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Kerala Bans The Sale Of Pan Masala Near Schools

...ity. Children are also likely to fall prey to this habit which inflicts enormous damage to the health. The Health Department of the state will also seek the help of voluntary organizations to ensure the effectiveness of the new rules....

Reality Of Lung Cancer May Discourage Smoking

The habit of smoking tobacco can be given up through watching the consequences of the habit in real life, according to Dr. Lori Bastian, of the Duke University Medical Center in Durham. This i...

SIDS on the rise

...previous campaigns asking the parents to avoid the habit of making their children to go to sleep on their fronts or in the bed with adults. He found that in the pat 20 years from 1984-2003 there were 369 infant deaths in the Avon area and the number of deaths in the parental bed had decreased. But on the o...

Zap the butt (cigarette) with Laser Therapy

...ng is no exception. To all those who wish kick the habit and make 2006 a milestone year, here is some mind-blowing news. Smokers // world over are swearing by Laser therapy that helps in zapping the habit. Cold laser therapy, likened to a modern form of acupuncture has recorded higher success rates almos...

Nicotine Vaccine May Help Smokers To Quit Smoking

... halves it. But half of those who fail to kick the habit will die as a result of smoking, and a quarter of all smokers die in middle age. --Edited IANS...

Free nicotine patches to quit smoking

...will help the public to relieve from their smoking habit which is one of the leading cause of preventable death. Smoking has the dubious distinction of affecting all the systems from head to foot. Cigarette smoke contains about 4,000 chemical agents, including over 60 carcinogens including substances, such...

Holiday giving linked to altruistic nature of our ancestors

...to the families who had less food and also had the habit of exchanging gifts and foods between// them which were the basis for origin of holiday giving. Michael Gurven, University of California said, "Reciprocity is arguably the foundational basis of cooperation in humans and a core feature of reciprocity ...

Catherine Zeta wants to give up nicotine cravings

...gs, because she is afraid of the impact her deadly habit will have on her growing kids. // The 36-year-old beauty, is concerned because her two children, Dylan-five and two-year-old Cary are approaching an impressionable age, when kids become curious to know about every little thing around. I have to sto...

Overweight, smokers and drunks beware: treatment could be denied

... an attempt to dissuade them from getting into the habit of smoking or drinking and being overweight. ...

Newer Generation Sleeping Pills Lack Superior Performance

...ared to benzodiazepines due to the reduced risk of habit formation over a period of time. A detailed review regarding the safety and effectiveness of the sleeping pills concluded that the drugs were better than placebo pills for treatment of insomnia symptoms such as trouble falling asleep and staying a...

Smokers May Be Denied Heart Surgery

...tor may call upon a smoking patient to give up the habit as smoking may raise the risks of the operation. A Liberal Democrat health spokesman has voiced the opinion that treatment should not be denied to people on the grounds of their lifestyle, nor should the cost of the treatment be taken into account....

Smoking Related Scenes in Movies Increase Teenage Susceptibility To Smoke

...s stage that most smokers would have initiated the habit during adolescence. "The weight of dozens of studies, after controlling for all other known influences, shows the more smoking that kids see on screen, the more likely they are to smoke. This strong empirical evidence affects hundreds of thousands ...

Love And Drug Addiction Share The Same Chemistry

...ime to better understand why love failure leads to habit formation in most of the cases. Perhaps such explorations could eventually pave way for the effective treatment of depression and drug abuse...

Moderate Drinkers Found to Escape Obesity and Related Problems

...were required to provide details of their drinking habit while a parallel measurement of their body mass index was also taken up. Individuals consuming 4 or more drinks per day were rated as heavy drinkers while those who had a frequency of one drink in a month were categorized as current drinkers. This ...

Smoking Ban Believed To Enjoy Widespread Public Acceptance In Scotland

...a ￡200 fine. Helping someone else quit the smoking habit is indeed the greatest help that can be rendered to benefit not only the smoker but also their near and dear ones. ...

Three meals daily Keeps 'Kerala's elderly Healthy

...tel leaf, with close to 20 percent addicted to the habit compared to 13 percent men. Sabu Aliyar, a member of the study team, said these were only preliminary reports. In a month's time, the complete results would be published, he added. Kerala has traditionally led from the front when it came to the tot...

Family history of alcoholism influences reaction to advice

...egnancy.//The above factor plus a serious caffeine habit were the hurdles to compliance. "Results of this study suggest that genetic vulnerability reflected in a family history of alcoholism may also be at the root of the inability to stop caffeine use," said co-lead author Roland R. Griffiths, Ph.D., a p...

Smokers puff away despite cancer Diagnosis

...t smokers are unconcerned with the effect of their habit on the oral cavity. www.medindia.net/news/ view_news_main.asp?x=5712 Smoking a Cigar increases risk of dying by heart diseases and lung ... Researchers have found that smoking increased the risk of death from coronary heart disease and lung can...

Most Smokers Continue To Smoke Despite Developing Cancer

...individuals to the ill effects associated with the habit and to help curb the same. A new study conducted...early one half of all cancer patients continue the habit or relapse after trying to quit. These patients were explained about the disastrous effects of smoki...

Smoking and mouth cancer

...t smokers are unconcerned with the effect of their habit on the oral cavity. In particular they seemed to be aware of the damage // that smoking caused to the tongue or jaw or the lip and even the teeth, but were strangely reluctant to change their habits. This is of particular concern to the oral and maxi...

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