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Smoking Cigarettes Increases Risk for Bacterial Pneumonia
EverSmoke Electronic Cigarettes offers an alternative smoking device that can reduce the smoking related diseases. EverSmoke offers a safer environment for the smoker and the non-smoking community. There are no lingering scents, bad breath or yellow teet
Jan 23, 2013
MarketWire
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Jan 23, 2013 13:59
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Some HPV-Linked Cancers Rising in U.S.: Report
HPV-linked throat cancers increased among white adults, even as smoking-related throat cancer became less common. The reasons are not clear, said Edgar Simard, a senior epidemiologist at the American Cancer Society who worked on the study.
Jan 7, 2013
HealthDay [HealthScout]
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Jan 11, 2013 16:56
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[Denmark] Smoking More Lethal than HIV
* Smokers with HIV had substantially higher rates of all-cause and non-AIDS mortality than HIV-positive non-smokers, with more than 60% of deaths among HIV patients associated with smoking. * Note that HIV-infected smokers lost more life-years to smokin
Dec 19, 2012
MedPage Today
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Dec 19, 2012 06:11
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Second-hand smoke increases risk of invasive meningococcal disease in children
A new study published in BioMed Central's open access journal BMC Public Health shows that second hand smoke and foetal exposure due to maternal smoking while pregnant significantly increase the risk of invasive meningococcal disease.
Dec 9, 2012
EurekAlert
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Dec 10, 2012 02:09
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[Zimbabwe] Cancer: Zim’s new headache
POOR cancer patients are enduring days and nights of pain and discomfort as public hospitals such Harare and Parirenyatwa lack the equipment and specialist staff to handle the overwhelming numbers of patients
Oct 4, 2012
Zimbabwe Herald (zw)
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Oct 6, 2012 13:36
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Los Angeles Dentist Discusses Survey that Finds People Who Smoke Have More Dental Complications
Smokers in the United States are Two Times More Likely to Have Dental Problems than those Who Don't.
Jul 2, 2012
PR Worldwide, Inc.
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Jul 2, 2012 14:47
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Smoke exposure puts infants with respiratory infections at risk for longer hospital stays
found that infants with a family history of allergic disease with lower respiratory tract infections, who are exposed to secondhand smoke are at risk for longer hospital stays.
Jun 5, 2013
News-Medical.net
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Jun 5, 2013 17:24
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[Africa, South Africa] Stop smoking to reduce risk of pneumonia in HIV+
An analysis of previous studies published in the journal BMC Medicine reveals that smokers with HIV were at double the risk of contracting bacterial pneumonia compared to HIV-positive non-smokers. However, when people stopped smoking their risk was reduc
Apr 26, 2013
Health-E (za)
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Apr 26, 2013 06:52
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[Africa, Asia-pacific, UK] Smoking poses TB risk to young
The link between tobacco consumption and tuberculosis could do for the developing world what lung cancer – among the most commonly cited smoking-related diseases – did in the west: drastically reduce smoking rates. “We’ve known for a long time that smoki
Mar 21, 2013
Financial Times (uk)
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Mar 30, 2013 10:44
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[South Africa] How tobacco could save your life
Researchers at the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research have pioneered the world's first injectable plant medicine ... The liquid antidote called RabiVir, made from leaves of the Nicotiana Benthamiana plant - a cousin of the well-known tobacco
Mar 11, 2013
The Independent Online (IOL) / The Post (za)
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Mar 11, 2013 16:23