Category: Tobacco

“The researchers expect to soon convert the prototype, which is smaller and lighter than a cellphone, into a wearable, affordable and reusable device that helps to enforce no smoking regulations and sheds light on the pervasiveness of secondhand smoke. The sensor can also detect thirdhand smoke, or nicotine off-gassing from clothing, furniture, car seats and other material.” Continue reading Secondhand Smoke Goes Big Brother: Dartmouth researchers invent real time secondhand smoke sensor

Yet Bloomberg happily accepts $1.50 per pack of cigarettes sold in NYC. Continue reading Nanny Bloomberg: ‘Even one new smoker is too many’

But not too many people die from smoking in their child-bearing years. Continue reading Putin targets secondhand smoke, cigarette sales — hopes to reverse population decline

Show us a single baby born prematurely because of secondhand smoke. Continue reading Study links smoking bans to fewer pre-term births

Will smokers will be barred from buying guns? Continue reading CDC Stigmatizes: Adults with mental illness smoke at higher rate

Prison for possession of cigarettes without a prescription? And how would you get one of those from a physician? Continue reading Bill proposed in Oregon would make cigarettes prescription-only drugs

So where was all the childhood asthma in, say, the 1950s and 1960s? Continue reading Claim: Smoke-free laws linked to drop in child asthma attacks

Poorly conducted research has never stopped prohibitionists before. Why stop now? Tobacco companies don’t even oppose bad science. Continue reading Poorly conducted research is a gift to the opponents of tobacco control

Secondhand smoke “science” is what drives us nuts. Continue reading Secondhand smoke causes 'severe dementia'