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Grad pens book on addiction struggles

GIVE HIM AN A+ – March 5, 2021 - He started writing that book in March 2020 and finished it in October; “Battling Addiction, Bondage and Temptation” was published in January. Cobb said he struggled with nicotin... Read More...

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Tobacco Giant Bets $1.4 Billion on Influencers to Boost Sales

BLOWING SMOKE – Feb. 20, 2021 - According to a wide-ranging report by The Bureau of Investigative Journalism, it has also attracted younger adults, non-smokers and even reached the eyes of children. An emplo... Read More...

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FDA Can Save Lives if it Wanted to By Targeting Tobacco Addiction

SMOKESCREEN – Jan. 25, 2021 - The Biden administration has a chance to embrace this agenda after Trump’s FDA abandoned it. Ending Covid-19 is their top priority, and rightfully so. But the new administration wi... Read More...

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Kehlani Shares Her “personal ex-smoker experience” After 3 Years of Weed Abstinence

STILL EXHALING – Jan. 25, 2021 - On Sunday, the R&B singer revealed she gave up the green and the alcohol, in response to a fan who created a Twitter thread of images that show Kehlani smoking. “Wow, It’... Read More...

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Marijuana Shops Report Brisk Business Despite Pandemic

WATCH – High profits – Jan. 9, 2021 - “Despite all the market challenges, everything from COVID to supply chains and beyond, Maine has done a really good job getting this market up and running,” said Thomas Wi... Read More...

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COVID Is Killing the Cocaine Market, So People Are Smoking More Weed

Rolling joints, not hundreds – Jan. 4, 2021 - Aware of earlier findings that social isolation triggered spikes in drug use, researchers at New York University’s Langone Health Center wanted to quantify what soc... Read More...

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Serious Side Effects of Smoking Pot Every Day

Gray matter matters – Jan. 2, 2021 - “Make no mistake about it, smoking marijuana daily carries with it very real potential for addiction. The National Institute on Drug Abuse estimates that between 9% and 30%... Read More...

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To Protect ‘Children’ From E-Cigarettes, Congress Imposes New Restrictions

Where there’s smoke, there’s money – Dec. 23, 2020 - Feinstein’s bill amends the Jenkins Act of 1949, which requires that vendors who sell cigarettes to customers in other states register with the tax administr... Read More...

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Major Anti-Vaping Scientific Study Retracted

Whoops! – Oct. 17, 2020 - During peer review, the reviewers identified the important question of whether the myocardial infarctions occurred before or after the respondents initiated e‐cigarette use, and requested th... Read More...

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E-Cig clouds aren’t ‘Vapour’, scientists warn, they are ‘Aerosol’

Chemical Addiction – Sept. 19, 2020 - As such, public health experts argue ‘aerosol’ is a more accurate description, as e-cigarette clouds have been shown to contain harmful chemicals that may hang in the air a... Read More...

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Marijuana use is on the rise in older adults

Act your age, not your THC level – August 31, 2020 - The researchers said one of the reasons they embarked on the study was a concern that the effects of cannabis in older adults might be different from what younger ... Read More...

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Teen vapers up to 7 times more likely to get COVID-19

WATCH – Must be awesome – August 11, 2020 - So when an unfamiliar virus began sending scores of patients to the hospital with failing lungs, doctors wondered whether there would be consequences for the newly addicted... Read More...

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Charlie Sheen on Quitting Smoking: “The Sooner the Better”

Poof – July 04, 2020 - from Charlie Sheen, dear @my lungs,it was one year ago TODAY,that i quit smoking!hashtag -YOU’RE WELCOME!if i could goback in time and have NEVER STARTED,i would absolutely do so!i... Read More...

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Drinking or smoking while pregnant may affect newborn’s brain

Use Your Head – May 12, 2020 - Those who drank alcohol then quit in the first trimester had an average of nine drinks during that time period. A low level of alcohol is defined for the study’s purposes as two standar... Read More...

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Lungs ‘magically’ heal damage from smoking

It’s NEVER Too Late – Jan. 29, 2020 - The overwhelming majority of cells taken from a smoker’s airways had been mutated by tobacco, with cells containing up to 10,000 genetic alterations. “These can be thoug... Read More...

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