Most people never realize when an occasional
indulgence gradually transforms into a dependence trap. Addiction to tobacco
in any form is caused by its active ingredient nicotine, a chemical substance
that alters your mood and temporarily stimulates ...
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Women smokers are just as vulnerable to serious health problems like lung cancer orcular disease as their male counterparts. In women, however, smoking carries an increased risk of ...
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Do you smoke?
While you are enjoying that much needed puff, have you ever stopped to think what you are doing to your body and your life? ...
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Everyone knows that smoking and chewing tobacco is bad for health, yet 250 million people in India - almost a fourth of the country's population - consume some form of tobacco. People think that they ...
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You don't need to smoke to be at risk for developing lung cancer from tobacco smoke. The smoke from someone else's cigarette, cigar or pipe has just as much potential to affect your health in adverse ...
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Almost everyone dreams about having a healthy and disease-free life. However, not everyone is lucky enough to fulfill this dream. Today, there are a number of factors that predispose the ...
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Smoke from cigarettes, cigars, and pipes harms your body in many ways but essentially it affects the respiratory system. Everybody knows that smoking is injurious to health but very few ...
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People who smoke regularly need more Vitamin C than others because smoking apparently speeds up the metabolism of this vitamin. Also, elderly persons, pregnant women, alcohol abusers and chronic ...
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Tests have shown that women may, on average, find it harder to give up smoking than men. This is despite the fact that women are often more at risk to smoking related diseases than men. A ...
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Understanding second hand smoke Smoking alone opens the gate of a wide range of diseases. Some of the life threatening diseases that occur as a result of smoking are cancers, heart attacks, ...
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