Benefits of quiting
RTP to get vaccine-making facility
A Canadian developer of flu inoculations and other vaccines plans to use a $21 million U.S. Defense Department grant to build an 87,000-square-foot production facility in Research Triangle Park. Medicago, based in Quebec, plans to create 85 jobs paying $50,229 on average, not including benefits, over three years. The Medicago jobs would pay less than [...]
Smoking may contribute to pelvic pain in pregnancy
Danish researchers found that among 5,000 women interviewed during and soon after pregnancy, those who smoked during pregnancy were 20 percent more likely to have pregnancy-related pelvic pain than non-smokers. A similar risk was seen among women who had given up smoking during the first trimester, according to findings published in the obstetrics journal BJOG. [...]
Smokeless tobacco damages DNA and key enzymes
Far from having adverse effects limited to the mouth, smokeless tobacco affects the normal function of a key family of enzymes found in almost every organ in the body, according to the first report on the topic in ACS’ monthly journal Chemical Research in Toxicology. The enzymes play important roles in production of hormones, including [...]
Vitamin B6 Tied to Lowered Lung Cancer Risk
A new study shows that people with high levels of a B vitamin are half as likely as others to develop lung cancer. But while the reduction in risk is significant, this doesn’t mean that smokers should hit the vitamin aisle instead of quitting. While the study links vitamin B6, as well as one amino [...]
How Tobacco and Nicotine Affect Your Dental Health
Smoking has already been a bad habit of people around the world, not minding the bad effects of nicotine. Nicotine is a chemical present in tobacco plants and is considered by chemists as poison. By simply chewing or smoking tobacco, one can expose himself to the harmful effects of nicotine in the body. Nicotine does [...]
Researchers Report Treatment Headway Against Lung Cancer
Researchers report they prolonged survival for some patients with advanced non-small cell lung cancer, for whom the median survival is currently only about six months. One study discovered that an experimental drug called crizotinib shrank tumors in the majority of lung cancer patients with a specific gene variant. An estimated 4 percent of lung cancer [...]
Non-smoking women seem to benefit from alcohol consumption
Moderate drinking may help protect against the onset of Alzheimer’s disease among otherwise healthy people, a new Spanish study suggests. Women who don’t smoke appear to gain the most benefit from alcohol consumption, according to the research team, from the University of Valencia, the Valencia government and the Municipal Institute of Medical Investigation in Barcelona. [...]
A compound in smokers breat
If you smoke, your breath contains 2,5-dimethylfuran. A team of Catalan researchers have proved that the presence of this chemical compound indicates that a person has smoked in the last three days. This substance does not appear in the breath of non-smokers, unless they have been in direct contact with tobacco smoke for a long [...]
Smoking During Radiation Makes Treatment Less Effective
A new study published in the International Journal of Radiation Oncology, Biology and Physics suggest that smokers who continue to smoke through radiation therapy for neck, throat and head cancers are less likely to fully recover than those who quit. According to lead researcher Dr. Allen Chen, 55 percent of smokers who quit before starting [...]
Obesity, smoking may raise blood clot risk
Obesity and smoking may each raise a person’s risk of potentially dangerous blood clots in the veins, but certain other suspected risk factors seem to have no impact, a new study finds. The study, reported in the journal Circulation, investigated risk factors for venous thromboembolism — blood clots in the veins, usually affecting the legs. [...]
Weight Gain, Smoking May Make Prostate Cancer Deadlier
Men treated for prostate cancer who smoke or put on excess pounds raise their odds of disease recurrence and of dying from the illness, two new studies show. The findings were presented Tuesday at the American Association for Cancer Research’s annual meeting in Washington, D.C. In the first report, a team led by Dr. Jing [...]
Moderate tipplers lowered stroke risk, but only if they didn’t smoke
If you indulge in moderate drinking, you’ve probably heard that it might reduce your risk for heart trouble, including stroke. A new British study supports that notion, but it also finds that light drinking’s benefit in lowering stroke risk does not apply to smokers. “Any potential beneficial effect of drinking moderate amounts of alcohol on [...]
Smoking lowers your IQ
Smoking has long been known to damage lungs and cause heart disease. But it could also lower your IQ, research has found. Young people who smoke regularly are likely to have markedly lower intelligence levels than those who do not smoke, and, according to the study of 20,000 young adults, the heavier the smoker, the [...]
Cigarettes can send sex life up in smoke
Scenes of a hero tossing a cigarette in the air, before lighting it by rubbing a matchstick against the villain’s head are common place. This Bollywood fantasy catches the fancy of millions and if you are among them think twice. Your sex life will receive the same fate as the villains. Pack of cigarettes, close-upDr [...]
