Teens, adults unaware smoking raises blindness risk
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LONDON, Feb 6 (Reuters Life!) - Most teenagers are more afraid of losing their sight than suffering from cancer but are unaware that smoking can increase the risk of blindness, researchers said on Tuesday.
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New research shows that teenagers who grow up in heavy air pollution have reduced lung capacity, putting them at risk for illness and premature death as adults.
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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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Warning signs for cardiovascular disease are higher in people exposed to secondhand tobacco smoke, adding to the link between "passive smoke" and heart disease, according to a study released on Monday.
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Britain's increasing number of obese  adults and children face twice the risk of losing their sight  from a range of degenerative eye conditions, a report from the  Royal National Institute of the Blind said on Wednesday.
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NEW YORK  - First graders who misbehave in  school may be more likely to be regular smokers as young  adults, according to new study findings.
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White U.S. teenagers who watch a lot of  R-rated movies or have unsupervised access to TV shows appear  more likely than similar black youths to start smoking  cigarettes, a study found on Monday.
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TUESDAY, Jan. 4 (HealthDayNews) -- Even small amounts of secondhand smoke can sabotage a child's performance on reading, math, reasoning and logic tests, a new study finds.
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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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TUESDAY, Jan. 8 (HealthDay News) -- Young people who start smoking may be influenced to do so by movies they saw in early childhood, new research suggests.
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Britain's increasing number of obese   adults and children face twice the risk of losing their sight   from a range of degenerative eye conditions, a report from the   Royal National Institute of the Blind said on Wednesday.
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Smokers in their 30s are five times more likely to have a heart attack than non-smokers, a study has found. Finnish researchers analysing a World Health Organisation study of non-fatal heart
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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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About one-third of attention deficit cases among U.S. children may be linked with tobacco smoke before birth or to lead exposure afterward, according to provocative new research.
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About 1.2 million Americans suffer from the neovascular, or wet, form of age-related macular degeneration. The disease, known as AMD, is the leading cause of legal blindness in people over 65.
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The great majority of smokers think they are well informed about the health risks of their habit, but many of them are wrong, a new U.S. survey suggests.
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Smokers of hand-rolled cigarettes tend to  consume less tobacco, but face a greater risk of developing  lung cancer than those who smoke manufactured cigarettes, a  study on Norwegian lung cancer patients has found.