A new study at the Penn State College of Medicine in Hershey, found smokers who enjoy a cigarette soon after they wake up in the morning are more likely to develop lung and head and neck cancers than those who light up later in the day, a new study has shown.
These smokers have higher levels […]

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A new study has found men who smoke are less likely than nonsmokers to require total hip or knee replacement.
The researchers also found that being overweight or doing vigorous physical activity increased the likelihood of joint replacement.

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Researchers at Harvard School of Public Health and University of California, San Francisco, have concluded that men Men who smoke at the time they’re diagnosed with prostate cancer have an increased risk of recurrence and death compared with never smokers. Odds for men who quit smoking at least 10 years previously, on the other hand, are […]

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Researchers from the Harvard School of Public Health found men who smoke when they are diagnosed with prostate cancer are more likely to die of the disease and more likely to see the cancer come back.
Men who smoke at the time of diagnosis for prostate cancer are more likely to die of the disease than those […]

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Researchers from Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) and University of California, San Francisco, have found that men with prostate cancer who smoke increase their risk of prostate cancer recurrence and of dying from the disease.
The researchers found a link between smoking at the time of prostate cancer diagnosis and aggressive prostate cancer and concluded that men with prostate […]

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A study commissioned by the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) and undertaken by the UK Centre for Tobacco Control Studies (UKCTCS),  has found that place where you live, your age and whether you’re male or female all affect your chances of giving up smoking.
Researchers concluded that older smokers are more likely than […]

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A recent study at the University of Minnesota’s Institute on the Environment has found boys who are exposed to secondhand smoke tend to have higher blood pressure levels than other boys, placing them at increased risk of developing hypertension when they grow up. But the reverse was true for girls.
These findings support several previous […]

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The gender gap in death rates has sometimes been put down to simple biology, or the fact that women seek out health care more readily than men.
A recent study using World Health Organisation figures on death rates among men and women from all causes has revealed that smoking accounts for up to 60 percent of […]

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Two studies targeted to reveal on how smoking may damage fertility, and give further weight to advice that mothers and fathers-to-be should stop smoking before attempting to conceive.
In one study Danish researchers found that a mother’s smoking during early pregnancy dramatically reduces the numbers of germ cells (the cells that form eggs in females and […]

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Results of a study at Cardiff University’s School of Medicine, indicated that one of the strongest protective factors for reducing the risk of experimenting with smoking in early adolescence was how often fathers talked with their children, both boys and girls, about ‘things that mattered.
The study also suggests that a greater awareness of parents’ and […]

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