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Study: Financial Incentives Push People to Quit Smoking
A new study has revealed that financial incentives determine more people to quit smoking,...
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Beware Of Third-Hand Smoking
According to scientists, smoking is one of the hardest addictions to give up and because of this...
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Fitness Centers Cut Prices After Holidays
New Year Resolutions are one of the most popular methods people use to ease their minds about the...
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Quit Smoking Today!
What did your New Year’s resolutions include except losing weight and reducing debts? If you...
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Study: Happiness Is Contagious
A study
published Friday in the British journal BMJ, authored by Dr. Nicholas A.
Christakis, a...
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The Great American Smokeout Is Your Chance to Start a Healthy Life
November 20 marks the American Cancer Society’s 33rd Great
American Smokeout, a day encouraging...
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Today’s Smokers More Addicted than Ever, Alarming Rise in Nicotine Dependence
Nicotine dependence has risen 12 percent
from 1989 to 2006, and the percentage of people classed...
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Steve Ballmer to Steer Microsoft in the Post-Gates Era
Bill Gates’s leaving Microsoft last Friday made ways for its chief executive officer, Steve...
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Beware of Smoking! It Might Lead to Dementia
It has long been known that smoking gradually leads to heart
disease and lung cancer among other...
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Truckers Banned Anti-Smoking Drug Chantix As Well
Following the Federal Aviation Administration’s decision to
ban use of anti-smoking drug Chantix...
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Social Factor Plays a Significant Role in Quitting Smoking
Quitting smoking appears to be contagious, according to a
study published May 22 in the New...
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Quitting Smoking – A Group Thing, Study Says
New research on quitting smoking shows that people willing
to do it are more likely to give up the...
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Cardiologists Offer Tips for Everyone’s Hearts
Nowadays many people feel more and more worried about the fact that they need to pass over this...
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February 9 - The Day Smoking Died…in Boston
Starting today, many Bostonians will breathe healthier air thanks to a tobacco ban implemented by...
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Breast Cancer Risk Drops after the End of Hormone Replacement Therapy
According to a new study, women that follow HRT, or hormone-replacing therapy, have an increased...
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The Cigarette Industry Goes Through Hard Times
The cigarette industry in the United States will suffer a lot of tough changes. The government will...
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Healthcare Groups, Authorities Join Their Efforts to Curb Smoking
The World Health Organization has repeatedly said that more effective tobacco control policies...
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Cleaner Air Leads To A Longer Life
According to a recent report involving the way of life for Americans, the significant improvements...
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Recent Studies Should Discourage Smokers
Recent studies show quite some interesting things about smokers and smoking. A West Virginia...
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2009 Is a Tough Year to Quit Smoking
Is quitting smoking one of your 2009 objectives?
Well… it’s not going to be easy....
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Smoking Ban Proves Effective in Pueblo, Colo., Cuts Heart Attack Rate
A study released last week by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention concluded that...
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Gyms Cut Prices After Holidays
New Year Resolutions are one of the most popular methods people use to ease their minds about the...
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Lung Cancer Threatening More People Than Any Other Cancer
Cancer will become world’s number one killer by 2010, as the number of people in poorer...
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The Incidence of New Cancers in the U.S. Drops for the First Time
The overall incidence of new cancer cases
and death due to cancer dropped for the first time in...
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Healthy Habits Finally Pay Off: Cancer Rates Start Declining in the US
New cancer cases and deaths have started to decline for the
first time in both American men and...
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The Great American Smokeout Is Your Chance To Start A Healthy Life
November 20 marks the American Cancer Society’s 33rd Great
American Smokeout, a day encouraging...
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A Study Finds New Ways of Detecting Heart Disease
A regular medical exam could soon contain a simple, low-cost blood test, which could help assess...
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November Is Lung Cancer Awareness Month, Quit Smoking!
November is Lung Cancer Awareness Month and statistics don’t
look too promising. According to the...
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Parents That Smoke Might Make Their Children “Food Insecure”
A recent study shows that children who have parents that
smoke are likely to be undernourished and...
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Eating Fish Regularly May Prevent Kidney Damage In Diabetics
One of the most serious complications of diabetes is kidney
disease. British researchers have...
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Today’s Smokers More Hooked on Nicotine
People trying to quit smoking these days need much more
intensive and individualized treatment, as...
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20-Year Study To Asses Lifestyle Impact Of Genetic Testing
San Diego's
Scripps Translational Science Institute announced Thursday it will carry out...
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Washington Smoking Rates Lower than Ever, Survey Shows
It appears that people are becoming more aware of the fact
the smoking is not healthy according to...
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Walgreen Challenges Tobacco Ban
A recently
passed city order that bans sales of tobacco products at pharmacies in San Francisco is...
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Controversial Ads for Chantix, Ambien Indirectly Name the Drugs
The controversial ad campaign initiated by Pfizer Inc., the
world’s largest pharmaceutical...
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New Findings On The Consequences Of Smoking
Researchers at the University
Of Maryland School Of Medicine in Baltimore led by Dr. John
Cole...
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Women’s Stroke Risk Closely Linked to Smoking
If you haven’t given up smoking, now you have one more
reason to do it. Researchers at the...
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Is Your Spouse A Smoker? Then Your Stroke Risk Is Very High
It is not enough to be cigarette-free in order to keep
yourself away from strokes, according to...
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VA to Warn Veterans about Chantix’s Suicidal Effects
Pfizer’s Chantix is once again in the center of attention
but not in a good way, following the...
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Russert's Death Highlights Heart Attack Risks Once Again
The unforeseen death of NBC’s prominent figure Tim Russert
has raised serious questions...
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Russert's Death Is Warning for All Men Over 50
Tim Russert has suddenly died at age 58 Friday. After the immediate wave of condolences which...
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Smoking Causes Memory Loss in Middle Age
Bad news for middle-aged smokers: not only are they affected
by the usual problems that smoking...
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