Search Results for 'Smoking'

/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

Smoking makes life tougher - Study

Smoking not only shortens a person’s life, but may also make daily life harder to manage in old age. Most smokers are well aware that the habit may shorten their lives but what they may not realise, and what is so clearly evident in t [...]

Posted On : Sep, 28 2009 | Comments : 0

10 ways to snuff out smoking

EVERYBODY, including tobacco companies, is now agreed that smoking is detrimental to good health. You only have to look at the cigarette packets to know this. But nicotine is a powerful addictive drug. If you get hooked, it is very tough to [...]

Posted On : Sep, 25 2009 | Comments : 0

Kansas Casinos Faced with Smoking Issue Before Opening

A group seeking to impose its lifestyle on private businesses is pressing to limit customers at Kansas casinos before they are even finished construction. The state's efforts to establish casino gambling, which has been beset with delays a [...]

Posted On : Sep, 15 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 [...]

Posted On : Aug, 18 2009 | Comments : 0

Tanning Beds As Bad As Smoking

The World Health Organization's International Agency for Research on Cancer announced that it moved ultraviolet tanning beds to its highest cancer risk category, along with arsenic and cigarettes. "I was checked or screened in February [...]

Posted On : Aug, 01 2009 | Comments : 0

Smoking linked to more rapid progression of multiple scleros...

A new study has revealed that patients with multiple sclerosis who smoke experience a more rapid progression of their disease. For the study, Brian C. Healy, Ph.D., of Brigham and Women’’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School [...]

Posted On : Jul, 16 2009 | Comments : 0

Absent fathers and social breakdown go together like smoking...

Imagine that the argument over smoking was debated like this - every time a possible link with cancer was discussed on the Today programme, the BBC would bring in someone from a tobacco industry-funded lobby group whose spokesman explaine [...]

Posted On : Jul, 14 2009 | Comments : 0

Smoking Hazards - Please Quit Smoking to Make a Healthy Envi...

Why Should stop Smoking?There are so many reasons, but I would try to be short and sweet here. 1. To Increase your life Span, 2. Keep yourself fit and healthy 3. To save your Money 4. To save your time 5. To save your Family 6. To Sav [...]

Posted On : Jul, 08 2009 | Comments : 0

Health Hazards of Smoking Cigarettes

Smoking is associated with significant morbidity and mortality. Smoking still remains one of the leading cause of preventable death. Smoking has the dubious distinction of affecting all the systems from head to foot.

Posted On : Jun, 24 2009 | Comments : 0

Australian study links cot deaths to smoking

We already know that smoking in pregnancy results in babies that are around 250 grams lighter than those born to mothers who did not smoke. And we also know from the statistics that infants in homes where there are smokers are up to f [...]