
Survey Finds Support For Outdoor Smoking Ban
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Researchers at Moffitt Cancer Center who surveyed employees and patients about a ban on outdoor smoking at the cancer center found that 86 percent of non-smokers supported the ban, as did 20 percent of the employees who were smokers. Fifty-seven percent of patients who were smokers also favored the ban...
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Mothers Who Smoke While Pregnant Increase Their Baby's Risk Of Asthma
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New research has discovered that mothers who smoke during pregnancy may cause wheeze and asthma in their children when they reach preschool, even among kids whose moms did not smoke until late pregnancy or after birth...
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Electronic Cigarettes Not Linked To Heart Damage
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Using electronic cigarettes is not associated with acute adverse effects on cardiac function, researchers from the Onassis Cardiac Surgery Center, Athens, Greece, reported at the European Society for Cardiology 2012 Conference in Munich, Germany...
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Electronic Cigarettes Harm The Lungs
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Electronic cigarettes, seen by many as a healthy alternative to tobacco smoking, do cause damage to the lungs, scientists from the University of Athens, Greece, explained at the European Respiratory Society's Annual Congress 2012, Vienna, on Sunday. Electronic cigarettes, also called e-cigarettes have also been marketed as effective smoking cessation devices...
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Popular Kids In US And Mexico More Likely To Smoke, USC Studies Show
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Be warned, popularity may cause lung cancer, heart disease, and emphysema. New research from the University of Southern California (USC) and University of Texas finds that popular students in seven Southern California high schools are more likely to smoke cigarettes than their less popular counterparts...
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In Lung Cancer, Smokers Have 10 Times More Genetic Damage Than Never-Smokers
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Lung cancer patients with a history of smoking have 10 times more genetic mutations in their tumors than those with the disease who have never smoked, according to a new study from Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis. "None of us were surprised that the genomes of smokers had more mutations than the genomes of never-smokers with lung cancer," says senior author Richard K...
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Huge Physical And Economic Toll Of Secondhand Smoke
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Secondhand smoke is accountable for 42,000 deaths annually to nonsmokers in the United States, including nearly 900 infants, according to a new UCSF study. Altogether, annual deaths from secondhand smoke represent nearly 600,000 years of potential life lost - an average of 14.2 years per person - and $6.6 billion in lost productivity, amounting to $158,000 per death, report the researchers...
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