News tagged with smoking rates
Study links smoking with most male cancer deaths
The association between tobacco smoke and cancer deaths — beyond lung cancer deaths — has been strengthened by a recent study from a UC Davis researcher, suggesting that increased tobacco control efforts could save more lives ...
Jan 21, 2009 |
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China anti-tobacco efforts failing, officials say
(AP) -- Efforts to curb tobacco use in the world's most populous nation have had no real impact and 301 million Chinese are still smoking, China's Center for Disease Control said in a report.
Aug 18, 2010 |
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CDC predicts smoking bans in every state by 2020
(AP) -- By 2020, every state may have bans on smoking in restaurants, bars and the workplace, federal health officials predicted Thursday, based on the current pace of adopting anti-smoking laws.
Apr 21, 2011 |
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Smoking accounts for up to 60 percent of gender gap in deaths across Europe
Smoking accounts for up to 60% of the gender gap in death rates across Europe, and kills twice as many men as alcohol, reveals research published online in Tobacco Control.
Jan 17, 2011 |
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Smoking kills -- irrespective of social class and gender
A well-off professional who smokes has a much lower survival rate than a non-smoking low-paid worker of the same sex concludes new research published today on bmj.com.
Feb 17, 2009 |
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Blood pressure control abnormal in newborns of smoking mothers
Newborns of women who smoked during pregnancy show signs of circulatory dysfunction in the first few weeks of life that get worse throughout the first year, Swedish researchers reported in Hypertension: Journal of the Am ...
Jan 25, 2010 |
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US adult smoking rate rises slightly
(AP) -- Cigarette smoking rose slightly for the first time in almost 15 years, dashing health officials' hopes that the U.S. smoking rate had moved permanently below 20 percent.
Nov 12, 2009 |
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Do women who smoke like men die like men?
Smoking still kills more men than women, because men started smoking substantial numbers of cigarettes long before women did.
Aug 31, 2009 |
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