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| Counseling By Student-Dentists Helps Patients Quit Smoking |
Students in most dental schools are taught to refer tobacco-using patients they encounter in their clinical training to call a "quit line."
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03/30/07 |
| Risk Of Lung Cancer Mortality Reduced By 70 Percent By Quitting Smoking |
In the study of 500,000 adults, published in the American Journal of Epidemiology, the Asia-Pacific Cohort Studies Collaboration (APCSC) shows that the risks of dying from lung cancer were about twenty times higher among women who smoke compared with mal |
03/30/07 |
| Hookah Use, 1st New Tobacco Use Trend Of The 21st Century - Carries Many Of The Same Health Risks As Cigarette Smoking |
The emergence of trendy hookah bars in the United States masks the serious risk to health from hookah use, according to the American Lung Association's new report, An Emerging Deadly Trend - Waterpipe Tobacco Use, released today. Hookah bars are growing |
03/30/07 |
| Minister Launches Official Countdown To Smokefree England |
A smokefree England will be a reality in one hundred days time and
the Government is stepping up its campaign to help businesses get
ready for the 1 July start date. |
03/30/07 |
| New Study Shows Benefits Of Quitting Smoking |
Giving up smoking can reduce the risk of dying from the disease by up to 70 percent, new research published in the American Journal of Epidemiology this week shows. |
03/30/07 |
| Smoking Ban A Success One Year On, But Still A Long Way To Go To Reduce Smoking In Scotland, Says BMA, UK |
One year on since Scotland introduced smoke free public places, Scotland's doctors still believe tobacco is the number one public health issue for Scots, the British Medical Association said today. |
03/30/07 |
| Teen Smokers Exposed To Nicotine In The Womb Have Problems Focusing |
Teen smokers exposed to nicotine in the womb have trouble looking at or listening to something attentively, Yale School of Medicine researcher and associate professor of psychiatry, Leslie Jacobsen, reports in Neuropsychopharmacology. |
03/30/07 |
| Doctors Day 2007 Promotes Importance Of Quitting Smoking Before Surgery |
Smokers have heard all of the reasons for quitting before: smoking increases their risk for lung disease, heart disease and cancer, and the habit will literally take years off their life. But one reason to quit may not be as well known smokers require spe |
03/30/07 |
| Artery Stiffness May Be Reversed By Long-Term Smoking Cessation |
Ex-smokers achieved non-smokers' level of arterial stiffness after a decade of smoking cessation, in a cross-sectional study reported in Hypertension: Journal of the American Heart Association.
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03/23/07 |
| Smoking Linked With Aging On Skin That Usually Is Not Exposed To Sunlight |
In classic movies, cigarette smoking was used as shorthand to convey sultriness and beauty. In the real world, the connection between smoking and one's appearance - as many studies have shown - has more to do with premature signs of aging and less to do |
03/23/07 |
| Cause Of Smokers' Cravings Revealed By Brain Scans |
Within the mind of every smoker trying to quit rages a battle between the higher-order functions of the brain wanting to break the habit and the lower-order functions screaming for another cigarette, say researchers at Duke University Medical Center. Mor |
03/23/07 |
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