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Penn Researchers Pinpoint How Smoking Causes Osteoporosis
Narayan Avadhani, Harriet Ellison Woodward Professor of Biochemistry and chair of the Department of Animal Biology in Penn’s School of Veterinary Medicine. “What we show here is that excessive formation of osteoclasts by cigarette chemicals causes bone lo
Jun 19, 2013
University of Pennsylvania Health System
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Jun 19, 2013 17:17
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A New Wrinkle in Smoking Research
The smokers who viewed their own future face affected by the negative consequences of smoking in the video game had more negative attitudes toward social smoking and were more interested in quitting than those who didn’t see what the future would look li
Jun 19, 2013
Newswise
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Jun 19, 2013 16:48
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[Alaska] ELLISON: Smoked out: New smoking rules for public housing are a slap in face
As a former Alaska landlord and a veteran who has bled and laid his life on the line for these United States to be free, I find the rule change to be a slap in the face, not only to free Americans, but to the most fragile of all Americans, the older gene
Jun 16, 2013
Fairbanks (AK) Daily News-Miner
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Jun 16, 2013 12:10
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Healthy Living Pays Dividends
* Exercising regularly, eating a healthy diet, avoiding smoking, and maintaining a healthy weight were associated with a lower risk of dying over the next decade. * Note that adjustment for factors that could be on the causal pathway between the behavio
Jun 3, 2013
MedPage Today
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Jun 8, 2013 20:23
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More Proof Healthy Living, Not Smoking Pay Off
Positive lifestyle changes reduced risk of death 80 percent over 8 years, study says
Jun 3, 2013
HealthDay [HealthScout]
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Jun 5, 2013 07:31
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Joblessness Shortens Lifespan of Least Educated White Women, Research Says
But they mattered little. As it turned out, smoking was important, as had long been established, but researchers were surprised that joblessness had a dramatic effect, even after controlling for factors that employment would have generated, like income
May 30, 2013
New York Times
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May 30, 2013 07:05
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[Europe] Female smokers, drinkers risk early death
Data taken from a Europe-wide survey of some 380 000 people aged 40 and older, revealed that women faced a disproportional risk from the already well-known ill effects of heavy alcohol and tobacco use. Of the group, followed over an average period of 12
May 28, 2013
Health 24 (za)
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May 28, 2013 13:26
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[Canada] This Is Finished at the Finnish Resthome
On World No Tobacco Day May 31, The Ontario Finnish Resthome Association will begin implementation of its new smoke-free multi-unit dwelling policy. Present tenants at Suomi Eesti Maja and Kotitalo will be grandfathered in and allowed to continue smoking
May 28, 2013
LOCAL2 Sault Ste. Marie (ca)
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May 28, 2013 00:45
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[Canada] WOOLLEY: What The Lives Of Smokers Can Tell Us About Economic Tradeoffs
John Broome’s book Weighing Livestakes on some hard questions about longevity. Increasing one person’s life has costs, either because it takes up resources that could have been used to improve another person’s life, or because it decreases that person’s l
May 24, 2013
Business Insider
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May 24, 2013 12:22
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Why quit smoking at an older age?
A. In my patients who are smokers, one of the biggest obstacles to quitting is their belief that they've already damaged their body and quitting won't reverse that damage. I tell them that many careful studies have shown that their thinking is wrong. In
May 22, 2013
Chicago Tribune
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May 23, 2013 03:49