If you’ve been considering switching to the so-called electronic cigarettes to keep your smoking habit but lower your health risk, save your money. Electronic cigarettes, or e-cigarettes are no safer than the traditional tobacco ones, says the FDA.
According to the website E-Cigarettes Choice ,
While cigarettes emit about 4,000 identifiable chemicals as they are smoked and 69 are known to cause cancer, e-cigarettes contain less than 10 to 20 chemicals on average, depending on the brand or strength purchased.  No more tar blackening your lungs and no more carcinogens.
But the FDA says:
The FDA’s Division of Pharmaceutical Analysis analyzed the ingredients in …read more

If you’re rolling your own cigarettes in an effort to reduce the harmful effects of smoking, you’re not making any difference, say researchers in the United Kingdom.
Rolling your own cigarettes is something that gives you a bit of control, you may think, and it may save money as the end result can be less expensive while limiting the amount of extra stuff added by the cigarette companies. But the researchers discovered that although the rolled cigarettes may be cheaper, they aren’t any safer.
According to this article, Roll-your-own Cigarettes As Deadly As Ready Mades ,
There were no differences in the …read more

Wade over at Healthbolt has an awesome post with some even more compelling reasons to quit smoking today, on World No Tobacco Day 2007.
I think one of the main reasons it’s so hard to quit smoking is because all the benefits of quitting and all the dangers of continuing seem very far away. Well, here’s a little timeline about some of the more immediate effects of quitting smoking and how that will affect your body RIGHT NOW.

In 20 minutes your blood pressure will drop back down to normal.
In 8 hours the carbon monoxide (a toxic gas) …read more

May 31 is World No Tobacco Day, so what better day to talk about why you should quit smoking right now? Here are 10 compelling reasons to kick the habit today.

Smoking causes 87% of all lung cancer cases (source), and lung cancer kills more women than breast and ovarian cancers combined. (source)
Smoking causes wrinkles all over your body.
Smoking dramatically increases women’s risk of developing coronary heart disease (source), and heart disease is the leading killer of American women. (source)
Smoking turns your teeth yellow.
Women who smoke risk having a heart attack 19 years earlier than women who don’t smoke. (source)