Smoking marijuana can suppress the body’s immune system, which explains why pot-smokers are more susceptible than non-smokers to certain cancers and infections, according to a new study. This effect of marijuana is due to chemicals in the drug that fire…
Monthly Archives: November 2010
Removing tobacco displays makes smoking less tempting
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London, Putting away tobacco displays makes puffing less tempting to young people, a study says. Conducted by the University of Nottingham Centre for Tobacco Control Studies in Britain, the researchers found that the number of teenagers who recalled tobacco displays…
Facts About Oral Cancer
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With the rise of alcoholics and tobacco chewers in the world population, we are at a greater risk of developing oral cancer than ever before. But, most of the people, even the educated do not really know much about the…
Britons have highest deaths from breathing conditions in Europe
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A greater proportion of men and women die from respiratory conditions than in Europe, data from the Office of National Statistics has revealed. It is thought that data collection of causes of death is more accurate in Britain but also…
Lung cancer increasing among women
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While the number of cases in men has fallen, the killer disease was shown to be claiming a growing number of victims among the opposite sex. Lung cancer in women in England increased by 10% between 1987 and 2006, climbing…
How To Manage Stress
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What could be worse for your health than cigarettes, excessive alcohol and junk food? Believe it or not, the answer is stress. Here’s how to beat it once and for all. The captain had just switched off the seatbelt sign…
Fruit cuts lung cancer risk
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Eating five portions of fruit and vegetables per day is one of the means that experts most frequently recommend for preventing cancer. Now, the European EPIC study carried out by researchers from 10 countries has shown that, in the case…
Research into smoking-related disease and disability
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A comparison of data (1994-2001 with 2001-2004) showed current New Hampshire smokers are four times more likely to develop bladder cancer than were their counterparts in the late 1990s. Investigators theorized two causes. One, beginning in 1960s and 70s, cigarettes…
Safety of electronic cigarette products called into question
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Health officials in the United States are taking a closer look at the safety of electronic cigarette products, battery-powered gadgets with cartridges containing a solution that emits a vapor when heated. Tobacco companies and marketers have allegedly touted them as…
NHL can’t snuff out tobacco use among players
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Maple Leaf netminder Jonas Gustavsson marvelled this week at a little known statistic about former NHL star Steve Larmer that doesn’t appear in record books: He puffed his way through more than a pack of cigarettes each day of his…
Need for FDA Menthol Ban
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The Food and Drug Administration’s proposed ban on mentholated cigarettes is stirring controversy, but a recently released scientific journal’s supplement underscores the need for federal intervention. In March, the FDA convened the Tobacco Products Scientific Advisory Committee to decide whether…
Cigarette smoking increases rheumatoid arthritis risk in African-Americans
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A new study determined that African Americans who smoke cigarettes have a higher risk of developing rheumatoid arthritis (RA). RA risk is more pronounced among individuals positive for the HLA-DRB1 shared epitope, a genetic risk factor for RA. Findings from…
IRISH Cancer Society and and Irish Heart Foundation Calls to rise tobacco tax
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THE IRISH Cancer Society and Irish Heart Foundation came together yesterday to urge the Government to increase tax on tobacco by 50 cent in the budget. Increasing tax by this amount on loose tobacco and cigarettes would generate €85 million…
Pico Mountain To Be Vermont’s First Smoke Free Resort
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Not only does smoking cause cancer in humans, but cigarette filters flipped in the snow can take years to decompose. Now, Pico Mountain, Vermont, is taking a big step to help save lives and keep the environment clean. On New Year’s…