A new report issued by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) finds that the majority of smokers want to quit smoking. The study was reported in an article on Medicine Net Daily: “Despite the known dangers of smoking, about 20% of Americans still light up, but almost 70% want to quit, a new [...]
I published a post back in August that talked about how women who smoke have a greater risk of having a heart attack than men who smoke. (You can read that post here: Heart Disease Risk.) I just came across an article that says that women who smoke also face a greater risk of heart [...]
I recently found an article which made a radical suggestion, that the government could save money by paying Medicare recipients to quit smoking. “Last month, President Obama proposed cutting almost $72 billion from Medicaid, the program that provides health care to America’s poor. Such deep reductions are necessary, he declared, to bring down our staggering [...]
