Health / Tags / Smoking

HEALTH / NEWS Fri Dec 14, 2007 @ 1:15pm neoform

www.nationalpost.com -- Nova Scotia became the first Canadian province Thursday to ban smoking in vehicles with kids under the age of 19. The new legislation follows a similar, history-making law the Nova Scotia community of Wolfville passed in November. The new law will come.. Read More

HEALTH / NEWS Thu Nov 2, 2006 @ 11:39am neoform

Health Scout -- Anti-smoking ads on television produced by tobacco companies and aimed at parents may actually be encouraging children to start smoking, a new research paper reports... 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 / OPINION Tue Jun 26, 2007 @ 12:53pm neoform

Guardian Unlimited -- Children are contracting serious illnesses because of their parents smoking at home, says the government's chief medical officer, who has warned adults not to light up in front of their sons and daughters. In an interview with The Observer, Sir Liam Do.. Read More

HEALTH / NEWS Fri May 25, 2007 @ 4:49pm neoform

USA Today -- First beer, now smoking. Russia's lower house of parliament gave preliminary backing to a new wide-ranging restrictions on smoking in public Friday, the latest in series of legislative measures aimed at regulating Russians' health and public behavior... Read More

HEALTH / OPINION Mon May 14, 2007 @ 9:39am neoform

Guardian Unlimited -- Smoking is the stupidest thing you can do to your own body, short of hurling it off a ferry. It turns your fingers yellow, your teeth brown, and your lungs black. Lungs. Lungs. While I was smoking I often pictured my lungs, just to torture myself; in my m.. Read More

HEALTH / OPINION Wed May 2, 2007 @ 4:52pm neoform

Alter Net -- New research on "vaporization" has demonstrated that all those fears about the ill effects of smoking marijuana are 100 percent obsolete. Anyone who advocates for medical marijuana sooner or later runs into arguments about smoking: "No real medicine is.. Read More

HEALTH / NEWS Fri Feb 16, 2007 @ 12:59am neoform

MSNBC -- West Virginia and Kentucky — states known for high levels of obesity, diabetes and smoking — have the highest proportion of people with heart disease in the nation, U.S. health officials said Thursday. The findings, from the first study ever to loo.. Read More

HEALTH / OPINION Tue Feb 6, 2007 @ 9:34am mrmdc

USA Today -- Tyreol Gardner first smoked marijuana when he was 13. "The main reason I tried it was curiosity," Gardner recalls. "I wanted to see what it felt like.".. Read More

HEALTH / NEWS Sun Dec 31, 2006 @ 1:30am neoform

Stuff.co.nz -- A Christchurch cancer specialist is taking what he admits is the "stupid step" of starting smoking to highlight patient suffering during strikes by radiographers... Read More

HEALTH / NEWS Thu Dec 21, 2006 @ 8:28am neoform

This Is London -- A mother who was criticised by a doctor for nipping out for a cigarette moments before her caesarean operation has won more than £44,000 for her 'hurt feelings'... Read More

HEALTH / NEWS Tue Oct 17, 2006 @ 11:10am neoform

BBC News -- At least a quarter of long-term smokers will develop the incurable lung condition chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), a study suggests... Read More