My Thots

If you ask a number of people who smoke i.e. teenagers and adults, it is amazing how many, out of ignorance think that there are no ...

Smoking has been one of the major issues that has occupied the minds of the medical profession for the past four decades. Until the ...

A look at the number of people who smoke globally showed from 1980 to 2012 a drop from 26 percent to 18.7 percent. This was part of the fi...

Fifty years ago,  Dr. Martin Luther King's 'I have a dream' speech was beginning to precipitate a major culture ch...

Earlier today, I was reading an article quoting a doctor with the University of Toronto as stating tripling tobacco tax will reduce sm...

Its that time of the year again where people embark on long journeys, ditch their bosses for a while just so they can celebrate Christm...

Just yesterday, a friend relayed a story to me that was mind-blowing yet sad. He was in the UK and the weather was cold, wind chilly a...

There’s plenty of data showing how harmful smoking can be, and that goes for both smokers and the people around them. Two studies publis...

A few weeks ago, I was driving back home in Abuja and came across a sight I have not seen too often in a while. There was a man dr...

I hope no one gets to mix this up with a certain story that ruled the airwaves for weeks sometime October 2013. As a country, Nigerian...

Cigarettes have been the best-selling type of tobacco product for generations. As a result of their widespread use and the resulting...