Vaping: Is it safer than smoking?
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
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
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
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
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
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?
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
Her test results were conclusive. It was the news she had been dreading. She was infertile, at just 20-years-old.
By Emma Hooper