Electronic Cigarettes: A Healthier Alternative Or A Hazardous Habit?
Just Don’t Do It. Smoking Is Seriously Bad For You Around a third of us smoke and most of us, that have taken up the habit, will agree that it was a bad idea to start in the first place. Maybe you caved in to peer-pressure at a young age, or maybe what started as something you did on a night out spilled into daytime on several days of the week. Whatever the reasons, you’re now stuck with one big old smoky monkey on your back. Your average cigarette contains over 4000... Read More
Sunning To Get Safer?
FDA, After 30 Years, Revamps Sunscreen Rules File this one under government efficiency. After a mere thirty three years of consideration, the FDA has unveiled new rules which will specify which types of sunscreen lotions provide the best protection, and that will put an end to the false claims made by some sunscreen lotion manufacturers that their products are water proof. As we all know, but as the FDA chose to ignore for all these years, there are two types of radiation from... Read More
Surgeon General’s Warning To Go Graphic
Do cigarette smokers pay any attention to the Surgeon General’s warning that appears on the side of cigarette packs? No? Well the FDA is planning for that to change; those cigarette boxes are about to get graphic: In June, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) plans to announce a new set of even tougher mandatory warnings on cigarette packs with accompanying nasty images covering 50 percent of the packaging…. Canada has one of the lowest smoking rates among industrialized... Read More
