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New Study Suggests Special Cocoa may Lead to Sustained Improvement in Blood Vessel Function

...rchers in Germany fed the cocoa to a group of male smokers – a population known to have impaired blood vessel function. In the first part of the study, participants drank specially made cocoa beverages that contained different flavanol levels – ranging from 28 to 918 milligrams. At each level, the optimal ef...

Gene Cell Test may Aid Early Lung Cancer Diagnosis

...sease. It would also give an earlier incentive for smokers to give up. "Our biomarker might be useful as a screening tool for lung cancer among healthy smokers," the authors wrote. Smoking has numerous other health effects such as greatly increasing the risk of heart disease, and triggering lung conditions...

Tasmanian Car Smoking Ban Sets Good Example For Other Governments

...h hazard from our kids and will hopefully convince smokers to make their cars a total smoke-free zone or, better still, give up the killer habit totally. “The fruit-flavoured cigarettes are another Big Tobacco trick that had to be outlawed. “The AMA congratulates the Tasmanian Government for taking these...

Union Budget: Impact on Health Sector

... Dissuading smoking has been a high priority and smokers have always paid more for their puffs over the years. This year is no exception. The minister said: 'I strongly support the campaign 'say no to tobacco'. Hence, I propose to increase the specific rates of excise duty on cigarettes by about 5 per cent...

Want a Baby? No Hot Baths Please !

...king history, in contrast to only three occasional smokers in the responder group. No other potential gonadotoxic factors – harmful to the male gonad – were identified. For the purposes of this study, wet heat exposure was defined as the immersion of the body in a hot tub, heated Jacuzzi or bath at a tempe...

Higher Physical Activity Level Slows Lung Function Decline in Smokers

... associated with lower lung function decline among smokers and help to moderate their risk of developing// ch...ording to the authors, the reduction in COPD among smokers due to moderate to high levels of physical activity was 21 percent of potential new cases. The inv...

Susceptibility to TB is High Among the Smokers

...s than those who did not smoke. This suggests that smokers are 40 to 60 percent more likely than non-smokers to develop tuberculosis disease after being infected with TB bacteria. The excess risk of death from TB associated with smoking was less than the excess risk of TB disease, suggesting that smoking doe...

AMA Calls For Ban On Duty-Free Cigarettes

...ition of tax is an important deterrent to would-be smokers – the AMA sees no reason why the purchase of some cigarettes should be exempt from taxation. “To air graphic anti-smoking advertisements and display on-packet warnings on the one hand and allow the tax-free purchase of cigarettes on the other is a...

Smoking Alters the Human Brain Like Those in Animals Using Illicit Drugs

...es were taken from each of three groups: long-term smokers until the time of death, previous long-term smoker...ngly suggests that the similar changes observed in smokers and former smokers contributed to their addiction," he adds. Hope points out that although previou...

Intense Cessation Treatment Proves Successful in High-Risk Smokers

... new study. A new research suggests that high-risk smokers with acute cardiovascular disease are more likely ... disease. All of the patients were self-identified smokers and agreed to undergo smoking cessation intervention. Patients were then randomized into two groups:...

Genes for Nicotine Dependence Identified

...is a U.S.-based sample that includes both addicted smokers and "social" smokers from St. Louis, Minneapolis and Detroit. The other is an Australian study of smokers of European anc...

Smoking Increases Risk of HIV Acquisition

...o was an independent risk factor. In these studies smokers had an adjusted odds ratio of between 1.6 to 3.5 o...terial pneumonia, and one of these also found that smokers had an increased risk of developing AIDS-related dementia, but it also found that smoking was protec...

Youngsters- Beware of Marijuana!

...ed addicted marijuana users for 14 years, habitual smokers who smoked pot once a day got poor scores in their...l IQ tests. Recent research on chronic marijuana smokers and alcoholics performed in 2006 by psychiatry professor, Ronald Kadden, who runs the Health Center'...

Chlamydia Vaccine a Step Closer to Reality

... administered via a patch, similar to ones used by smokers for nicotine. "Patches are a good way to deliver proteins to a part of the body's immune system and they are also easy and user-friendly." He said with rates of Chlamydia infection in some Australian communities as high as 12 per cent of the fem...

Blindness from Smoking Terrifies Teens

...mpton. One in five of the young women were daily smokers (21%), compared with around one in seven (15%) of the young men. The teens were asked if they knew about the link between smoking and certain diseases, such as stroke, lung cancer, heart disease, and blindness. Deafness, which is not caused by smok...

Statutory Warnings on Cigarette Packs- Make It Bigger and Brighter, Say Researchers

...a piece of advice for governments who want to help smokers kick ‘butts’; keep all warnings// printed on cigar... 2005. The researchers quizzed around 15,000 smokers on how effective these messages were in alerting them to the dangers of smoking and in helping them ...

Smoking Increases the Danger of Losing Vision

...ng this group is vital to bring down the number of smokers and the diseases associated with it. JYT...

A New Plan to Restrict Cardiovascular Diseases in Scotland

...amily history of high cholesterol. Older people, smokers and the overweight are considered more at risk. This assessment will also look into the place where you live as evidence shows deprivation and stress also add to heart problems. PRI...

Teens Unaware of the Link Between Smoking and Blindness

...mpton. One in five of the young women were daily smokers (21%), compared with around one in seven (15%) of the young men. The teens were asked if they knew about the link between smoking and certain diseases, such as stroke, lung cancer, heart disease, and blindness. Deafness, which is not caused by s...

Higher Serum Selenium Linked With Reduced Risks of Prostate Cancer - in Some Men

...s daily, the risk reduction was 39 percent. For smokers it was good news. Those smokers with high serum selenium were observed to have a 35 percent reduced risk of developing prostate canc...

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