Vending machines tell age
13/5/2008 |
Cigarette vending machines in Japan may soon start counting wrinkles, crow's feet and skin sags to see if the customer is old enough to smoke.
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Quitters cut early death risk
8/5/2008 |
Women who stop smoking greatly reduce their risk of early death and cardiovascular disease just five years after they quit, according to a new study released in the United States.
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Smoking - never too late to quit
7/5/2008 |
Deaths from vascular disease due to smoking are substantially reduced in women within 5 years after they quit smoking.
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Tobacco kills 42 000 yearly in SA
6/5/2008 |
More than 42 000 annual deaths in SA are attributed to tobacco use, the Cancer Association of SA said at the Health Portfolio Committee's public hearing in Cape Town this week.
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Passive smoking a real danger
30/4/2008 |
Second-hand smoke not only damages the delicate cells that line blood vessels but also disrupts the body's natural repair mechanism for those cells, a new study shows.
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Nicotine vaccine trials underway
30/4/2008 |
Nordic scientists have launched a trial on a vaccine designed to help smokers kick the world's deadliest habit by depriving them of one of its chief pleasures.
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Oral test could predict lung cancer
15/4/2008 |
Damage to cells lining the mouth can predict similar damage in the lungs that eventually leads to lung cancer in smokers, US researchers have reported.
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Gene dictates smoking habits
3/4/2008 |
Scientists say they've pinpointed a genetic link that makes people more likely to get hooked on tobacco, to smoke more, make it harder to quit and lead more often to lung cancer.
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Smoking ban ups car crash risk
2/4/2008 |
A ban on smoking in American bars has caused the number of accidents from drunken driving to surge, researchers have discovered.
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High tobacco tax curbs smoking
1/4/2008 |
Higher taxes on tobacco are the most effective way for governments to combat the health and social costs of smoking, experts attending a World Health Organisation meeting said.
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