If you’ve failed to quit smoking there is encouragement from the American Lung Assoc. to quit smoking. To stop smoking it often takes more than one try. On Feb. 24th 2011 the American Lung Association announced on its website a…
Monthly Archives: February 2011
Quitting smoking is the best decision you can make
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Recent studies have shown that tobacco addiction is a very complex phenomenon that, in certain cases, could even be dependent on genetic factors. Once again this year, the Driven to Quit contest (Driventoquit.ca) offers different strategies to help smokers butt…
Bill to ban candy-like tobacco is snuffed out
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SALT LAKE CITY – Tobacco products that look, smell or taste like candy are in the cross hairs of a local lawmaker. Rep. Paul Ray, R-Clinton, sponsored House Bill 170, which would have banned any tobacco product from resembling candy…
Smoking ruins the environment
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It is the normal defensive line by smokers that when they smoke, the only thing they cause any harm to is their bodies. To begin with, such an assumption is wrong. By damaging their health, the smokers seriously affect those…
Dirty air triggers more heart attacks than cocaine
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LONDON, – Air pollution triggers more heart attacks than using cocaine and poses as high a risk of sparking a heart attack as alcohol, coffee and physical exertion, scientists said on Thursday. Sex, anger, marijuana use and chest or respiratory…
Quit smoking for your health
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Choosing to quit smoking can be a hard decision. But, medical experts say it can also be one of the best things you can do for your health. It can also save you money. One in every five deaths in…
Doctors go to war against gutka
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MUMBAI: Leaders in oncology from across the country have for the first time come together to join the war against smokeless tobacco, believed to be behind 96% of oral cancer cases in India. The heads of 17 regional cancer centres,…
Quit for Love
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Valentine day is one of the special days in the year and you would want to express your love to your dear one. Flowers with a candle light dinner could be romantic, but Pennsylvania took a different route by introducing…
Smoking ban enforcement begins in Virgin Islands
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ST. CROIX – The V.I. Health Department will begin enforcing the territory’s new smoking ban on 10 February. Although the law – which bans smoking in and around almost all businesses and public buildings in the territory, as well as…
Cancer docs take tobacco battle inside parliament
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Mumbai – Frustrated by the lackadaisical approach of the government in fighting tobacco-related cancer, two doctors from Mumbai took 40 patients to Delhi to meet politicians, hoping that direct contact with victims would finally swing lawmakers into action. The patients,…
To cure heart disease, medical community must target prevention
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“Heart disease treatment cost might triple by 2030.” Accustomed to reading health stories in The News about promising medications and advances in diagnostic and therapeutic technology resulting from research at our universities and medical centers, I was struck by this…
Miley Cyrus admits smoking was a bad decision
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Miley Cyrus says that being caught smoking a bong was a ‘bad decision, because of my fans.’ The pop star’s comments are published just days after she was voted the celebrity with the worst influence on teens in a survey…
Minnesota’s Anti-Tobacco Policies Reap Benefits
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Minnesota – Sustained tobacco-control efforts in Minnesota have led to a 27.1 percent decrease in adult smoking rates, from 22.1 percent in 1999 to 16.1 percent in 2010, says a new study. Click here to find out more! During that…
West Des Moines apartment complex sets smoking ban
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Smoking will be prohibited by early 2012 at West Des Moines’ Sun Prairie Apartments, the complex’s owners said Wednesday. The ban is in response to a Jan. 29 fire at a building in the complex caused by an improperly extinguished…