Passive smoking risk &#39;kept secret&#39;
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A LAB owned by US tobacco giant Philip Morris uncovered evidence in the early 1980s about potential risks from passive smoking but its findings were never made public, a new study charges.
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According to the British Medical Journal, a study published in &#39;Tobacco Control&#39; has revealed that smokers aged below 40 are five times more prone to suffering from a heart attack than non smokers of the same age.
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PEOPLE aged under 40 are five times more likely to have a heart attack if they smoke, according to a study published today. The report&#39;s authors said the findings, based on figures compiled on behalf of the
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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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NEW YORK  - The final excuse for smoking --  that it might reduce the risk of developing Alzheimer's disease  -- has just been stubbed out, findings from an animal study  suggest.
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Smokers under 40 are at risk from heart attack - smashing the belief that only older people are vulnerable, says a new study. Experts studied 23,000 cases of people who had survived heart attacks between 1985
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Philip Morris, one of the world&#39;s leading tobacco manufacturers, was involved in research into the health effects of smoking 30 years ago but did not reveal data on the
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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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Smoking not only damages health, it is bad for the brain too, according to a Scottish study spanning nearly 60 years. Professor Lawrence Whalley and his team looked at how the cognitive
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High levels of secondhand smoke on the job can double nonsmokers' risk of developing lung cancer, and those who inhale it at work long-term face a 50 percent higher risk, researchers said on Wednesday.
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Smokers in their 30s are five times more likely to have a heart attack than non-smokers, a study has found. Finnish researchers analysing a World Health Organisation study of non-fatal heart
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Children exposed to passive smoking have  a higher risk of developing lung cancer later in life than  other youngsters, according to new research.
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Here's one more reason not to smoke -- smoking may damage sperm, passing along genetic damage to a man's children, Canadian researchers report.
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A tobacco firm has said allegations it covered up evidence of the harmful effects of passive smoking are &quot;false, inaccurate and highly misleading&quot;.
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About 100,000 Chinese die annually from diseases associated with passive smoking while more than half a billion on the mainland suffer from the smoke exhaled from cigarettes, according to the Xinhua news agency.
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PEOPLE in the North-East are unaware of the multitude of poisonous chemicals found in cigarette smoke, according to a survey released by Cancer Research UK yesterday.   Smoke from cigarettes contains some 4,000 chemicals, 69 of which are known to cause cancer.
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A new study conducted by researchers at New York-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center suggests that a social smoker age 50 or older has a risk for developing lung cancer similar to that of a smoker under age 50 who smoked three packs a day