Topic: tobacco

We already know there’s a strong business link between vaping and Big Tobacco.

So, public health advocates maintain, the McConnell plan is really just a clever ruse to reduce support for other legislation that might actually reduce smoking and vaping.

Though recent headlines insist that vaping is almost twice as effective than alternatives, that doesn’t mean it’s especially effective.

We will have to deal with electronic smoking, which has exploded among young people even as cigarette use has declined.

CDC gives cigarettes credit for more than 480,000 deaths a year, in the US alone.

Helps to think of an electronic cigarette as just another drug delivery device, along the lines of a high-tech crack pipe, capable of carrying a number of different substances to the brain.

It’s not a mystery why so many addicts lapse in those initial months. That’s completely understandable. The important thing is that they climb back on the bike and ride on to success.

Make specific changes that make it easier to live without tobacco. Your lifestyle should promote your physical, spiritual, and psychological well-being.

Would have been easy enough to avoid, had I seen it coming. Unfortunately the brain I was using to make decisions was the addicted one. It was not a friend to recovery.