Tobacco may kill 1 billion this century
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If current trends hold, tobacco will kill a billion people this century, 10 times the toll it took in the 20th century, public health officials said Monday.
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Curbing tobacco use and taking other steps to eliminate some of the most common risk factors for cancer could save millions of lives over the next few decades, health officials said Monday.
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The American Cancer Society is calling on millions of Americans to go cold turkey for the day. It's the 28th annual Great American Smokeout, a day which many hope will be the first of many cigarette-free days.
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More than one billion people will be over 60 years old by 2025 and, as populations age, the burden of chronic diseases will increase.
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Water-pipe smoking may pose the same health risks as cigarettes, the World Health Organization said Tuesday, adding that more scientific research was needed into the link between hookah use and a number of fatal illnesses.
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NEW YORK  - People who use chewing tobacco expose themselves to even higher levels of a particular cancer-causing compound than tobacco smokers do, according to a new study.
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Cigarette smoking causes approximately 440,000 deaths annually in the United States (1). To assess the prevalence of current cigarette smoking among adults, CDC analyzed data from the 2003 Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS) survey.
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Don't answer just yet. If you live in Naples, you're breathing in the equivalent of nine to 11 cigarettes' worth of pollution per day, according to a recent medical study released by the Sesto San Giovanni ...
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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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Smoking kills more than 1,600 people in England each week with blackspots in deprived areas, a study says.
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âQuit for a day, and consider giving up for goodâ is the message that the American Cancer Society is sending to the 1.2 million smokers in Tennessee during the 28th Annual Great American Smokeout on Nov. 18.
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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.
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Hundreds of medicinal plants are at risk of extinction, threatening the discovery of future cures for disease, experts warn.
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A group of influential Canadian doctors, health officials and lobbyists urged the government on Monday to expose the destructive role in the development of tobacco epidemic which cause 47,000 deaths annually in the country.
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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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Smoking is killing nearly a million people a year in India, exacting a higher toll than previously thought, but allied problems are often different to those seen in the West, according to research published on Thursday.
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One billion people may die of tobacco-related illness this century, almost all of them in developing countries, the World Health Organization warned yesterday as it rolled out an unprecedented global campaign to limit the spread of smoking.