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A team of experts in the United States has recently determined that people who are exposed to smoke generated by either open fires, or dirty cooking stoves, are at an increased risk of experiencing deteriorating health as a result.
The findings are made all the more severe by the fact that an estimated 3 billion peo... |
11 November 2011
08:50 GMT |
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Casual or secondhand smokers are also exposed to future lung disease, a new research from physician-scientists at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center finds.Cigarette smoke, even in low-levels, can damage the lungs and individuals could develop future lung cancer or chronic obstructive pulmonary... |
20 August 2010
03:59 GMT |
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A mother trying to have her son's iMac repaired at a local authorized repair center was shocked to find that AppleCare warranties were voided due to secondhand smoke, the Consumerist reveals in a report. Teader Ruth wrote a letter to the website after trying to have her son's computer repaired. The letter c... |
23 November 2009
10:48 GMT |
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Smoking can potentially be the rooting cause of so many diseases and affections that authorities are now turning their attention to the effects second-hand smoking has, to prevent non-smokers from picking up the habit. The latest study in this sense shows that people who don’t smoke should avoid those who do as... |
6 May 2009
15:31 GMT |
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Each year, 4 million people die because of diseases caused by tobacco smoking, one person every 8 seconds. Tobacco smoking is the most important cause of diseases worldwide. If the current tendency is maintained, by 2020 smoking will kill more persons than AIDS, tuberculosis, maternal mortality, car accidents, suicid... |
29 February 2008
03:20 GMT |
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I always thought that when it comes to Brad Pitt, there are few things that could surprise me - and those would have to be pretty hard-core stuff: a sex tape with Angie, him really being a deadly assassin out to control the world, you know, that kind of stuff. No, don't worry - unfortunately, there's no sex... |
8 January 2008
11:00 GMT |
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You may get high, but your brain gets down. Cannabis mashes up your brain, affecting brain nuclei even in unborn children, especially the cortex, the brain part involved in thinking, learning, attention and planning. The drug also increases the risk of developing psychotic illnesses like schizophrenia.But it is more ... |
19 December 2007
14:06 GMT |
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Krakatoa volcano, located on an island in the Sunda Strait between Java and Sumatra in Indonesia, produced on August 26-27, 1883 the most massive volcanic explosions ever recorded, which generated the loudest sound historically reported: it was distinctly heard as far away as Perth in Australia (1930 mi (3100 km)) an... |
13 November 2007
04:53 GMT |
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Trendy youngsters may consider tobacco a sexy habit. After that it turns into a craving, lasting for years and leading to a "sexy" premature death, before turning your skin yellowish and filling it with wrinkles. 85 % of lung cancers are formed by people who had contact with tobacco in their life and what was puzzlin... |
3 September 2007
16:56 GMT |
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Generating complex and realistic looking images, rendering as it is called, currently involves a lot of memory space and processor time from both the central and the graphics processors. The situation is even more complex and more hardware intensive when we are talking about good looking images that involve one kind ... |
13 August 2007
10:54 GMT |
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Just a mild drug without severe consequences? If the fact that many researches have shown it affects brain activity, from thinking to learning, attention and planning, learn this: just one cannabis joint has the same effect on the health of your lungs as smoking up to five cigarettes in one go.A new research made on ... |
31 July 2007
14:36 GMT |
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The 9/11 event killed about 3,000 Americans. Since then, over 10 million Americans have died not because of age-related issues, most of them from causes that might have been prevented. 1. Heart disease killed between 2000-2005 3,119,142 Americans. Cases of death caused by heart disease are related to the obesity pand... |
26 July 2007
14:16 GMT |
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Mortal Kombat 3 builds further on the gameplay of the previous game. A "Run" button, accompanied by a "Run" meter, was introduced. This was primarily to address concern from fans who thought that the previous games gave too much of an advantage to the defending player. The Run meter is drained by running (the charact... |
13 July 2007
10:06 GMT |
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If your health does not matter as much to you as to make you quit smoking, if the fact that the smokers' sperm can produce malformed children does not affect you, at least the fact that smoking really affects the health of your children should worry you. A team of researchers from University of Leicester Medica... |
19 June 2007
06:04 GMT |
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Cannabis contains most of the chemicals of a tobacco cigarette, but the damage induced to the lungs can be higher. A 2002 report of the British Lung Foundation showed that 3-4 cannabis cigarettes daily induced the same damage to the lungs as over 20 tobacco cigarettes. But researchers find it difficult to separate th... |
4 June 2007
04:52 GMT |
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There's no doubt that smoking induces cancer. In the end, cancer is a mutation of the cell's DNA. But tests on mice have shown that smoking-induced mutations have been proved to occur also in the sperm cells and in this case, the mutations can be transmitted to the offspring. "Here we are looking at male ge... |
1 June 2007
16:11 GMT |
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Hookah was invented centuries ago for an Indian emperor when the Portuguese gave him tobacco as a gift. The royal physician advised the emperor not to inhale anything foreign, but he devised a hookah for the emperor, who could not turn down the gift. Hookahs turned popular in India and the Islamic World. Now, they a... |
1 June 2007
05:24 GMT |
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Those suckers piss you off with their whims of not letting you smoke in all kinds of public places. Dirtbags...They do not want to renounce their teeth for your pleasure moments...A new research published in this month's issue of the Journal of Periodontology points out that subjects with periodontitis (bone los... |
4 April 2007
03:46 GMT |
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