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Scientists at the Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center have determined in a new investigation that children who are prenatally exposed to high levels of lead or tobacco smoke run a much higher risk than others of developing ADHD. The attention deficit hyperactivity disorder is a condition that many chil... |
23 November 2009
08:42 GMT |
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The World Health Organization (WHO) is planning to draft its first sketch of a global plan of acting out against alcohol. Between now and January 2010, options will be analyzed and stitched together, providing the agency with the first-ever plan of combating the world's fifth leading cause of premature death. Th... |
15 October 2009
05:54 GMT |
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According to a new scientific study, it would appear that the wide-held belief that snuffing or chewing tobacco is less harmful than smoking it is false. Researchers have recently discovered that several classes of chemical compounds, which are found in smokeless tobacco, are just as harmful as those found in cigaret... |
17 August 2009
02:26 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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Studies covering the effects of marijuana and cannabis on the human body number in the hundreds. Because the use of the recreational drug is so widespread among today's youths, in the developed and developing world alike, researchers have long since tried to find out if the benefits of using it outweigh the down... |
15 June 2009
06:33 GMT |
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As we reported at the end of last month, the Food and Drug Administration is about to get increased powers over the tobacco industry soon, if the bill setting forth a new legislative frame on the matter is adopted by the Senate. The House of Representatives has already passed the proposals along party lines in April,... |
11 June 2009
05:49 GMT |
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The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) may soon receive control powers over the multi-million-dollar tobacco industry, after proposed legislation that would allow the agency to do just that has passed a US Senate panel on Wednesday. The proposal was already passed by the House of Representatives in April, more alo... |
22 May 2009
05:50 GMT |
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African Americans may be more predisposed to developing nicotine addiction than their paler-skinned peers, a new scientific study has determined. The paper also reveals the fact that obtained darker skin, as in that obtained from prolonged sun exposure, and not through genetics, from mother to infants, is especially ... |
9 May 2009
06:55 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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According to the statement of a Japanese health care official, the country may soon adopt legislation that would severely limit citizen's right to smoke in public places. Although similar laws exist in most countries, the Asian nation is moving for a lot more control with its decision. The same authority has als... |
24 March 2009
10:21 GMT |
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While tobacco is most of the time advertised as a destructive plant, not many people know that it contains substances that can be successfully used to fight several wide-spread medical conditions, such as a few autoimmune and inflammatory diseases, including diabetes. Just recently, a team of experts from a number of... |
19 March 2009
10:59 GMT |
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On Thursday, a new federal estimate of tobacco consumption in the US showed that more and more teenage boys, especially in the country's rural areas, used snuff or chewing tobacco, rather than cigarettes. The conclusion of the research, which analyzed the trend for an entire decade, has raised numerous concerns ... |
5 March 2009
10:04 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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Scientists from the Research Institute for Sustainable Humanosphere at the Kyoto University in Japan have managed to identify the main gene responsible for carrying nicotine produced in the roots of the tobacco plants to its leaves. The team says that a new variety of the plant could be synthesized, one that would no... |
22 January 2009
12:11 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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Teenage years are the "best" when it comes to becoming hooked on tobacco. Add to that the fact that adolescents can hardly tell the difference between what it right and what is wrong and you will see why puffing on a cigarette makes many young girls and boys feel hotter and cooler. However, the Japanese have come up ... |
13 May 2008
14:06 GMT |
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5.4 million people die annually because of diseases caused by tobacco smoking, which means about one person every 8 seconds. On top of that, the number of these deaths is increasing in low-income countries. Tobacco smoke contains tar, a mix of about 4,000 chemicals. 43 of these molecules are known to cause cancer, li... |
30 April 2008
10:18 GMT |
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People think that the problem with tobacco consists in the act of smoking and that other methods of consuming tobacco would be less harmful. It seems they are wrong: a 30-year long research on the use of snus, Swedish moist tobacco, revealed that the stuff shortens your life. 30% of the 10,000 male subjects of the st... |
21 April 2008
14:06 GMT |
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It's clear that exposing an unborn child to drugs, alcohol and tobacco affects its brain development. This is supported by too many researches. In these cases, mothers don't limit themselves to one substance, and other factors like poverty can affect brain development as well.A new research published in the... |
14 April 2008
03:48 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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Tobacco smokers may tend to see their habit as not being very healthy, but they don't realize they use a drug. Is it a drug? When a team checked what happened in the brain while smoking or taking opiate drugs (poppy-derived ones, like morphine, heroin, dihydromorphine, hydromorphone, anmain, codeine, thebaine, a... |
18 February 2008
04:51 GMT |
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The cancer or heart attack may not convince men to quit smoking, but this one hurts: a recent research published in the 'Tobacco Control' journal reveals that men smoking one pack a day are 39 % more vulnerable to impotence than non-smokers. "Smoking delivers nicotine and other vasoconstrictors that close d... |
23 January 2008
14:06 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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It has just entered in the top of human slayers: over 12 million cases of cancer have been diagnosed in the world in 2007, and 7,6 million persons will die because of this: 20.000 daily, according to a recently published report of the American Cancer Society. The most common cancers are that of lung and breast, no ma... |
18 December 2007
03:45 GMT |
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Quitting smoking is as tough as renouncing no matter what drug: the nicotine craving is deeply wired to your neurons. When Chantix entered the market in 2006, it appeared as a miracle drug devoid of side effects. "The pill took care of the actual addiction, the physical part of it. The other thing was just the habit ... |
4 December 2007
05:49 GMT |
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Annually, 4 million people die because of diseases caused by tobacco smoking, one person every 8 seconds. Tobacco smoking is the main cause of diseases worldwide. If the current tendency is maintained, by 2020 smoking will kill more persons than AIDS, tuberculosis, maternal mortality, car accidents, suicides and murd... |
27 November 2007
02:06 GMT |
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A mother 'pumping' nicotine into her body and having a baby growing inside her womb affects the baby's brain development, causing long-term behavioral and learning impairment and these children have usually lower weights. Smoking mothers increase the risk for the baby to be born mentally retarded, with... |
23 November 2007
03:58 GMT |
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Radio advertising encourages people to use it. On TV, magazines and newspapers, cinema stars present it as a product that makes you live an exciting and honorable life. Only an announcement written with small letters warn the consumers that its use affects their health. It's about a substance that produces depen... |
9 November 2007
15:11 GMT |
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The risk of cancer or heart disease won't scare a heavy smoker, but this may make him think twice: men who smoke are at a high risk of developing erectile dysfunction (impotence). And the larger the number of daily smoked cigarettes, the higher the risk.A new research investigated 4 763 Chinese subjects aged 35 ... |
26 October 2007
14:06 GMT |
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Although I don't know how smart you should be in order to try to make money by selling cigarettes to young people, the anti-smoking organizations are accusing the tobacco companies of advertising on popular sites like YouTube. Obviously, a potential video published on Google's video sharing service would at... |
28 September 2007
08:27 GMT |
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People do many stupid things just to look thin. A new research found that teenage girls who are dieting are two times more prone to start smoking regularly as girls who are not dieting.The study made on 7,795 adolescents found that with boys, cigarette availability rather than weight loss is the main factor determini... |
7 September 2007
03:27 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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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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Vices never come alone. For example, 85 % of the alcoholics also smoke. There are several available pills to help smokers fight the deadly habit, like varenicline, a drug developed by Pfizer that blocks nicotine's action of turning on the "happiness hormone" dopamine neurons. Varnicline is synthesized from the a... |
10 July 2007
04:52 GMT |
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Being addicted to sex can be almost normal if it does not affect your social life and mental health. But other types of addictions hint directly to your brain. And some of us can be genetically vulnerable to many narcotic chemicals. There is a wave of new researches revealing the physical aspects of addiction and exp... |
6 July 2007
14:11 GMT |
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Smoking is a sexy gesture, you're so attractive with the cigarette in your mouth! Many smokers struggle for many years to quit without any success and if you think you can play with smoking, look what has just found out a new research: 10 % of youth that got hooked, became tobacco addicted within two days from f... |
5 July 2007
08:59 GMT |
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Devoted Christians say homosexuality is the work of the Devil. And that tobacco is the Devil's grass. A new study shows that smoking has a higher prevalence in the gay community than it has on the rest of the population, even if more investigations are still required. The general Californian population has a sma... |
29 June 2007
14:11 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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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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Fingerprints remain the main tool in identifying a criminal. If fingerprints revealed more, the pool of subjects would be greatly diminished, easing forensic investigations. A team from the University of East Anglia in Norwich and King's College in London led by David A. Russell has succeeded in employing specif... |
25 May 2007
08:45 GMT |
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