Cigarette smoking is a hard habit to break, but due to some new advancements in medicine and the study of enzymes, you may soon be able to fight of nicotine addiction much faster and less painfully! Click on the audio player to hear more details about this groundbreaking new discovery in this edition of The […]
The family of 53-year-old Miriam Burbank wanted to do something different when honoring their relative. And different it was. The New Orleans woman affectionately known as “Mae Mae” was said to have loved beer and the New Orleans Saints. So in order to pay homage, the family decided to prop Burbank up in a chair in […]
Scientists have patented a new machine that will provide orgasms for women at the push of a button. The machine is designed to be a medical implant that uses electrodes to trigger an orgasm and would help some women who suffer from orgasmic dysfunction. The device, a little smaller than a packet of cigarettes, is […]
CHICAGO (AP) — Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel says he doesn’t believe raising the city’s cigarette tax by 75 cents a pack will result in a larger local black market for cigarettes. Emanuel said Monday he has long supported cigarette tax hikes to provide “health care for others.” He says least $2 million of the $10 […]
A North Carolina woman featured prominently in a graphic government ad campaign to get people to stop smoking died Monday of cancer. Terrie Hall died at a hospital in Winston-Salem, N.C., federal officials said. She was 53. “She was a public health hero,” said Dr. Tom Frieden, director of the Centers for Disease Control and […]
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — A Food and Drug Administration review concludes that menthol cigarettes likely pose a greater public health risk than regular cigarettes but does not make a recommendation on whether to limit or ban the minty smokes — one of the few growth sectors of the shrinking cigarette business. The federal agency released […]
Black teens are not smoking cigarettes as much as they used to, but they are firing up cigars more frequently, according to data in a recent survey released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. From 2009 to 2011, the rate of cigar smoking among African American high school students increased from 7.1 percent to […]
