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Smoking Time Machine

Smokers - you can now glimpse into the future!Smoking Time Machine shows you how you will look in 10 and 20 years' time with the effects of smoking. Effects include deeper wrinkles around the eyes and mouth, a grey pallor to the skin and sagging
CNET News.com
added Mar 27, 2013 10:13
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[UK] ‘Ageing fears an incentive to quit smoking’

Instead, improving their appearance, performance in bed and ability to conceive are much better incentives to make addicts quit, according to new research. A British online quit smoking resource, quitfullstop.co.uk, polled 2 000 of its members (an even
The Independent Online (IOL) / The Post (za)
added Mar 27, 2013 09:59
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[Georgia] Smoking causes fire that kills one at Tucker nursing home

A fire killed a woman in her room at a nursing home in Tucker early Tuesday. According to the DeKalb County Medical Examiner's Office, the deceased has been identified as Laura Barrett, 64. Barrett was a resident of the Meadowbrook Nursing Home on Lawre
WGCL-TV CBS 46 (Atlanta, GA)
added Mar 26, 2013 14:05
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[New York] Associations between smoking and tooth loss according to the reason for tooth loss / The Buffalo OsteoPerio Study

Further study is needed to explore the etiologies by which smoking is associated with different types of tooth loss. Dentists should counsel their patients about the impact of smoking on oral health, including the risk of experiencing tooth loss due to PD
Journal of the American Dental Association
added Mar 25, 2013 11:05
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[New York] Associations between smoking and tooth loss according to the reason for tooth loss: The Buffalo OsteoPerio Study. [J Am Dent Assoc. 2013] - PubMed - NCBI

Smoking may be a major factor in tooth loss due to PD. However, smoking appears to be a less important factor in tooth loss due to caries. Further study is needed to explore the etiologies by which smoking is associated with different types of tooth loss
National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI)
added Mar 25, 2013 11:04
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[New York] Postmenopausal female smokers more likely to lose teeth

Researchers in Buffalo have shown that postmenopausal women who have smoked are at much higher risk of losing their teeth than women who never smoked. A study of 1,106 women examined comprehensive smoking histories so that the researchers could unravel
Nature
added Mar 25, 2013 11:02
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Who Lives Longest?

Justin Denney, assistant professor of sociology at Rice University, has studied the ways that certain health issues disproportionately affect the most disadvantaged people in this country. For example, he told me other studies have shown that wealthy, wel
New York Times
added Mar 19, 2013 23:12
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Patients' Health Care Costs Unaffected by Doctors' Sex: Study

Instead, the focus should be on patients' smoking habits and diet, which are known to increase the use of health care services and the risk of death, he suggested.
HealthDay [HealthScout]
added Mar 19, 2013 22:58
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A Third of U.S. Seniors Die With Dementia, Study Finds

"Alzheimer's disease is really a chronic illness. It starts decades before we see the symptoms," Appleby said. The best advice to potentially prevent Alzheimer's disease is to keep your heart healthy, he said. That means quitting smoking, eating healthy,
HealthDay [HealthScout]
added Mar 19, 2013 22:56
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Stroke Before Age 50 Linked to Raised Risk of Early Death

Study authors stress that improved diet, quitting smoking can minimize the odds
HealthDay [HealthScout]
added Mar 19, 2013 22:56
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