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Third-hand smoke, a hidden danger for kids
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Apr. 7 (ANI): Children may carry significant levels of nicotine on their hands just by coming into contact with items or surfaces contaminated with tobacco smoke residues, even when no one is actively smoking around them at the time, according to a recent study.
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How heat of hookah pipe risks smokers' health
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Apr. 4 (ANI): You may want to rethink how you heat up your water pipes as it turns out, the heat of hookah pipe is the biggest health culprit for the smokers.
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Dear women avoid smoking! It may increase your heart attack risk
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], April 3 (ANI): Dear ladies, avoid smoking, as a study finds females, especially below 50, are at the highest risk of serious heart attack, compared to both non-smokers and male smokers of the same age.
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Female weed smokers at high risk of failing addiction treatments
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Mar. 30 (ANI): A new study has suggested that the use of cannabis may impact treatment in women undergoing methadone treatment therapy.
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Now, a method to measure potentially damaging cigarette smoke radicals
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Mar. 30 (ANI): A team of researchers has come up with a method for measuring free radicals, which are atoms or groups of atoms with unpaired electrons thought to be partly responsible for making smokers sick, and this could help improve the understanding of the relatio
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Teens who smoke pot at 15 or below may suffer memory loss, respiratory dis
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Mar. 29 (ANI): A team of Canadian researchers has found that teenagers, who begin smoking pot as early as 15 or younger, may suffer long-term cognitive impairment, memory loss, physical illnesses and respiratory diseases.
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Thakurganj operation: ATS, Police top brass in huddle as encounter underwa
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
Lucknow [India], Mar. 8 (ANI): Uttar Pradesh Director-General of Police (DGP) Javeed Ahmad called a meeting of the Additional Director General of Police and other senior officials from the Anti-Terrorism Squad and the Special Task Force again, with the operation underway in the thickly-popul
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Reasons women should not smoke now, or ever!
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Mar. 7 (ANI): Smoking is injurious to health, may it be of a boy or a girl. There has been loads of researches and studies on how any why people should quit smoking.
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Alas! There's room to smoke, but no room to breastfeed
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Mar. 4 (ANI): Breastfeeding in public places is a problematic issue women face on a regular basis.
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Cigarettes block self-healing processes in lungs: Study
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Mar. 3 (ANI): Smoke from cigarettes blocks self-healing processes in the lungs and consequently can lead to chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD).
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Good students are more into booze, smoking pots: Study
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
New York [USA], Feb. 25 (ANI): It's not only the peer pressure that makes kids try alcohol or smoke pot!
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Pregnant smokers can damage their child's hearing ability
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], February 13(ANI): Watch out preggers, specially the ones who smoke! If you are still on with this habit, then quit it as soon as possible.
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