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Use of e-cigarettes along with smoking cessation likely to help quit smoki
Updated : 5 years, 12 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Mar 31 (ANI): Smoking cessation counselling, plus the take of nicotine-containing e-cigarettes can help people quit smoking more successfully than the ones who received councelling but did not use e-cigarettes, suggests a new study.
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CAPHRA urges Health Ministry to discuss rights of vapers in a global treat
Updated : 6 years ago IST
New Delhi [India] March 13 (ANI/NewsVoir): An Asian alliance of tobacco harm reduction advocacy organizations has urged India' Ministry of Health and Family Welfare to bring up the rights of smokers who want to switch to safer alternatives during the Ninth Session of Parties (COP9) of the Wo
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Third-hand smoke can convey hazardous chemicals in more ways: Study
Updated : 6 years ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Mar 5 (ANI): Not just the ones who are smoking, or the time of smoking that can cause problems. People can carry hazardous compounds from cigarette smoke that cling to their bodies and clothes, the compounds of which are later released into non-smoking environments, ex
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Study links childhood abuse to adolescent experimentation with cigarettes
Updated : 6 years, 1 month ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Feb 25 (ANI): Kids who have been abused, neglected or mistreated at home are more likely to start smoking, according to a recent study.
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Legal age for smoking tobacco would be 21 years soon, COTPA amendment comi
Updated : 6 years, 1 month ago IST
New Delhi [India], Feb 23 (ANI): The Union Health Ministry has planned to increase the legal age for smoking tobacco from the present 18 year to 21 years. The Ministry has proposed that only those who have attained the legal age of 21 years be allowed to smoke. Presently, people over 18 year
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Connecting with people on networks can increase awareness among smokers: S
Updated : 6 years, 1 month ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Feb 9 (ANI): According to a recent study, the awareness among smokers about the ill effects of their habit can be made more accurate if they are given the opportunity to discuss their ideas and experiences with other people, who can either be smokers or non-smokers.
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Smokers who kicked habit recently more likely to go for e-cigarettes: Stud
Updated : 6 years, 1 month ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Feb 8 (ANI): Smokers, who kicked the habit within the last five years, are more likely to switch to vaping as against the one who quitted a decade or more ago.
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Discussing smoking-risks with network boosts intent to quit, suggests stud
Updated : 6 years, 1 month ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Feb 7 (ANI): In a study based involving a group of smokers and non-smokers, researchers have found that awareness among smokers and their assessment of smoking's risks became more accurate by discussing their ideas with other people.
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E-cigarettes are popular among comparatively recent quitters, study sugges
Updated : 6 years, 1 month ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Feb 4 (ANI): Vaping is common for those who left smoking tobacco within the past 5 years rather than for those who left a decade or more ago.
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Moms who smoke put their babies at fracture risk during the first year of
Updated : 6 years, 1 month ago IST
Stockholm [Sweden], Jan 30 (ANI): Mothers who smoke during the early phase of their pregnancy might be putting their babies at an increased risk of fractures within the first year of their life.
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Prenatal smoking and drinking increases the risk for SIDS
Updated : 6 years, 1 month ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Jan 26 (ANI): A new study revealed that children born to mothers who drank and smoked beyond the first three months of pregnancy have 12 fold increased risk for sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) as compared to those who are unexposed or only exposed in the first thre
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Study reveals ill effects of marijuana for heart patients
Updated : 6 years, 2 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Jan 25 (ANI): Physicians are worried after they found traces of Marijuana in a number of heart patients. While smoking tobacco leads to one in every four cardiovascular disease-related deaths, the cause of similar effects from using marijuana is still not entirely kno
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