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Could Passive Smoke At Home Be Affecting Children More Than Realised? Doctor Explains
Passive smoking refers to inhaling smoke from burning tobacco products as well as smoke exhaled by a smoker. Children are especially vulnerable because their lungs and immune systems are still developing.
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Quit Smoking? Here's What Happens Inside Your Body In Just 1 Week
In just one week of quitting smoking, your body starts healing your heart rate normalises, senses sharpen, breathing eases, circulation improves, and lungs begin repair.
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When A Man Locked His Head In Cage To Quit Smoking: Read Ibrahim Yucel's Story
Ibrahim Yucel had been smoking extensively for two decades when he decided to go to the extreme.
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World Health Day 2023: Expert Tells Why You Should Immediately Stop Tobacco Use For Good
This World Health Day, take a stand against tobacco and nicotine use. Whether you're chewing tobacco, smoking cigarettes, or vaping, quitting is one of the best things you can do for your health.
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World Cancer Day 2021: Chewing And Smoking Tobacco- A Risk Factor For Multiple Kinds Of Cancer
World Cancer Day: Chewing tobacco contains a minimum of 28 cancer-causing chemicals, medically known as carcinogens. The primary cancer-causing agents in chewing tobacco are the tobacco-explicit nitrosamines (TSNAs).
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North Korea Bans Smoking In Public Spaces: Report
North Korea's Supreme People's Assembly on Wednesday introduced smoking bans in some public places to provide citizens with "hygienic living environments," state media KCNA reported on Thursday.
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Regular Smoking May Up Risk of Hypertension and Heart Diseases: Can Green Tea Help Battle the Addiction?
The chemicals in tobacco harm your blood cells and damage the function of your heart.
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How to Quit Smoking: 10 Easy Ways to Resist Tobacco Cravings
On World No Tobacco Day, we give you some tips that may prove very helpful in your efforts to quit smoking.
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World No Tobacco Day 2018: Top 7 Reasons Why You Should Quit Smoking
Tobacco use kills about six million people in India. On World No Tobacco Day, know the reasons to quit smoking.
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World No Tobacco Day 2018: Top 7 Health Effects Of Tobacco You Should Know About
According to WHO statistics in 2010, non-communicable diseases are responsible for 53% of all deaths in India. WHO data shows that tobacco use kills six million in India, out which five million die as a result of direct tobacco use and rest as a result of being exposed to second-hand smoke.
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Smoking Kills the Most in India, China, Russia and America
Another 6 lakh die on the account of second-hand exposure to cigarette smoke. Tobacco consumption and smoking is tied to a host of ailments
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Number of Male Smokers in India Rose 36 Percent Since 1998: Study
At the ages 15-69 years, there were about 11 million women who smoked - about one-tenth of the total of male smokers.
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Smoking Tobacco Might Increase Risk of Schizophrenia, Say Researchers
Analysis of studies on smoking tobacco and psychosis, of which schizophrenia is most common type, suggests smoking may be causal factor in itself.
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No Indian Study Links Cigarettes With Cancer, Says BJP Chief of Parliamentary Committee
India will miss the deadline for a major initiative to dissuade smoking. Tobacco companies had been told late last year that starting April 1, they would have to stamp health warnings across 85 per cent of the surface of cigarette packets from next year.
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Government Proposes Ban on Sale of Loose Cigarettes
Brushing aside opposition, the government today moved to amend the anti-smoking law and proposed radical changes, including ban on sale of loose cigarettes and raising the minimum age of a person buying tobacco products to 21 years from existing 18.
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Could Passive Smoke At Home Be Affecting Children More Than Realised? Doctor Explains
Passive smoking refers to inhaling smoke from burning tobacco products as well as smoke exhaled by a smoker. Children are especially vulnerable because their lungs and immune systems are still developing.
-
Quit Smoking? Here's What Happens Inside Your Body In Just 1 Week
In just one week of quitting smoking, your body starts healing your heart rate normalises, senses sharpen, breathing eases, circulation improves, and lungs begin repair.
-
When A Man Locked His Head In Cage To Quit Smoking: Read Ibrahim Yucel's Story
Ibrahim Yucel had been smoking extensively for two decades when he decided to go to the extreme.
-
World Health Day 2023: Expert Tells Why You Should Immediately Stop Tobacco Use For Good
This World Health Day, take a stand against tobacco and nicotine use. Whether you're chewing tobacco, smoking cigarettes, or vaping, quitting is one of the best things you can do for your health.
-
World Cancer Day 2021: Chewing And Smoking Tobacco- A Risk Factor For Multiple Kinds Of Cancer
World Cancer Day: Chewing tobacco contains a minimum of 28 cancer-causing chemicals, medically known as carcinogens. The primary cancer-causing agents in chewing tobacco are the tobacco-explicit nitrosamines (TSNAs).
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North Korea Bans Smoking In Public Spaces: Report
North Korea's Supreme People's Assembly on Wednesday introduced smoking bans in some public places to provide citizens with "hygienic living environments," state media KCNA reported on Thursday.
-
Regular Smoking May Up Risk of Hypertension and Heart Diseases: Can Green Tea Help Battle the Addiction?
The chemicals in tobacco harm your blood cells and damage the function of your heart.
-
How to Quit Smoking: 10 Easy Ways to Resist Tobacco Cravings
On World No Tobacco Day, we give you some tips that may prove very helpful in your efforts to quit smoking.
-
World No Tobacco Day 2018: Top 7 Reasons Why You Should Quit Smoking
Tobacco use kills about six million people in India. On World No Tobacco Day, know the reasons to quit smoking.
-
World No Tobacco Day 2018: Top 7 Health Effects Of Tobacco You Should Know About
According to WHO statistics in 2010, non-communicable diseases are responsible for 53% of all deaths in India. WHO data shows that tobacco use kills six million in India, out which five million die as a result of direct tobacco use and rest as a result of being exposed to second-hand smoke.
-
Smoking Kills the Most in India, China, Russia and America
Another 6 lakh die on the account of second-hand exposure to cigarette smoke. Tobacco consumption and smoking is tied to a host of ailments
-
Number of Male Smokers in India Rose 36 Percent Since 1998: Study
At the ages 15-69 years, there were about 11 million women who smoked - about one-tenth of the total of male smokers.
-
Smoking Tobacco Might Increase Risk of Schizophrenia, Say Researchers
Analysis of studies on smoking tobacco and psychosis, of which schizophrenia is most common type, suggests smoking may be causal factor in itself.
-
No Indian Study Links Cigarettes With Cancer, Says BJP Chief of Parliamentary Committee
India will miss the deadline for a major initiative to dissuade smoking. Tobacco companies had been told late last year that starting April 1, they would have to stamp health warnings across 85 per cent of the surface of cigarette packets from next year.
-
Government Proposes Ban on Sale of Loose Cigarettes
Brushing aside opposition, the government today moved to amend the anti-smoking law and proposed radical changes, including ban on sale of loose cigarettes and raising the minimum age of a person buying tobacco products to 21 years from existing 18.
