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Clove Cigarettes

Produced in Indonesia and distributed worldwide, kreteks, also known as clove cigarettes, are made of up of approximately 60 to 80 percent tobacco, 20 to 40 percent ground cloves, clove oil and other additives.

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All About Lung Cancer

The diagnosis of lung cancer can be devastating. Use these resources as a starting point in your research to understand what cancer is, how lung cancer symptoms present themselves, as well as how lung cancer is diagnosed and treated.

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Cigarette Litter Facts

Cigarette litter is a hazard to our environment, with trillions of cigarette butts tossed out annually on the planet.

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Hookah Lounge

Hookah lounges are commercial establishments where groups of people gather to smoke hookah together. Considered a unique way and acceptable way to socialize with friends, hookah lounges are springing up close to college campuses all over the United States.

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My First Smoke Free Day

I woke up this morning, my usual instinct telling me to reach for that cigarette with my first cup of

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New Reality Shows on the TV!

Hey, look, there's a show about Amish people. I think I could go live with the Amish if they'd let me keep my Mac, iPhone, and internet connection. And since I'm not really handy, they'd probably not let me build barns with them and then I'd get bored and want to watch cable TV. Tune in next week to see Bob get booted from Amish country. Read More...

• Follow Along With Your Favorite Reality Show
• Can Reruns Reduce Stress?

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Coughing After Quitting Smoking

Although it isn't common, some people do develop a short-term cough after they quit smoking.

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