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Vaping: Is it safer than smoking?

Vaping: Is it safer than smoking?

Megan Robinson
November 13 2019November 7 2019
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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...
Vaping away your life to an early grave

Vaping away your life to an early grave

October 27 2017October 27 2017
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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...
New year, new app: Smokers can now play a game to help them quit

New year, new app: Smokers can now play a game to help them quit

December 4 2016December 4 2016
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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. [caption...
Kingston student smokers ignore JG courtyard cigarette ban

Kingston student smokers ignore JG courtyard cigarette ban

February 13 2016February 12 2016
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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

Anti-smoking bendy men spread across Penrhyn Road

November 27 2014November 27 2014
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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...

Kick Butt smoking prevention campaign helping KU students quit

February 14 2013August 7 2014
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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...

Video: The River asks: How often do you smoke?

October 24 2012August 7 2014
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Just how hooked on cigarettes are Kingston students? The River asks.

by Jaime Gutierrez

“My boyfriend made me infertile.” A 20-year-old student diagnosed with Chlamydia has been given a slim chance at ever having children

October 12 2011August 7 2014
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Her test results were conclusive. It was the news she had been dreading. She was infertile, at just 20-years-old.

By Emma Hooper

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