Quit Smoking Support:
Quit smoking and stop the habit, cigarette smoking hazards, help and support to quit smoking and tips.
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Sep 7th, 2009
Tobacco branding and packaging send misleading ‘smoke signals' to young people and to adult smokers.
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Sep 4th, 2009
Washington’s adult smoking rate has hit a new low for the sixth consecutive year.
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Sep 3rd, 2009
While smoking cigarettes appears to significantly increase a person’s risk of developing multiple sclerosis, using Swedish snuff does not.
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Sep 1st, 2009
Even small amounts of smoke — such as from smoking a few cigarettes a day, inhaling someone else’s tobacco smoke or breathing polluted air — increase the risk of death from cardiovascular disease (CVD).
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Aug 31st, 2009
There are many ways to quit smoking: “cold turkey”, behavior therapy, hypnotism, nicotine patches or gum, and smoking cessation drugs.
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Aug 28th, 2009
Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is almost always caused by smoking. COPD encompasses two diseases: chronic bronchitis, in which the airways become inflamed; and emphysema, in which the air sacs in the lung are damaged. Both are progressive, getting worse over time.
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Aug 24th, 2009
In the first study of its kind, smoking and the association to TB was reported in the September 1st issue of The American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine. The study shows that smokers are two times more likely to contract tuberculosis.
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Aug 22nd, 2009
Inherited changes in certain regions of the genome can increase a smokers' risk of developing lung cancer lung cancer, and determine the type of lung cancer that develops.
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Aug 21st, 2009
Member of Parliament Brent Rathgeber announced federal support for a project designed to help reduce cigarette smoking rates among Aboriginal people in Alberta.
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Aug 20th, 2009
People who smoke and have multiple sclerosis (MS) may be at increased risk of brain shrinkage and increased brain lesions related to the disease.