Today’s PR Headline of the Week is from a press release issued by the American Public Health Association: Young bar patrons more likely to smoke and use multiple tobacco products New Orleans – Smoking prevalence among young adults who frequent bars is at least twice the rate of smoking found among young adults in the general […]
Tag: smoking
USB cigarettes (pay-as-you-smoke) patent
Phillip Morris International (PMI) has received (Oct. 7th 2014) its US patent for an ‘Electrically Heated Smoking System’ Unlike many currently available ‘vape’ sticks, the new device can heat actual tobacco rather than evaporating a nicotine-based liquid. And, unusually for a cigarette, it can ‘communicate’ with a host computer/ tablet etc via a USB plug. […]
Small study suggests suggesting that if women quit smoking, they will think they get bigger breasts
This tiny Italian study examined the gently-directed breast-centric introspection of a few women who had recently quit smoking. The study is: “Breast change perception in women after smoking cessation. A pilot study,” Cinzia De Marco, Giovanni Invernizzi, Rosalba Miceli, Luigi Mariani, Anna Villarini, Elena Munarini, Roberto Mazza, and Roberto Boffi [pictured below], Tumori, vol. 97, no. 5, pp. 672-675. […]
Non-smokers who might someday smoke might someday smoke
Another possibly great possible breakthrough in the ongoing effort to write academic reports related to addiction. The discovery in this report: Among children who do not smoke cigarettes, the ones who drink alcohol OR smoke marijuana OR have positive attitudes toward smoking cigarettes OR who have close friends who smoke cigarettes might themselves some day become cigarette smokers, or they might […]