The Smoking Scourge Among Urban Blacks
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Even as antismoking campaigns have sharply reduced tobacco use, a recent study suggested that more than half of poor, black young adults smoke cigarettes.
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NEW YORK  - Cigarette smoking appears to be a risk factor for tuberculosis infection and tuberculosis disease, according to findings from a systematic review of the literature and pooled analysis of studies.
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Smoking killed almost 5 million people around the world in 2000, researchers have calculated.
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Preliminary findings suggest that outdoor secondhand smoke could constitute a health risk.
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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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Black children may be far more  susceptible to the ill effects of second-hand tobacco smoke  than their white counterparts, U.S. researchers said on Monday.
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In the 43 years since the U.S. surgeon general warned of the dangers of cigarette smoking, the percentage of Americans who light up has been cut in half, tobacco companies have paid billions of dollars in legal settlements and smoking has come to be widely reviled as a nasty habit.
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Smokers, beware: This bedroom community near San Francisco may soon put you in the same category as rodents, junk cars and weeds. The Dublin City Council gave preliminary approval last week to an ordinance declaring secondhand tobacco smoke a public nuisance, a move designed to make it easier for residents to take to court neighbors who puff with impunity.
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Parents who smoke near their newborn babies are turning their children into heavy passive smokers and putting them in danger of breathing problems and cot death, a new study shows.
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NEW YORK - Television stations in Ghana carry a hip-hop contest sponsored by British American Tobacco. On Mexican billboards, drivers can still see the Marlboro Man, Philip Morris&#39;s masculine image of a smoker.
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A recent University of Missouri-Columbia researcher found that students are more likely to drink, smoke cigarettes and smoke marijuana when they receive drivers&#39; licenses.
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PEOPLE under 40 are five times more likely to have a heart attack if they smoke, according to a study published today. The reportâs authors said the findings, based on figures compiled on behalf of the World
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Several hot drugs are generating smoking returns.
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Black Americans are less likely than whites to start smoking but they&#39;re also less likely to quit once they do start, says a study in the November issue of the American Journal of Public Health.
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Black people in the United States are far more likely than whites to die from strokes, diabetes and other diseases, according to a federal study that shows wide racial disparities persist in health care.
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Women who smoke are more likely to develop a form of acne than those who do not, research suggests.
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Nicotine is addictive. There is no safe cigarette. Smoking damages every organ in the body. These messages appear almost daily, and yet tobacco use continues to be the leading preventable cause of death in