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Two members of United States Congress have introduced a new bill that would require video game publishers to use a new warning label which talks about the risks of exposure to video games, similar to the ones used for cigarette packages.Frank Wolf, who is a Republican representative from Virginia, stated, “Just... |
21 March 2012
06:25 GMT |
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Apparently, smokers tend to improve their self-control by smoking. Who would have thought? Scientists say that self-control is an exhaustible virtue, which needs to be replenished from time to time. Cigarettes appear to be able to lead to this end for smokers.
Managing one's emotions, behaviors and desires is ... |
20 March 2012
12:04 GMT |
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A scientific paper published in the latest issue of the peer-reviewed journal PLoS Medicine indicates that the Philip Morris USA corporation had a hand in manipulating the fact about additives it puts in its cigarettes. The research demonstrates that the company misled the public and authorities.Actual toxicity level... |
7 January 2012
07:39 GMT |
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One of the most important group of carcinogens in tobacco cigarette smoke can be neutralized by the addition of lycopene and grape seed extract to cigarette filters. This could make cigarette smoking a lot less harmful to those who are trying to quit, but cannot.
Cornell University scientists say that these two com... |
3 January 2012
10:22 GMT |
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A team of scientists at the University of California in Los Angeles (UCLA) Center for Health Policy Research has recently determined that about 2.5 million children in California are exposed to second-hand smoking regularly.
This happens despite the fact that the state has the second-lowest smoking rate in the Unite... |
28 October 2011
03:59 GMT |
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According to the conclusions of a comprehensive research conducted by experts at the University of California in Los Angeles (UCLA), the tobacco industry had “deep, intimate” knowledge of the cancer-causing potential of radioactive alpha particles in cigarettes, yet failed to disclose this to consumers.
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29 September 2011
04:42 GMT |
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For much of Hollywood's history, smoking has been a mainstay in movies. But investigators at the University of Bristol are now suggesting in a new study that the behavior depicted on the silver screen have a nefarious influence on teens, who become more likely to pick up the habit themselves.The research indicat... |
20 September 2011
04:55 GMT |
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Scientists conducting a new scientific study on people who quit smoking determined that women are very likely to renounce their habit even in the absence of a premeditated plan. This behavior is displayed when they hear about measures designed to discourage smoking at home and the workplace.
Even though they may h... |
6 September 2011
18:01 GMT |
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A new investigation by researchers at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine shows that texting can be used as an effective tool for helping people kick the habit of smoking. Its efficiency was put to the test in a group of 5,800 participants, who were randomly assigned to either a control group or the txt2... |
1 July 2011
10:55 GMT |
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According to the conclusions of a new scientific study, it would appear that non-smoking individuals who are exposed to secondhand smoking tend to be exposed to high-enough doses of nicotine to raise their risk of becoming addicted to the substance.The new discoveries come on the heels of another major finding, which... |
4 May 2011
09:39 GMT |
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Investigators in Ireland managed to get some new insight into the way smokers and non-smokers' brains function. The results of the work could help people who are trying to quit smoking do so easier than currently possible. What the team was interested in finding out was whether brain activity patterns were diffe... |
28 April 2011
11:22 GMT |
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Researchers in the United Kingdom recently made an interesting discovery regarding people's smoking habits. They found that cigarettes in plain packages were not as attractive to would-be smokers, and that this could set the basis for a new approach on preventing more people from starting smoking.However, the re... |
7 April 2011
03:49 GMT |
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Scientists have recently established that smokers who are also diabetics put themselves at an increased risk of developing complications to their condition if they continue on with the habit. This effect adds to the large number of health consequences that smoking has. According to the new work, the addictive chemica... |
31 March 2011
04:44 GMT |
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The Smoking Control Unit of the Catalan Institute of Oncology (ICO), led a study that concluded the anti-tobacco laws in Europe actually have a very strong influence on the reduction of cigarette consumption and passive exposure to smoke. The study included the 27 countries of the European Union and the results ar... |
5 January 2011
03:12 GMT |
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In a new scientific study, experts were able to determine that the brains of patients trying to renounce cigarettes exhibited entirely different activity patterns when the people were using two anti-smoking drugs, called bupropion and vareniclin.Apparently, these two substances are capable of triggering modifications... |
3 January 2011
17:01 GMT |
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In a new investigation, researchers have determined that lung cancer which develops in smokers has different traits than the one that appears in non-smokers, hinting that the two are in fact different disorders. If the discovery turns out to be real, then it could lead to a paradigm shift in how patients are treated.... |
9 November 2010
08:15 GMT |
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A team of researchers at the Ernest Gallo Clinic and Research Center at the University of California, San Francisco, and Pfizer Inc., have identified two new compounds that can be very efficient in helping people get rid of their alcohol and nicotine addictions, at the same time.Like most findings, this one too was m... |
3 November 2010
11:13 GMT |
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Contraband tobacco represents 43% of all cigarettes consumed by Ontario high school daily smokers, grades 9 to 12, according to a new survey from The Center for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH).The study analyzed the smoking habits of Ontario students and concluded that 50 percent of high school daily smokers had a... |
25 October 2010
08:11 GMT |
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Research carried out by Prue Talbot's lab at the University of California, Riverside, concluded that harm reducing cigarettes are more harmful than conventional brands.The scientists studied the effects of cigarette smoke on human embryonic stem cells, and proved that 'harm reduction cigarettes' are a ... |
21 October 2010
05:17 GMT |
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Despite a large number of measures taken to curb smoking among all age groups, authorities in the United States have failed to cut down the number of smokers considerably. Some are beginning to wonder if the fight can be won at all. Considering the measures taken against the tobacco industry, this becomes a very vali... |
20 October 2010
05:23 GMT |
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Smokeless tobacco products are not a safe nor an efficient option for people who want to stop smoking, an American Heart Association policy statement says.The AHA warns that this type of products should not be used as a replacement for cigarettes or in order to stop smoking because they have a risk of addiction and r... |
14 September 2010
10:47 GMT |
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Scientists from the the University of Toronto and the University of Montreal have carried out an o observational study that showed that smoking can actually increase depressive symptoms in some adolescents. For the study, 662 high school teenagers filled up 20 questionnaires from grades 7 to 11 about their use of cig... |
27 August 2010
10:56 GMT |
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Over the past few decades, a worrying trend was observed, in which children begin drinking very early on, and become very familiar with alcohol, and sometimes even tobacco, by the time they reach high school. For these individuals, German researchers show in a new study, the incidence of migraines and tension-type he... |
7 June 2010
03:47 GMT |
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Scientists have recently determined that people who have difficulties reducing the amount of cigarettes they smoke each day, or who cannot quit the habit, may have their efforts hampered by their genes. The team identified three genetic mutations that appear to be directly linked to the number of cigarettes smokers l... |
27 April 2010
04:35 GMT |
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According to a new scientific study, it would appear that past histories of cigarette abuse may be linked to an impairment in mental functions later on in life. The researchers behind the investigation found that this is especially true for women, although men are not entirely spared from this effect. Oddly enough, p... |
16 March 2010
07:41 GMT |
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For some time now, scientists have been drawing attention to a possible correlation between the development of Parkinson's Disease and smoking. Studies have demonstrated that people who smoke for a very long time have lower chances of developing the condition, as opposed to their peers who do not light cigarette... |
11 March 2010
05:45 GMT |
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Researchers have found in a new study that cigarette ads are extremely fine-tuned to capture the attention of teens. A direct correlation was established between the number of tobacco-related ads teens see, and the chances of them actually taking a puff from a cigarette. Experts say that the main reason why these adv... |
3 March 2010
08:36 GMT |
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According to researchers, it may be that using nicotine patches for 24 weeks, rather than the standard, recommended time of eight weeks, may help smokers quit the habit more efficiently. Scientists at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine say that patches indeed help people who made it their New Year'... |
2 February 2010
07:02 GMT |
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You can add another danger to the already-massive list associated with smoking. Researchers have recently determined that a large number of bacterial species can be found inside each and every “death stick,” including some of the germs that have long since been associated with a host of human illnesses. A... |
29 January 2010
05:41 GMT |
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Lung cancer has remained to this day one of the most dangerous and lethal conditions in the world, killing millions of people each year. Cures against it include chemotherapy and radiotherapy, but these methods are only marginally effective in killing mutated cells. The best defense, healthcare experts have always sa... |
13 January 2010
18:01 GMT |
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In a new development, it appears that quitting smoking can have adverse effects on people's health, a new study shows. Experts say that, while smoking is known to be tied to an increased risk of diabetes, quitting the habit may actually increase the risk of people developing the condition in the short term. Givi... |
5 January 2010
06:48 GMT |
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A new scientific study seems to suggest that cigarette cravings that people who have just quit smoking have may be hindering their ability to concentrate and understand a simple task, without them even knowing this. The cravings also increase the chances of that person's mind wandering. The science group behind ... |
8 December 2009
04:56 GMT |
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Over the past years, policies to curve people's rights to do whatever they want with their bodies have been set in place in the United States. Anti-smoking campaigns and various smoking bans have made many Americans quit the habit, but a new research suggests that the increase the public health regulators were e... |
3 December 2009
04:51 GMT |
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After a lifetime of smoking, or even after a few years, kicking the habit is not an easy task. Temptations to light a cigarette “one last time” arise every day, and those who are trying to quit go through a very tough time until they break loose from the influence. In order to encourage more people to tak... |
30 October 2009
11:03 GMT |
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Canadian experts from the University of Waterloo, in Ontario, have concluded in a new study published today, July 28th, that most tobacco companies have still failed to comply with official directives, and continue to display misleading information on their cigarette packs. The experts reveal that words such as &ldqu... |
28 July 2009
17:51 GMT |
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According to a new scientific research, published by experts at the Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health, despite recent progress with programs designed to reduce the number of smokers in the United States, the prevalence of the habit has remained high, and has actually increased among specific groups.... |
4 July 2009
05:40 GMT |
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The latest report from the US Centers for Diseases Control and Prevention (CDC) shows that increasing numbers of American teenagers become addicted to nicotine because they cannot easily quit the habit. Despite the fact that they have a very short experience with smoking, they find it very difficult to kick it, and t... |
6 May 2009
09:42 GMT |
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In a number of medical studies, the appearance of the chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) has been directly linked to first-hand smoking, but the scientists conducting the experiments at the time may have missed another important aspect of the effects of tobacco – the fact that it also causes impairmen... |
7 April 2009
10:10 GMT |
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There are those people who, despite all pieces of evidence pointing to the contrary, continue to claim that human-caused pollution plays no role in the global warming of our planet, and that wildlife on the ground and in the water is affected more by natural causes than by human activities. But about 400,000 Coastal ... |
11 March 2009
05:11 GMT |
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Electronic cigarettes (e-cigarettes) are the new rage as far as quiting the habit of smoking goes. They are purely electronic devices, but they can actually make you feel like you are smoking an authentic cigarette. The producers went to some lengths to create the perfect substitute, and apparently some of them did i... |
12 February 2009
07:13 GMT |
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New evidence shows that transnational tobacco companies (TTC) use very aggressive campaigns in South Korea (SK), in order to appeal to young girls and women, in much the same way as they did in Europe and the United States in the 1920. Basically, the campaigns associate smoking with the liberation of women, and the r... |
30 January 2009
18:01 GMT |
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After 40 years of smoking approximately one pack of cigarettes per day, Norma Rose sued the tobacco industry, filing a product liability claim, which argued that producers should use less tar and nicotine in their products. A lower New York State Court ruled in favor of Rose and her husband a while back, but now the ... |
17 December 2008
08:00 GMT |
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Most statistics show that more than 90 percent of smokers start their habit before the age of 18, which means that, once they start, there is little turning back. Because of the addiction nicotine gives, people cannot separate themselves from their favorite cigarette. Unfortunately, neither can pregnant women, who co... |
5 November 2008
09:48 GMT |
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According to new researches, ADHD patients have a tendency to start smoking earlier than other teenagers. This could happen for a variety of reason, psychologists say, including the feelings of being misunderstood or marginalized. Also, the survey revealed that the level of nicotine addiction is higher in ADHD suffer... |
22 October 2008
09:32 GMT |
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Quitting smoking can prove as tricky and as divers a process as going on a diet and losing weight. It's as much a physiological as it is a mental process and it requires a great deal of willpower and determination, not to mention a permanent focus on the ultimate goal - that of leading a healthier life and consi... |
20 May 2008
04:03 GMT |
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I bet you weren't expecting this: soon we'll probably get health warning signs on video game covers! Even though it will most likely not be something like "Playing games kills" or "Your doctor or pharmacist can help you stop playing", we'll definitely have something similar. Or, better said, you will g... |
27 March 2008
16:31 GMT |
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