Healthcare Triage
Is Vaping Linked to Lung Cancer? We Turn to Mice.
We don’t yet know the long-term health consequences of e-cigarettes, and gaining that knowledge could take decades. However, a recently published study in mice offers new data for consideration.
Healthcare Triage
The Proposed FDA Ban on Menthol Cigarettes
Though likely to face many legal challenges, the FDA recently issued a ban on menthol flavoring in traditional cigarettes and cigars. So why the specific ban on menthol? There are lots of reasons ranging from how it may alter the smoking...
Next Animation Studio
Even nicotine-free e-cigarettes can harm blood flow, study finds
New research has found that vaping temporarily is enough to impact the body’s blood vessels.
Mazz Media
The Truth About Smoking: Short and Long-Term Effects of Tobacco Use
This video provides a comprehensive overview of the historical, societal, and health implications of smoking cigarettes. It outlines the evolution of attitudes towards smoking, the addictive nature of nicotine, the harmful chemicals in...
Healthcare Triage
E-Cigarette Update: What to Do about Kids and Vaping?
We've covered e-cigarettes before, but there's new evidence, and new policies. You deserve an update. That's the topic of this week's Healthcare Triage.
STAT
The government regulates e-cigarettes
A new rule by the FDA bans sale of e-cigarettes to anyone under the age of 18.
Healthcare Triage
Why A Spike in Vaping Deaths and Illnesses?
Electronic cigarettes, like Juul, have been in use in the United States for over a decade now, so what’s up with the sudden spike in e-cigarette related illnesses? SPOILER: We wish we knew more.
Professor Dave Explains
Practice Problem: Empirical and Molecular Formulas
How do we know how many atoms of each element are in a particular compound? Through clever experiments! Here let's practice using percent mass information to get the empirical and molecular formulas of a particular compound.
Mazz Media
Smoking Kills (Diseases Caused by Smoking)
In this live-action program viewers will learn that smoking is one of the leading causes of preventable death. Students will come to understand that when a person smokes, hundreds of toxic chemicals are inhaled with every puff and many...
Mazz Media
Let's Talk About: Tobacco
The video program is designed to present the serious, harmful effects of smoking and nicotine to elementary-aged children. The program provides students with a realistic picture of how cigarettes and the harmful substances found in...
Professor Dave Explains
Illicit Drugs: How Do They Work?
Drugs of all varieties are very interesting from a biochemical standpoint, as they produce an incredible array of physiological effects. These effects are due to the shape of each molecule, which determines the cellular components they...
FuseSchool
Dangers of smoking
Did you know that smokers are twice as likely to have a heart attack? And that one in two smokers will die from a smoking-related disease. In fact all of these things are negatively affected by smoking… pretty much every organ in your...
Healthcare Triage
What's the Deal with E-cigarettes and Vaping?
I've found that of almost all of the topics I write about over at my blog, the one that stirs up the most controversy, the one that generates me the most hate, the most emails and the most tweets is e-cigarettes. Defenders of them are...
Mazz Media
Talk It Out: Tobacco, Vaping and Nicotine
This video discusses the drastic shift in societal views towards smoking over the past century, highlighting the harmful effects of smoking on the body, including immediate impacts such as increased blood pressure and long-term risks...
Healthcare Triage
Yellow Fever, Theranos, and Low Nicotine Cigarettes
On this Healthcare Triage News, we're talking about an outbreak of Yellow Fever in South America, and why there aren't enough doses of the highly effective vaccine on the market. We'll also look at developments in the huge and...
Mazz Media
Smoking Kills (Diseases Caused by Smoking)
In this live-action program viewers will learn that smoking is one of the leading causes of preventable death. Students will come to understand that when a person smokes, hundreds of toxic chemicals are inhaled with every puff and many...
msvgo
Drug and Alcohol Abuse
It lists the commonly abused drugs and alcohols, their chemical compositions and physiological effects.
Professor Dave Explains
Drug Addiction and the Brain
We are able to become physically dependent on a wide variety of substances, which results in what we call drug addiction. What does this look like from a neurophysiological standpoint? What does the drug-addicted brain look like? Let's...
Mazz Media
Let's Talk About: What You Need To Know About Drugs
This program introduces young learners to the types, and differences between legal and illegal drugs. Students will learn that legal drugs, such as medicines are used to ease the symptoms of sickness, cure diseases, prevent and control...
Mazz Media
Let's Talk About: Tobacco
This video provides a comprehensive overview of the harmful effects of tobacco and nicotine on the body, emphasizing the dangers of smoking and other tobacco products. It explains how tobacco use can lead to serious health issues such as...
Press Association
Stronger smoking and vaping laws introduced
Stock footage of vapes and vape advertising as the Government introduced stronger laws against smoking and vaping on Tuesday.
Curated Video
Senate holds hearing as flavored e-cigarettes remain illegal but still popular with teens
A Senate committee will discuss increasing efforts to enforce a national ban on flavored e-cigarettes. (Scripps News)
Getty Images
Medical marijuana
Man lighting a medical marijuana cigarette - extreme closeup filmed with Canon XF 100