Secondhand Smoke Dangers
at 4:47 pm on Sunday, 30 March 2008
Secondhand Smoke Dangers
The U.S. Surgeon General has declared secondhand smoke a hazard to human health and says the only way to eliminate the dangers to children and nonsmoking adults is to create smoke-free environments by stopping all smoking indoors–but he stopped short of calling for smoking bans that would do just that.
20% Mad Money
at 4:47 pm on Saturday, 29 March 2008
20% Mad Money
Academy Award® winner Diane Keaton (Somethings Gotta Give), Oscar® nominee Queen Latifah (Chicago) and Katie Holmes (Thank You for Smoking) star in Mad Money, a comedy about three ordinary women who form an unlikely friendship and decide to do something extraordinaryrob one of the most secure banks in the world.
Quitting Smoking Helps Arteries
Title: Quitting Smoking Helps Arteries
Category: Health News
Created: 3/20/2007
Last Editorial Review: 3/20/2007
Cigarette Company Paid for Lung Cancer Study
at 4:47 pm on Friday, 28 March 2008
Cigarette Company Paid for Lung Cancer Study
The revelation that a researcher’s study was underwritten by a tobacco company has caused an appearance of bias.
Secondhand Smoke Dangers
The U.S. Surgeon General has declared secondhand smoke a hazard to human health and says the only way to eliminate the dangers to children and nonsmoking adults is to create smoke-free environments by stopping all smoking indoors–but he stopped short of calling for smoking bans that would do just that.
After 35 Plus Years We Did It!
I spent this past Thanksgiving in the hospital with bacterial pneumonia. The good news is that I was there long enough and I was sick enough to finally quit smoking….
U.N.: Smoking could kill 1 billion by 2100
at 4:48 pm on Wednesday, 26 March 2008
U.N.: Smoking could kill 1 billion by 2100
Tobacco use killed 100 million people worldwide in the 20th century and could kill one billion people in the 21st unless governments act now to dramatically reduce it, the World Health Organization said in a report.
1M Smoking Deaths in India
Smoking kills 900,000 people every year in India, and unless corrective action is taken soon that number will increase to 1 million smoking-related deaths annually by 2010 and beyond, according to a study published in the New England Journal of Medicine and conducted by scientists from India, Canada and the UK. According to the World Health Organization, smoking-related deaths are increasing worldwide, with the majority occurring in developing nations.
Oral Sex And Pot Linked To Cancer
at 4:47 pm on Sunday, 23 March 2008
Oral Sex And Pot Linked To Cancer
Certain head and neck cancers may be tied to sex, marijuana, and thuman papillomavirus (HPV) type 16, new research shows.
1M Smoking Deaths in India
Smoking kills 900,000 people every year in India, and unless corrective action is taken soon that number will increase to 1 million smoking-related deaths annually by 2010 and beyond, according to a study published in the New England Journal of Medicine and conducted by scientists from India, Canada and the UK. According to the World Health Organization, smoking-related deaths are increasing worldwide, with the majority occurring in developing nations.
After 35 Plus Years We Did It!
at 4:04 pm on Saturday, 22 March 2008
After 35 Plus Years We Did It!
I spent this past Thanksgiving in the hospital with bacterial pneumonia. The good news is that I was there long enough and I was sick enough to finally quit smoking….
U.N.: Smoking could kill 1 billion by 2100
at 4:01 pm on Wednesday, 19 March 2008
U.N.: Smoking could kill 1 billion by 2100
Tobacco use killed 100 million people worldwide in the 20th century and could kill one billion people in the 21st unless governments act now to dramatically reduce it, the World Health Organization said in a report.
Chest Pain? Be Honest About Cocaine Use
Young people with chest pain who falsely deny using cocaine could end up getting medication that will kill them.
2 men charged with selling 20,000 Ecstasy pills
at 4:04 pm on Tuesday, 18 March 2008
2 men charged with selling 20,000 Ecstasy pills
Minneapolis Star Tribune - Ecstasy is the most common street name for MDMA, which the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) describes as “a synthetic, psychoactive drug chemically similar to the stimulant methamphetamine and the hallucinogen mescaline.” It’s also known under
Romance and Cigarettes photo
at 4:02 pm on Monday, 17 March 2008
Romance and Cigarettes photo
Gallery of photos from "Romance and Cigarettes ", directed by John Turturro and starring James Gandolfini, Susan Sarandon, Kate Winslet, Christopher Walken, Steve Buscemi.
U.N.: Smoking could kill 1 billion by 2100
Tobacco use killed 100 million people worldwide in the 20th century and could kill one billion people in the 21st unless governments act now to dramatically reduce it, the World Health Organization said in a report.
First coca find in Brazil Amazon
Coca plantations and a cocaine lab are found for the first time in a Brazilian part of the Amazon rainforest.
20% Mad Money
at 4:03 pm on Sunday, 16 March 2008
20% Mad Money
Academy Award® winner Diane Keaton (Somethings Gotta Give), Oscar® nominee Queen Latifah (Chicago) and Katie Holmes (Thank You for Smoking) star in Mad Money, a comedy about three ordinary women who form an unlikely friendship and decide to do something extraordinaryrob one of the most secure banks in the world.
U.N.: Smoking could kill 1 billion by 2100
Tobacco use killed 100 million people worldwide in the 20th century and could kill one billion people in the 21st unless governments act now to dramatically reduce it, the World Health Organization said in a report.
Do Occupational Exposures Increase the Risk of Death from Systemic Autoimmune Disease?
Both genetic and environmental exposures, to varying degrees, are felt to contribute to the risk and severity of systemic autoimmune diseases (e.g. rheumatoid arthritis (RA), lupus, etc…). While some clear cut evidence for environmental exposures in certain autoimmune diseases exists, such as cigarette smoking in RA and specific chemical exposures in scleroderma-like syndromes, general links to occupational exposures has been difficult to establish. This is partially due to difficulties in tracking and quantifying specific exposures within complex frameworks, particularly when exposure likely precedes onset of disease by years or even decades. Here, Gold et al (Arthritis Rheum 2007; 56:3189) explore the association of occupation and risk of mortality from a variety of systemic autoimmune diseases.