Posts in Category: Tobacco
November 15, 2017
Learn How Smoking Could Be Affecting Your Social Life While smoking may appear to be a socially acceptable trend on college campuses, it still brings with it serious health problems. The growing use of vapes and e-cigarettes are only contributing to the negative health consequences that smokers face. The consequences can be affecting your social life in ways you may not realize. The biggest affect is secondhand smoke. The people around a person smoking are involunatarily inhaling smoke and... Read More
November 14, 2017
Find out HOW TOBACCO AFFECTS YOUR WELLNESS WHEEL Many people do not realize the impact that smoking has on overall well-being. Smoking greatly impacts every area of a person's life. UNH Health and Wellness created the Wellness Wheel to show the UNH community how different aspects of life are interconnected and how it is important to take care of all of them. Smoking disrupts every category of the wellness wheel: Emotional Health: Smoking and Emotional Health Environmental Health: Cigarettes... Read More
November 14, 2017
Find Out The Greatest Dangers of Smoking Cigarettes You may think that there is no danger in one cigarette, or even two or three. Maybe you smoke cigarettes a few times a month, and think nothing will happen because you don’t consider yourself a smoker. Well, this is far from the truth. The first time you smoke one cigarette your brain’s pleasure centers remember that feeling, your lungs and airway become inflamed, and your blood pressure rises. “Smoking harms nearly every organ in the body.... Read More
November 14, 2017
Discover How Smoking Can Impact Your Work Place Productivity We have all seen it before, the person who seems to get more breaks than everyone else just because they smoke. It seems as though they are being rewarded for having a bad habit, and everyone else is being punished for not having that habit. But, who is really missing out? According to the CDC, almost 20 percent of the adult workforce smokes, which threatens employee health and well-being, decreases productivity, increases absenteeism... Read More
November 14, 2017
Find Out How Smoking Can Affect Your Academic Performance Even if a child or teenager knows not to smoke, there is a more likely chance they will smoke the more they see cigarettes around them. It was proven that adolescents with high exposure to smoking in movies, made them three times more likely to start smoking themselves. It is also proven that intelligent people are more likely to smoke. While there is no clear answer as to why these two things happen, there is evidence that smoking will... Read More
November 14, 2017
Find Out How Smoking Cigarettes Can Affect Your Financial Well-Being “Between 2009-2012, the estimated annual smoking-attributable economic costs in the U.S. were between $289-332.5 billion”. In New Hampshire a pack of cigarettes costs an average of $6.64. The average electronic cigarette starter pack is $50, and to keep buying e-liquid refills is about $1.40 a “pack”, or what would be the equivalent of a pack of cigarettes. Smoking is in no way a cheap habit to keep up with. If you smoke a... Read More
November 14, 2017
Find Out How Cigarettes Can Be Harmful To The Environment When you think about smoking a cigarette, you most likely know that it is affecting your personal health. However, you may not be aware that smoking cigarettes can affect the environment around you, and for years to come. It’s not just that there is poisonous vapors being put into the air when you smoke, or the cigarette filters being thrown on the ground, it is more of a big picture effect. Tobacco farming has effects on deforestation... Read More
November 14, 2017
Find Out How Smoking Can Affect Your Emotional Wellness Smoking cigarettes and other tobacco products are thought to have detrimental effects on physical health, including causing cardiovascular disease, cancer and much more. However, smoking can have serious affects on emotional health and well-being in addition to the effects on physical health. The first time you smoke a cigarette, the presence of nicotine increases the levels of dopamine and epinephrine in your brain. Dopamine plays a major... Read More
November 14, 2017
Find Out Why E-Cigarettes Are Just As Harmful As Real Cigarettes Walking down the streets here at UNH, you are bound to pass by someone who is smoking either a vape or an e-cigarette. This has become the new normal in recent months, with the most common e-cigarette being a Juul. Many people have the belief that smoking an E-cigarette poses no dangers to their health because there is no tobacco. However, this is far from the truth. For the most part, E-cigarettes are much less deadly than... Read More
November 8, 2017
Learn About The Specific Populations Tobacco Companies Intentionally Market To According to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention, tobacco companies specifically market to the following audiences: Youth and Young Adults There is clear evidence that indicates tobacco company advertising influences young people to start using tobacco. Tobacco advertisements make smoking seem appealing, which can increase adolescents’ desire to smoke. Women Tobacco marketing toward women is dominated by... Read More
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