On April 1 cigarette smokers are in for a big shock, and it’s one that won’t be an April Fool’s joke. That’s because the federal tax on cigarettes is going up 62 cents, from 39 cents to $1.01 per pack. The monies collected are earmarked to pay for an expansion of the State Children’s Health Insurance Program (SCHIP), which was signed into law by President Obama in February. So in an effort to make lemonade out of what many smokers will doubtless see as one huge lemon coming their way I’d suggest they take this as a perfect opportunity to quit.
According to the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), “tobacco use is the single most preventable cause of disease, disability, and death in the United States. Each year, an estimated 443,000 people die prematurely from smoking or exposure to secondhand smoke, and another 8.6 million have a serious illness caused by […]
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TORONTO (UPI) — For the first time, most of Canada’s
prescriptions were generic medicines, a report of sales data released by
IMS Health Canada said.
Generic drugs were dispensed to fill 51.6 percent of all prescriptions
in Canada in 2008 yet accounted for only 23 percent of the $21.4 billion
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ATLANTA (UPI) — U.S. residents should eat less salt, federal
health officials said Thursday, and a lower sodium recommendation
applies to almost 70 percent of adults.
A study by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows that
most Americans consume more than double the amount of their
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DETROIT (UPI) — People who have high blood pressure or heart
disease should avoid consuming energy drinks, researchers at Henry Ford
Hospital in Detroit recommend.
Researchers found that healthy adults who drank two cans a day of a
popular energy drink experienced an increase in their blood
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NOTTINGHAM, England (UPI) — An anti-microbial catheter could
vastly improve the quality of life for many home dialysis patients,
researchers in Britain said.
The study, published in the journal Biomaterials, showed that the
catheter has the potential to ward off attack from a wider variety of
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LONDON (UPI) — British researchers say stroke patients may
help restore their lost vision by listening to music they like.
Researchers at the Imperial College London looked at three patients who
had lost awareness of half of their field of vision as a result of a
stroke. All three patients
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NASHVILLE (UPI) — A chemical component of licorice may offer
a new way to prevent colorectal cancer without the adverse side effects
of other therapies, U.S. researchers said.
The study, published in the Journal of Clinical Investigation, shows
that inhibiting the enzyme 11beta-hydroxysteroid
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MONTREAL (UPI) — Canadian and U.S. researchers have
identified a cellular process that seeks out and fights type 1 herpes
simplex — cold sores.
The five-year study, a joint project with the University of Montreal,
Washington University and Pennsylvania State University, found that the
nuclear
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HOUSTON (UPI) — Breast cancer patients with lymphedema in an
upper arm experienced less fluid by up to 39 percent after undergoing a
new technique, U.S. researchers said.
Researchers at The University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center in
Houston said lymphedema results when the lymph nodes
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Everyone has bad breath sometimes, but if the people around you keep
getting whiplash whenever you open your mouth, you could have a more
serious problem. Halitosis is the official medical term for malodorous
breath, defined as any disagreeable odor of expired air.
You’re allowed to have bad
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