News tagged with smoking women
Smoking, couch-potato lifestyles boost cancer risks
Two studies released on Wednesday highlighted the risks and benefits of lifestyle choices in combatting cancer, showing the dangers of smoking for post-menopausal women and exercise's protective effect on the bowel.
Mar 02, 2011 |
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The Great American Smokeout
You already know smoking is bad, and that it contributes to heart disease, strokes, lung and other cancers and can lead to poor healing, chronic lung disease, wrinkled skin, erectile dysfunction, and it worsens asthma.
Nov 17, 2010 |
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Breast cancer linked to environmental smoke exposure among Mexican women
Mexican women who do not smoke but are exposed to smoking, known as environmental smoke exposure, are at three times higher risk for breast cancer than non-smoking women not exposed to passive smoking, according to findings ...
Oct 02, 2010 |
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Benefits of healthy lifestyle factors stronger in combination
It is widely known that a healthy lifestyle that includes not smoking, limiting alcohol intake, and maintaining a proper weight reduces disease risk.
Sep 14, 2010 |
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African-American infants at increased risk from tobacco smoke exposure
Low levels of prenatal tobacco smoke exposure are associated with a higher risk of developmental problems for African American children than white children, according to new research from Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical ...
May 03, 2010 |
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Smoking, but not past alcohol abuse, may impair mental function
Men and women with a history of alcohol abuse may not see long-term negative effects on their memory and thinking, but female smokers do, a new study suggests.
Mar 16, 2010 |
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It's never too late to quit smoking and save your vision
Need a little extra incentive to kick the habit? Just in time for New Year's resolutions, a UCLA study finds that even after age 80, smoking continues to increase one's risk for age-related macular degeneration (AMD), the ...
Dec 31, 2009 |
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Women can quit smoking and control weight gain
Many women don't quit smoking because they are afraid of gaining weight. That's because nicotine suppresses the appetite and boosts a smoker's metabolism.
Nov 19, 2009 |
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US gets a 'D' for preterm birth rate
For the second consecutive year, the United States earned only a "D" on the March of Dimes Premature Birth Report Card, demonstrating that more than half a million of our nation's newborns didn't get the ...
Nov 17, 2009 |
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Obesity, alcohol consumption and smoking increase the risk of second breast cancer
It is well known that survivors of breast cancer have a much higher risk of developing a second breast cancer than women in the general population have of developing a first breast cancer. However, little is known about what ...
Sep 08, 2009 |
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Breast cancer: Risk increases for smokers and overweight women
A recent study published in the Journal of Cancer Epidemiology has reinforced the correlation between being overweight, smoking and breast cancer. What makes this study unique is how test subjects were not diagnosed for BR ...
Sep 01, 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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Here's One Inheritance You Don't Want
(PhysOrg.com) -- If your mother smoked during her pregnancy, you are more likely to be addicted to nicotine as a young adult.
Aug 05, 2009 |
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Smoking rates significantly higher among homosexual men, women
(PhysOrg.com) -- Men and women who are gay or lesbian are more likely than their heterosexual counterparts to smoke, according to findings from a review study carried out by the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Jul 24, 2009 |
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Women more susceptible to harmful effects of smoking
Women may be more susceptible to the lung damaging effects of smoking than men, according to new research by Inga-Cecilie Soerheim, M.D., and her colleagues from Channing Laboratory, Brigham and Women's Hospital and University ...
May 18, 2009 |
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