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Elmira-area teens speak out against smoking
Elmira Star-Gazette
"My grandfather recently died of lung cancer. My parents started smoking when they were 13 or 14. They've been struggling. I've had to live with that, too." "We've seen enough" was the theme of Tuesday's gathering at the Arnot Mall, with members of the ...
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Zero-tolerance against smoking at public places
Frontier Post
KARACHI: Sindh Minister for Electric Power, Ms. Shazia Marri, has said that smoking is root cause of lung cancer, TB and other fatal diseases, taking lives of young generation which can only be resisted through zero tolerance against it at public ...
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Smokers adapting to ban in Worcester public housing rooms
Worcester Telegram
"Given the extra steps we have taken to accommodate those who do not smoke or are trying to quit, we expect few, if any violations of the new policy," said Mr. Mariano, whose mother, Aldea, died of lung cancer. "If and when those violations occur, ...
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Ballot questions pose a battle over smoking restrictions
Reno Gazette Journal
Question 5, the Clean Indoor Air Act, is the more restrictive measure and is backed by health groups, including the American Lung Association, the Nevada State Medical Association and the American Cancer Society. The Clean Indoor Air Act would ban ...
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Message is loud: give up smoking
Times of India
Later in the day, 380 residents of South Bangalore were screened for lung ailments. Doctors at Arogya Vahana — a special vehicle organized by Sagar Hospitals — carried out free check-up across South Bangalore, from Banashankari to Isro and ...
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'Practise what you preach, don't smoke'
Express Buzz
He spoke about the risks of passive smoking and the ways to stop addiction. "There are more than 4000 chemicals in a cigarette. Out of this 50 are carcinogenic. The others can cause heart attacks, lung disease, cancer and ulcers," he said. ...
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On World No Tobacco Day, an international look at Denmark's no-smoking laws
The Copenhagen Post
Storm with the Danish Cancer Society added that there are at least 300 cases every year of non-smoking women who die of lung cancer due to living with a husband who smokes. "Definitely, the laws should try to de-normalize smoking in society ... and ...
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American Lung Association Fight For Air Walk Takes Steps To End Lung Disease
ReadMedia (press release)
Making sure people know what is needed to take control of these lung diseases is one of the American Lung Association's top priorities. * 35 Million Americans are living with chronic lung diseases such as asthma, lung cancer and COPD. ...
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World No Tobacco Day marked
Petrolia Topic
... will die from a tobacco-related heart attack, stroke, cancer, lung ailment or other disease. That doesn't include more than 600000 people, more than a quarter of them children, who will die from exposure to second-hand smoke." Smoking is the No. ...
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Think before you light up
gulfnews.com
Though my wife nagged over the years and tried to frighten me telling me about her uncle's friend, a top journalist in India, who died early due to smoking, I never thought of quitting. Dying and cancer was for other people, not me. ...
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No tobacco please, this is cancer hospital
IBNLive.com
While chewing tobacco, more practised in Orissa, is a far greater health hazard due to higher concentration of tobacco, smoking accounts for over 87 per cent of all lung cancers. “The younger generation should be the main targets of anti-tobacco ...
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| Blogs | 6 new results for smoking and lung cancer |
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World Health Organization's 24th Annual No Tobacco Day Recap | The ...
By MGR
Another person wanted to know more about The Safe Cig because her Mother-in-Law suffers every single day only smoking four cigarettes as she had stage 3b lung cancer and her Father-in-Law had a heart transplant and does not need to be ...
The Safe Cig - http://www.thesafecig.com/blog/ |
Editorial:|: Death by smoking | Mindanao Times
By Times Editors
Smoking has been linked to lung cancer. And second hand smoke is a vicious killer, as well. Dr. Domilyn Villareiz, co-chair of the Davao City Anti-Smoking Task Force, said that their data showed that the city's prevalence rate of ...
Mindanao Times - http://www.mindanaotimes.net/ |
The Adventures of Dr. Obvious | The Daily Scan | GenomeWeb
At the same time as they do studies on the human genome, researchers also work on whether cigarette smoking increases the risk of lung cancer, or whether Alzheimer's disease makes older people worse drivers, says the Los Angeles Times ' ...
- http://www.genomeweb.com/newsletter/10910 |
Health Department Observes World No Tobacco Day
By Oxiris Barbot, M.D.
Eighty percent of all fire deaths occur in the home; careless smoking is often to blame. This year, more than 5 million people worldwide will die from a tobacco-related heart attack, stroke, cancer, lung ailment or other disease. ...
Take Care, B'more - http://takecarebmore.blogspot.com/ |
Sex Differences in Hookah Use among College Students
By admin
Hookah use has increased in popularity, most likely due to its reputation for being a less dangerous alternative to cigarette smoking, although it has been recently linked with lung cancer, periodontal disease, and other pathologies in ...
Health Mirror - http://health.abhayamedia.com/ |
I can dream…. | Close to Home
By Alice Ackerman
On the one hand, I am an avid anti-smoking advocate. Perhaps because I grew up constantly exposed to second-hand smoke. Perhaps because my grandfather died of COPD, and my brother died of lung cancer, both after a very long smoking ...
Close to Home - http://www.carilionclinic.org/blogs/ackerman/ |
