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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 [...]
Tobacco funding: time to quit
Tobacco companies are not philanthropic institutions. As long ago as 1967 the late Senator Robert Kennedy said, “the cigarette industry is peddling a deadly weapon. It is dealing in people’s lives for financial gain”. The Australian tobacco industry is dominated by three big companies (or in modern political parlance, three “great big” companies), British American [...]
Doctors rank tobacco addiction as the most difficult habit to treat
Nine out of 10 doctors in the Middle East feel smoking is more dangerous to a patient’s long-term health than factors such as obesity, lack of exercise, alcohol consumption or drug abuse, according to a new report. Eight out of 10 physicians surveyed want to classify smoking as a medical condition and 89 per cent [...]
How to stop your children smoking?
Nearly all parents hope to dissuade their children from smoking. But if you make a big fuss, isn’t there a danger of creating a wicked taboo that becomes all the more attractive to a teenager? What works? The simplest deterrent is never to have smoked yourself – role models are particularly important in regard to [...]
Parenthood Offers Motivation to Quit Smoking
With some gentle prodding, new parents can be motivated to make more attempts to quit smoking, a new study says. The trick seems to be getting pregnant women and new moms and dads to understand the dangers of secondhand smoke to unborn and newborn babies, researchers say in the March issue of Pediatrics, which appeared [...]
8 Ways Your Dog Can Help You Quit Smoking
Want to stop smoking for the New Year? You know the pitch. You’ve tried the patch. Time to send in the pooch. Your dog can be an invaluable aid in your quest to quit ciggies. Here’s the scoop on 8 ways to enlist your best friend to help you kick the habit. Do it for [...]
Men in Scotland may start to outlive women as toll of tobacco hits
WOMEN in Scotland are failing to improve their health at the same rate as men and may not continue to outlive them for much longer, according to Scotland’s leading doctor. Men are giving up smoking in their thousands and exercising more, meaning they will live for seven more years, on average, compared with 1980. But [...]
Help available if you want to quit smoking
THE CARNOUSTIE Quit Smoking Group has been running for over 10 years, and in that time has helped many people to successfully give up smoking for life. In 2009 the success rate for those stopped at three months after attending the group is 55 per cent, and 25 per cent of those are still stopped [...]
Why you should avoid the smoke
The facts are there — smoking will cause several health risks and problems to the human body. Smoking causes heart disease, the No. 1 cause of death in both men and women in the United States. Other common diseases linked to smoking include cancer, emphysema, chronic bronchitis and heart disease. Smoking damages the immune system, [...]
Smoking seen to cause malnutrition in children
Much is written about smoking being unhealthy and harmful, but it is also a highly expensive habit. Spending on tobacco drives out critical expenditures that cover basic needs. This is most significant in low-income families, affecting the smoker and his or her family. According to a report that was recently published in the International Resource [...]
Dental patients are helped to stop smoking
Dentists in the district are leading the way in Yorkshire by helping more and more of their patients quit smoking for good. An increasing number of dental practices in Bradford and Airedale are now trained to help people stop smoking when they go for a check-up. The local NHS stop smoking service and public health [...]
Skaters, bikers deliver tobacco-free message
High school students at three area schools this week will get a tobacco-free message in an unusual delivery. In support of the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids, pro skaters and cyclists will provide their message to students at Eau Gallie, Melbourne and Viera high school students while performing acrobatic stunts on the vert ramps. California’s Gabe [...]
Risks of second-hand smoke
A pro-incineration expert brought in by Metro Vancouver to speak at a series of public forums once testified as a tobacco industry witness that there was insufficient evidence to link smoking to lung cancer. Jim Bridges, a retired professor of toxicology at the University of Surrey in England, testified in 1995 at U.S. Occupational Safety [...]
Anti-smoking info campaign targets minorities
A statewide anti-smoking campaign aimed at minorities and those in poverty that highlights the dangers of second-hand smoke has begun. Advertisement Dubbed “Everybody Smokes When Anybody Smokes,” the campaign will use radio, bus and billboard advertisements to get the message across. And local anti-smoking advocates say they hope it will bolster their ongoing efforts to [...]
