Understanding why pipes burst starts with looking at water at a molecular level. When water freezes molecules spread apart, causing the water to expand by up to 9%. This expansion can crack pipes ...

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Whenever you smoke cigarettes, vape, chew tobacco, or inhale secondhand cigarette smoke, nicotine is absorbed into your bloodstream. Enzymes in your liver break most of the nicotine down into ...

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while smokeless tobacco raised the risk of dying from coronary heart disease. Pipe use showed associations primarily with developing heart failure. Researchers combined tobacco-related data with a ...

In these arctic conditions, freezing pipes are always a concern—especially in what’s arguably the most important room in the house: the bathroom. Here’s what you need to know about frozen ...

HOUSTON — Pipes break during wintry weather because the water freezes and expands inside them, similar to what happens when you put a bottle of water or a can of soda in the freezer. Frozen ...

roll-your-own tobacco, most cigars (including little cigars, cigarillos, and most large cigars), and pipe tobacco to 0.7 mg/g of tobacco. Currently, a cigarette contains 6-12 mg of nicotine.