A new research at the University of Navarra, University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria and the Harvard School of Public Health (USA) have linked depression to tobacco.
Their findings follow to a six-year study with 8,556 participants and suggest that smokers are 41 per cent more likely to suffer from depression than those that have […]

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Acording to a new research, heavy drinkers and heavy smokers develop Alzheimer’s disease years earlier than people with Alzheimer’s who do not drink or smoke heavily.
Researchers found that people who were heavy drinkers developed Alzheimer’s 4.8 years earlier than those who were not heavy drinkers. Heavy smokers developed the disease 2.3 years sooner than people […]

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Researchers have identified genetic variations that raise the risk of lung cancer for smokers and former smokers. The variants are common in the population - but they only raise lung cancer risk in those who have smoked.
And there is also some evidence to suggest that they may make carriers more addicted to tobacco. Current or […]

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A new research suggests that secondhand smoke causes signs of cardiovascular damage in children, especially the very youngest. The findings, which focused on children from 2 to 14 years old, showed that environmental exposure to second-hand smoke caused increased markers of inflammation and signs of vascular injury, suggesting an increased risk of heart disease.
Results of […]

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A new study  at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm suggests that increased consumption of magnesium-rich foods such as whole grains may reduce male smokers’ risk of cerebral infarction, which occurs when blood flow to the brain is blocked.
Researchers concluded that eating foods such as whole grains cuts risk of cerebral infarction. The findings were published in the March […]

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A leading of Liverpool’s Alder Hey Hospital, UK, says up to a third of the children it treats for certain conditions are ill because their parents smoke in front of them.
Speaking to BBC Radio Five Live, he said out of the 35,000 children the hospital treats every year, 2,000 are there because they have been exposed to […]

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A new study at the Peninsula Medical School in South West England suggests that retirement is one of the great transitions in life, which is why a greater proportion of people may find it easier to make significant changes elsewhere in their lives at this time.
For people struggling to kick the butt retirement is the most […]

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Under an idea proposed by Health England, smokers could be forced to pay £10 for a permit to buy tobacco if a government health advisory body gets its way. That means no one would be able to buy cigarettes without the permit. This permit will be available for one year.
But smokers’ rights group Forest described the […]

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Scientists from Johns Hopkins University suggests that cigarette smokers face a higher risk of developing sleep disorder as compared to people who do not smoke.
During trials, restless sleep was more common among smokers than among non-smokers. Smoking might lead to poor sleep due to overnight nicotine withdrawal, they added, the researchers said.

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A four-year study at the University of Hong Kong showed that elderly smokers were more likely to die from cancer, cardiovascular or respiratory diseases, as compared to non-smokers.
The team also concluded that while ex-smokers were 50 percent more likely to die from cancer than non-smokers, those who kept smoking were more than twice as likely […]

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