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Smoking may perk up women's risk of developing deadly AAA

A new research has found that women who smoke are at significantly increased risk of developing an abdominal aortic aneurysm, a condition in which a weak area of the abdominal aortadefine expands or bulges. Abdominal aortic aneurysm, also [...]

Posted On : Oct, 17 2008 | Comments : 0

Passive smoking greater health hazard

A day after the Indian government banned smoking in public places across the nation — a gift to the billion people to mark Father of the Nation Mahatma Gandhi's birthday on October 2, there has been a lot of huffing and puffing [...]

Posted On : Oct, 08 2008 | Comments : 0

Smoking during pregnancy shows mixed effects

The findings, from a study of nearly 53,000 U.S. children born in the 1960s, found that those whose mothers smoked during pregnancy were at higher risk of low birthweight -- a link that studies have long noted. There was also evidence, alb [...]

Posted On : Sep, 13 2008 | Comments : 0

Smoking ban 'could kill off Amsterdam cannabis coffee shops'...

Amsterdam's controversial cannabis cafes are facing possible extinction when a smoking ban comes into force next month. New laws similar to those which took effect in England last summer, will ban the smoking of tobacco - but not cannabi [...]

Posted On : Jun, 17 2008 | Comments : 0

Truckers Banned Anti-Smoking Drug Chantix As Well

Following the Federal Aviation Administration’s decision to ban use of anti-smoking drug Chantix by pilots and air controllers on Wednesday, now it is the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration’s turn to warn against the me [...]

Posted On : May, 24 2008 | Comments : 0

Quick Benefit to Smoking Halt, With a Caveat, Study Finds

Women who stop smoking can enjoy major health benefits within five years, but it can take decades to correct respiratory damage and shed the added risk of lung cancer, researchers reported on Tuesday. Those who stopped had a 13 percent red [...]

Posted On : May, 07 2008 | Comments : 0

Smoking, Cancer May Be Linked By Genetics

It’s seemed such a mystery why some cigarette smokers develop lung cancer while others smoke all their lives and never develop the disease. Researchers studying the human genome may have finally solved that mystery. In a joint study [...]

Posted On : Apr, 04 2008 | Comments : 0

Hookah-pipe Bars Want Exemption from Smoking Ban in France

France's hookah-pipe bars pleaded on Tuesday to be spared from a ban on smoking in cafes and restaurants which comes into force on January 1, warning it would put thousands of people out of work. The number of tea shops [...]

Posted On : Mar, 13 2008 | Comments : 0

India's Youth Are In Perilous Grip Of A Smoking Epidemic

Lounging in a smoke-filled cafe, Purvi Ahuja, 20, and her hip friends like their text messages to be fast, their cappuccinos to be milky, and their cigarettes to be plentiful."I know it's so bad. My skin is even gross, my l [...]

Posted On : Feb, 27 2008 | Comments : 0

India facing smoking death crisis

The New England Journal of Medicine study found smoking already accounts for 900,000 deaths a year in India. The study warns that without action, the death toll from smoking will climb still further. It predicts smoking could soon a [...]

Posted On : Feb, 14 2008 | Comments : 0

W.H.O. and Bloomberg Open Global Antismoking Project

Tobacco could kill up to a billion people during the 21st century, as cigarette sales soar in poor and middle-income countries even as they drop in wealthier ones, says a report issued Thursday by the World Health Organization. The r [...]

Posted On : Feb, 08 2008 | Comments : 0

Smoking ban may stub out shisha bars

L'Elies tearoom, one of a dozen thriving shisha bars tucked away off the trendy bar-lined Rue Oberkampf in eastern Paris, is contemplating a quiet death. At weekends the place is full of young Parisians and middle-aged men from the local no [...]

Posted On : Dec, 07 2007 | Comments : 0

Smoking Before, After Pregnancy Harms Daughters Fertility

In the olden days women were very c [...]

Posted On : Nov, 27 2007 | Comments : 0

Oral Contraceptives and Smoking

Do you use oral contraceptives or another hormonal method of birth control? Women smokers who use oral contraceptives risk serious consequences including increased risk of developing cardiovascular diseases such as blood clots, heart attack [...]