Quitting cigarettes can only do a body good, but do former smokers ever fully recover from years of addiction?
Three years ago, Danilo Reyes, a test engineer for Intel, received a $50 gift card from his employer to take a health-assessment test. Reyes figured that he'd pass the test with flying colors -- he doesn't smoke or drink -- and Intel made it easy by offering the free test at his office in Hillsboro, Oregon.
British people love pubs -- so much, in fact, that a recent survey found that they cherish only fish and chips and the Queen more.
This city's famed marijuana bars have weathered many challenges over the years and are still smoking.
The price for a pack in New York City is now the highest in the country. Concern for the public health, or a money grab by the government?
A blood test may one day be able to predict how a smoker will respond to two popular methods of kicking the habit
A new study finds that quitting tobacco is habit-forming. When one person quits, his friends, and friends of his friends, naturally follow suit
The federal government's new advice to doctors for helping smokers quit recommends the drug Chantix, which has recently been linked with depression and suicidal behavior
People who sleep fewer than six hours a night -- or more than nine -- are more likely to be obese, according to a new government study that is one of the largest to show a link between irregular sleep and big bellies
A Massachusetts study suggests that restaurant smoking bans may play a big role in persuading teens not to become smokers
Quitting cigarettes can only do a body good, but do former smokers ever fully recover from years of addiction?
Three years ago, Danilo Reyes, a test engineer for Intel, received a $50 gift card from his employer to take a health-assessment test. Reyes figured that he'd pass the test with flying colors -- he doesn't smoke or drink -- and Intel made it easy by offering the free test at his office in Hillsboro, Oregon.
British people love pubs -- so much, in fact, that a recent survey found that they cherish only fish and chips and the Queen more.
This city's famed marijuana bars have weathered many challenges over the years and are still smoking.
The price for a pack in New York City is now the highest in the country. Concern for the public health, or a money grab by the government?
A blood test may one day be able to predict how a smoker will respond to two popular methods of kicking the habit
A new study finds that quitting tobacco is habit-forming. When one person quits, his friends, and friends of his friends, naturally follow suit
The federal government's new advice to doctors for helping smokers quit recommends the drug Chantix, which has recently been linked with depression and suicidal behavior
People who sleep fewer than six hours a night -- or more than nine -- are more likely to be obese, according to a new government study that is one of the largest to show a link between irregular sleep and big bellies
A Massachusetts study suggests that restaurant smoking bans may play a big role in persuading teens not to become smokers
Why do some smokers get cancer and others don't? Scientists have discovered two genetic variants that may be the reason
For millions of frustrated smokers, drugmakers promise to help them quit with a little pill. But studies from the companies themselves don't show very promising results.
Like all of Europe, France has some changes in store for visitors in 2008 -- starting at the top. France's newly elected president, Nicolas Sarkozy, and recently appointed prime minister, Francois Fillon, appear to be America-friendly, so we can expect no more cries for Freedom Fries from people who don't get out much.
A sweeping new global report, released by the World Health Organization today in New York City, urges governments to get tough on the tobacco epidemic before it's too late
As a look, it is about as quintessentially French as it gets. All the same, from the New Year enjoying a cigarette while you sip on your cafe au lait will become a thing of the past.
Any smoker knows what a bummer it is to quit, but Pfizer's new smoking cessation drug may trigger depression or suicidal thoughts, the Food and Drug Administration said today.
When 19-year-old Reid Overton wants to smoke a cigarette on his college campus, he has to walk to a distant parking lot and get into his car, but he doesn't seem to mind. "Even as a smoker, I don't like to walk past a cloud of smoke," he says.
With cold and flu season comes time-honored traditions for relief and prevention: Feed a fever, starve a cold. Wear warm clothes. Eat chicken soup.
The Supreme Court on Monday rejected a request by tobacco companies to consider making it harder for smokers to prove they were misled by the industry.
Everybody knows that smoking isn't good for you. But if you're a woman? "Hands down, smoking is the absolute worst thing you can do to your body," says Phyllis Greenberger, president and CEO of the Society for Women's Health Research in Washington, D.C.
Researchers are constantly searching for ways to help people quit. What's new? Here are four strategies worth a try:
We've all worked with them - self-proclaimed "smokers" who mysteriously disappear for longer (and more often) than their designated 15-minute breaks.
A study by researchers in Oregon finds that secondhand smoke increases the levels of a known carcinogen in waitstaff and bartenders at a surprisingly fast rate
A single pill appears to hold promise in curbing the urges to both smoke and drink, according to researchers trying to help people overcome addiction by targeting a pleasure center in the brain
Everybody knows exercise is key to a good ticker and a more sleek physique. But did you know working out may improve your sex life, trigger a better night's sleep and help you stop smoking?
Smoking is forbidden in nearly three out of four U.S. households, a dramatic increase from the 43 percent of homes that prohibited smoking a decade ago
Dear FSB: I want to offer medical coverage to my employees, but my budget is limited. Insurance companies say I could get a much lower rate (and my employees would have smaller co-payments and deductibles) if they were all nonsmokers. Well, they are nonsmokers at work, because a local ordinance bans smoking in workplaces here. But I feel uncomfortable telling my workers what they can or can't do on their own time. Aren't there laws about this? --Randall Seale, New York City
Splitting 5-4, the U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday threw out a nearly $80 million punitive damages ruling against Philip Morris.
U.S. District Judge Gladys Kessler ruled Thursday that the tobacco industry engaged in a decades-long racketeering enterprise that conspired to hide the dangers of smoking.
As more and more hotels go completely smoke-free, a German entrepreneur is bucking the trend by launching an airline for those determined not to kick the habit.
Nearly one in four high school students were smokers last year, a rate that has not budged in several years, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Thursday.
The Florida Supreme Court Thursday upheld a ruling tossing out a $145 billion verdict against Big Tobacco but also agreed with many of the findings criticizing the industry for selling a dangerous product.
The Food and Drug Administration approved Chantix, the smoking cessation drug from Pfizer.
An anti-smoking organization is accusing WebMD of betraying its patrons by couching an advertisement bankrolled by Philip Morris as an "information resource" for people who want to quit smoking.
A lobbyist assistant in Washington, Donna Watts-Brighthaupt says she hopes to give up fatty foods and quit smoking, or at least cut back a bit, during the "New You Resolution."
Although Dana Reeve said that she had never smoked, most lung cancers are associated with smoking or exposure to secondhand smoke.
A lobbyist assistant in Washington, Donna Watts-Brighthaupt says she hopes to give up fatty foods and quit smoking.
A lobbyist assistant in Washington, Donna Watts-Brighthaupt says she hopes to give up fatty foods and quit smoking.
A lobbyist assistant in Washington, Donna Watts-Brighthaupt says she hopes to give up fatty foods and quit smoking.
A lobbyist assistant in Washington, Donna Watts-Brighthaupt says she hopes to give up fatty foods and quit smoking.
A lobbyist assistant in Washington, Donna Watts-Brighthaupt says she hopes to give up fatty foods and quit smoking.
A lobbyist assistant in Washington, D.C., Donna Watts-Brighthaupt hopes to persuade herself to give up fatty foods and quit smoking.
Westin Hotels & Resorts announced that it was becoming smoke-free at 77 hotels in the U.S., Canada and the Caribbean, beginning in January 2006.
Pfizer failed to prove that Lipitor, its top-selling cholesterol reducer, does a significantly better job in reducing fatal heart attacks that Merck's cholesterol-cutting Zocor, the company said at the American Heart Association conference Tuesday.
Pfizer, one of the top players in the $60 billion market for heart-disease drugs, said that next week it will unveil data on an experimental smoking cessation drug that analysts say has blockbuster potential.
New uses for old drugs?
Second-hand tobacco smoke is costing the U.S. economy more than $10 billion a year, according to a study released Wednesday, although those costs are significantly lower than they were before programs initiated to limit smoking in workplaces and other public facilities.
The Justice Department appealed Monday to the Supreme Court a lower court ruling that prevents the government from seeking up to $280 billion in tobacco industry profits from an alleged conspiracy to hide the dangers of smoking.
NEW YORK (CNN/Money) - Many states have been hiking cigarette taxes for years, claiming that they discourage smoking and contribute much-needed tax revenues to state coffers.
India's recent decision to ban smoking in movies and on television has ignited controversy in the popular Bollywood film industry, despite government officials' claims that such scenes glamorize tobacco use.
Hong Kong smokers beware -- your legislators haven't finished with you just yet.
Are companies getting more intrusive in dictating private behaviors?
A California scientific panel on Monday will review a draft report showing a potential link between secondhand smoke and an increased risk of breast cancer.
Dear Staff,
Banning smoking on company property is common. But Weyco in Michigan is banning workers from smoking altogether, even in the privacy of their homes.
As the time for New Year's resolutions approaches, many people will put healthier habits at the top of their list, only to abandon those lofty goals by Jan. 2.
As the time for New Year's resolutions approaches, many people will put healthier habits at the top of their list, only to abandon those lofty goals by Jan. 2. But most folks agree that money talks...
ALTRIA associate general counsel William Ohlemeyer sounded confident at a late-October press conference. He was belting out the many "compelling" reasons to anticipate that the Florida supreme cour...
England could become the latest country to ban smoking in public places, including restaurants and most pubs and bars, under a government proposal.
The European Union has launched an aggressive anti-smoking drive with grisly photos of rotten lungs, throat tumors and decayed teeth that it hopes will be used on cigarette packets.
A lawyer for the tobacco industry Thursday attempted to paint the former commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration as a man who seized upon a political environment that was hostile to the tobacco industry in order to advance his own anti-tobacco agenda.
The tobacco industry has defended itself against charges in the United States that it engaged in a 50-year conspiracy to defraud the American public about the health risks of tobacco.
The Department of Justice laid out its $280 billion racketeering case against Big Tobacco on Tuesday, claiming the industry orchestrated a half-century scheme to defraud the American public.
Britain's health minister has come under fire for saying that smoking is one of the last pleasures left for the poor.
Ireland's controversial new anti-smoking law has kicked in, delighting health campaigners while promising hefty fines to those who defy the ban.
When Illinois state judge Nicholas Byron issued his March ruling on a class action against Philip Morris, Louis Camilleri was 945 miles away in New York City, bracing for bad news. The chairman and...
If you're like most people, you probably didn't know that May 31 was World No Smoking Day. But that Thursday, as you sat at your desk and stared at your computer, anti-smoking activists all over th...
Who on earth would want Geoff Bible's job? The man is marked--as the most powerful CEO in the most censured industry. He is bound--to hand over at least $4.5 billion of his company's annual cash fl...
In January we told you about new ways to quit smoking. Now a June IRS ruling has made the most effective methods tax deductible. If you itemize, you may be able to write off the unreimbursed costs ...
If you're among the millions of smokers who resolve to quit each New Year's Day, only to find yourself a few days later dejectedly puffing away, take heart. A revolution in medical understanding of...
April 1 was the day the Senate Commerce Committee voted, 19 to 1, in favor of tough new tobacco legislation, and for the tobacco industry it must have felt like a really bad April Fools' joke. Havi...
So you've decided to quit smoking. But you've tried to go cold turkey before and this time you want help. Maybe lots of help. We found six U.S. spas and health centers with programs aimed at folks ...
The job was a long season in Burnoutville: month after month of 12-hour days and six-day weeks, with jangled lunches at the desk accompanied by the ceaseless pull of the news channels, and exhauste...
Last month's sweeping tobacco settlement appears to herald a new era in which heavily regulated cigarette makers must disclose the true health hazards of their products and make do without popular ...
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Our Nexis search was ''SMOK! W/25 30 PERCENT AND DATE AFT 6/1/94,'' and it instantly hit pay dirt. We were asking for all news stories since June 1 wherein any references to smokers or smoking appe...
Talk about a smoke screen. By flying charter and running their airline as a private club, Mickey Richardson, 45, and William Walts, 58, pack-a-day men both, hope to effectively duck the Federal Avi...
Companies are getting even tougher on cigarette fiends now that the Environmental Protection Agency has declared that secondhand smoke causes cancer. Employers such as PepsiCo, Federal Express, Du ...
Are you healthy? If so, you may qualify for unusually low universal life or term rates. More and more life insurance companies are tinkering with the three main rate classes that partly determine t...
If you have tried -- and tried again -- but still failed to stop smoking, you probably shrugged off the introduction of nicotine skin patches as just the latest wacko ''miracle'' way to kick the ha...
The smoking world lost a friend in June when Philip Morris Magazine took its last gasp. It was seven. At its circulation peak, when the glossy giveaway came out six times a year, it claimed some 13...
Funny thing about smoking. It really does seem to be getting quite unpopular, especially among the intellectual classes, who just go on getting more and more agitated about the need to stop the wee...
The law does not apply to companies that make their living off tobacco. We're talking about New York City's Local Law No. 2, Title 17, Chapter 5, which bans smoking in hallways, open work areas, an...
More than any of its predecessors, the Surgeon General's latest report on smoking is a treasure trove of nicotinic esoterica. Flipping randomly through the pages, one learns, for example, that the ...
Just two weeks after the tobacco industry lost its first case in court -- a New Jersey federal jury awarded the widower of a cancer victim $400,000 in damages -- Philip Morris took the offensive. T...
The war against smoking is turning into a jihad against people who smoke. Smokers are being exiled from public and private places and are facing discrimination in employment. The reason, we are tol...
For many a moon your correspondent has been talking back to high-minded folks who insist on quantifying the unquantifiable, and especially when it enables them to portentously state the cost to soc...
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