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Smoking link to depression
Smoking may cause an increased risk of depression, according to a New Zealand study which has followed 1200 people since they were born in 1977. Smoking and major depression have long been known to be linked. But which is the primary cause has been unclear, and it is possible that they reinforce each other. Studies [...]
Depression, Smoking, and Quitting
According to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) almost half (43%) of the people over the age of 20 who suffer with depression are also smokers. This confirms what clinicians who work to help smokers quit have long seen firsthand. The smoking rate for people with depression in all age groups, for [...]
Depression and Smoking Go Hand in Hand in U.S.
The link between depression and smoking, long observed by health-care experts, is real and strong, a new government report shows. People aged 20 and older with depression are twice as likely as others to be cigarette smokers, the researchers from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found. And as the severity of depression [...]
Alcohol, Anti-Smoking Drug Helped Cause Walker’s Suicide
An anti-smoking drug, combined with heavy drinking, contributed to Warner Robins Mayor Donald Walker’s suicide, according to autopsy results. The results released by Houston County coroner Danny Galpin confirmed that his cause of death was death by self-inflicted gunshot wound. The manner of death was ruled as suicide. The GBI crime lab report says, “He [...]
Aussie experts confirm SIDS breakthrough
An Australian-led study has confirmed a lack of serotonin was a common factor with babies who die from Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS). The breakthrough offers a “much clearer direction” in the search for a cure for the mysterious syndrome, which still claims one in 2,000 apparently healthy children. Researcher Dr Jhodie Duncan, of the [...]
Depression May Up Death Risk to That of Smoking
MONDAY, – Being depressed might take as many years off your life as smoking does, a new study suggests. However, a combination of depression and anxiety appears to be better for longevity than just depression. Researchers came to their conclusions after analyzing death records and a survey of more than 60,000 people. During the four [...]
Cancer hits Tennesseans hard
Tennesseans die of cancer at the fifth-worst rate in the nation. What kills them most frequently is cigarettes, but a powerful mix of misinformation and denial also drives up the death count. A Tennessean examination that included dozens of interviews with doctors, cancer experts and patients across the state found health professionals frequently encounter people [...]
Tenants demand tougher anti-smoking laws
DOWNTOWN — There are many days warm or cool when the windows to Mike Horelick’s Santa Monica apartment remain shut, keeping out ocean breezes, the fragrance of a neighbor’s dinner and cigarette smoke. It’s the latter that forces the local screenwriter to often seal his home, protecting his asthmatic 3-year-old daughter and 9-month-old son from [...]
Help Obama? No, Help America
Attention, liberals. A new book urges that in order to help Obama improve our country, you should adopt a dog, quit smoking, and conciliate conservatives. But don’t rush into it. So far the President himself has only accomplished the first of those. The inspiring ideas are from “50 Ways You Can Help Obama Change America,” [...]
Anti-smoking psychotics
Without question, one of the best things to happen in my lifetime is the pushback against smoking in public places and offices, and the emergence of the sense that smoking is anti-social. It kind of floors me to think about how much cigarette smoke I and other kids of my generation were exposed to. I [...]
Want insurance? Quit smoking, lose weight
If you want to see some of the future of health insurance in this country, take a look at what’s happening to the state employee health care plan. Even though the General Assembly dug the plan out of a $250 million hole last spring, the State Health Plan continues to run a deficit. Instead of [...]
Prince Harry turns to hypnotist to quit smoking
LONDON: Prince Harry, the third-in-line to the British throne, is said to have turned to a celebrity hypnotist in a desperate bid to quit smoking. The 24-year-old Prince, who was once on 20 fags a day, managed to kick the habit for a year. But he was spotted having a puff at a pal’s wedding [...]
Banker abandons Hebridian exile after success in quitting smoking
Howling winds, relentless rain and plagues of insects have persuaded a retired merchant banker to abandon his exile on an uninhabited island in the Hebrides, although he claims to have achieved his objective and finally given up his habit of smoking 30 cigarettes a day. Geoff Spice, 57, from Ashstead, Surrey, began his “cold turkey” [...]
Smoke-free policies at American hospitals
Smokers still huddle outside the doors of more than half of America’s hospitals — and 65 percent of Virginia’s — a new study found. But the study, published this week in the medical journal Tobacco Control, says more hospitals are moving to having a completely smoke-free campus. In central Virginia, HCA’s Chippenham and Johnston-Willis campuses [...]
