Guest blogger, Sarah P. is a member of BecomeAnEX.org. She recently celebrated her third smoke-free anniversary. I grew up around smokers, as a kid in the ‘70s and a teenager in the ‘80s, in the suburbs of Chicago. Nearly every adult in my family...
CommentsColorectal cancer is the second leading cause of cancer deaths in the United States, the first being lung cancer. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), about 50,000 people die each year from colorectal cancer in the U...
CommentsToo often smokers are thought of as people who simply can't kick their "nasty habit." That's dead wrong -- smoking is an addiction that most smokers desperately want to overcome. Out of the more than 43 million adult smokers in the United States...
CommentsThe start of a new year brings with it many resolutions to quit smoking, but this year it also brought with it the tragic death of Eric Lawson, one of many models and actors who portrayed the rugged "Marlboro Man" over the course of the iconic ad...
CommentsAS SEEN ON JOINTOGETHER.ORGThis month as the 50th anniversary report on smoking and health was released by the U.S. Surgeon General, I'm compelled to call attention to the man who helped strike the match that led to this landmark report.L. Edgar...
CommentsAlthough we now know that tobacco use causes a host of cancers and other illnesses, and is still the leading preventable cause of death in the United States, the 1964 landmark report was the first to definitively link smoking with lung cancer and...
CommentsRight about this time each December, smokers across America decide to quit as one of their New Year's resolutions. Unfortunately, most smokers continue to think that quitting is simply a matter of willpower. But no one would run a marathon withou...
CommentsCurrent tobacco regulation, health issues of tobacco use, and questions about emerging products were discussed when two of the nation’s leading experts in tobacco control sat down for an in-depth talk. Listen to Dr. David Abrams and Dr. Steven Sc...
CommentsAS SEEN ON JOINTOGETHER.ORGAs a native New Yorker, I’m proud to see the recent headlines in New York where the minimum age for buying cigarettes has just been increased from 18 to 21, making tobacco products a lot harder for young people to purch...
CommentsAs the science around smoking continues to grow, we know that there is no silver bullet to quitting. The general public often wonders, why do smokers still smoke? But those who have struggled to quit or who have worked with smokers can offer that...
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