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Exposure to Second-Hand Smoke Reduced
As the connection between second-hand smoke and coronary heart disease (CHD) became clearer and legislation was passed to reduce such passive smoking, exposures have been reduced.In an article...
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Read moreEarly exposure to tobacco smoke causes asthma and allergy
It is a well known fact that babies are harmed by tobacco smoke in numerous ways, but it has always been difficult to separate the effects of the mother smoking during pregnancy and passive smoking af...
Health and Medicine | Read moreHeart attack rates fall following national smoking bans
French researchers announced a striking 15% decrease in admissions of patients with myocardial infarction to emergency wards since the public ban on smoking came into effect in restaurants, hotels and...
Health and Medicine | Read moreNew study shows smoking increases risk of psoriasis
Investigators from the Massachusetts General Hospital, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, the Harvard School of Public Health, all in Boston, USA, and Vancouver General Hospital, Vancouver, BC, Canada, hav...
Health and Medicine | Read moreNicotine in breast milk disrupts infants' sleep patterns
A study from the Monell Chemical Senses Center reports that nicotine in the breast milk of lactating mothers who smoke cigarettes disrupts their infants' sleep patterns.“Infants spent les...
Health and Medicine | Read moreChildren of smokers have more than five times higher levels of a nicotine toxin
Having a mother that smokes was found to have the biggest independent effect on cotinine in the urine – quadrupling it. Having a smoking father doubled the amount of cotinine, one of chemicals produce...
Health and Medicine | Read moreComparing mortality rates from everyday health risks with those from radiation during the Chernobyl incident
The research, published online today in BioMedCentral Public Health, compares the health risks from radiation exposure following the Chernobyl incident with the more common risks of air pollution, pas...
Studies and Analyses | Read moreIndicators for risk of heart disease are higher in passive smokers
A new study published in Circulation, a journal of the American Heart Association, measured the level of cotinine in participants’ blood, rather than relying on participants’ self-reporting of exposur...
Health and Medicine | Read moreReview study finds association between tobacco smoking and increased risk of tuberculosis
Tuberculosis (TB) is an infectious disease that causes an estimated 2 million deaths each year. The majority of those deaths occur in developing countries, home to more than 900 million of the world&#...
Studies and Analyses | Read moreAssociation of Tuberculosis with smoking and indoor air pollution
A new study from Hsien-Ho Lin and colleagues at Harvard School of Public Health reviewed the published evidence for an association between tobacco smoking, passive smoking, and indoor air pollution fr...
Health and Medicine | Read moreSmoking ban study shows health benefits for bar staff
Staff monitored by researchers in the University’s Asthma and Allergy Research Group were shown to have experienced significant benefits to their general health as a result of the smoking ban....
Studies and Analyses | Read more“How young is your heart” World Heart Day, Sunday 24 September 2006
World Heart Day is run by the World Heart Federation's member organizations in more than 100 countries. Activities on the day include health checks, walks, runs, jump rope, fitness sessions, publ...
Health and Medicine | Read moreGene defects in young present serious risk from environmental tobacco smoke
Chronic exposure to second-hand tobacco smoke causes some children and adolescents to go on to develop serious chest problems like asthma, while others do not appear to be particularly affected....
Life Sciences | Read moreSmoke free vote supported by North West pubs air quality study
Research released this week supports the House of Commons vote to make all workplaces smoke free, including pubs and bars. A team of researchers visited 64 pubs across the ...
Studies and Analyses | Read morePub customers exposed to high levels of harmful tobacco particles
UK SCIENTISTS have questioned the use of partial smoking bans in pubs and clubs, following alarming new figures about how much non-smokers actually breathe in. Researchers ...
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