A new study shows that people who are smokers and have a family history of brain aneurysm appear to be significantly more likely to suffer a stroke from a brain aneurysm themselves.
The research found people who smoked and had a family history of stroke were more than six times more likely to suffer a stroke […]

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A new study at Mayo Clinic says women appear to respond better than men to chronic pain treatment, and men who smoke appear to receive even less of benefit.
Previous studies had shown that smokers generally do not benefit as much as nonsmokers from pain management, mostly because their physical health is worse going into the […]

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Health-related quality of life appears to deteriorate as the number of cigarettes smoked per day increases, even in individuals who subsequently quit smoking, according to a report in the October 13 issue of Archives of Internal Medicine, one of the JAMA/Archives journals.
Smoking has been shown to shorten men’s lives between seven and 10 years, according […]

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West Virginia University researchers say teens believe quitting smoking is a good idea but the teens aren’t fully confident they can quit.
Lead author Kimberly Horn said that in addition, teens who volunteer to get help to quit smoking are 60 percent more likely to use smokeless tobacco and more than 200 percent more likely to […]

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Men who reported never smoking have a 1.1 percent risk of dying from lung cancer before age 85, and women 0.8 percent, U.S. researchers said.
The researchers pooled data on lung cancer incidence and death rates among self-reported never-smokers from 13 large cohort studies based in North America, Europe, and Asia that spanned the time period […]

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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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