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Suicide Warnings Required for Anti-Smoking Drugs

The Food and Drug Administration announced today that it is requiring the smoking-cessation drugs Chantix and Zyban to carry the strongest type of safety warning possible to alert patients that the medications can cause serious mental health problems, including depression and suicide. The agency said it took the action requiring...

A New Wind A-Blowin' for Medical Marijuana?

U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder told reporters Wednesday that federal law-enforcement officials will no longer go after providers of marijuana that's used for medicinal purposes in the 13 states in which medical marijuana is legal unless that service is just a front for unlawful activities. That announcement will no doubt...

Concern for Pets Might Prompt Smokers to Quit

It's pretty hard to live in 21st century America and not know that smoking is bad for you. Yet millions of Americans still cling to their tobacco-based habits. But if smokers won't quit for the sake of their own health, perhaps they will out of concern for their pets' well-being....

Fretting About the Economy? How About a Smoke?

If you think you've noticed more people huddled in doorways puffing on cigarettes, or smelled smoke on the breath of someone you thought had kicked the habit, you may be right -- a new survey indicates that the economic meltdown is prompting people to light up more. The online survey...

The Checkup Archive: Smoking

Suicide Warnings Required for Anti-Smoking Drugs

A New Wind A-Blowin' for Medical Marijuana?

Concern for Pets Might Prompt Smokers to Quit

Fretting About the Economy? How About a Smoke?