Poison danger of bogus cigarettes
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A SCOTTISH scientist has discovered high levels of carcinogenic heavy metals in counterfeit cigarettes widely available throughout the UK.
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The UK Government has issued a warning to smokers after cigarettes smuggled into Britain were found to contain lead and arsenic. An estimated one million fake cigarettes containing hazardous levels of the
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A US lawsuit, claiming tobacco firms  duped smokers into thinking low tar cigarettes are less harmful, gets the go ahead.
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A tobacco firm says allegations it covered up evidence of the harmful effects of passive smoking are false and inaccurate.
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A single molecule may be partly to blame for nicotine&#39;s addictive allure, a finding that researchers say could lead to potential therapies to help millions of smokers quit a life-threatening habit.
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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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COUNTERFEIT cigarettes that contain more than three times the usual levels of arsenic and can cause vomiting and abnormal heart rhythms are flooding into Britain.
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BANGKOK, Thailand - Cigarette packs in Thailand may soon carry more than the usual health warnings, with an edict admonishing the public not to give Buddhist monks a smoke.
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MOSCOW  - In the bloodstained post-Soviet period, feuds over money and power have often been solved by bullets or bombs. But confirmation that Ukrainian opposition leader Viktor Yushchenko was disfigured by dioxin draws attention to suspicious cases in Russia in which poison may have been used to silence political foes and settle business scores.
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A new study published in The British Medical journal suggests that a genetic defect which slows the liver&#39;s capacity to clear nicotine from the body, boosts the chances of becoming addicted to tobacco, in new, young smokers.
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BOSTON, Sept. 11 -- Philip Morris USA, the nation's largest cigarette maker, is disputing a study by the Massachusetts Department of Public Health that found that nicotine levels in cigarettes rose about 10 percent from 1998 to 2004.
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â¢ Health educators say it is a common myth that snuff is safer than cigarettes. (NLI/Chris Soltesz). ANDERSON, Ind. (NLI) - The Great American Smokeout on Thursday is encouraging tobacco users everywhere
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Controversial images of diseased lungs which health advisers want to see on every cigarette packet were revealed today. The hard-hitting anti-smoking campaign
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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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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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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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Ukrainian opposition leader Viktor Yushchenko was poisoned by TCDD, the most harmful known form of dioxin and a key ingredient of the Vietnam-era herbicide Agent Orange, the scientist who conducted tests on the presidential candidate's blood said Friday.