Smoking

Shocking Anti-Smoking Advert Shows Cancerous Tumour On Cigarette

PA/The Huffington Post UK | Posted 28.12.2012 | UK Lifestyle

A stop smoking campaign which shows a tumour growing from a cigarette will be launched on Friday. They are the first shock anti-smoking adverts sin...

Butt Off! Madonna's Smoking Rant Onstage

WENN | Posted 22.12.2012 | Home

Madonna has made a big threat against people smoking around her, stating that she would pull out of a performance if concert-goers did not put out the...

Why Legalisation of Drugs Won't Work

Mandy Saligari | Posted 16.02.2013 | UK Politics
Mandy Saligari

Please do not be so naive as to believe that in decriminalising certain drugs you will be able to regulate them. All it will do is endorse the market place and generate growth in the drug industry, creating opportunity for low cost and black market goods, synthetic evolutions and copies.

Top 3 Most Dangerous Health Risks Across The World

The Huffington Post/PA | Posted 13.12.2012 | UK Lifestyle

High blood pressure, smoking and alcohol abuse are the most dangerous health risks in the world, a major study has shown. In the space of 20 years,...

Charlie Thomas

Are There Unintended Consequences From Banning Cigarette Displays?

HuffingtonPost.com | Charlie Thomas | Posted 12.12.2012 | UK

Imperial Tobacco has lost its fight to continue displaying cigarettes in shops in Scotland. The Supreme Court ruled against the tobacco giant's app...

Is Junk Food the New Tobacco? No, Not Really

James Bloodworth | Posted 08.02.2013 | UK Lifestyle
James Bloodworth

Blaming the food industry for making you fat is a bit like blaming Hooters because your husband likes breasts. It may be comforting to curse the corporate giants as you reach for another chocolate digestive, but it's attitudes like this that will end up destroying the NHS.

'Ugly' Cigarette Packaging Ruins Taste, Australian Smokers Say

The Huffington Post UK | Jessica Elgot | Posted 30.11.2012 | UK

Sludge green packaging with gruesome pictures of rotting teeth, eyeballs, blackened lungs and suffering babies will become mandatory for tobacco in Au...

Making Trade Work for Public Health

Gates Cambridge Scholars | Posted 30.01.2013 | UK Universities & Education
Gates Cambridge Scholars

Tobacco use is the leading preventable cause of death in the world today. Developing countries are now the top tobacco-consuming nations, where men and women are addicted to tobacco at higher rates than in developed countries, and have less success stopping.

'Let Them Eat Cake... But Only If They Pay For Healthcare'

The Huffington Post UK | Posted 27.11.2012 | UK

A Conservative MP has said those who dabble daily with doughnuts should get their just desserts and pay for treatment before soaring costs bankrupt th...

Smoking Rots Your Brain As You Grow Older

PA/The Huffington Post UK | Posted 26.11.2012 | UK Lifestyle

Smoking and high blood pressure over the age of 50 both lead to accelerated mental decline, research has shown. Scientists analysed risk factor dat...

Cancer Costs the UK Over £15bn a Year - 10 Things You Can Do Now to Reduce Your Risk

Glen Matten | Posted 19.01.2013 | UK Lifestyle
Glen Matten

An extensive report recently published concluded that nearly half (43%) of cancer cases in the UK are caused by lifestyle and environmental factors. This amounted to 134,000 new cases of cancer in 2010 that were potentially preventable. So, with our eye firmly on prevention, here are 10 things you can do to slash your cancer risk.

Thank Me For Smoking!

Marcus Middleton | Posted 13.01.2013 | UK
Marcus Middleton

Governments around the world LOVE smokers, because we build hospitals, highways, schools, and transport networks... We're their Golden Cash Cows.

Quitting Smoking: Traps that Stop you Succeeding

Vincent Brogan | Posted 14.01.2013 | UK Lifestyle
Vincent Brogan

Before you stop you need to take smoking triggers into account and avoid the more dangerous ones after quitting. Consider listing the times, places and situations where you enjoyed or felt the need to smoke in the past. Plan a diversion like taking up exercise.

Quit While You're Ahead!

Sophie Anderton | Posted 07.01.2013 | UK Lifestyle
Sophie Anderton

Since quitting smoking I have so much more energy, I'm healthier, happier, busy with DJing and photo shoots and I'm working on so many different business projects - I just feel loads better about myself. I'm completely free of every addiction I've ever had.

Fake Fags Costs Imperial Tobacco

Charlie Thomas | Posted 30.10.2012 | UK

Cigarettes giant Imperial Tobacco has reduced the value of its Spanish business by £1.2 billion writedown after austerity-hit smokers turn to black m...

How To Quit Smoking: Start With The Facts

Vincent Brogan | Posted 29.12.2012 | UK Lifestyle
Vincent Brogan

A 20 a day cigarette smoker takes about 200 individual puffs in total, each representing a single nicotine 'hit' for the brain's reward centre. Doing this day in day out for years has consequences. Addiction is one.

Ex-Smokers Can Gain An Extra 10 Years, Says Study

PA | Posted 28.10.2012 | UK Lifestyle

Women smokers can earn themselves 10 years of extra life by quitting the habit before middle age, say scientists. A study of 1.3 million women foun...

You (And Your Baby) Are What You Eat

PA/The Huffington Post UK | Posted 23.10.2012 | UK Lifestyle

Eating chips during pregnancy can lead to significant health problems for new born babies, research suggests. Consuming a vast quantity of chips, c...

Should A Fag Break Cost You Money?

The Huffington Post UK | Charlie Thomas | Posted 22.10.2012 | UK

More than half of Brits resent colleagues who smoke and insist cigarette breaks should be docked from their wages, according to a new survey. Of th...

Should Smoking In Your Own Car Be Banned?

PA/Huffington Post UK | Posted 15.10.2012 | UK Lifestyle

Researchers have backed a proposal to ban smoking in private cars after they found that the habit produces pollutants which could be harmful to passen...

Young Offender's Human Rights Breached...

The Huffington Post UK | Christopher York | Posted 08.11.2012 | UK

A curfew that prevented a young offender from going outside to smoke at night has been changed because a judge ruled it breached the boy's human right...

Stop Buying Cigs, Start Buying Tobacco Shares?

Charlie Thomas | Posted 01.10.2012 | UK

The start of thousands of smokers' journeys to quit smoking for good began on Monday but investors say there's never been a better time to buy shares ...

My Top Three London Pub Alternatives

Kerry Hudson | Posted 14.09.2012 | UK Lifestyle
Kerry Hudson

So, for the serious ones on the wagon, pregnant women, and people like me who shouldn't drink on medication, here are my top three non boozy alternatives to a good night out. Girly as these suggestions are, I have tried them to success out on men.

Is it Possible to Be Single and Not Smoke?

Sarah Bridge | Posted 10.11.2012 | UK Lifestyle
Sarah Bridge

Why, come nine o'clock that evening, was I hurtling down the road to the nearest pub to wave my debit card at them (I always forget to bring enough cash to weddings) and ask for a pack of cigarettes in return?

Charlie Thomas

Are E-Cigarettes On Course To Make A Packet? Or Will They Disappear In A Puff Of Vapour?

HuffingtonPost.com | Charlie Thomas | Posted 13.09.2012 | UK

The electronic cigarette industry is booming. The past two years in particular have seen the number of providers rocket as new manufacturers seek to t...