You know, of course, that the vaping industry is fervently pushing back against efforts to limit the sales of e-cigs with the hard-to-argue-about claim that vaping may not be great but at least hey, it helps people quit smoking real cigarettes, which is something we all want to do more of, right? Well, that argument […]
A study just published online in the BMJ (or should that be “by” the BMJ, or maybe even “on” the BMJ; whatever) analyzed data from the many long-years of the fabulous Nurses’ Health Study (NHS) and the equally fabulous Health Professionals Follow-up Study (the former is composed of only women, the latter only men but […]
Sure, vaping can get some people to quit smoking, although how effective a tactic vaping is for smoking cessation is still a mystery, and I for one, think it’s not nearly as effective as its proponents would like it to be. Time will tell, however. What is not debatable, though, is that vaping has drawn […]
On a recent trip to Europe, what particularly struck the three of us non-smokers on that trip is how many young people smoke over there compared to here. It seems to me that nearly everywhere we went in Paris or Rome, we could smell heavy cigarette smoke (we could also smell the incredibly heavy pollution […]
The evidence keeps flooding in: The more healthy things you do earlier in life, the more pay-off you get later in life. And hey, millenials and Gen Xers and anyone under seniorhood, trust me on this: Even though it may not seem like it to you now, and even though most of you vow to […]
A great deal of the buzz at this year’s Alzheimer’s Association International Conference which just wrapped up in London, England, has been about preventing dementia, particularly Alzheimer’s disease, which is the most common form of dementia. And that’s a good thing because given how meager the returns have been so far from treating dementia, it’s time […]