cigarettes in a row Two kinds of cigarette arranged rows - Stock Image - M370/0354 smoking 2 cigarettes in a

According to the CDC, smoking causes nearly half a million deaths each year in America aloneand that number doesnt include those who die from second-hand smoke exposure or other health effects caused by [] For decades, the tobacco industry has been trying to convince us that smoking is a harmless activity

In a study recently published in Respiratory Research , Deirdre Gilpin and her colleagues looked to close this gap by examining what happened to key lung bacteria when exposed to electronic cigarette vapour (ECV), compared to cigarette smoke extract (CSE)

The mud people (not my expression!) advert (bottom right) is a doctored Sebastiao Salgado (I think) photo, one of their best and certainly most controversial, and was actually banned at the time, on the grounds that it was condescending to ethnic minorities

The details of their concert are a bit hazy but heres what we know

"We can already tell a difference in the inmates' attitudes." Franklin and Lauderdale counties also have started selling the non-tobacco e-cigarettes to inmates