New Machine Can Tell Your Age
	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 with their own solution to this problem: the 570,000 cigarette vending machines in Japan may soon be able ... [read more >>]
	13 May 2008, 14:06GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Soon, an Anti-Nicotine Vaccine
	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, like cyanate, benzene, methanol, acetylene (fuel employed in solder lamps). Nitrogen oxide and carbon monoxide ar ... [read more >>]
	30 April 2008, 10:18GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Swedish Moist Tobacco Shortens Your Life
	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 study died during the follow-up period. Most of them were smokers and common conditions were heart and tobacco-re ... [read more >>]
	21 April 2008, 14:06GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

The Brain of Your Child on Cocaine, Alcohol and Tobacco
	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 journal "Pediatrics", and carried out by a team led by Children's Hospital Boston neurologist D ... [read more >>]
	14 April 2008, 03:48GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Why Does Smoking Cause Lung Cancer?
	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, suicides and murder do. Still, one third of the adults worldwide smoke. About 20% of the American deaths are connected to tobac ... [read more >>]
	29 February 2008, 03:20GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Nicotine Impacts the Same Brain Areas like Heroin
	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, and papaverine), the results told an interesting story. The new study published in the "The Journal of Neuroscience&q ... [read more >>]
	18 February 2008, 04:51GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

20 Cigarettes Daily Means 39 % Increased Risk of Impotence!
	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 down the penile blood vessels", said Dr Jack Mydlo, chairman of urology at Temple University School of ... [read more >>]
	23 January 2008, 14:06GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Cannabis Is More Powerful than Tobacco in Causing Cancer!
	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 than blown mind: cannabis smoke is much more toxic than tobacco smoke, as found by a governmental Health Canada team. Th ... [read more >>]
	19 December 2007, 14:06GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Death Speed: Cancer Kills 20,000 People Daily
	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 matter if the patients come from developing or developed countries. The reports shows that 5,4 million new cases and 2,9 mil ... [read more >>]
	18 December 2007, 03:45GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Does "Miracle" Anti-Smoking Drug Cause Violent Behavior?
	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 of not sitting down and lighting up after dinner, when you have a drink, whatever. I broke a few habits and triggers ... [read more >>]
	04 December 2007, 05:49GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

How Does Tobacco Affect Your Health?
	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 murder do. Still, one third of the adults worldwide smoke. In the whole world, 5 thousand billion cigarettes are sold annuall ... [read more >>]
	27 November 2007, 02:06GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Smoking Mothers Have Sterile Daughters!
	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 physical anomalies and even behavioral changes. Future mothers must be even careful not to inhale "second hand smoke&qu ... [read more >>]
	23 November 2007, 03:58GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

India's Odd Drug
	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 dependency. Paan is consumed in Southern Asia, especially in India and Myanmar. Its traditional formula consists in ... [read more >>]
	09 November 2007, 15:11GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

20 Cigarettes Per Day = 65 % Risk of Impotence
	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 to 74, who did not suffer of any blood vessel condition and who stated they had been sexually active six months before th ... [read more >>]
	26 October 2007, 14:06GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

YouTube Used to Attract Youngsters to Cigarettes
	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 attract a very young audience and, since it uses luring mottos, it can do that extremely easy. The bad thing is that ... [read more >>]
	28 September 2007, 08:27GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Losing Weight Increases Twice the Risk of Smoking
	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 determining them to smoke. "We were expecting that the relationship between dieting and smoking was going to be ... [read more >>]
	07 September 2007, 03:27GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Why Does Smoking Kill Even after Quitting It?
	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 puzzling the researchers was the fact that 50 % of these people are actually former smokers. A new research ... [read more >>]
	03 September 2007, 16:56GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

One Cannabis Joint = Five Tobacco Cigarettes
	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 a pool of 339 adults up to the age of 70, chosen from an ongoing study of respiratory health, assigned the subj ... [read more >>]
	31 July 2007, 14:36GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

A Pill That Cuts Off Both Drinking and Smoking
	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 alkaloid cytisine, extracted from the Laburnum trees of Southern Europe and a poppy plant chemical. Now ... [read more >>]
	10 July 2007, 04:52GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Which Are the Top Addictions?
	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 explaining why just one shot of heroine, for example, can make you an addict. Of course, the same studies have helped ... [read more >>]
	06 July 2007, 14:11GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Just One Cigarette Can Make You Tobacco Addicted
	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 first puffing from a cigarette, and 25 % within a month. The teenagers who smoke even only a few cigarettes monthly experience ... [read more >>]
	05 July 2007, 08:59GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Homosexuals and Lesbians Smoke More Than The Overall Population Does
	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 smaller percentage of smokers than a pool of Californians who declared themselves lesbian, gay or bisexual (LGB) h ... [read more >>]
	29 June 2007, 14:11GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Cannabis Smoking Makes You Look Older
	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 the effects of cannabis smoking from those of tobacco smoking in patients, as most of them smoke both. " ... [read more >>]
	04 June 2007, 04:52GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Hookah Smoking, Much More Harmful Than Cigarette Smoking
	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 are turning increasingly popular amongst US teens, a fact revealed by an increasingly hookah lounges number in the America ... [read more >>]
	01 June 2007, 05:24GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

New Fingerprints Test Detects Smokers
	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 specific antibodies to distinguish between the fingerprints of smokers and those of nonsmokers. A fingerprint must fit ... [read more >>]
	25 May 2007, 08:45GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia