Cutting back on cigarettes may not cut risks
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NEW YORK  - Heavy smokers who cut down on cigarettes may actually do little to reduce their exposure to toxic tobacco compounds, a new study suggests.
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[Health India]: Washington, Oct 30 : Putting a restriction on smoking at workplaces can help significantly in curbing the habit, a recent study has revealed.
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There is more evidence to back up a  long-standing theory that smokers are less likely to develop  Parkinson&#39;s disease than people who do not use tobacco  products, researchers reported on Monday.
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If you are thinking about quitting smoking, switching to &quot;light&quot; or &quot;ultra light&quot; cigarettes will not wean you off the habit nor will it reduce the health risks associated with smoking.
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NEW YORK  - Younger smokers trying to quit are less likely than older smokers to use effective strategies like patches or medication to help them kick the habit, a new study shows.
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A new study published in The British Medical journal suggests that a genetic defect which slows the liver&#39;s capacity to clear nicotine from the body, boosts the chances of becoming addicted to tobacco, in new, young smokers.
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Three in four people who use antismoking products do not end up quitting, in part because they use them too little or for too short a time.
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There doesn&#39;t appear to be any link between smoking and hearing loss, according to a study in the November issue of the Archives of Otolaryngology.
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Anti-smoking ads can have the opposite effect of what is intended and encourage the habit, a study says.
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Smoking greatly reduces the chances of survival for people with head and neck cancer, says new research in the Oct. 1 issue of the Journal of Clinical Oncology.
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A new study has found that chewing tobacco may be almost as effective as cigarettes in delivering nicotine and carcinogens.
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NEW YORK - If you&#39;re considering either losing weight or quitting smoking, doctors have a few words of advice: Quit the cigarettes, even if it means gaining a few pounds.
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NEW YORK  - By increasing the activity of platelets, blood cells that help clot the blood, smoking may weaken the anti-clotting effect of aspirin, new research suggests.
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Global anti-tobacco efforts aimed at avoiding tens of millions of preventable deaths have been slow to take hold, and no country has fully adopted the World Health Organization's recommendations, WHO said on Thursday.
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NEW YORK  - Nicotine replacement therapy  can help teens quit or at least cut back on smoking, research  suggests.
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NEW YORK  - Although some studies have  found that smoking paradoxically improves the outcome after  heart attack, this was not the case in a multinational study  involving more than 5000 patients, researchers report in the  American Journal of Cardiology.
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NEW YORK  - The great majority of smokers  think they are well informed about the health risks of their  habit, but many of them are wrong, a new U.S. survey suggests.