The World No Tobacco Day was Friday, May 31. For the occasion, the WHO announced that every year tobacco is responsible for at least 8 million deaths. In addition, it causes lung cancer, asthma, tuberculosis, and chronic respiratory illnesses in millions of people. The WHO is trying to warn smokers about their pulmonary health, but […]En savoir plus
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The children have spoken: smoking is now banned around Nogent-sur-Oise schools
At the initiative of school children throughout the commune, it is now forbidden to smoke in certain areas in the town of Nogent-sur-Oise. It was thanks to their intervention, via the youth municipal council (CMI), that the new initiative was launched. Smoking near schools is now banned at the start and end of the school […]En savoir plus
On March 25, the French prime minister made a striking statement: 1.6 million French people quit smoking in 2017, according to a study carried out by « Baromètre Santé ». The government is celebrating this news and is highlighting the positive impacts of various measures implemented to fight tobacco addiction. But what is really behind the numbers? […]En savoir plus
The dangers that tobacco poses to pregnant women are already well known. Nicotine as well as other toxic chemicals in smoke are harmful to fetuses. Nicotine in particular, which is capable of traversing the placental barrier, can affect the infant’s growth, but a new study suggests that the risks may be far worse. In […]En savoir plus
In France, the e-cigarette is yet to be considered a legitimate nicotine substitute (even if progress is being made). Those in Great Britain see the e-cigarette a bit differently: according to a new study, vaping is the most effective method to quit smoking cigarettes. A January 30 article published in the New England Journal of […]En savoir plus
Is the electronic cigarette a gateway drug to tobacco? In the last few years, anti-vaping activists have often brought up this argument, especially in the United States. A French study has just rejected this pernicious myth. The Program to Limit Teenage Tobacco Addiction (PETAL) was launched in 2017, a two-year INSERM study that focuses on […]En savoir plus
12 cigarettes per day and 16.5 years of smoking—it is only after these astronomical numbers that smokers believe there is a risk of developing cancer. These days, everybody knows that smoking increases the risks of developing a host of serious illnesses, and Public Health France has just proved yet another study to prove it. The […]En savoir plus
A recent study has revealed the positive effects of neutral cigarette packaging. Smokers are less and less confident pulling out their cigarette packs in public, which is yet another step towards making tobacco taboo, as evidenced in the drop in tobacco sales in 2018. Debates have been around since neutral cigarette packets were introduced […]En savoir plus
The health risks of smoking tobacco are no secret. What we didn’t know, however, is how long it takes after quitting for these health risks to diminish. According to a new American study, it would take 15 years of non-smoking for ex-smokers to regain their cardiovascular health. Published recently by University of Vanderbilt in the […]En savoir plus
Agnès Buzyn, the French Health Minister, is fighting fiercely against tobacco addiction. And although she recently declared that smoking is “has been,” the creator Jean-Paul Gaulthier doesn’t seem to agree. In fact, on the same day, he released his new collection, largely inspired by cigarettes and vaping. We already knew that the fashion icon was […]En savoir plus
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