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Smoking Bad for Your Health Mr. Benigno
“Smoking is bad for your health.” This was the advice of former President Fidel V. Ramos to leading presidential candidate Senator Benigno Simeon “Noynoy” Aquino III. FVR gave the advice Tuesday morning upon his arrival at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport aboard a Philippine Airlines flight from San Francisco, California. The former President spent nine [...]
Quitting smoking can reverse airway thickening due to asthma
Smoking cessation can reverse some of the lung damage that occurs among asthma sufferers from smoking cigarettes. Martine Broekema, Ph.D., of the University of Groningen in The Netherlands is lead author of the study published recently in the American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine. Broekema said that stopping smoking can reverse thickness in [...]
Tobacco is Toxic for Animals, Too
If you are a smoker and love your dog, there is one VERY important thing you can do to save Toto’s life and yours too: quit smoking. A growing body of research – including the Surgeon General’s Report – shows there are no safe levels of exposure to secondhand smoke – for humans and for [...]
Willpower works better than patches if you want to quit smoking
Smokers desperate to quit should put their faith in willpower rather than expensive patches and gums, researchers said last night. A review of hundreds of studies into smoking cessation has revealed that the overwhelming majority of ex-smokers gave up without resorting to nicotine replacement therapies. Old-fashioned willpower alone was enough to make them quit their [...]
Anti-smoking drive from Jan 26
BANGALORE: Over a hundred children from Sri Sri Ravi Shankar Vidya Mandir (SSRVM) school, along with their teachers, participated in an anti-smoking rally that was held simultaneously at the Koramangala BDA complex, Forum Mall and Raheja Arcade. Children are especially prone to the effects of smoking, said Ujval Shankar, co-ordinator of Art of Living Koramangala [...]
Large variations in mortality between countries, men and women
New figures on deaths from cancer in Europe show a steady decline in mortality between the periods 1990-1994 and 2000-2004. Deaths from all cancers in the European Union (EU) between these two periods fell by nine percent in men and eight percent in women, with a large drop among the middle-aged population. In a study [...]
Good intentions go up in smoke
More and more people are trying to give up smoking – but new research suggests the habit is still as hard as ever to kick. Up to 66 per cent of NSW smokers will try to quit in the next six months – seven per cent more than in 2005 – according to the Cancer [...]
All flavored tobacco are prohibited across New York City
Last month New York City Council nearly unanimously voted for an ordinance, expanding the federal ban on flavored cigarettes, in order to include all tobacco products that contain flavorings. Therefore, all tobacco products, including cigarillos, cigars, loose tobacco and other tobacco products that contain flavoring agents are banned from sales in all stores and other [...]
Five nonsmokers paradises
The world’s biggest tobacco-consuming countries that I profiled in my last post, including Greece, Russia and Austria, are also among the top travel spots, but the opposite isn’t quite the case. Countries with the lowest reported adult smokers, as you’ll notice in the list below, don’t all provide dream vacations. But there are some nice [...]
Rats, drugs, stress and repeated behavior
Matthew Pitts puts his dog outside each morning, lights a cigarette and gets to work by 6 a.m. At age 27, the Sioux Falls shop manager has cut his smoking to a half-pack a day and his coffee to one or two cups. He’s tried to quit smoking, but he’s found that routine, social connections [...]
Workplace study: 45% of food-service workers smoke
If you break smokers down by their occupations, the workers who are most likely to smoke are in the food-service industry, says a report from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration. Out of all U.S. full-time employees ages 18 to 64, more than 33.6 million (28% of the total) smoked cigarettes in the [...]
Options to end smoking
There are a few different things a person can do to kick the habit of smoking. Some try going “cold turkey,” thinking he or she can stop smoking altogether, while there are some who try to quit smoking in other ways. Cyndra Krogen, health educator for alcohol, tobacco and other drugs at Sacramento State, said [...]
No freedom to smoke
Hong Kong cultural activist Leung Man Tao is a smoker. For many times, he just disappeared when we were giving a speech, dining or chatting and was later found smoking outside. Leung has been devoting himself to Buddhism in recent years and he has even quit alcohol. However, he is still quite persistent in smoking. [...]
