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Category Archives: Smoking
If electronic cigarettes can help people quit smoking, then why is Big Tobacco investing heavily in them?
…The tobacco industry knows something that some harm reduction theorists don’t realize, and that the e-cigarette industry doesn’t care about: Electronic cigarettes can be an adjunct to smoking instead of a replacement. Continue reading
Posted in Addiction, Big Tobacco, Cigarette warning labels, e-cigarette, electronic cigarette, Prevention, Recovery, Second-hand smoke, Smoke-free, Smoking, Substance abuse, Substance use disorder treatment, Tobacco, Tobacco cessation, Tobacco lies, Tobacco marketing, Treatment
Tagged big tobacco, cessation, e-cigarette, electronic cigarette, quitting smoking, smoking, smoking cessation, tobacco, tobacco advertising, tobacco cessation, tobacco control, tobacco industry
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Deadly scourge will kill three-quarters of a million AA and NA members
“…724,153 worldwide members of Alcoholics Anonymous and Narcotics Anonymous – who are alive today — will die from tobacco, including 499,410 in the United States and Canada…” Continue reading
Posted in Addiction, Alcohol, Alcohol abuse, Alcoholics Anonymous, Big Tobacco, Drug treatment, Recovery, Second-hand smoke, Smoke-free, Smoking, Substance abuse, Substance use disorder treatment, Tobacco, Tobacco and kids, Tobacco cessation, Tobacco marketing
Tagged #na, #xa, 12 Steps, AA, addiction, alcohol, alcohol abuse, alcoholism, Bill Wilson, cigarettes, Dr. Bob, lung cancer, smoking, tobacco, tobacco deaths
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“…Drugged driving is a highway safety threat on the level of drunk driving”
Marijuana legalization is the wrong way to go in the search for a better drug policy. We need policies that reduce drug use, not policies like legalization that increase drug use. Continue reading
Posted in Addiction, Cannabis, Drugged driving, Drunk driving, Marijuana, Marijuana legalization, Prevention, Recovery, Smoking, Weed
Tagged BAC, cannabis, drugged driving, drunk driving, DUI, DWI, legalization, marijuana, marijuana legalization
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Editorial cartoonists did their duty in Australia’s tobacco war
By Jim Gogek By now, we’ve all seen the new generation of pictorial health warnings gracing tobacco packs in enlightened countries, though not yet in the United States, which is falling behind other nations in tobacco prevention. One of the … Continue reading
Posted in Addiction, Big Tobacco, Cigarette warning labels, Second-hand smoke, Smoke-free, Smoking, Tobacco, Tobacco cessation, Tobacco marketing, Treatment
Tagged Australia, big tobacco, cigarette warning labels, cigarette warnings, cigarettes, plain packaging, plain packs, political cartoon, smoke-free, smoking, smoking and health, smoking cessation, tobacco control, tobacco industry, tobacco marketing
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Mentally ill, addicted and tobacco: Public views change slowly as clinicians start taking responsibility for smoking cessation
By Jim Gogek The new frontier in the war against tobacco is special populations, particularly people with mental disorders, including addiction. Unfortunately, an uninformed, paternalistic public view prevails about smokers with schizophrenia or alcoholism, and it goes like this: “Oh, … Continue reading
Posted in Big Tobacco, Smoking, Tobacco, Tobacco cessation
Tagged American Journal of Psychiatry, behavioral health, bipolar, bipolar and smoking, bipolar and tobacco, mental health, mental illness, schizophrenia, schizophrenia and smoking, schizophrenia and tobacco, smoking, smoking and behavioral health, smoking and mental health, smoking and mental illness, smoking cessation, smoking cessation and behavioral health, Smoking Cessation Leadership Center, tobacco, tobacco and behavioral health, tobacco and mental health, tobacco and mental illness, tobacco cessation
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Some bad news from California: We’re not a smoke-free state
By Jim Gogek Not too long ago, I was bragging on California in this blog because we have one of the lowest smoking rates in the country, lower than some other states by half. I said that was because California … Continue reading
Posted in Addiction, Big Tobacco, Cigarette warning labels, Recovery, Second-hand smoke, Smoke-free, Smoking, Substance abuse, Tobacco, Tobacco and kids
Tagged California, cancer, cigarettes, cigars, DeSaulnier, heart disease, hookah, SIDS, smoke-free, smoke-free buildings, smoking, smoking section, tobacco, tobacco industry
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