SciShow
Does COVID Cause Cancer?
There's a troubling link between COVID and certain cancers, but as always, it's complicated.
SciShow
Why City Birds Love Cigarettes
Urban birds like house finches and house sparrows are great at finding materials to repel pests and parasites from their nests. Unfortunately, one of those materials is used cigarette butts.
SciShow
Why Smoking Makes It Harder to Heal
If a doctor has told you to quit smoking, that's not just because they're worried about lung cancer. Those cigarettes are messing up your body's natural healing process in more ways than one.
SciShow
Do We Have To Give Up Bacon?
The IARC has categorized processed meat as a definite carcinogen. But how dangerous is it really? Do we finally have to give up bacon?
TED Talks
TED: This app makes it fun to pick up litter | Jeff Kirschner
The earth is a big place to keep clean. With Litterati -- an app for users to identify, collect and geotag the world's litter -- TED Resident Jeff Kirschner has created a community that's crowdsource-cleaning the planet. After tracking...
TED Talks
Chris Jordan: Turning powerful stats into art
Artist Chris Jordan shows us an arresting view of what Western culture looks like. His supersized images picture some almost unimaginable statistics -- like the astonishing number of paper cups we use every single day.
SciShow
Synthetic Life & The Science of E-Cigs
Welcome back to SciShow News. We are working on creating organisms with a minimal genome to sustain life as well as researching what and how much we inhale with e-cigs.
TED-Ed
TED-Ed: How do cigarettes affect the body? - Krishna Sudhir
Cigarettes aren't good for us. That's hardly news -- we've known about the dangers of smoking for decades. But how exactly do cigarettes harm us, and can our bodies recover if we stop? Krishna Sudhir details what happens when we smoke --...
SciShow
What Being a Night Owl Does to Your Health | SciShow News
We’re learning more about the differences in health between early risers and night owls, and new research could offer even more evidence that vaping is just different from smoking, not necessarily better.
SciShow
What We Don't Know about E-Cigs
You might have one of them, e-cigarette. Some people switch to it from average tobacco to quit smoking. But is it really a better and safer option for you?
Crash Course
Correlation Doesn’t Equal Causation - Crash Course Statistics
Today we’re going to talk about data relationships and what we can learn from them. We’ll focus on correlation, which is a measure of how two variables move together, and we’ll also introduce some useful statistical terms you’ve probably...
Wonderscape
The Hidden Dangers of Hookah and E-Cigarettes
Hookahs and e-cigarettes have emerged as popular alternatives to traditional cigarettes among young people, often marketed with appealing flavors. However, these products are just as addictive and carry many of the same risks as smoking...
Wonderscape
The Startling Rate of Teen Smoking and Its Dangers
Despite widespread awareness of the severe health risks, over 3,200 kids under the age of 18 start smoking daily. Understand the addictive nature of nicotine found in cigarettes and other tobacco products, making it extremely challenging...
Curated Video
Effects of Smoking
We test the effects of smoking by drawing first air and then cigarette smoke through apparatus that contains mineral wool and universal indicator. The air has no effect, but the smoke discolours the wool and changes the colour of the...
Curated Video
What's in a Cigarette?
Discover the scale and effects of the chemical ingredients in cigarettes. What are smokers breathing in to their lungs, and what effects are these chemicals having on them? Biology - Healthy Living - When a cigarette is burned it...
Curated Video
Dangers of smoking
Warning: Contains footage of smoking. Why do so many people smoke when the risk to their health is so high? Life processes - Humans and other animals - Drug awareness Learning Points Smoking damages health. Smoking increases the...
Institute of Human Anatomy
Why Smoking ANYTHING Is a Terrible Idea...
In this video, Justin from the Institute of Human Anatomy discusses the reality of smoking, regardless of what's actually be smoked.
PBS
What's up with all this Vaping?
E-Cigarettes are everywhere. Vaping has become so ubiquitous that "vape" was Oxford Dictionaries word of the year in 2014. Today, Danielle looks at how and why vaping took off. She examines the early 20th century prototypes for electric...
The Guardian
We're quitting smoking, so why is big tobacco booming?
Smoking rates are falling in the UK, US and much of Europe. Forty-five per cent of Brits smoked in the 60s and 70s, compared with just 15% today. You would think this was bad news for cigarette profits, but tobacco companies are making...
Curated Video
Vaping Increases The Risk of Depression
Researchers at Johns Hopkins published a study in December 2019 showing a link between e-cigarettes and depression. This isn’t the first study of it’s kind. There have been others. Depression and vaping are seen as having a bidirectional...
Curated Video
Let’s Talk About Drugs
Dr. Algae talks about the differences between good (legal) drugs and bad (illegal) drugs. He then explains the adverse effects bad drugs can have on the body and encourages your student to make a pledge not to use illegal drugs.
Curated Video
Causes of Supply Curve Shifts
This is a lecture on the causes of shifts in the supply curve in microeconomics. The lecturer then identifies the four main causes of supply shifts, including changes in the cost of production, introduction of new technology, factors...
Encyclopaedia Britannica
Tobacco and the Human Body - Part 1
Tobacco and the Human Body, a 1954 production of Encyclopaedia Britannica Films.
The Wall Street Journal
Staying Safe
In an era of deregulation, what happens to drug policy designed to keep the public safe?