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Scientists from the Drexel University say that smoking during pregnancy is not directly linked to the development of autism spectrum disorders (ASD) in children, despite what other studies have shown.
Investigators with the research team conducted a study on this potential correlation on a large population sample fr... |
16 January 2012
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Using data collected from the Statistics Canada’s National Population Health Survey, a group of investigators has recently established the factors most likely to control a person risk of reoccurring depressive episodes. These are previous depression diagnostics, smoking and lack of control.
The latter –... |
25 October 2011
10:57 GMT |
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If you’re a smoker trying to quit, Gerard Butler can relate. On a recent appearance on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, the Scottish actor came clean about falling off the wagon after 4 years and offered some helpful tips. Gerard was once a heavy smoker, something that Leno did not hesitate to tell him when he d... |
23 September 2011
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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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During young adulthood, smokers are very likely to display two very distinct and recognizable behaviors, impulsivity and neuroticism. If they quit smoking, they have a very high chance of getting rid of these harmful behaviors, a new investigation shows.
Personality improvements are very likely to occur across th... |
13 September 2011
10:48 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 study published in the scientific journal Nicotine and Tobacco Research shows that smokers who are trying to quit the habit but also suffer from other disorders could fare significantly better if they undergo smoking cession counseling.The research was primarily focused on individuals who suffer from alcohol an... |
5 September 2011
04:39 GMT |
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Investigators at the University of California in San Francisco (UCSF) and the San Francisco VA Medical Center say that as many as 50 percent of all cases of Alzheimer's disease could be prevented if at-risk people would change their lifestyle. Lifestyle changes and treatment and the prevention of chronic medical... |
21 July 2011
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A new investigation shows that exposure to passive (secondhand) smoking can lead to higher risk of developing learning disabilities and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) in children. The research effort focused on kids in households where one or both parents smoked. What the experts were interested in w... |
12 July 2011
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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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Very often, former smokers complain about gaining weight. Unconsciously, they associate smoking with being thin, and have more incentives to pick up the habit again. But soon, new drugs may prevent this from happening, by acting on a new class of receptors that bind to nicotine.A specific subclass of nicotine recepto... |
13 June 2011
03:24 GMT |
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Charlie Wilcox from the UK has every reason to watch her back when she goes out on the street because she’s making a lot of people unhappy with her comments. Wilcox claims smoking 3,500 cigarettes during pregnancy actually made her baby healthier. She’s been smoking since she was 14, Wilcox says in an int... |
1 June 2011
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While health experts and countless organizations around the world are struggling to prevent people from starting smoking because it’s one of the toughest addictions to beat, the CEO of cigarettes maker Philip Morris Inc. says things are, again, blown out of proportions. Cancer nurse Elisabeth Gundersen of the U... |
13 May 2011
16:01 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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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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Lindsay Lohan is not only drug and alcohol-free now that she’s completed her stay in rehab at the beginning of the year, but she’s also taken the first steps to kick another addiction of hers: she quit smoking. The legally-troubled actress is determined to turn her life around, and that also includes opti... |
15 March 2011
04:50 GMT |
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Johnny Depp’s latest movie is the animated flick “Rango,” which, as expected, made its way at the top of the US box office immediately upon release. But there still are people not happy with it, particularly anti-smoking activists. Apparently, there are over 60 instances of smoking in the film, the ... |
9 March 2011
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In people who have been longtime smokers, quitting the habit at a moment's notice, and without too much trouble may in fact be a bad sign. Experts have tied this type of spontaneous behavior to the onset and detection of lung cancer in these patients. In fact, some oncology specialists even propose that this can... |
1 March 2011
05:54 GMT |
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In a new scientific investigation, researchers learned that it is possible to determine a person's chances of actually giving up smoking by looking at their brain with advanced brain-imaging technologies.
Apparently, neural patterns developing in the brain as a response to cues related to quitting the habit ... |
1 February 2011
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Smoking favors cancer, we all have heard this before, but it seems that smoking before menopause (which can occur between 45 and 55 years old), especially before giving birth, could be linked to a slight increase in the risks of developing breast cancer, a new report concludes.For the study Fei Xue, MD, Sc.D., of Bri... |
25 January 2011
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In a new scientific investigation, researchers demonstrate that smokers who see actors light up their cigarettes on the screen during movies are very tempted to do so themselves. The discovery was made by using a brain-imaging technique on regular smokers who watched movies depicting the habit. According to the res... |
19 January 2011
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A new research funded by the National Cancer Institute concluded that cigarette smoke starts to cause genetic damage within minutes after inhalation into the lungs.This report is the first human study to thoroughly explain the way that some substances within tobacco cause DNA damage linked to cancer, and they can do ... |
17 January 2011
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A new research published in Circulation: Journal of the American Heart Association, concluded that if you smoke around children, you can cause them high blood pressure and other possible health problems even before they go to school.This is actually the first study of its kind that shows that breathing tobacco smoke ... |
11 January 2011
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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
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According to the conclusions of a new scientific research, it would appear that people who suffer from depression may find it harder to quit smoking if they try. The correlation held true for people who were not officially diagnosed with depression, but had the condition, too. During the research, the experts behind ... |
4 January 2011
03:57 GMT |
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A new research conducted by China Medical University concluded that patients suffering from tuberculosis are at higher risk of developing lung cancer.To date, no clear association between tuberculosis and lung cancer has been established, but this new study brings evidence of an increased lung cancer risk in people w... |
3 January 2011
08:17 GMT |
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Smokers looking to kick the habit and lucky enough to be residents of the UK will soon have the chance to do so, thanks to a new £250 million initiative of the NHS, offering free nicotine patches with the already available kits. The UK is among of the countries that invest big in the prevention of smoking and i... |
27 December 2010
15:01 GMT |
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Most people no longer have doubts about the relationship between smoking and cancer, so researchers carried out a new study that focused on the effects of smoking on patients already suffering from cancer.They concluded that cancer patients who keep smoking despite their condition, experience higher pain than nonsmok... |
22 December 2010
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A new study carried out by a team of researchers from Penn State University, the University of Miami, the University of California at San Francisco and the University of Minnesota Medical School, concluded that menthol cigarettes are harder to quit than regular ones, especially for some teenagers and African-America... |
21 December 2010
03:19 GMT |
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Proving that she’s taking battling addictions one step at a time, Lindsay Lohan stepped out the other day to attend a mandatory alcohol ed class – and lit up a cigarette as she drove away in a brand new Porsche Boxter. As anyone not living under a rock must know, Lohan is now an in-patient at the Betty Fo... |
16 December 2010
06:47 GMT |
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Not smoking or quitting this vice can only help people's health and here is another reason to consider dropping the cigarette: smoking causes over one third of cases of the most severe and frequent form of rheumatoid arthritis.Swedish researchers studied over 1,200 people with rheumatoid arthritis and 871 people... |
14 December 2010
03:51 GMT |
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An overview of several randomized trials of aspirin, found that if taken in low doses, the drug can reduce death rates from several common cancers by 20 to 30 percent, and even though the benefits are unrelated to dose, gender or smoking, they increase with age.The London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (LSHTM)... |
7 December 2010
05:38 GMT |
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A new research carried out at Staffordshire University, has concluded that women who see the effects that smoking will have on their faces, might be shocked enough to quit.This research has been funded by Stoke-on-Trent NHS Primary Care Trust (PCT), and it involved 47 women aged between 18 and 34 years.The researcher... |
7 December 2010
03:33 GMT |
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Healthcare experts are currently drawing attention to the fact that a large portion of teens suffering from diabetes are still smoking, which exposed them to increased risks of developing heart diseases early on in life. Diabetics are through the very nature of their disease more prone towards becoming obese, sufferi... |
6 December 2010
10:49 GMT |
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E-cigarettes, officially called 'electronic nicotine delivery systems,' are more and more popular among smokers who want to reduce the risks of smoking-related cancers but will not give up their favorite vice – nicotine.They are available worldwide and in the US, you can find them in shopping malls in... |
4 December 2010
06:15 GMT |
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A new study carried out by German researchers, reported worrying findings about the impact of smoking, on the cerebral cortex.This is not the first research to report that tobacco smoking is related to large-scale and wide-spread abnormalities in the brain structure, but it is the first one to have focused on the imp... |
3 December 2010
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Secondhand smoke exposure increases the risks of some degree of hearing loss, according to a new study carried out by American researchers. Scientists knew that former and current smokers have more risks of losing some of their full range of hearing, from previous studies, but until now, it was unclear if passive smo... |
16 November 2010
05:36 GMT |
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A new investigation has revealed that the children of smokers exhibit traces of carcinogens generally found in tobacco in their urine, in amounts that are significantly higher than in their peers whose parents do not smoke. The research found that the correlation held true for 90 percent of all children whose parents... |
10 November 2010
06:00 GMT |
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Researchers from the Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin and of the Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt (PTB), the German National Metrology Institute, have carried out a study in an attempt to find out whether there is a link between the thickness of certain regions of the brain and smoking.Thei... |
28 October 2010
08:45 GMT |
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Well, all smokers know that cigarettes are bad for their health, so here is a new thing, that probably most nicotine-lovers did not know: heavy smoking (two packs a day) doubles the risk of developing Alzheimer's disease and dementia.A Kaiser Permanente study, using electronic records of 21,000 men and women for... |
26 October 2010
05:18 GMT |
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More and more people are quitting smoking but there are still those who refuse to do it, or simply are unable to, so a new study carried out by the University of Wisconsin Center for Tobacco Research and Intervention (UW-CTRI), tried to find out why.At the end of the research, one reason that gives headaches to smoke... |
26 October 2010
03:47 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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Researchers in the United Kingdom are currently applying a new method of deterring students from picking up smoking, in several schools in England and Wales. The program proved very successful in medical trials, and its aim will be cutting the rates of teenage smoking across the country, its developers say. This is a... |
11 October 2010
03:19 GMT |
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A new study carried out by Cancer Research UK, found a direct link between smoking and epigenetic changes, related to the development of cancer.Smoking has been associated with cancer for a long time, and now there is a scientific evidence of that link.Researchers suspected that smoking also causes epigenetic changes... |
11 October 2010
03:03 GMT |
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A new series of investigation on how nicotine affects the human brain could lead to the development of new therapies against this addiction, as well as to the creation of treatments for Parkinson's, schizophrenia, and other neurological conditions. According to investigators, the first puff out of a cigarette sh... |
23 September 2010
06:07 GMT |
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Women who smoke during pregnancy risk affecting their child's coordination and physical control, says a new Swedish study, carried out by researchers at Örebro University.The research followed over 13,000 children taking part in the National Child Development Study, all born in the United Kingdom, the same ... |
22 September 2010
10:29 GMT |
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A new research from the University of Alabama at Birmingham, published online yesterday at Science Express, found out that cigarette smoke shuts off a key enzyme in airways that regulates the body's response to inflammation.This important enzyme is called Leukotriene A4 Hydrolase (LTA4H), and smoking is causing ... |
3 September 2010
05:07 GMT |
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