Fake cigarettes make smoking even more deadly
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London - British smokers were issued a stark government warning on Wednesday to beware of smuggled cigarettes, which while cheap are often faked and made with highly dangerous contaminated tobacco.
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Smoking could be even worse for your health if you buy smuggled cigarettes from street-corner dealers, the government said yesterday.
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Genetically altered mice that are unusually sensitive to nicotine may help scientists nail down exactly how people become addicted to smoking, U.S. researchers said on Thursday.
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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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Genetically altered mice that are  unusually sensitive to nicotine may help scientists nail down  exactly how people become addicted to smoking, U.S. researchers  said on Thursday.
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People under 40 are five times more likely to have a heart attack if they smoke, a study shows.
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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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The latest research into the damage smoking could cause suggests the habit may affect your IQ.
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Smoking is bad for you, but a growing number of researchers and biotech companies are developing pharmaceuticals that are good for brains, bowels, blood vessels and even immune systems. They are inspired by tobacco's deadly active ingredient: nicotine.
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A study finds that secondhand smoke increases the levels of a carcinogen in waitstaff and bartenders at a surprisingly fast rate
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People whose genes make them more susceptible to developing rheumatoid arthritis are even more likely to get the disease if they smoke, say Swedish researchers.
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NEW YORK  - Otherwise healthy men who smoke risk developing erectile dysfunction -- and the more cigarettes they smoke, the greater the risk of erectile dysfunction, according to a new study.
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A shot that robs smokers of the nicotine buzz from cigarettes showed promise in midstage testing and may someday offer a radically new way to kick a dangerous habit. In a study, more than twice as many people given five of the shots stopped smoking than those given fewer or phony shots Â about 15 percent versus 6 percent after one year.
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Tobacco-related diseases including cancers and heart disease will kill 6.4 million people a year by 2015, 50 percent more than AIDS, a study said on Tuesday.
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Smoking cigarettes causes the same changes to the brain as using drugs like cocaine, a study suggests.
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Some of us have a genetic mutation that makes it more difficult for the body to rid itself of nicotine. If you are one of those types, you are more likely to become heavily addicted to nicotine, or smoking, say researchers.
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The Government has launched a campaign warning smokers about the estimated one million fake cigarettes smuggled into the UK which contain lead and arsenic.