After You Quit Smoking

The B.C. Government today rolled out the details of a provincial program that provides new assistance to those who want to quit smoking. Announced earlier this year, the program will provides free nicotine gum or nicotine patches to those who register wit

Charity merger could be just one of many as £3bn worth of cuts start hitting voluntary sector The charity No Smoking Day (NSD) has announced that it is to merge with the British Heart Foundation (BHF) after suffering a 50% cut in funding. NSD, which has

SMOKING kills. It is that plain and simple. There is no more doubt today that tobacco (cigarette smoking) is the predominant cause of lung cancer, besides other malignancies and cardiovascular diseases that maim, kill men and women and hurt our society, e

Tabex, a low cost medication which contains Cytisine, a nicotine substitute derived from laburnum seeds, triples a person's chances of successfully giving up smoking, compared to a placebo, researchers reported in NEJM (New England Journal of Medicine). T

A new Government report just released shows that construction workers, miners and food service workers are people most likely to smoke. In these industries it appears that higher smoking rates are partly linked to less formal education, younger age and lo