Study says India has smoking crisis
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India is in the grips of a smoking epidemic that is likely to cause nearly a million deaths a year by 2010, more than half of them among poor and illiterate people, according to a study released Thursday.
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The basic medical warning about the dangers of smoking is especially important for anyone with a relative, however distant, who has had lung cancer, a new Icelandic study shows.
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Pictorial health warning on cigarette packets are more likely to encourage smokers to quit, a study says.
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FRIDAY, Jan. 28 (HealthDayNews) -- Here's one more study that shows smoking is bad not only for the health of people who light up but also for those around them -- specifically, for children who breathe in their parents' secondhand smoke.
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More adults, especially women,  are smoking these days and their secondhand smoke may be  contributing to the asthma epidemic among children in the  United States, results of a study suggest.
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The U.S. isn't the only country cutting back on public smoking
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Deaths from smoking continue to rise around the world, and a mutation in a gene linked to nicotine metabolism may be a cause of nicotine addiction, according to two new
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Tobacco use killed 100 million people worldwide in the 20th century and could kill one billion people in the 21st unless governments act now the World Health Organization said
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India have the dubious distinction of having the most number of casualties from heart attacks and strokes in the world. A report, Atlas of Heart Diseases and Stroke, released by the World Health Organisation
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Smoking rates have more than doubled in Russia since the collapse of the Soviet Union, researchers say.
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Up to 20 percent of women who  develop lung cancer have never smoked, U.S. researchers found  in a study that suggests secondhand smoke may be to blame.
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A public smoking ban shows a significant impact on hospital admissions for heart attacks, research suggests.
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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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CHENNAI, India  - A study from India shows that use of smokeless tobacco in the form of chewing tobacco or snuff is associated with an increased risk of developing cancer in the "hypopharynx" -- the area at the back of the throat immediately above the larynx, or voicebox.
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LONDON: Smoking killed nearly five million people worldwide in 2000, with men more than three times as likely as women to go to an early grave, according to a study published yesterday in the journal Tobacco Control.
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Britain's smoking ban poses a crisis for the shisha bars where Muslims and others puff on a water pipes in an alcohol-free environment
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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