Tag: Smoking
Signalling smokers: A website catalogs smoking hotels
When it comes to searching for smoking hotels online, puffers face a smoke and mirrors situation of time-intensive research and poorly-organized hotel information. One website, Smoketels.com, founded in November 2013, aims to make the process a bit easier by cataloging hotels with smoking rooms throughout the world. As Shawn Bradley, the site’s founder, told the […]
CDC calls e-cigarettes an emerging public health concern
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) report on exposure to e-cigarettes has set off alarm bells, hinting at the need for tighter regulations of these devices. The CDC analyzed calls to poison centers and concluded that the liquefied nicotine in e-cigarettes can lead to adverse health effects. Manufacturers, however, have refuted charges […]
More smoking-related diseases recognized by the U.S. government
Add ectopic pregnancy, erectile dysfunction, diabetes, and colorectal and liver cancers to the deadly laundry list of illnesses brought about by cigarette smoking. Dr. Boris D. Lushniak, the U.S. acting surgeon general, recently expanded the litany of illnesses that cigarette smoking “has been scientifically proven to cause,” according to the New York Times. The newly […]