Whether you are a long time smoker or you just started recently, you will already know about the many problems associated with lighting up. While there are many different programs being offered these days to help you quit smoking, many of them come with tremendous costs and a low probability of success. If you could find a way to quit smoking in just a short amount of time, once and for all, wouldn’t you want to take the chance?

Whether you are a long time smoker or you just started recently, you will already know about the many problems associated with lighting up. While there are many different programs being offered these days to help you quit smoking, many of them come with tremendous costs and a low probability of success. If you could find a way to quit smoking in just a short amount of time, once and for all, wouldn’t you want to take the chance?

According to the World Health Organization (WHO), tobacco consumption is one of the largest public health hazards the world has ever had to confront. Over 5 million people each year are killed, an average of 1 human every 6 seconds, the WHO says. Tobacco accounts for 1 in every 10 adult deaths…

Second-hand smoke, also known as passive smoking, or environmental tobacco smoke (ETS) is the involuntary breathing in (inhalation) of smoke from tobacco products used by others – the inhaler is usually a non-smoker. It occurs when the smoke permeates any environment – usually a closed environment – causing its inhalation by individuals within that environment…

Three new UCSF studies describe the wide reach of the tobacco industry and its influence on young people, military veterans and national health care reform. The analyses will be published in a special July edition of the American Journal of Public Health titled “Modeling to Advance Tobacco Control Policy.” Findings are available online at http://www.ajph.org/first_look…

“With half of all men in some developing countries already hooked on cigarettes, the tobacco industry is now courting lucrative new customers – young women,” according to a report published Thursday in the CDC’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR), the Associated Press/Los Angeles Times reports…