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Quit Smoking Using These Smartphone Apps

Medicine & Technology May 29, 2017

Quitting smoking can be a difficult task for a smoker. Sometimes with medical help also, it becomes a very hard task for the smokers to quit smoking. For those who are ready, there are some smartphone apps which can help in the task.

Tobacco Epidemic Continues As WHO Strengthens Anti-Smoking Measures

Mar 23, 2017

Tobacco use decreased to just 2.5 percent after a decade of World Health Organization's anti-smoking campaign.

Candy-Flavoured Ads Entice Kids To Vaping, Study Claims

Jan 20, 2016

According to a British study, promotional ads featuring e-cigarettes available with flavours such as bubble gum and chocolate seem to highly entice children to purchase and try e-cigarettes.

Hawaii Forefronts Raising Legal Smoking Age To 21

Jan 03, 2016

Starting January 1, 2016, the state has officially become the first in the United States to increase legal age smoking from 18 to 21.

Survey: Teenagers Are More Likely To Smoke Marijuana Than Cigarette

Dec 23, 2015

A recent survey shows that teenagers these days are more likely to smoke marijuana rather than cigarettes.

Tasmanian Government To Propose New Legal Age For Tobacco Use

Dec 21, 2015

The Tasmanian government is considering a proposal of increasing the minimum legal age for smoking from 18 to either 21 or 25.

Passive And Active Smoking Linked To Reproductive Problems

Dec 17, 2015

Researchers link active and passive smoking to infertility and early menopause.

Seafarers Have The Highest Chance In Contracting Lung Disease

Dec 03, 2015

The Imperial College London conducted a research that concludes on the riskiest jobs in terms of acquiring lung diseases.

Firsthand And Secondhand Smoking Linked To Type 2 Diabetes --Study

Sep 21, 2015

Study shows that type 2 diabetes are likely to develop not only on firsthand smokers, as previously found, but also to secondhand smokers.

Hypertension And Other Top Global Killers

Sep 16, 2015

A study published in The Lancet showed that between the years 1990 to 2013 an alarming of 50% to as much as 79% was added to the number of deaths due to high blood pressure has been observed.

Pfizer: Chantix Does Not Increase Risks for Heart Attack and Depression

Sep 08, 2015

A new study released contradicted previous claim that the stop-smoking drug of Pfizer causes an increase risk of heart attacks and depression to users.

College Students Use Marijuana Over Tobacco -- Research

Sep 08, 2015

College students now prefer to use Marijuana than smoke tobacco.

Smoking Rate Drops Among US Adults

Sep 03, 2015

A new national survey study has shown that in the year 2015 less American adults are regular smokers.

Smokeless Tobacco Alternative Less Dangerous For Your Health

Aug 20, 2015

The Public Health England government body says vaping can make ‘significant contribution to endgame of tobacco’ based on the results on recent research studies.