Vaping: Is it safer than smoking?
Megan Robinson
Vaping is an increasingly popular way to help quit smoking but recent research shows that mice exposed to nicotine vapour from e-cigarettes developed lung cancer within a year. Published in…
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New year, new app: Smokers can now play a game to help them quit
Amelia Cunningham
A Kingston lecturer has developed an app which offers smokers a fun way to stick to their new year’s resolution of giving up the habit. Cigbreak Free is the UK’s…
Kingston student smokers ignore JG courtyard cigarette ban
Alexandra Pedersen
KU students have pledged to carry on lighting up in one of KU’s most popular smoking spots – despite a university ban coming into force.
Anti-smoking bendy men spread across Penrhyn Road
Logan Collins
A youth-led movement against the tobacco industry has placed rubber bendy men figurines attached with anti-smoking messages across the University’s Penrhyn Road campus. The campaign is the work of Ctrl-Z,…
Kick Butt smoking prevention campaign helping KU students quit
River Reporter
For National Health week we looked at how Kick Butt’s anti-smoking campaign was helping students give up smoking. Laura Rietz Muhammed Morad is 20 years old and a recidivist: an…
Video: The River asks: How often do you smoke?
Just how hooked on cigarettes are Kingston students? The River asks.by Jaime Gutierrez
Vaping away your life to an early grave
Last week a Tory MP said that pregnant women struggling to quit smoking should be given free e-cigarettes and the Scottish NHS declared that e-cigarettes are definitely less harmful than…