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One cigarette a day is as bad smoking half the pack
Smoking just one cigarette a day carries a much higher risk of developing coronary heart disease and stroke than expected – about half the...
Lessons for SA to be learned from US/UK tobacco regulations
A shift in the way US and UK policymakers regulate tobacco, e-cigarettes and nicotine could promote public health efforts to reduce smoking and usher...
Effectiveness of cannabis for relieving distress symptoms
Cannabis use may strengthen, rather than weaken, the relationships between pain and depression and pain and anxiety, according to a US observational study.
Many patients...
E-cigarette use does help smokers quit
Consistent with randomised trials and those observational studies that measure frequency of e-cigarette use, both quit attempts and quit success were positively associated with...