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Now this is just weird, as smoking gets pushed to the margins, this is the last thing I expected, but it makes a change from smokers convinced that marijuana legalization is the key to making cigarettes 'acceptable' again...

I have a few questions after a short explanation. When my doctor x rayed my lungs the first thing he asked me was if I smoked. I answered no. He asked me if I had ever smoked. I said no. He declared me a lung cripple with COPD. My question is this can a person not smoke and then when he...

The healthcare industry is one of few sectors of the economy that is still adding workers in the last decade. In fact it's the fastest growing sector. But increasingly it's an industry that is closed to smokers, even if they don't smoke on the job. Hospitals Shift Smoking Bans to Smoker Ban...

There are a couple of rules that are being re-enforced here at my office building. Both of which I think are dumb. I wanted to see if maybe I was being out of line by thinking so: 1). The entrance way to my office has an awning. During the winter months, or when it's raining in the warmer...

Halliburton Worker on Smoke Break Missed BP Well Data Something else to blame nicotine for.

http://vancouver.ca/parks/info/smokefreeparks_faq.htm This seems completely arbitrary and pointless to me. I don't smoke, never have smoked (well, tobacco anyway), and find it displeasing when someone around me is smoking. But seriously, wtf? The smoke passes in seconds and nobody is harmed...

I was having a physical for a new job three years ago and I almost didn't get the job. I did get hired anyway but I came close to flunking the physical and heres why. I came in the doctors office suffering what I consider a mild asthma attack. The doctor commmented on my chest xray and he...

Imagine Obama gave a press conference on the BP oil leak in the rose garden. He talks eloquently about the need for the cleanup, the desire the American people have for justice, furrowing his brow as he talks about the upcoming legislation. He opens it up for questions, and as the white house...

The Toronto Star has an interesting article discussing a study published in the Canadian Medical Association Journal. The study looked at hospital admissions over a 10 year period in Toronto. That period covers from before the 1st phase of the smoking ban was put in, through the 2nd and 3rd...

The UK Royal College of Physicians has recently published a report ‘Passive Smoking and Children’ accentuating the dangers of second hand smoke. http://bookshop.rcplondon.ac.uk/details.aspx?e=305...

Does hypnosis work or is it also psuedo-science. The Company I work for will pay for hypnosis to help employees to quit smoking. I have always wondered about hypnosis.

LINK The Ontario Government has decided to introduce legistlation this spring to ban smoking in a car if children under the age of 16 are present. The offence will carry a fine, likely of up to $200. The province of Nova Scotia already has such a ban. Sounds like a good idea to me. And...

Simple curiousity. Limiting this to nicotine (mostly cigs) as smoking other things is a diff matter entirely. :covereyes

I suspected as much. P.S. Smoking was recently banned in Tennessee restaurants. Yay!

I just saw the infomercial on the SciFi channel (why must you betray me SciFi!) talking about *gasp* A magnet you wear on the lobe of your ear that claims help you stop smoking. What really alarms me is they claim to be "listed in the FDA as a class one device" whatever that means...

Link From another article, it appears that they will begin testing current and potential employees for the presence of nicotine in their systems - although they say that the job status of current employees will not be affected by the results. Of course, along with my many other questions, how...

Hi everyone, I'm hoping someone can point me to some good links about the process of using lasers to stop smoking. A friend of mine is talking about getting it done and I immediately thought "bullsh*t" as soon as she told me a laser could stop her from smoking.. I'd really like to show her some...

Hello JREFfers! I went to a doctor yesterday for the first time in ages and ages. I've been feeling some "heart palpitations" (I'm not sure they are really, but the description works pretty well) and I have a lump growing on the back of my noggin, which I expect is probably just a cyst. I...

A friend came round for dinner last night.She was talking about her latest attempt to give up smoking. This time she was assisted by a proffessional treatment clinic. She mentioned she was on some sort of detox program that was removing the nicotine from her system. The clininc had told her...

I just saw a new infomercial (from the same company that sells the "BioStabil 2000" ) for a product called the Smokeless Chip Card. They claim this product reduces the amount of tar, nicotine, carbon monoxide, etc. in your cigarettes, making smoking less unhealthy and easier to give up. It does...

Smoking and the 35-hour week You don't need to deduct minutes lost to go to the bathroom. Why not? One reason is it's a necessary activity. And because of that, companies are obliged to accommodate it by providing bathroom facilities on site, and virtually no employer (that I know of)...

Hey ya'll I was looking at Mojo's link to the smoking chip card that the ASA had the website off shut down it the uk, But I still see they have a site in the USA http://www.adrianaco.com/ This must be false advertising of some sort. Who do we complain to in the USA? EDIT oops, This prolly...

Saw an item on the Fox News channel about a "cold laser" treatment that claims to help people stop smoking. Apparently it works similarly to acupuncture. Judging from the cost of these "treatments," I figure people stop smoking because they can't afford to buy smokes any more. Here's a link --...

I didn't know pneumonia was caused by standing outside! :D http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/capress/que_smoking_ban

Not only do I have to deal with the financial situation of most of my customers having lost their jobs to illegal mexican invaders, now we got a statewide no smoking policy in bars No more bands When tempe and mesa passed these laws, their clubs dried up and their music scenes died Now its...

Some interesting information for those who are skeptical of the anti-smoking bandwagon. forces.org/evidence/evid/therap.htm

http://www.worth1000.com/entries/100000/100293RWav_w.jpg Hey, it's late. I'm delirious.

Personally I feel both activities are dumb. So this biases me, but I do have a serious question. Most people feel that smoking and drinking alcohol should be legal, while the illicit drugs should remain illegal. There are other political viewpoints, but the status quo is definately the...

"I can give up smoking at any time, but I don't find it affects my pregnancy." So sayeth the sweet 12 year old girl in Edinburgh. Why are you looking at me like that? She told me she was 14.

I was listening to the radio the other day when I heard a commercial for a center that helps you stop smoking through the use of laser treatments. The commercial stated that a patient could return for unlimited laser treatments as long as they did not smoke. So I'm thinking, well, duh! "We'll...