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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
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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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