Addiction
A varied diet is key in preventing lung cancer
A new study published in the August 31 online edition of the journal Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention has found that eating a variety of fruits and vegetables, rather than quantity, may lower your lung cancer risk. “Although quitting smoking is the most important preventive action in reducing lung cancer risk, consuming a mix of [...]
Michael Douglas’ Cancer
Hollywood icon Michael Douglas’ years of smoking and drinking is the probable culprit for his throat cancer diagnosis, according to one doctor who said the “Wall Street” star’s condition is likely curable. The actor will undergo chemotherapy and radiation to treat the cancer. “That combination is, unfortunately, a recipe for development of a throat cancer,” [...]
Are Japanese Adults Hard Smokers
Tokyo, – Japan Tobacco Inc. (JT) (TSE: 2914) today announced the results of its Japan Smoking Rate Survey, a study that has been carried out annually since 1965. The survey, conducted in May 2010, showed that 23.9 percent of Japanese adults are smokers. Other results are summarized below. 1. Japanese smoking rate as of May [...]
Hunter seeks loophole to let troops get smokes
A Marine veteran in Congress wants to lift new restrictions on tobacco being sent through the mail so that families and friends can continue to send cigarettes and smokeless tobacco to troops in combat. Rep. Duncan D. Hunter, R-Calif., a member of the House Armed Services Committee and a former Marine captain who served in [...]
NZ fertility rate better than Oz
Fertility treatment is more effective in New Zealand than in Australia, say researchers who believe this may be because of Government rationing of the service here. This tight rationing may have produced a “healthier” population of women seeking the treatment. About half of in-vitro fertilisation (IVF) treatment cycles are state-funded in New Zealand and access [...]
Smoking may worsen outcome of pregnancy complication
A new study suggests that smokers who develop preeclampsia during pregnancy are at particular risk of suffering the complications associated with the disorder — including preterm delivery, low birth weight and stillbirth. The findings may not sound surprising. But they actually present something of a paradox, as past studies have linked smoking to a reduced [...]
Are cells the new cigarettes?
SAN FRANCISCO: The great cosmic joke would be to find out definitively that the advances we thought were blessings – from the hormones women pump into their bodies all their lives to the fancy phones people wait in line for all night – are really time bombs. Just as parents now tell their kids that, [...]
Sonia Poulton reveals her dark secret
A confession. I have a deep, dark secret. One that has haunted me for 13 years. Those who know me are aware of it – and have judged me accordingly – but I will have to live with it for the rest of my life. I smoked when I was pregnant with my daughter, Shaye, [...]
Where are you on the smoking spectrum?
An interesting question came up the other day: Is there a difference between being a non-smoker and being an ex-smoker? Some people would define a non-smoker as someone who has never smoked before, and an ex-smoker as someone who has quit smoking. Is there a point of abstinence after which an ex-smoker reverts back to [...]
Imprisoned by cigarette addiction?
Smokers often start young, many times when they are not yet out of their teens. What begins as a peer group pastime develops into a chemical dependence that can eventually come to dominate their lives. “I was 15 when I started smoking. I smoked because I thought it would make me more manly and because [...]
Tumor Virus Is Best Predictor of Throat Cancer Survival
The presence of human papilloma virus, the virus that causes cervical cancer, in tumors is the most important predictor of survival for people diagnosed with oropharyngeal cancer (cancer of the back of the mouth), according to a new study led by a researcher at the Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center-Arthur G. James Cancer Hospital [...]
Moving cancer up the global health agenda
40 years ago, cancer was a scourge mainly affecting developed nations. But, as the latest global cancer data from the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) confirm, most new cases of cancer and deaths from cancer now occur in developing countries. Released on June 1, IARC’s GLOBOCAN 2008—an online resource that provides the most [...]
Smoking increased vision problems
A healthy diet helps guard against cataracts, while certain medications raise the risks of this common cause of vision loss, two new studies suggest. And a third study finds that smoking increases the risk of age-related macular degeneration, another disease that robs people of their sight. The first study found that women who eat foods [...]
Heart attacks drop in California
Heart attacks dropped by 24 percent in a large cross section of Northern Californians over the past decade, most likely due to less smoking, better blood pressure control, and lower cholesterol, a new study reports. What’s more, rates of the most severe type of heart attack dropped by 62 percent, according to the study, published [...]
