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6/27/2006 8:21:00 PM | Study Cites 'Indisputable' Evidence Against Secondhand Smoke 
=(0) The US Surgeon General confirmed what was long suspected: secondhand smoke is dangerous, leading to about 50,000 deaths a year in the US. Smoking can cause or aggravate diseases such as lung cancer, breast cancer, childhood cancers, asthma and heart disease. It has also been associated with sudden infant death syndrome. The Surgeon Genera...
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6/21/2006 10:44:00 AM | Smokeless Tobacco: No Chewing, No Spitting, and Fewer Cancer ... =(0) Philip Morris and RJ Reynolds are both testing a smokeless tobacco product that would help those addicted to nicotine get around the public bans on smoking that more and more communities are enacting. These are not the chewing and spitting kinds of tobacco, but a neat pouch held against the gums. Nicotine is absorbed and while the effect is sa...
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6/20/2006 9:33:00 AM | Parental smoking still a threat to kids' lungs =(0) Smoking during pregnancy, and smoking in the home where children live, are both serious health problems according to a recent study. Mothers who smoke when pregnant have babies with 30-40% higher risk of poor lung function, and the effect can last as long as 12 years. Second hand smoke in the home is itself a risk factor for lung disease,...
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6/19/2006 8:31:00 PM | San Diego City Council votes to ban smoking on beaches =(0) The City of San Diego, California is in the process of banning smoking from city parks and beaches. Several other California municipalities have already enacted such bans, including San Francisco and Santa Monica. While some contend the danger of second hand smoke is minimal because the open air is not confined, others approve because of healt...
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5/18/2006 5:13:00 PM | Infants Show Signs of Exposure to Second-Hand Smoke =(0) A new study reveals that infants who are exposed to second hand smoke have cancer-causing chemicals from that smoke in their urine. Children between the ages of three months and one year, who lived in a home with at least one smoker, had their urine tested by researchers. Almost half tested positive for the substance in question, with a correl...
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5/17/2006 4:55:00 PM | Infants exposed to cigarette smoke are more likely to develop ... =(0) Babies who live in homes where 20 or more cigarettes a day are smoked, are three times more likely to develop hay fever type allergies (allergic rhinitis) by their first birthdays than those in non-smoking homes. This finding came out of a University of Cincinnati study measuring the effect of various substances on childrens' health. Household mold...
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4/4/2006 11:06:00 AM | Many Complex Linkages Between Smoking and Cancer =(0) This article describes four recent studies that try to shed some light on the association between smoking and cancer: The studies suggest that: 1. A protein has been found whose blood levels are highest in non-smokers and lowest in smokers; but it was also established that in those who stop smoking, the blood levels increase again. It is thought to...
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3/27/2006 5:29:00 AM | Appleton referendum: A secondhand smoking gun? =(0) Appleton Wisconsin is at the center of a heated debate about the true risks of secondhand smoke. A workplace smoking ban went into effect there last summer, and efforts are now underway to repeal part of that ban. It is mostly restaurant and bar owners who deny that secondhand smoke is as dangerous as health officials portray. American Cancer Socie...
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3/21/2006 3:15:00 AM | Nonsmokers with cancer baffle experts =(0) A study shows that children exposed to second-hand tobacco smoke are more prone to a certain strain of Streptococcal bacterial infection than those not exposed. Second hand smoke is also a suspected cause of lung cancer among non-smokers, along with asbestos, air pollution, and radon exposure....
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3/16/2006 6:11:00 AM | US city to pass landmark secondary-smoke law =(0) Calabasis California has passed the first law in the US banning smoking in any public place, indoor or outdoor. This follows a move by the California Air Resources Board which classified second-hand smoke as a toxic air contaminant. Health officials say that thousands of non-smoking Californians die each year of heart disease and cancer related to ...
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