Addiction Treatment Blog by Addiction Experts » Entries tagged with "smoking cigarettes"
E-Cigarettes: Are They Better For You Than the Real Deal?
While restrictions on smoking cigarettes become stricter and stricter, and taxes on them rise across the country, there is an heated debate over the safety and regulation of electronic cigarettes. Many view electronic cigarettes as a helpful cessation tool, or as a safer alternative to smoking the real thing. Although there haven’t been any large-scale conclusive studies, it would seem to make sense that there are less disastrous health effects associated with e-cigarettes than their … Read entire article »
Filed under: Addiction, Alcohol and Drugs, Latest News, Recovery, Research
Betel Nut
For six weeks during the summer of 2005, I went to visit my father in Taiwan. I was ecstatic. I could not wait to visit a place so different from what I hadgrown accustomed to. I had visited Latin America (and lived there) many times before, but it’s such a westernized culture. This would be my first time in Asia. None of the comforts of home would be there. No Abrahamic characters on street signs. Buddhism, … Read entire article »
Filed under: Alcohol and Drugs, Featured
The Self-righteous Smoker
Is there anything worse than a self-righteous smoker? The one who lights up with a calculated cool, seen-it-all eye in slo-mo surveillance: just hoping someone with a lung condition will have the nerve to speak up. It’s as if Marlboro slipped some high-concentration deliriant into their products … and New Yorkers are taking the biggest drags. I will acknowledge the appeal of the jaded coffee-shop ambiance. The Velvet Underground’s “Heroin” mellows masochistic ears and the … Read entire article »
1 IN 5 WHITE WOMEN SMOKE WHEN PREGNANT
New research has shown significant differences in the attitudes of white, Hispanic, and black women in the United States when it comes to smoking during pregnancy. A recent study conducted by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) found that 21.8% of white women ages 15 to 44 smoked tobacco cigarettes while pregnant, compared with 14.2% of black women and only 6.5% of Hispanic women. When it comes to alcohol, 12.8% of black … Read entire article »
PROP 29
California Prop 29: “Imposes additional tax on cigarettes for cancer research” June 5 during the California election, California voters will vote on Proposition 29, which will determine whether cigarette taxes will increase nearly two dollars. The revenues from price increase will fund cancer research, tobacco-prevention, and cessation programs. The American Cancer Society, American Heart Association, and American Lung Association collaborated in the writing of the proposition in the hopes to prevent individuals from starting smoking, continuing … Read entire article »
Quitting One Habit and Picking Up Another
I wasn’t a smoker before going to rehab, but since leaving, I have become addicted to this “habit” that I repeatedly told myself I would never pick up! As a chronic pot smoker since I was fourteen years old, I would wake up, use and continue throughout the whole day until I went to bed. Pot was all that I smoked. Smoking cigarettes never crossed my mind. As a young kid in school, I was introduced to … Read entire article »
Cigarette Smoking Negatively Affects Teenage Brains
Smoking proves to have many dangerous health risks. Recently there has been a study that shows smoking affects teenagers’ brains negatively. In teenage brains the prefrontal cortex is still forming itself structurally and functionally. The more teenagers are addicted to nicotine the less active their prefrontal cortex is. Smoking tobacco has also been linked to deficits in attention and memory in adults. A professor of psychiatry at the Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human … Read entire article »
Filed under: Addiction, Latest News
High Cigarette Prices Means Fewer Smokers
As the cigarette prices increase in California, fewer people are purchasing cigarettes. According to the most recent fiscal year, sales in cigarettes have declined dramatically. In 1999, there was an 11.9% decline in cigarette purchases, and now the fiscal for 2009 is at 8.1%. This is the best decline California has seen in a very long time. The fiscal in 1980 with 2.8 billion packs, the sales in cigarettes is at 65.6% to 972 million packs. People are smoking less and less and this kind of decline has not been heard of since 1985. Health risks and stricter restrictions on where people are allowed to smoke did have an impact on the decline. However the cigarettes have gotten to be more expensive, about 18.6% more expensive since November 2009. In February of … Read entire article »
Filed under: Addiction, Latest News
 |  |  |  |
Comments