Does anyone have a link to research linking in-store tobacco counter advertising and teenage smoking habits? [more inside]
posted by cameronfromedinburgh on Sep 23, 2009 - 2 answers

SmokeFreeFilter: My partner has decided to give up smoking (yay!) in a few weeks' time. What can I do to help him? [more inside]
posted by teraspawn on Sep 15, 2009 - 34 answers

A somewhat recent NY Times article explains the connection between ALDH2 deficiency and throat cancer. Request for perspective on level of risk and appropriate response in extended. [more inside]
posted by Busoni on Jun 13, 2009 - 4 answers

I quit smoking (for good) two weeks ago. What can I do to help my lungs and the rest of my body heal? [more inside]
posted by picapica on Oct 8, 2008 - 21 answers

I've recently started doing weed. The effect that it has had on me is quite noticeable--I feel much more relaxed and confident--like the real me should feel. I have no inhibitions of telling people what I think, which in any other circumstance I would be too ashamed to (thinking that I might not be worthy of having such opinions). But now, I hardly give a damn what anybody else feels. Just one question though: am I okay for thinking that Marijuana might actually not be harmful to me in the extremely small dose that I take it in? [more inside]
posted by hadjiboy on Aug 30, 2008 - 44 answers

Are we inhaling second hand smoke? [more inside]
posted by rglass on Aug 10, 2008 - 15 answers

I have never smoked in my life, and with every year my attitude and tolerance for smoking becomes worse and less (sorry, all smokers out there!). In the last little while, I realized that I actually unconsciously hold my breath every time I pass someone who smokes in the street. Does this significantly do anything in terms of benefiting me and helping to avoid the dangers of second-hand smoke, or am I just fooling myself?
posted by esolo on Jan 19, 2008 - 21 answers

One cigarette shortens life expectancy by about 11 minutes. How much time do the following take off: One drink over the recommended limit? One burger for which the calories are not burned off? Preferred units: assume a drink to be one UK unit of alcohol: 10ml or 8g pure alcohol. Assume a burger to be one Big Mac: 540 kcal. [more inside]
posted by TheophileEscargot on Feb 23, 2007 - 14 answers

How is it that Camel has achieved in marketing a non-spit oral tobacco product when typically, that type of product has to be spit? [more inside]
posted by Jenna Roadman on Dec 20, 2006 - 8 answers

Want to get healthier. In which order should I fix my three vices for optimal success? [more inside]
posted by anonymous on Jan 17, 2006 - 29 answers

Why do so many doctors smoke? [more inside]
posted by hsoltz on Jun 16, 2005 - 24 answers

If you have ever smoked, what story, event or argument finally convinced you to stop?
posted by cup on Dec 19, 2003 - 35 answers