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Green Tea can protect smokers from diseases
Green tea is one of the best things we can do to protect our health, slow down the aging process and prevent disease. Taking up the habit of smoking or even, the ‘need’ of smoking, the smokers know about its dangers and ill effects. But they continue to go on smoking. They wholly accept the [...]
Action lawsuit over Pfizer quit-smoking drug
Three B.C. women have started a class-action lawsuit against Pfizer Inc. and its Canadian subsidiary, claiming that the smoking-cessation drug Champix causes depression and suicidal tendencies. One of the women, Patricia Clow, from Victoria, is the mother of Heidi Clow, 22, who committed suicide on Oct. 4, 2009, while taking Champix, according to the writ [...]
Government’s anti-tobacco efforts go up in smoke
Cairo Khalid Salah, 35, remembers the first day he picked the habit more than 20 years ago. “It started as a challenge from my friends, who said that smoking makes one look like a real man,” Salah, a taxi driver in Cairo, recalls. “I believed them, and have been a smoker of around two packets [...]
Learning ingredients won’t prevent smoking
“Tobacco products today are really the only human-consumed product that we don’t know what’s in them.” That’s the startling quote given this week to The Associated Press by Lawrence Deyton, the director of the Food and Drug Administration’s new Center for Tobacco Products. And because of this, the FDA has demanded that tobacco companies tell [...]
Snuffing out smokes
Statistics from the American Cancer Society blow out myths about the consequences of smoking. In Illinois, 20.5 percent of adults smoke. The number is higher in Madison County, lower in Monroe County. About 9,120 new cases of lung cancer will be diagnosed in Illinois and almost 7,000 – 52 every day – will die from [...]
Reynolds eyes co that helps smokers quit
WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. — Reynolds American Inc., maker of Camel cigarettes, is in talks to buy a Swedish company that helps people quit smoking, according to a report by the Wall Street Journal. The Wall Street Journal is reporting online Monday that the second-largest U.S. tobacco company is eyeing Niconovum AB, which sells such nicotine-replacement products [...]
St. Anne’s lends its support to smokers trying to kick the habit
FALL RIVER — Not even a heart attack could stop Charlie Denmead from lighting up. On July 24, Denmead, a supervisor for the department of public works in Fall River, smoked a cigarette on his way to Charlton Memorial Hospital after suffering a heart attack. Even the serious health scare didn’t convince him he needed [...]
Stop-Smoking Vaccine in the Works
The National Institute on Drug Abuse has given a $10 million grant to a Maryland company to help it in the final phases of research regarding a possible anti-nicotine vaccine. Nabi Biopharmaceuticals of Rockville will launch a phase III study of a potential vaccine called NicVAX. The study, which could be the last step of [...]
Slipping out for a cigarette has its benefits
The proportion of American adults who smoke has fallen from 42 per cent to under 20 per cent over the past 50 years, the American Journal of Public Health said in July. This suggested, the journal wrote, that the US was halfway through a 100-year war on cigarettes. Now, Thomas Farley , New York’s city [...]
Ex smoker urges residents to quit
A FORMER 20-a-day smoker has backed a new drive to get Exmouth residents to kick the habit – by visiting a free advice centre in Withycombe. More than a third of 16 to 24 year-olds in Devon smoke, the worst in the country. But more than 4,000 people in the county quit smoking last year, [...]
Doctors Fear Asking Mentally Ill To Quit Smoking
People with mental illnesses such as depression and anxiety are the heaviest smokers in the country, but their doctors are afraid to ask them to quit. They assume that if their patients try to quit smoking, their mental disorders will get worse. That is a myth, according to Brian Hitsman, a tobacco addiction specialist and [...]
E-cigarettes not recommended for quitting smoking
Though many smokers believe electronic cigarettes are designed to help them quit, such an assumption may be untrue, federal officials said. Art senior Adam Pezen said he learned about e-cigarettes from online blogs and first tried them out of curiosity. “My mom bought them because she had been a hardcore smoker for about 30 years,” [...]
Smokeless Tobacco Increases Risk Of Heart Attack And Stroke
People who use smokeless tobacco products like snus have a slightly higher risk of having a fatal heart attack or stroke, according to research published on bmj.com. In the past few decades there has been an increase in the number of people in Europe and North America using smokeless tobacco, particularly among people younger than [...]
Electronic Cigarette Company Urges Parents To Stop Smoking
Most parents know that smoking is bad for their children, some just don’t know how bad it really is. Second-hand smoke contains over 4,000 chemicals, including cyanide, carbon monoxide and benzene. Second hand smoke makes children more susceptible to pneumonia and ear infections and contributes to lifelong health conditions, such as asthma. Babies of smokers [...]
