Another Reason to Focus on the Risks of Cigarettes and Smoking

While activists, legislators and journalists spin themselves into a frenzy over unproven, unfounded, hypothetical, or, at worst, minor risks from chemicals in plastics and cosmetics, a new study reminds us that when it comes to infant health, exposure to the 4,000 chemicals in cigarette smoke should be a national priority. As Medical News Today reports, [...]

How to Leap from Lipstick to Breast Cancer

Trevor Butterworth
2007 will be remembered as the year that activist groups took work from a handful of scientists that is far from statistically conclusive and went to war on the chemicals in our environment. Not the big nasty chemicals that are burning away the ozone layer or, in the shape of particulate pollution, giving kids [...]