Right now, smoking is allowed 10 feet away from buildings. The people behind a petition hope to change that. "Second-hand smoke is really dangerous," said Corey Kinnan. "Helping people live longer, healthy lives is something I’m passionate about." The Eta Sigma Gamma member and public-health major is pushing to ban any smoking on campus. "Right w

Smokers looking to kick the habit may try any number of approaches: patches, gums, e-cigarettes, and now tweeting. At the University of California at Irvine, a recently completed clinical trial looked at whether virtual support networks created through Twitter could help smokers stay away from cigarettes. An early read of the study's data suggests

Dividend investors have long sought refuge in tobacco stocks. Yields for Altria Group (NYSE: MO ) , Reynolds American producer of Camel cigarettes (NYSE: RAI ) , and Lorillard (NYSE: LO ) range from 3.8% to 4.7%, well above the S&P 500 index's 1.9% yield. However, the rise of discount cigarettes and ever-higher excise taxes could soon threaten Altr

Rolling coffee up into "caffeine sticks" and smoking it is a hot new trend, and it's turning America's teens into "bean-heads," according to one specious local news report. According to Las Vegas ABC affiliate KTNV and one unnamed, seemingly random old man they interviewed, coffee-smoking is "going viral" with teens, who learn how to do it from web

A new study has found that both young middle-aged people that smoke pot have a slight increased risk for heart-related illness/complications. This study was published in the Journal of the American Heart Association. According to CBS News, 2 percent of health problems that were linked to marijuana use were heart-related and a quarter of those cases

It certainly isn’t breaking news that smoking is bad for your health. This has been shown over and over again to the point where both smokers and nonsmokers are tired of hearing about it. But here’s a little extra motivation in case you or a loved one are trying to break a smoking habit: It may be causing your insomnia. Smoking messes with your

A West Monroe lawmaker is back again with his yearly attempt to ban smoking within 25 feet of the entrances to state-owned office buildings, as a way to lessen exposure to secondhand cigarette smoke. The House voted 78-11 Wednesday for the bill by Rep. Frank Hoffmann, a Republican. The proposal (House Bill 168) has received House backing in prior y

One of the last hangouts for smokers in Eastern Iowa — Tobacco Bowl in Iowa City — is closing after more than two decades in business. The popular tobacco cafe on Iowa City’s pedestrian mall withstood the 2008 passage of a statewide smoking ban, tax hikes on nicotine and a public shift in attitudes about cigarettes. “It’s sad, but we’ve

Nearly 26 million Americans have diabetes and the number is rising daily. Since 1980, the percentage of people under 45 with diabetes has increased by 167 percent. There are many risk factors for Type 2 diabetes. Many of these, like family history, can’t be changed. But you can avoid or change some risk factors. One of these is smoking. We have k

A new push by the state to make public housing complexes smoke-free is old news to some housing authorities in the Lowell area. Gov. Deval Patrick's administration earlier this month released guidelines encouraging all of the state's local housing authorities to implement no-smoking policies in units that receive state funding. In towns like Chelms