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[Uae] 600,000 people die each year from passive smoking
The dangers of second-hand smoke to babies, pregnant women and those under 18 are being highlighted to mark World No Tobacco Day today.
May 31, 2013
The National Newspaper (ae)
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May 30, 2013 17:46
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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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[Australia, Ireland] Do plain cigarette packs help young women smokers to quit?
As Ireland plans to introduce new legislation to follow the Australian lead of plain packaging on cigarettes, a major new study has suggested that the initiative may help young women to cut down on the number of cigarettes they smoke and may even encoura
May 28, 2013
Irish Medical News (ie)
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May 28, 2013 13:32
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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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[Australia] Smoking research a winner
a group from Hunter Medical Research Institute who last week received a $10,000 prize for their research into smoking rates among pregnant Indigenous women. The University of Newcastle research team and health practitioners have taken out the prestigiou
May 27, 2013
Newcastle Herald (au)
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May 27, 2013 11:31
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[UK] Henry Smith MP: We must stop our children getting hooked on cigarettes
For all of us who know someone who might have lived longer if they hadn’t smoked – and for those who don’t want their children to start – we must get rid of these. Putting tobacco in plain, standardised packs is the right step to take. It’s a move that w
May 26, 2013
ConservativeHome (blog) (uk)
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May 26, 2013 13:01
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Mom's Smoking Holds Diabetes Risk for Pregnant Daughters
* Women whose mothers smoked at least moderately while pregnant were more likely to develop gestational diabetes and obesity in adulthood. * Point out that the adjusted odds ratios for obesity were attenuated when the women who were born in 1982 or late
May 24, 2013
MedPage Today
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May 25, 2013 13:26
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Mom's Smoking Holds Diabetes Risk for Pregnant Daughters
Action Points * Women whose mothers smoked at least moderately while pregnant were more likely to develop gestational diabetes and obesity in adulthood. * Point out that the adjusted odds ratios for obesity were attenuated when the women who were born i
May 24, 2013
MedPage Today
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May 24, 2013 11:55
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[Georgia] More non-smoking, young women developing lung cancer
Samantha Mixon looks and feels great, but she is fighting stage four lung cancer and all the assumptions that people make about her disease. "The first thing they ask is, 'Did you smoke?' It's annoying at this point," Mixon told 11Alive's Jennifer Leslie
May 7, 2013
WXIA TV NBC 11 (Atlanta, GA)
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May 24, 2013 11:51
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[China] More girls taking up smoking, study finds
MORE than 13 percent of children between the ages of 12 and 18 in Shanghai have tried smoking and almost 4 percent of them are smokers, according to a survey by Shanghai Jiao Tong University's public health school.
May 23, 2013
Shanghai Daily (cn)
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May 22, 2013 19:54