With New Year’s resolutions facing from our minds, we still may be seeking ways to achieve some of our goals: Spend time with family! Engage in healthful activities! Build relationships with coworkers! Seek ways to benefit our community! The answer… Continue Reading
Most smokers are aware of the dangers of tobacco; however, smoking can have much more dire consequences for pregnant women. Smoking can result in negative impacts at every stage, from before pregnancy to after birth. Before pregnancy: Exposure to tobacco… Continue Reading
Friendship means many things to different people, but a common feature of friendship is sharing, especially among young people. They share confidences, clothing, catastrophes … and cigarettes. In fact, the major sources of tobacco for young people are friends or… Continue Reading
You don’t smoke it … you don’t inhale it … there’s no secondhand smoke to offend others; it can’t be as bad as cigarettes, right? Wrong! Smokeless tobacco, also known as chewing tobacco or snus, is every bit as dangerous… Continue Reading
It is a well known and widely accepted fact that secondhand smoke causes negative health effects. The 2006 U.S. Surgeon General’s Report, The Health Consequences of Involuntary Exposure to Secondhand Smoke, concluded that there is no safe level of exposure… Continue Reading
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