Smokers Need Not Apply

The push to squeeze smokers out of public places is getting stronger, with restaurants and malls moving them out of their buildings. Now some businesses are taking it a step further. For years, Virginia's Bon Secours hospitals have banned smoking on hospital grounds. Now they are banning smokers entirely, even people who only smoke discount Red White cigarettes in the privacy of their own home. The company is no longer hiring anyone whose urine sample tests positive for nicotine. "As a healthcare institution, we believe in supporting good health and being good healthcare models to each other, the patients, and the community," she explained.

Happy High Herbs Offers Alternatives to Cigarette Smoking

Happy High Herbs Store in Berkeley is now offering an herbal blend alternative to cigarettes to help people quit smoking. Their Quit Nic smoking blend is designed to be mixed with tobacco at first, followed by a gradual decrease in the tobacco content. Or smokers can choose to eliminate tobacco immediately and just use this amazing herbal blend to lessen their withdrawal symptoms. "We have a large variety of helpful herbs to assist in the process of quitting addiction and a passion for helping people find alternatives for all sorts of substances," says Naomi Franc, co-owner of Happy High Herbs. Quit Nic consists of a variety of herbs that help the body resist cravings and get rid of addiction. The blend includes the herbs passionflower and lobelia, which help curb the smoke craving and addiction; coltsfoot, which helps clean the lungs of congestion and soothe the smoker’s cough; and mugwort and damiana, which help relax the body and mind.

Women who Smoke for 20 Years Have Problems

Women who smoke tobacco are more likely to suffer from skin cancer, scientists say.Females are at greater risk than men of being diagnosed with a form of the disease that can spread to other organs. And women who have smoked for 20 years or more are twice as likely to get the disease. A team investigated the relationship between smoking and non-melanoma skin cancers - in the outer part of the skin - including squamous cell carcinomas (SCC). SCC has a substantial risk of spreading from one organ to another. Developing on the face around the ears or lips, it can erode and completely destroy the nose or ear if left untreated. However, this is uncommon in the early stages and most are treated before any spread occurs. In the study, smoking histories were assessed and compared between patients diagnosed with non-melanoma skin cancers, and a group of patients who didn't have skin cancer or any history of the condition.

Texas Reduces Amount Allocated To Tobacco Prevention Programmee

Texas is one of the places in the US where children get into smoking from a very tender age, say about 14 years. This has led to a rise in the number of cancer cases and eventually death in young age. Not for once but for many times it has been said that tobacco is one such cause of death in Texas which could be preventable. In Texas alone, more than 24,000 people die annually, but it seems very little on the part of the state government to be doing something about it. There is no end to revenues which gets generated from tobacco tax or from other tobacco settlements.

Booze, Cigarettes, Women

We all know our favourite musicians have their little demands now and again but it seems all Adele needs whilst she's on the road is some good European larger. The London singer's North American rider requests leaked online earlier today (December 7), which included 12 bottles of European lager, one pack of Marlboro Lights cigarettes and one disposable lighter. To celebrate musicians and their diva demands (or not so much) , Gigwise has put together a gallery of the most outrageous (and the not so) riders in music history. From the high demands of Prince and his plastic covered to food to Nirvana and their simple macaroni and cheese. The list also includes the likes of Beyonce, Paul McCartney, Ozzy Osbourne, Robbie Williams and Morrissey.