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We all know that smoking can kill and is especially harmful to the unborn whether it is being inhaled by mothers, second hand smoke or in a maternal snuff delivery system. A new study takes a look at what is most dangerous, and it has been found that babies born to snuff using mothers were more likely to have breathing problems than those whose mothers smoked while pregnant...
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European women live longer than men, because of both biological and behavioral advantages, but women's longer lives are not necessarily healthy lives. Studies commented on by Dr Vannuzzo at the ESC Congress 2011, show that due to increase in tobacco and in women, the gender gap is decreasing...
Aug 11
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In this prospective cohort study, presented at the ESC Congress 2011, discontinuation of smokeless tobacco after a myocardial infarction (MI) is associated with a lower risk of subsequent mortality. Investigators found that post MI snus quitters had a 44 % lower risk of total mortality...
Aug 11
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The harmful effects of tobacco smoke on atherosclerosis, one of the driving forces of cardiovascular disease, are greater in women than in men. This result emerges from the large European epidemiological study (Carotid Intima Media thickness and IMT-PROgression as predictors of Vascular Events: the IMPROVE study), funded by EU (Vth Framework Program Contract n. QLG1-CT-2002-00896)...
Aug 11
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In an essay published this month in the Public Library of Science journal Medicine, two prominent tobacco researchers argue against adopting adult movie ratings in the United States for films that include on-screen cigarette smoking...
Aug 11
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In this week's PloS Medicine, two articles address the question of whether "adult" ratings should be applied to films with smoking scenes in them. Even though the World Health Organization Framework Convention on Tobacco Control advise the adult ratings should be applied to films which contain smoking scenes, very few governments have complied with this recommendation...
Aug 11
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Companies may use corporate social responsibility programmes not just to enhance their public image, but to also gain access to politicians, influence agendas, and shape public health policy to best suit their own interests...
Aug 11
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Figures reveal that 1.1 million people in England were admitted to hospital in 2009/10 because of alcohol – a rise of 879 per day compared with five years ago.
Aug 11
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Here come the men in black...lung. In the new movie starring Will Smith, which appeals to a huge demographic including a large portion of young adults and kids, some of the most endearing characters are smoking cigarettes and the World Health Organization (WHO) is not happy about it...
Aug 11
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Corporations may use corporate social responsibility programmes not only to improve their public image, but also to gain access to politicians, influence agendas, and shape public health policy to best suit their own interests...
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