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Low-nicotine cigarettes: Misperceptions may not lessen benefits
Nicotine doesn't lead to the health conditions caused by smoking. Heart attacks, lung cancer can be blamed on other cigarette additives like tar.
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US proposes cigarette nicotine cut, shift toward e-cigarettes
Shares of major tobacco companies in the US and UK slumped in heavy trading volume after the proposal was unveiled by the head of the US Food and Drug Administration.
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France to become one of priciest countries in Europe for smokers
At present, a packet of 20 cigarettes costs roughly €7 in France, well below the roughly €10 charged in Britain and Ireland.
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‘Heat-not-burn’ cigarettes still release cancer-causing chemicals
The smoke released by this “heat-not-burn” cigarette had 84% of the nicotine found in traditional cigarettes, researchers report in JAMA Internal Medicine.
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Tobacco, but not pot, boosts early stroke risk
Smoking pot in young adulthood does not seem to increase the risk of early stroke.
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Philip Morris looks beyond cigarettes with alternative products
Executives from Philip Morris, which sells Marlboros, said their ultimate goal was to phase out cigarettes.
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Lit cigarette may be behind deadly CT fire
Two people, including an 11-year-old girl, were killed in the Kuils River blaze which broke out this morning.
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Smoking leaves chemical traces on DNA - study
Some of these molecular changes revert to their original state when a smoker quits.
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Cash may convince some smokers to quit - study
Paying smokers to quit and giving them more money to avoid cigarettes might help get more people to quit.
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What's in cigarette smoke? Most people don't know
Cigarette smoke contains arsenic, which causes heart damage, & formaldehyde, which causes throat cancer.
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'Smokers may try to quit 30 times before it sticks'
A study revealed this new number based on data for more than 1,200 adult smokers in Canada.
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Vaping teens more likely to move on to regular cigarettes
E-cigarettes are handheld electronic devices that vapourise a fluid typically including nicotine.
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Health minister declares war on smoking, tobacco
Aaron Motsoaledi is looking at a raft of new regulations to make it tougher for smokers to buy cigarettes.
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E-cigarette poisonings on rise in young kids
Often, children aren’t seriously harmed, but several have had severe complications like comas and seizures.
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California raises age to purchase tobacco to 21
California will ban the sale of vaping products or tobacco to anyone under the age of 21.
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More teenagers opt for e-cigarettes, hubbly
UCT’s Professor Richard van Zyl-Smit says more and more teenagers smoke e-cigarettes and hubbly-bubbly, a flavoured tobacco, adding that the volume of smoke one inhales from a hubbly is significantly higher than that inhaled from a normal cigarette.
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Woman (72) arrested for hijacking cigarette delivery van
The occupants of the delivery vehicle were held at gunpoint while their cargo was stolen yesterday.
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Police investigate failed cigarette heist
A cigarette vehicle was making a delivery at the BP garage when a gang of armed robbers attempted a heist.
