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Cancer researchers at the University of Minnesota, led by expert Silvia Balbo, say that they have discovered the presence of a cancer-inducing (carcinogen) chemical in smokeless tobacco products.
The substance significantly increases users' risk of developing several forms of oral cancer in time. The risk is au... |
3 April 2012
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Scientists demonstrated in a new study that technology- and goal-driven activities and objectives are far harder to quit or turn down than smoking or drinking. Personally, I think this speaks volumes about how the human mind chooses to catalog its priorities.
For instance, University of Chicago professor Wilheml Ho... |
7 February 2012
05:35 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
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According to the results of a new scientific investigation, it would appear that tobacco use among teens in the United States is steadily declining. Cigarette smoking also declined significantly, whereas marijuana use remained at consistent levels, with no discernible modifications. When analyzing tobacco consumption... |
17 December 2011
07:31 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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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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A new study conducted on unsuspecting lab mice proves yet again that nicotine itself has no effect on the growth of cancer tumors in the lung. The chemical, in moderate concentrations, does not boost growth or favor it in any way, experts say. Researchers analyzed tumors in mice, after the animals were regularly admi... |
5 April 2011
20:01 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
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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
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Nicotine is bad for you and apparently it has the same poisonous effect on pests, getting scientists' attention for a potential alternative to traditional commercial pesticides.Tobacco and nicotine make one of the-hardest-to-get-rid-of vices of modern society – smoking, which can lead to lung cancer and ea... |
28 October 2010
04:28 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
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In a new investigation conducted on Indiana children in the sixth through twelfth grades, researchers determined that the incidence of marijuana and pipe tobacco use has increased considerably. What is weird about the new results is that they show cigarette consumption has decreased markedly from past studies, which ... |
9 September 2010
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Over the past few years, scientists have linked numerous negative consequences to being exposed to cigarette smoke. The phenomenon, called second-hand smoking, was so widespread that many nations adopted legislation prohibiting smoking in public places, as well as in numerous bars. In a new work, experts at the Unive... |
8 June 2010
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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
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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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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
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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
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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
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Following a new scientific study, German researchers at the Robert Koch Institute (RKI), in Berlin, report a new correlation between the wealth status of a person and the amount of cigarettes he or she consumes. Social status was also found to be a clear indicator of how much tobacco a person smoked each day, the sam... |
15 January 2010
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Experts at the University of Bath, working together with colleagues from the University of Edinburgh, have recently established that the current, economy-oriented approach of European Union policies was heavily influenced by tobacco companies such as British American Tobacco. The end-result was a set of instruments f... |
12 January 2010
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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