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Can the number of smokers in the UK be reduced to one in 10 by 2020?
Why are we asking this now?
Yesterday the Government announced a 10-year strategy to halve the number of smokers from 21 per cent to 10 per cent of the population by 2020. That means persuading four of the eight million current smokers to give up, or avoid starting, the habit. The number has fallen by a [...]
Tobacco smoke causes lung inflammation, promotes lung cancer growth
Repeated exposure to tobacco smoke makes lung cancer much worse, and one reason is that it steps up inflammation in the lung. Scientists at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine have found that mice with early lung cancer lesions that were repeatedly exposed to tobacco smoke developed larger tumors – and developed [...]
Smoking linked to back pain
Smokers, especially younger smokers, are more likely to report low back pain than people who have never smoked.
To know if smoking increases the risk of low back pain, a problem that affects an estimated 8 in 10 adults during some point in their lives, researchers identified and reviewed 81 studies from around the world involving [...]
All it takes to harm genes is 15 cigarettes
One genetic mutation occurs on average for every 15 cigarettes that a typical lung-cancer patient smokes, according to a study that has identified for the first time all of the mutations acquired during the lifetime of a cancer patient.
Scientists have completed a full genetic analysis of the genomes of cancer patients, and hope the information [...]
Tobacco Free Florida participates in the 34th Great American Smokeout
Tobacco Free Florida is the statewide youth prevention and adult cessation campaign launched in February 2008, created to educate the public about the dangers of all tobacco use and to help those who use tobacco to “Be Free” and break the cycle of addiction.
The Florida Department of Health and Tobacco Free Florida are celebrating the [...]
Why Skin Color May Affect Nicotine Dependence
Nicotine is a highly addictive substance in cigarettes that makes it difficult for many to quit smoking. About 40 years ago, 40% of Americans smoked. Today 20% still do but recent research may indicate why it is harder for those who have darker colored skin, such as African Americans, to kick the habit.
Dr. Gary King, [...]
Are you ready to quit smoking?
Q. Why is it so hard for me to quit smoking?
A. I hear from many people who have been successful in quitting smoking, and those who have quit many times only to go back to the habit. The true hazardous substance is nicotine and its effect on your body.
Nicotine is a drug naturally found in [...]
Smoking Bans Mean Fewer Heart Hospitalizations
A recent report from the Institute of Medicine (IOM) brings long-awaited evidence that smoke-free laws do, indeed, benefit the heart health of Americans, and further motivates the American Heart Association to continue pressing local officials to enact smoke-free policies.
“The IOM findings confirm what the U.S. Surgeon General said back in 2006 – there is no [...]
Anti-smoking advocates release study results
Indianapolis – An anti-smoking group is calling on the City-County Council to ban smoking in all workplaces including bars, restaurants and bowling alleys. The group says the danger of second hand smoke is not a cloudy issue.
Employees who breathe in someone else’s smoke in the workplace have their own health jeopardized every day. That’s according [...]
Let’s stop kids smoking before they start
Where does the time go?
Does anyone else find it hard to believe that Fall is here again?
As we welcome the start of a new school year, I ask you to spare a thought for the teenagers out there. Being a teen is one of the most exciting and, at the same time, most challenging parts [...]
Smoking Increase Risk Of Second Breast Cancer
It is well known that survivors of breast cancer have a much higher risk of developing a second breast cancer than women in the general population have of developing a first breast cancer. However, little is known about what lifestyle factors may make survivors more vulnerable to a second cancer.
A new study by researchers at [...]
Healthcare Propaganda from Tobacco/Exxon
I received an email from the Tobacco/Exxon-funded Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI) promoting this video. The email said it is by Lee Doren (more here), not the video or the page it is on — I had to track that down. There also isn’t any info describing who made the video, or the connection with CEI. [...]
Smoking may aggravate malnutrition
Smokers may exacerbate the problem of malnutrition in developing countries because they tend to finance their habit by dipping into the family food budget, say a pair of researchers.
Steven Block and Patrick Webb, of Tufts University, have revealed that their finding is based on a study conducted in Java, Indonesia.
They say that their findings suggest [...]
Brad Pitt Quit Smoking For His Kids
Brad Pitt recently announced that he used to smoke marijuana, but quit when he became a father.
According to Extra TV, during an interview with Bill Maher in which Maher congratulated Pitt on his “stoner role” in the 1993 film, “True Romance,” Pitt admitted that he used to smoke pot.
“I certainly had my day,” he said.
The [...]
