If you’re a smoker and a snacker, it may be time to finally ‘just say no’ or read your nutrition labels more closely. A new…
Raising children in a smoke-free home isn’t enough to keep them away from cancer-causing toxins. “Third hand” tobacco smoke may be in your home, hiding…
Kansas City Bans Smoking Inside Public Housing Apartments It’s one thing to ban smoking from bars and restaurants, as Kansas City did in 2008 following…
Comedian Bruce Bruce joined “The D.L. Hughley Show” and answered some tough questions in This or That. Listen to the audio player to find out if he’d rather smoke or drink. Plus, his responses to more crazy questions! RELATED: Is This Why Arnez J Is Pro-Choice? [EXCLUSIVE AUDIO] RELATED: Why Tony Rock Would Rather Be Part Of […]
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) — New statistics show that the sale of tobacco to minors in the U.S. were held near all-time lows last year under a federal-state inspection program intended to curb underage usage. The violation rate of tobacco sales to underage youth at retailers nationwide has fallen from about 40 percent in 1997 to […]
Comedian Tommy Davidson jokes with the crew about a variety of topics including quitting smoking, the lack of black news or people on TV, Charles Ramsey, his long career and much more on the TJMS.
GRANBURY, Texas (AP) — A Texas woman wanted to make sheriff’s deputies the butt of a joke, but she picked the wrong audience when she called 911 to have cigarettes delivered to her home. Hood County sheriff’s Lt. Kathy Jividen says the 48-year-old woman was “very intoxicated” when she requested the special delivery on Feb. […]
Even though just about everyone knows smoking is bad for one’s health, many Americans, including 21.3 percent of all adult black Americans, smoke. According to data from Legacy, a national health policy foundation, in 2000 just 37 percent of all black Americans who ever smoked have managed to quit, the lowest rate among all racial/ethnic […]
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Sales of tobacco to minors in the U.S. reached an all-time low in 2011 under a federal and state inspection program intended to curb underage tobacco use, according to a report released Thursday. The violation rate of tobacco sales to underage youth at retailers nationwide has fallen from about 40 percent […]
A new study found that physical inactivity could be as deadly as smoking. The research published in the British publication The Lancet showed that one-third of adults are inactive. Researchers said that this attributes to as much as 5.3 million deaths a year. Study authors believe that the problem should be treated as a serious […]
U.S. health officials say only 13 percent of U.S. adults have high total cholesterol. That may seem incredible in a nation where two-thirds of adults are overweight. Experts believe it’s largely because so many Americans take cholesterol-lowering drugs, but dropping smoking rates and other factors also contributed. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released […]
