Smoke poses widespread health threat
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The scenes from the California wildfire are horrifying enough, with windblown walls of flames destroying homes and building in their path, but health experts say the smoke can be even more dangerous.
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[Health India]: London, Oct 19: Passive smoking may have long been known to be a health hazard and now a new report by The Scientific Committee on Tobacco and Health (Scoth) confirms that it significantly increases the risk of lung cancer and heart disease
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Fears grow that serious environmental damage could be caused when a huge bonfire in County Antrim is lit.
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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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Smoking has long been known to cause cancer, heart disease, impotence and so on -- now, damage to your IQ can be added to the list.
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Thick acrid smoke rising from stoves and fires inside homes causes around 1.6m deaths a year in developing countries, say experts.
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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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Nearly 2 million older people alive today in China are likely to die from emphysema and other chronic lung diseases caused by second-hand smoke, researchers predicted on Thursday.
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Even brief exposure to secondhand smoke  in bars and restaurants can result in measurable levels of a  toxin in workers&#39; bodies that is known to cause lung cancer,  U.S. researchers said on Thursday.
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NEW YORK -- Tobacco use killed 100 million people worldwide in the 20th century and could kill one billion people in the 21st unless governments act now to dramatically reduce it, the World Health Organization said in a report Thursday.
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World Health Organisation urges governments to act now to dramatically reduce tobacco use
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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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Smoke from burning wood or stir-frying food indoors could potentially cause cancer and people in poor countries are at most risk, research showed on Wednesday.
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Passive smoking massively increases the risk of lung cancer and heart disease, an official report has confirmed. But ministers have sat on the explosive study amid fears it will lead to calls for an outright
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No one should be exposed to passive smoking because of the serious health risks it poses, according to an expert committee of scientists, it emerged today.
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There is powerful evidence that an outright ban on public smoking  would save lives, doctors' leaders from across the world say.
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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