Blogs Posts in Smoking Hazards category; 103 blog posts

Good Reasons To Quit Smoking Today, What Are They?

Should you quit your smoking habit? Well, everybody has his own personal reason to quit smoking. It is plain obvious that the best reason to quit smoking is because it is bad for a person’s health. There is just no denying to that f [...]

Posted On : May, 09 2012 | Comments : 0

Smoking may help people regain self-control

Researchers have suggested that smoking may help restore self-control by improving smokers’ positive mood, which may contribute to tobacco addiction. When researchers at Moffitt Cancer Center in Tampa, Fla., deplete smokers’ s [...]

Posted On : Mar, 20 2012 | Comments : 0

The side effects of smoking shisha

What is really serious about the phenomenon is that most shisha smokers wrongfully take to the hubble-bubble thinking that it poses only “light” health risks compared to the serious health-related complications of cigarette sm [...]

Posted On : Jan, 09 2012 | Comments : 0

Hazards of Smoking - The Bitter Truth About Smoking

Smoking is extremely injurious to health. It has many long-term ill effects. The truth about smoking is that it is harmful to your life in many different ways. These hazards of smoking include: Cancer: Nicotine present in your cigarett [...]

Posted On : Jun, 30 2011 | Comments : 0

Smoking away fatigue has its hazards, too!

Dhaka, Apr 15 (bdnews24.com) — And one thought, it was just a casual nap! The two Bangladeshi workers recovered at a Singapore port had actually fallen asleep under the influence of 'grass' (marijuana) that they consumed at [...]

Posted On : May, 09 2011 | Comments : 0

Finland Enacts World’s Toughest Anti-Smoking Law

We’re no longer giving tobacco tacit approval,” says Ismo Tuominen, a Ministerial Counsellor at the Ministry of Social Affairs and Health. The legislation seeks to make Finland smoking-free not by an outright ban on smoking, [...]

Posted On : Sep, 30 2010 | Comments : 0

Cigarette smoking still a huge problem in the U.S.

A 40-year decline in smoking has stalled with 20.6% of Americans 18 and older being current smokers, according to data from the 2009 National Health Interview Survey and the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS). Althou [...]

Posted On : Sep, 09 2010 | Comments : 0

Hazards of smoking

Smoking refers to the deliberate inhalation of tobacco smoking. Of many forms of tobacco intake, the most common is cigarette smoking. These days smoking has become a global phenomenon. This habit is not confined to any particular [...]

Posted On : Apr, 29 2010 | Comments : 0

Study - Sexual Health Problems Common Among Pot-Smoking Men

Men who smoke pot daily are four times more likely to have trouble climaxing than men who don't light up, according to the La Trobe University study. The study also found that men who smoke pot are more likely to experience premature ejacul [...]

Posted On : Oct, 16 2009 | Comments : 0

/Stop-smoking drug has no suicide risk - Study

According to a new study, there is no scientific evidence to corroborate that varenicline (Chantix), the nicotine cessation aid being widely used by people attempting to quit smoking, is linked to severe depression and suicidal thoughts. D [...]

Posted On : Oct, 03 2009 | Comments : 0

Smoking in pregnancy risks psychotic children - study

Mothers who smoke during pregnancy put their children at greater risk of developing psychotic symptoms as teenagers, British scientists said on Thursday. Researchers from four British universities studied 6,356 12-year-olds and interviewed [...]

Posted On : Oct, 01 2009 | Comments : 0

Tobacco fair tests Thai anti-smoking efforts

Thailand's reputation as a Southeast Asian country with strong anti-smoking laws faces a direct challenge from the tobacco multinational companies that are due to gather in the Thai capital in November for a major industry congress and exhi [...]

Posted On : Aug, 29 2009 | Comments : 0

Smoking may aggravate malnutrition

Steven Block and Patrick Webb, of Tufts University, have revealed that their finding is based on a study conducted in Java, Indonesia. They say that their findings suggest that the costs of smoking in the developing world go well beyo [...]

Posted On : Aug, 25 2009 | Comments : 0

Smoking Worsens Multiple Sclerosis

Patients with multiple sclerosis who smoke appear to be at higher risk for the brain lesions linked with the disease and for brain shrinkage, new research suggests. "Our study is showing that MS is more destructive as seen on MRI in s [...]