Health / Tags / Smokers

HEALTH / NEWS Wed Jan 3, 2007 @ 7:24pm neoform

News.com.au -- MORE than four out of five smokers want to give up cigarettes, a study has found... Read More

HEALTH / NEWS Thu Apr 3, 2008 @ 8:15am neoform

SF Gate -- Scientists have pinpointed genetic variations that make people more likely to get hooked on cigarettes and more prone to develop lung cancer — a finding that could someday lead to screening tests and customized treatments for smokers trying to kick the.. Read More

HEALTH / NEWS Thu Oct 25, 2007 @ 8:20am neoform

MSNBC -- Teenagers who smoke are five times more likely to drink and 13 times more likely to use marijuana than those who are not smokers, according to a report issued on Tuesday. The report by Columbia University's National Center on Addiction and Substance Ab.. Read More

HEALTH / NEWS Sun Jun 3, 2007 @ 10:55am neoform

New Scientist -- If nothing else, this should worry smokers: the radiation dose from radium and polonium found naturally in tobacco can be a thousand times more than that from the caesium-137 taken up by the leaves from the Chernobyl nuclear accident. Constantin Papast.. Read More

HEALTH / NEWS Fri Jan 26, 2007 @ 9:57am mrmdc

The Australian -- SMOKERS who suffer damage to a particular part of their brains appear to be able to quit their nicotine habit easily - a discovery that might open new avenues of addiction research... Read More

HEALTH / NEWS Tue Nov 28, 2006 @ 10:14am mrmdc

BBC News -- There are no half measures for heavy smokers wanting to minimise the risk that their habit will lead to their early death, research suggests... Read More

HEALTH / NEWS Mon Oct 23, 2006 @ 11:01am neoform

Daily Mail -- Smokers will be denied life-changing operations unless they agree to kick the habit, it was revealed today... Read More