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Cancers of Colon & Rectum linked to Cigarette Smoking

...n cancer death also rose with increasing number of cigarettes smoked daily, younger age when smoking started, and total number of packs smoked over the years....

Want skin cancer? Please have a cigarette

...cant dose-response relationship with the number of cigarettes and pipes smoked. However, cigar smoking did not significantly increase the risk of developing skin cancer. The authors opine that squamous cell carcinoma is caused directly by smoking, which acts as a carcinogen and stimulates changes in the cells...

Smoking a greater risk than HIV? Yes say health experts!!!!

...decrease in the number of smokers or the number of cigarettes sold!!!! The report adds that the process of globalisation is to be blamed for this, as the developing countries are forced to drop tariff barriers against highly successful international brands. Whatever be the reason one this is clear! Smoking is a...

Risk of Cancer can be reduced to 40% with a High Fiber Diet

... .They also showed that people who smoke a pack of cigarettes a day and drink more than a bottle of wine are 50 times more likely to suffer from throat cancers. Hence people are advised to eat five portions of fruit and vegetables a day to achieve optimum health and avoid cancer. These studies give us a tr...

Increase in tobacco deaths

...Smoking causes death on a timescale of years - the cigarettes smoked in someone's thirties may cause a cancer to develop quarter of a century later. Since two thirds of all young men in China smoke, and half of them will die from their habit, this means that a third of the male population will be killed by to...

Emotional trigger to smoke

...ngry. But the effect was stronger in men, who said cigarettes had a powerful calming effect and they did whenever they were sad and anxious. But women smoked more only when they were happy. It's known that 'emotional' smokers, and hostile personalities, find it harder to quit than easy-going people. Researche...

Prescription Drug - Helps People Stop Smoking

...hma, ulcers, and cancer. According to a WHO study, cigarettes on an average kills one of every two consumers; and by the year 2030, tobacco is likely to account for more deaths than TB and HIV put together. The medication in Smoquit, buproprion, blocks nicotinic receptors so as to prevent the reuptake of neuro...

Quit Smoking

... about the same as the expense of buying a pack of cigarettes a day. The drug poses possible side effects such as dry mouth, headache and insomnia, but half of users suffer none of them and in most of those who do the effects are short-lived and not serious. It should not be taken by pregnant or lactating w...

All the more bad

...into paraoxonase will reveal further evidence that cigarettes are a danger that sends our hearts' health up in smoke." Diabetes and old age are also associated with lower levels of paraoxonase. The research is published in the American Cardiac Association journal Circulation....

Pregnant smokers could harm their child

...g 10-year-olds who said they had experimented with cigarettes in a survey, the majority had mothers who had smok...then half of whose mothers smoked an average of 15 cigarettes a day during pregnancy. Among the 47 children who said they had smoked, most had been exposed to tob...

Smoking stripes longevity

...non-smokers and an estimate of the total number of cigarettes a regular male smoker might consume in a lifetime. The researchers, from the Univeristy of Bristol, took their figures on life expectancy from a major study of the impact of// smoking carried out by leading cancer expert Professor Gary Billiards.The...

Smoke less to stay young

...y quickly,// even if they smoke no more than a few cigarettes a month. Using a list of 11 symptoms, the researc...drastically modified to convince them to eliminate cigarettes completely....

Smoking during pregnancy increases risk of cleft palate

... risk of the birth defect rises with the number of cigarettes that a mother-to-be smokes each day, even after factors like the mother's race, age and educational level are considered. The finding, based on the largest-ever examination of cleft lip and palate incidence nationwide, suggests that the deformity sho...

Apples keep lung disease away

... These were smokers consuming at least one pack of cigarettes a day. It may be that antioxidants in fruits and vegetables can counteract the harmful free radicals in cigarette smoke, and so preserve the health of the lungs. So here's another reason to keep up your fruit and vegetable intake. But, of course, t...

Impact on Lung function based on exposure

..., and 11.5 percent in people who smoked 15 or more cigarettes a day at the beginning of the study. Among people who had asthma and also smoked heavily, the rate of decline was 16 percent. The researchers believe exposure to cigarette smoke early in life and other factors may damage growing lungs and lead to fa...

A new herbal therapy to quit smoking

... and depression. The herbal drops and non-nicotine cigarettes that will be provided also help in overcoming phys...positive person. The money that a smoker spends on cigarettes over a period of three months is estimated to be Rs. 4,000. This includes the cost of the imported ...

Accomplishment of nicotine replacement therapy

... is down to light smokers (consuming fewer than 12 cigarettes a day) - a group for whom NRT is not effective. By 1999 smokers were as likely to quit whether or not they used NRT. The researchers say that when NRT was on prescription, the doctor could offer support counselling and prescribe appropriately to the ...

Quitting the smoking habit

...ents in the study was able to help people stay off cigarettes consistently for the entire study period. By the o...seling, were no more likely to have abstained from cigarettes for the whole year than those who took the sham pill. The researchers thereby observe that more effe...

Risk of hemorrhagic stroke increased in smoking individuals

...l School has shown that Men who smoke more than 20 cigarettes a day run over twice the risk of a stroke caused b...ho// had never smoked, men who smoked less than 20 cigarettes a day had a 1.7 times higher risk of hemorrhagic stroke and in men who smoked more than this, the ri...

Smoking and Oral Contraceptives:

...The study also found women who smoked more than 15 cigarettes a day and were taking oral contraceptives were twice as likely to die than non-smokers. Researchers say this study confirms what three other studies have found in that there is no adverse effect from oral contraceptive use in non-smokers. Study auth...

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