On the average, smokers weigh less than nonsmokers, and approximately 80 percent of smokers who quit will gain weight. The average weight gain for smokers who quit is 5 pounds compared to about 1 pound for continuing smokers over the same period,...

Chinese Communist leader Mao Zedong was a lifelong smoker, often photographed with a cigarette; and Deng Xiaoping, architect of China’s post-Mao economic reforms, also was a chainsmoker, but reportedly gave up smoking some years before his death....

SMOKING. Plants whose properties when consumed place the user in an unusual state have always been looked upon as being endowed with supernatural power. Such plants play an important part in both religious ceremonies and in healing. In such a context,...

Smoking is a practice where a substance, most commonly tobacco, is burned and the smoke tasted or inhaled. This is primarily done as a form of recreational drug use, as combustion releases the active substances in drugs such as nicotine and makes them...

Some kids think it's cool to smoke cigarettes. Do you know any kids like that? They think it makes them look grown-up. "It tastes good," they say. Or, "It relaxes me." Kids who smoke may not know one very important fact about the...

The incoming ban on smoking could have serious consequences for brokers and their commercial clients. Andrew Welch gives the background Have you noticed that your local pub has suddenly acquired an open lean-to structure at the back? This is the most obvious manifestation...

surplus announced by the state Senate weren't a big enough hurdle to Eliot Spitzer's plan to reduce health care spending, how about this letter from the American Cancer Society and other groups who concerned over a loophole that'll allow smoking in the casinos built in...

historic piece on the Israel lobby in the London Review of Books in March continues to reverberate. The latest LRB contains a dispute between the paper's authors, Stephen Walt and John Mearsheimer, and the former executive director of the 9/11 Commission, Philip Zelikow. The dispute...

Smoking is a dangerous habit. One-fifth of all deaths in America—400,000 each year—result from smoking-related illnesses. Smoking causes 85 percent of all lung cancer deaths and contributes to one in five of all newly diagnosed cases of...

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