What Is The Impact of Smoking on Vascular Disease?
Smoking is one of the very strong risk factors for developing vascular disease. We have seen very young people who smoke develop vascular disease. Normally as our arteries become blocked, it is a part of aging. Most of the patients with vascular disease are in the 60's, 70s and beyond. But one who smokes very heavily, someone who started smoking very early in their teens, one who smokes one or two packs a day regularly... we see that they get vascular disease 10 to 20 years earlier. Some people in their 40s have severe vascular disease. So there is no question that smoking is a strong risk factor.
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Outdoor Secondhand Smoke
Studies reveal the hidden dangers behind outdoor secondhand smoke exposure.
A 2006 U.S. Surgeon General's Report claims secondhand smoke kills tens of thousands of people each year, and it has long been claimed that second hand smoke can be dangerous through indoor exposure. However little is known about the risks of outdoor inhalation. Recent research from Stanford University examines how smoking can affect the quality of air at park benches, sidewalk cafes and other public places. Researchers concluded that sitting a few feet downwind of a smoker can leave someone exposed to contaminated fumes that are much more concentrated than normal air pollution levels.
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HEALTH WRAP TEENS AND SMOKING
According to new research, there is a suggestion that school-based programs are not very effective in the long term in preventing kids from taking up smoking.
And the net upshot, it may take more than anti-smoking lessons in the classroom to keep school-age children and teens from lighting up.
A recent review of studies looked at information-giving education programs, where students learned about smoking and its risks.
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Lung cancer is one of the most common cancers in America today. There are nearly 200,000 cases diagnosed annually.
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Smoking Study
If you’re a smoker, do you choose light cigarettes to limit your exposure to the dangerous substances in tobacco?
That may be more of a woman thing to do.
There’s a huge difference between the smoking habits and beliefs of men and women--differences that affect their approach to quitting.
“I think it was the general health reasons. I was getting older and I was starting to feel some of the consequences of smoking and I just knew that I had to quit.” Like many women, cigarettes had become a major concern for Mayumi Takatami.
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Smoking Cut Back
If you smoke or know someone who smokes, which is just about all of us, you know how difficult it is to quit smoking.
But what about cutting back, reducing the number of cigarettes one smokes each day as a first step towards quitting smoking? Does that lower your risk of getting lung cancer and other illnesses?
To use a sports analogy, there are those who would argue—and there’s a new study to back this up-- that trying to cut back instead of quitting smoking, is similar to hoping you only lose by one touchdown rather than 3. However some researchers maintain that the only real way to win over cigarettes would be to completely kick the habit.
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Fast heart CAT scans have been a screening test in limbo. The exact role and place for this exam, which is becoming more widely available, hasn’t been well defined, until now.
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ANTISMOKING LEGISLATION
What effects do tougher antismoking laws have in terms of reducing smoking and smoking-related diseases?
New Finnish research shows what’s being reproduced in other countries and in several cities in the U.S.: that these laws to restrict smoking, often through higher taxes and bans on public smoking, are having a huge impact in cutting smoking rates and what’s expected, as a result, related diseases.
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U.S. government data shows approximately 75% of women daily smokers are interested in quitting, and of these nearly 47% attempted to quit during the previous year.
Unfortunately, among those who do quit, only 7% are still tobacco-free one year later.
Now, new research shows perhaps we need to rethink how we use the nicotine patch.
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