SciShow
Does COVID Cause Cancer?
There's a troubling link between COVID and certain cancers, but as always, it's complicated.
SciShow
Why City Birds Love Cigarettes
Urban birds like house finches and house sparrows are great at finding materials to repel pests and parasites from their nests. Unfortunately, one of those materials is used cigarette butts.
SciShow
Why Smoking Makes It Harder to Heal
If a doctor has told you to quit smoking, that's not just because they're worried about lung cancer. Those cigarettes are messing up your body's natural healing process in more ways than one.
SciShow
Do We Have To Give Up Bacon?
The IARC has categorized processed meat as a definite carcinogen. But how dangerous is it really? Do we finally have to give up bacon?
TED Talks
TED: This app makes it fun to pick up litter | Jeff Kirschner
The earth is a big place to keep clean. With Litterati -- an app for users to identify, collect and geotag the world's litter -- TED Resident Jeff Kirschner has created a community that's crowdsource-cleaning the planet. After tracking...
TED Talks
Chris Jordan: Turning powerful stats into art
Artist Chris Jordan shows us an arresting view of what Western culture looks like. His supersized images picture some almost unimaginable statistics -- like the astonishing number of paper cups we use every single day.
SciShow
Synthetic Life & The Science of E-Cigs
Welcome back to SciShow News. We are working on creating organisms with a minimal genome to sustain life as well as researching what and how much we inhale with e-cigs.
TED-Ed
TED-Ed: How do cigarettes affect the body? - Krishna Sudhir
Cigarettes aren't good for us. That's hardly news -- we've known about the dangers of smoking for decades. But how exactly do cigarettes harm us, and can our bodies recover if we stop? Krishna Sudhir details what happens when we smoke --...
SciShow
What Being a Night Owl Does to Your Health | SciShow News
We’re learning more about the differences in health between early risers and night owls, and new research could offer even more evidence that vaping is just different from smoking, not necessarily better.
SciShow
What We Don't Know about E-Cigs
You might have one of them, e-cigarette. Some people switch to it from average tobacco to quit smoking. But is it really a better and safer option for you?
Crash Course
Correlation Doesn’t Equal Causation - Crash Course Statistics
Today we’re going to talk about data relationships and what we can learn from them. We’ll focus on correlation, which is a measure of how two variables move together, and we’ll also introduce some useful statistical terms you’ve probably...
Curated Video
How to Improve Your Chances to Quit Smoking
How to Improve Your Chances to Quit Smoking
Curated Video
Proven Strategies to Help You Stop Smoking
Howcast - Find out the proven strategies that help you stop smoking from addictions counselor Adam Steiner in this Howcast video.
Curated Video
How to Deal with a Relapse
Howcast - Learn how to deal with a relapse when quitting smoking from addictions counselor Adam Steiner in this Howcast video.
Curated Video
Is Hookah / Cigar Smoking Safer than Cigarette Smoking?
Howcast - Find out if hookah or cigar smoking is safer than smoking cigarettes from addictions counselor Adam Steiner in this Howcast video.
Curated Video
How to Win the Lit Cigarette Bar Bet
Howcast - Learn how to win a bet that you can take three drags of a lit cigarette without leaving any ash or shortening it with this Howcast video.
Curated Video
How to Cut a Lime with a Cigarette as a Bar Trick
Howcast - Learn how to cut a lime with a cigarette as a bar trick with this Howcast video.
Curated Video
How to Do the Cigarette Knot Trick
Howcast - Learn how to win the bet that you can't tie a cigarette into a knot with this Howcast video.
Curated Video
How to Quit Social Smoking
Howcast -Smoking the occasional cigarette still puts you at risk for cancer and heart disease. Quit social smoking today to reduce your risk and live longer and healthier.
Curated Video
How to Whiten Your Teeth
Howcast - Are those pearly whites turning into yellow fangs? Follow these steps and you'll end up with a smile that makes politicians jealous.
Curated Video
New Zealand law aimed at making 'smoke-free generation'
New Zealand's government has proposed a new law aimed at making a 'smoke-free generation' in four years by making it illegal for anyone who turns 14 after 2027 to buy cigarettes — ever.
Curated Video
Tobacco companies could pay billions to provinces, smokers in proposed deal
Three of the world's biggest tobacco giants have agreed to a settlement in a $32-billion dollar class action lawsuit that is considered one of the longest, and costliest, in Canadian history. CBC's Scott Peterson has the details.
Curated Video
Tobacco giants would pay out $32.5B in 'historic' proposed deal
Three tobacco giants are proposing to pay close to $25 billion to provinces and territories and more than $4 billion to tens of thousands of Quebec smokers and their loved ones as part of a corporate restructuring process triggered by a...
Curated Video
Stop & Shop Bans Cigarettes
Stop & Shop is burning its bridges with smokers by stopping tobacco sales at all its stores by the end of August.