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Today's top Twitter tweet comes from adamschwartz:
Nothing says "Bakersfield" like smoking while pregnant.
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Dr. Darshan Shah, one of the most well known plastic surgeons in Bakersfield, was quoted in a recent New York Times story on smoking and plastic surgery.
The story, "Want a Face-Lift? First, Better Stop Smoking," ran Thursday in the newspaper.
“Nicotine causes the tiny blood...
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Fact: Filling your piehole with McDonald's and capping it off with a post-lunch cigarette is not good for you.
Fact: Exercising at lunch is good for you.
Nebulous: Exercising outdoors with the current air quality might be worse for you than a Big Mac and ciggie.
I say that because I just got...
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Monday March 31st was the last day I smoked a cigarette!!! It's been a tough week. But I made it through without physically hurting anyone... so far.. lol!!!
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Cigarette smoking is responsible for about one in five deaths annually, or about 438,000 deaths per year in the United States, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
It is also the leading preventable cause of death.
The county released the findings today of their...
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"These days when somebody smokes in the movies, they're either a psychopath or European."
— Thank You For Smoking
Unless a movie shows the side effects of smoking (i.e. Robert Downey Jr.'s character in "Zodiac") or places it within a...
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I have always hated cigarettes.
When I was a child, barely old enough to remember, my “Uncle Paul” came to live with my parents for a while. Although my memory on this is a bit hazy, I think he was my grandmother’s second husband, and rather than explain the intricacies...
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A study came out yesterday that found health benefits to be the most highly coveted of employee perks.
One caveat of the National Business Group on Health report that I found particularly interesting was the fact that two in three, or 65 percent, favor charging smokers more for health...
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The number of vendors selling cigarettes to teens is on its way down.
The county Department of Public Health sent 24 underage high school students to 114 tobacco vendors across the county and found that 26 percent of the vendors sold them cigarettes. (Read "More teens smoking" in...
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Having just read about the riots breaking out, families and prison employees smuggling and turf wars over control of black markets on the inside, I almost thought I was reading about the meth or heroin trade in Californias prisons, but I wasn't. I was reading about the tobacco trade on the...
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I was walking in front of Jerry's Pizza on Chester between 18th and 19th streets the other day when I saw a VERY pregnant woman light up a cigarette! I couldn't believe my eyes. I was stunned. I didn't know what to do. Do I say something to her? Do I take the cigarette out of her hand? Do I just...
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