Poisoning risk from smuggled cigarettes
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Britain is awash with fake cigarettes which present a much greater health risk than normal ones, the government said yesterday. Announcing a campaign aimed at persuading smokers to shun cheap, smuggled cigarettes
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MONTREAL - The RCMP searched through documents at Imperial Tobacco on Friday related to the contraband trade in cigarettes in the 1990s, Radio-Canada&#39;s all-news channel reported.
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A study by New York-based Consumer Reports has said citrus soda drinks may contain high levels of benzene, a chemical that can increase cancer risks.
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Here&#39;s one more reason not to smoke  -- smoking may damage sperm, passing along genetic damage to a  man&#39;s children, Canadian researchers report.
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Smoking is linked to a significantly increased risk of developing type 2 diabetes, research suggests.
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The majority of smokers don&#39;t know the facts about what&#39;s in their cigarettes and how these ingredients may be harming them.
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Foreign Corresp. Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko has travelled to Switzerland for a check-up on a skin condition caused by dioxin poisoning.
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An incident in which a tuberculosis-infected man walked past U.S. border controls in May shows how poorly the country is defended against importing infectious diseases, according to a report released on Monday.
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LONDON -- New tests reveal Ukrainian presidential candidate Viktor Yushchenko's blood contains the second-highest level of dioxin poisoning ever recorded in a human -- more than 6,000 times the normal concentration, according to the specialist analyzing the samples.
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The poisoning death of former Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko has turned the world spotlight on polonium. But other potentially deadly radioactive substances are also around us, in smoke detectors and other household, industrial or hospital items.
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PARIS  - 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 study charges.
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NEW YORK  - Pregnant women who are exposed   to second-hand smoke may be at heightened risk for suffering   miscarriages, according to research from Sweden.
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Smoking a joint is equivalent to 20  cigarettes in terms of lung cancer risk, scientists in New  Zealand have found, as they warned of an "epidemic" of lung  cancers linked to cannabis.
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Breathing in secondhand smoke massively increases the risk of lung cancer and heart disease, an official report shows.
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KIEV -- The illness that disfigured the face of opposition presidential candidate Viktor Yushchenko resulted from poisoning by the toxic substance dioxin, which might have been placed deliberately in his food, Austrian doctors who treated him told reporters in Vienna yesterday.
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Britain is facing a flood of illegal  cigarettes which pose potentially fatal health risks, the  government said on Wednesday as it launched a campaign to deter  smokers from buying cheap contraband tobacco.
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Philip Morris, one of the nation&#39;s biggest manufacturers of tobacco products, conducted a study in 1982 that revealed the dangers of passive smoking.