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Health & Fitness (23 Feb, 2009)
Sleeping Pills Are More Harmful Than Cigarettes
Thousands of people all over the world suffer from insomnia nowadays. One third of them have this problem very often or all the time. Circa 15 per cent of the non-sleepers use sleeping pills – according to doctor's recommendations or as self-treatment. ...
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Health & Fitness (14 Mar, 2009)
Chocolate Is To Be Compared To Alcohol And Cigarettes
The Scottish dietologist David Walker has proposed calling chocolate one of the worst health products, along with alcohol and cigarettes. ...
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Health & Fitness (02 Jul, 2007)
Cigarette Price Increase Results in Bootlegging Boost
The significantly increased cigarette tax has reinforced smoking and diminished the results of cessation services. It has partially reduced tobacco use but caused a dramatic rise in illegal untaxed cigarettes sales on the streets of low-income minority communities, as showed the study organized by Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health researchers. ...
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Health & Fitness (30 Aug, 2007)
Genes Permanently Turned On by Smoking
A study, which was published in BMC Genomics, an on-line open-access journal, was able to explain why those people who used to smoke still have a higher risk for lung cancer development than those who never had the bad habit ...
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Health & Fitness (15 Oct, 2007)
Mothers-to-be Smoking Results in 90 % of Cot Deaths
A lot of expectant women ignore adverse effects of prenatal and postnatal smoking and the risk of sudden infant death ...
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Offbeat (18 Apr, 2008)
Oklahoma Sheriff Faces Charges of Using Inmates as Sex Slaves
Western Oklahoma sheriff was accused of forcing and bribing female inmates using them as sex slaves in his jail. ...
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Health & Fitness (07 Jan, 2009)
Genes or Ecology?
What influences our health the most - genes or the surrounding medium? This is the question that has been discussed in science for years. Recently some researches in this domain showed stunning results. ...
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Health & Fitness (21 Feb, 2009)
By Giving Up Smoking Women Start To Look 13 Years Younger
Smoking epidemic had taken the lives of 100 million people during the 20th century. Nowadays, smoking is the cause of death of 5.4 million people each year. This number may increase up to 8 million by 2030. ...
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Health & Fitness (27 Apr, 2009)
Nicotine Supresses the Feeling of Anger
Nicotine has a calming effect by the means of changing the activeness of brain areas, which slow down the manifestation of negative emotions, researchers say. ...
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Health & Fitness (18 May, 2009)
Tendency To Smoking Depends On Hair Colour
American researchers from the University of Pennsylvania say that people with dark-coloured skin and hair have higher tendency towards nicotine dependency than blonde people. ...
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Health & Fitness (17 Jun, 2009)
Cannabis Smoke Damages DNA
Researchers at University of Leicester claim they managed to find convincing proof that cannabis smoke causes damaged to human DNA, increasing the risk of developing cancer. ...
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