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The Advantages of Legalizing Marijuana

The issue of legalizing marijuana is a hot topic these days, mainly because of the noise being created by the lobbyists who are clamoring for legislation that will decriminalize the possession and the use of the substance. Not everyone, however, is aware as to why there is a need for such legislation.
That is because [...]

Smoker vs. Non-Smoker Worker – 6 Interesting Facts to Know

Let’s not talk about the advantages and disadvantages of smoking. It’s something that is common enough knowledge. Its not that smokers don’t know or are unaware of the facts that smoking is bad for them, it’s just that they are unable to care.
Here are six interesting fact about smokers vs. non-smokers that might make the [...]

9 Facts How Non-Smoking Workplace Improves Lives and Wallets

Smoking is injurious to one’s health. Even a packet of cigarettes tells you so, however, a large part of the World population smokes and they smoke a lot and that too everywhere. There are quite a number of smokers who don’t deem a workplace untouchable with reference to smoking. They smoke at the workplace. However, [...]

10 Most Common Health Side Effects of Using Marijuana

Marijuana is commonly known as chronic, pot or hash and is consumed either by eating, smoking or by soaking it in tea. It is easy to consume this drug in large quantities while eating it and hence most cases of over dosing generally arise from this. There is also a number of ways in which [...]

Selenium Deficiency Test

Selenium is one of the most relevant minerals having a positive impact on the general health and well-being of people today. Although selenium is recommended only in trace amounts, it is a substance that helps the production of important proteins that prevents cellular damage and free radicals. Selenium is a well known anti-cancer mineral since [...]

Second Hand Smoking: Medical or Physiological Effects

Secondhand smoke is a combination of the smoke produced from a burning cigarette and the smoke exhaled by the smoker. Second-hand smoke is also known as passive smoke or environmental tobacco smoke (ETS). Mostly the term second-hand smoke is used as opposed to ETS because the latter infers a relationship between tobacco smoke and the [...]

Effects of Tobacco Smoking on Children

Smoking causes eighty percent of lung cancer around the world. One in 5 deaths in the U.S results from the use of tobacco & each year, smoking claims 400,000 lives in the U.S. alone. In 1999, 65% of all secondary students reported having used some type of tobacco product during their lifetime. There was a [...]