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 In acceptance with the Great American Smokeout, a national campaign sponsored by the American Cancer Society to encourage smokers who want to quit to seek help, Sheridan hospital banes tobacco.While the hospital has always been a smoke-free facility, the policy will prohibit all forms of tobacco on the hospital grounds, said Len Gross,...
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A recent study led by
Dr. Naresh Punjabi of Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in Baltimore found that smokers spend more time in light sleep and less time in deep sleep than non-smokers. The research, due to be published in this month’s issue of the
journal Chest, also states that the cigarette smokers are four times as...
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 Already known to cause lung cancer, heart disease and
stroke, researcher report that smoking also exponentially raises the risk for
the most common form of diabetes.
The Swiss researchers found that smokers faced a 44 percent
increased risk of developing type 2 diabetes, when compared to nonsmokers.
Dr. Carole Willi of the...
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 In a rather optimistic report by health guides, just three
servings a month of raw broccoli or cabbage can reduce the risk of bladder
cancer by as much as 40 percent.
Other studies show that dark-colored berries can reduce the
risk of cancer too -- adding more evidence to a growing body of research that
shows fruits and...
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 After multiple trial and error attempts, for the first time,
researchers say they have evidence that long-term exposure to secondhand smoke
can cause structural damage in the lungs that is indicative of emphysema.
Their study also suggests that the modified magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)
technique used to detect the lung damage...
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 According to a new report, smoking cigarettes may make teens
more susceptible to depression, alcohol abuse, and illegal drug use.Based on
data from a government drug use survey, researchers concluded that teens who smoke
are nine times more likely to abuse alcohol and 13 times more likely to abuse
illegal drugs than teens who don't...
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 Medical records of 121,000 American women were gathered between 1980 and 2004 and analyzed, with the crux set on the effects that smoking stoppage has on one’s health state.
The study was made by researchers at Harvard Medical School in Boston and published by the American Medical Association in the May 7 issue of its Journal....
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 First-degree smokers are not the only ones affected by
smoking, secondhand smokers are just as in danger, and so are their house pets.Recent veterinary studies performed in the USA show that
secondhand smoke not only threats the health of nonsmokers, it can also hurt
house pets such as dogs and cats.
“Secondhand smoke has been...
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 According to recent reports made public by a Dutch science lab researching
the effects of smoking, people who smoke are 50 percent more likely to develop
Alzheimer's disease or dementia than people who do not smoke or who givven up smoking.
Researchers announced these results after analyzing seven years of data from
almost 7,000...
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