Is Vaping Better Than Smoking?
E-cigarettes could be an effective way to quit smoking, but they’re still fraught with health risks.
Category: Tobacco
9 Strategies for Quitting Smoking
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Why COVID-19 Makes It More Important Than Ever to Quit Smoking
Damage to the lungs and heart caused by smoking can lower your chances of survival.
5 Things You Need to Know About Your Teens and Vaping
E-cigarettes are too new to fully understand their side effects, but we know they’re not good for your kids.
7 Strategies for Quitting Smoking
It’s the most important thing you can do for your health, and you’ll need a plan to be successful.
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Your essential guide to symptoms, risk and prevention.
3 Habits for Healthy Lungs
If you want to avoid lung cancer, COPD and other lung diseases, here’s where to start.
Cigar warning labels are not equally believable among adolescents
Less than 50 percent of surveyed teens found it ‘very believable’ that cigars are not a safe alternative to cigarettes, according to a first-of-its-kind UNC School of Medicine study.
Severe burns, injuries from e-cigarette explosions go under-reporte...
In a new British Medical Journal editorial, UNC School of Medicine researchers and physicians stress the need for better worldwide surveillance of e-cigarette-related burns and better regulation of e-cigarettes to reduce burn injuries.
Repeated exposure of children to secondhand smoke is child abuse, G...
Dr. Adam Goldstein, who is director of the tobacco intervention programs in the UNC School of Medicine, argues his point in an opinion piece published in the March/April 2015 issue of Annals of Family Medicine.