CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — The message was dropped into a WhatsApp group used by suburban moms in South Africa. Amid the grumblings over homeschooling during lockdown, one mom went off topic: “Does anyone know where to get illegal cigarettes? I just need a few. I’m desperate.”She emphasized her anguish with an emoji, a…
Dr. Shravan S Shetty, Consultant Surgical Oncologist, Asian Cancer Institute, Mumbai on why people should quit Tobacco and embrace a healthy lifestyle, especially now amid the COVID-19 crisis. Written By Pinkvilla Desk 44526 reads Mumbai Updated: June 15, 2020 04:03 pm Why it is important to quit the tobacco habit amid COVID 19 crisis? Almost…
Tobacco has been part of American military culture long before John Wayne led a platoon of recruits with a cigarette dangling from his lips in the 1949 movie “Sands of Iwo Jima.” Throughout most of the 21st century, “Smoke ‘em if you’ve got ‘em” was a common refrain at Army posts around the world. The…
Running low on surgical masks during the pandemic? You can get two for free by ordering a Moti Piin, a battery-powered vaping pen, from the company’s online shop.Or buy sleek cartridges from Smok, another e-cigarette brand, and earn chances to win disposable gloves and up to 10,000 masks. “COVID19 RELIEF EFFORT” blasts the ad of…
U.S.|Grand Juror in Breonna Taylor Case Says Deliberations Were MisrepresentedThe Kentucky attorney general’s office said it would release the panel’s recordings after a grand juror contended in a court filing that its discussions were inaccurately characterized.Breonna Taylor's family and the lawyer Ben Crump, right, said the charges a Kentucky grand jury agreed upon in the…
(John Finney Photography/Moment/Getty Images) An abnormally bad season of weather may have had a significant impact on the death toll from both World War I and the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic, according to new research, with many more lives being lost due to torrential rain and plummeting temperatures. Through a detailed analysis of an ice…