Tag Archives: Smoking
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Focus on eyes in an ageing UK
Professor Roger Buckley, of Anglia Ruskin University’s department of vision and hearing sciences, assesses the UK’s eye health and warns that we need to take greater care of our sight
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Four tips to help keep eyes healthy
Narinder Sharma, president and chief executive of AMD Alliance International, offers advice which could keep age-related macular degeneration at bay
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‘Smoking linked to sight loss’
Smokers are more likely to develop a serious eye disease and put others at risk through passive smoking, writes Yvonne Gordon
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E-cigarettes sparking controversy
Since their emergence around five years ago, the rapid expansion of e-cigarettes has provoked controversy, and challenged the tobacco and pharmaceutical industries alike, writes Simon Brooke
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From ‘electro fag’ to e-cigarette
Invented less than a decade ago, “vaping” now has its own high street retailers and even a TV channel, as Josh Sims report
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New ‘cig’ on the block
Both the traditional tobacco sector and the smoking cessation market are being challenged by the e-cigarette, while regulators are struggling to define this fast growing new product and develop controls, as Simon Brooke discovers
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Tradition and a brave new world
E-cigarettes have offered those who want to give up conventional cigarettes an alternative to nicotine replace therapy, writes Katie Burnetts
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But is it as good as the real thing?
A convenient, healthier alternative to tobacco? Or a new-fangled instrument of torture? Journalist Nick Lezard, followed by actor Ade, describe their very different experiences of e-cigarettes