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Five Things You Can Expect When You Quit Smoking
Top Tricks to Beat Tobacco Quitting smoking is one of the best decisions you can make for your health. Once you quit, there are immediate benefits to the body. Not only does it add value to your life, but also to those around you, particularly your family and friends. It’s not easy to quit, so you should be incredibly proud of your decision. While…
Looking for Tips to Quit?
Top Tricks to Beat Tobacco Quitting has never been an easy task. But there are ways to ease the edge. Here are a few friendly tips to keep you on track to living a smoke-free lifestyle. Tip 1: Strengthen Your Chances Through Support Make a quit plan and tell family, friends and co-workers about it. It’s OK to lean on your loved ones and…
Vaping’s Dirty Little Secrets
A new way to stay hooked on tobacco 5 Smoke Signals to Quit Vaping You may think vaping is safe, but the truth is that 99% of e-cigarettes contain nicotine, making them highly addictive. Not only are these products addictive, but they also often target younger adults to create lifelong customers. Here are five things that will cause you to think twice before vaping. 1:…
Big Tobacco is Ready to Sell Something New
A new way to stay hooked on tobacco Phillip Morris (the manufacturer behind brands like Marlboro, Virginia Slims, Parliament, and more) has a new strategy in their sales game: it’s time to switch to heated tobacco products. According to Philip Morris, these products are better alternatives to cigarettes because they’re smoke-free. Has the tobacco industry developed a conscience, suddenly concerned about the health of…
How the Tobacco Industry Hurts the LGBTQ+ Community
The Problem In recent decades there’s been a significant increase in brands appealing to the LGBTQ+ populations. As more brands turn to inclusive marketing to reach new demographics, we are seeing more products specifically designed toward once isolated individuals. However, not all of these products help the community, and in the case of the Tobacco industry, they actually destroy it. While it may look…
Big Tobacco & Targeting the Troops
Enough is enough. Big Tobacco has manipulated and preyed on members of the military for too long. On Armed Forces Day, the best way to celebrate these heroic men and women of the Armed Forces is to protect them from harm. It’s time to give them reinforcements in the ongoing battle against Big Tobacco, which has a firm grasp on members of the military….
COVID-19 and the Risks to Smokers
COVID-19 is a health danger for everyone. But for smokers, the threat is even greater. Being a former or current cigarette smoker increases your risk of severe illness from COVID-19. Of course, it’s known that smoking reduces lung capacity and impairs lung function. The bigger problem during the pandemic is that it increases the risk of respiratory infections while also increasing the severity of…
Menthol & Big Tobacco’s Manipulation
Decades of Manipulation The decades-long web of systemic targeting of Black smokers is tangled, including attempts at policy influence, organizational ties, promotions, and targeted marketing. In the 1960s, the tobacco company Brown and Williamson developed the Kool brand of menthol cigarettes specifically for African Americans. The new cigarette ads featured Black models and were promoted as “young, hip, new, and healthy,” to the public. At the same time, Big Tobacco…
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