If there’s one thing every smoker knows, it’s that cigarettes are terrific appetite suppressants. It doesn’t seem fair, but on average, smokers weigh less than non-smokers. Young women certainly know it. Consider the familiar image of smoking ballerinas and models–women…
Monthly Archives: June 2011
Tips to protect parents and kids from tobacco smoke
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An estimated 20 percent of adults in the United States smoke cigarettes, and 7 out of 10 of them want to quit. Some adults who have quit smoking are parents, and their efforts to become smoke-free have made them role…
Smoking around kids can make them addicted
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Most smokers are very aware of the damage they are doing to their own health – and know that others can also suffer though passive smoking. But a worrying new study reveals that smoking infront of children not only passes…
Smoking triggers more stress
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Canadians hoping to blow off economic anxiety with cigarettes could get burned, according to new research linking smoking with significantly higher-than-normal stress levels. Drawing on data from 2,250 adults, Pew Research — a non-partisan American think-tank — found half (50…
University of Michigan campuses to go smoke free
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Flint – The University of Michigan is enacting a campus-wide ban on smoking that includes lighting up outdoors. The new rules have stirred up some mixed reaction. Starting July 1, the campus of UM-Flint will be smoke free. “I think…
Smoking quitlines work – study
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Helplines aimed at helping people to quit smoking work, regardless of how smokers are recruited to the service, the results of a new study indicate. According to Australian researchers, smokers who use telephone counseling quitlines may do so in response…
Link between emphysema, lung cancer
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A gene linked to emphysema also can be a factor for developing lung cancer unrelated to cigarette smoking, UT Southwestern Medical Center research indicates. Smoking was the only known risk factor previously associated with both diseases. In the study, mice…
New substances added to HHS Report on Carcinogens
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The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services today added eight substances to its Report on Carcinogens, a science-based document that identifies chemicals and biological agents that may put people at increased risk for cancer. The industrial chemical formaldehyde and…
Anti-smoking campaign launched in Ireland
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Smokers will be asked to consider how their smoking-related death would hurt someone they love, in a HSE campaign getting underway today. The campaign, which will run on bill-boards and in radio advertisements, tells smokers one in every two of…