A Tasteless Habit

What's your favourite food? Well, what if you couldn't taste that food properly anymore? This is one of the things that can happen to smokers over time.

A new study confirms what has already been likely known to most smokers - cigarettes lessen taste buds' abilities over time.

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Light Up, Beat Down

Take a look at this weird story from the US early this morning. As if being addicted to cigarettes didn't have enough problems!

A 36-year-old man is accused of hitting another man who refused to share a cigarette at a Salt Lake City bus stop.

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The man declined to give away a cigarette. The man who had asked for the cigarette then punched the other man in the face and ripped the cigarette he was smoking out of his mouth, charges state.

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We think it might've looked something like this:

The Truth About Tobacco Companies

If you've seen our page about the tobacco industry, you'll know how bad these businesses are. Even with age limits in place, they still try to hook the next generation of young smokers. They want your money at the expense of your health in order to sell more cigarettes to even more people.

thetruth is one of the best sites we've seen in a long time. It puts you in the role of someone applying to work for Big Tobacco. See if you're the kind of person who could do that job.

Smoke or No Smoke, Tobacco Is Still Deadly

Some people chew tobacco or 'dip snuff' because they think it's safer than smoking.

New research has just come out that shows how smokeless tobacco is just as dangerous as smoking cigarettes.

Raw tobacco and snuff do not produce smoke that can be inhaled but one pinch of such substances is enough for exposing the user to a bunch of harmful chemicals. It was found that the harmful effects of a pinch are equivalent to smoke from five cigarettes.

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Nearly 30 cancer causing chemicals were found in smokeless tobacco, and their effects aren't pretty.


















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Smoking on the Buses

Commonunity Arts is a great organisation working with the youth in Leicester. They got some opinions from the streets on a subject that a lot of you guys feel strongly about.

Smoker Turns Into Castaway!

Some people can get so hooked on nicotine in cigarettes that after years and years of smoking, they resort to crazy ways to quit the habit!

A millionaire has become a castaway on an uninhabited Scottish island – to try to quit smoking.

Geoff Spice, who has had a 30-a-day habit for 43 years, landed on the 16-hectare (40-acre) Sgarabhaigh in the Sound of Harris and will live there for a month.

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Was it really worth him starting smoking in the first place?

See if you can escape the pressures and dangers of smoking in this platform game from the Serious Quitters Arcade!

Anti-Tobacco Protestor Makes a Statement!

An anti-tobacco protestor hijacked an art project in Trafalgar Square today. His stunt highlighted the deaths caused by the tobacco industry, and how they get Hollywood actors to promote their products. His sign showed the estimated figure of 1 billion deaths that could be caused by smoking this century.

Cigarette Machines are Totally out of Order!

The British Heart Foundation wants a total ban on cigarette vending machines. These machines let 46,000 children a year get hold of cigarette packets in England and Wales! Yesterday, QUIT and the British Heart Foundation were at the House of Lords to present this undercover video podcast to some very important MPs:



BHF helped to get these machines banned from Scotland. We think that the video podcast shows how important it is for them to be taken out of English and Welsh pubs.

Check out the British Heart Foundation's campaign site here.