Health
Regular smoking in young people at record low
The proportion of young people smoking in England regularly is the lowest on record, according to new figures .
Nov 6, 2017
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Bed-sharing, smoking play role in sudden infant death
(HealthDay) -- Although the rate of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) dropped by more than 50 percent following the start of a U.S. campaign encouraging parents to put babies to sleep on their backs, new research suggests ...
Mar 26, 2012
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HIV & AIDS
For smokers with HIV, smoking may now be more harmful than HIV itself
Among people living with HIV who smoke cigarettes, smoking may now shorten their lifespan more than HIV itself, according to a new modeling study published in The Journal of Infectious Diseases. With smoking rates more than ...
Nov 3, 2016
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Addiction
Glance: US smoking over 50 years
Some key events and adult smoking rates in the fight over tobacco during the last 50 years in the U.S.:
Feb 5, 2014
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Tobacco control plan for England published
The Department of Health has published its long-awaited Tobacco Control Plan for England .
Jul 21, 2017
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Study ties more deaths, types of disease, to smoking
Breast cancer, prostate cancer, and even routine infections. A new report ties these and other maladies to smoking and says an additional 60,000 to 120,000 deaths each year in the United States are probably due to tobacco ...
Feb 11, 2015
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Studies may have overestimated effect that smoking bans play in reducing hospitalizations
Previous studies of tobacco policies aimed at reducing hospitalizations may have overestimated the benefits of bans on public smoking and underestimated the benefits of cigarette taxes, according to new research by experts ...
Sep 20, 2016
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England slips further off-track for smokefree 2030 target
The UK government is almost a decade behind achieving its target for England to be smokefree by 2030, a new report published by Cancer Research UK reveals.
Dec 29, 2022
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Health
Asia's rising tobacco epidemic
Smoke-filled bars and packed cancer wards reflect decades of neglect of no-smoking policies in Asia, where both high- and low-income countries are belatedly waking up to a growing tobacco-related health epidemic.
Sep 18, 2014
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Diabetes
Type 2 diabetes takes greatest toll on life expectancy of women, younger people and smokers, analysis of UK data finds
New research being presented at the annual meeting of the European Association for the Study of Diabetes in Stockholm, Sweden (19-23 Sept) indicates that type 2 diabetes (T2D) takes a greater toll on the mortality and life ...
Sep 20, 2022
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