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11/13/2018 / By Edsel Cook

Study shows that household cleaning sprays are as bad for your lungs as cigarettes

The chemicals you use to clean your home or office every day are extremely harmful for your health. Norwegian researchers warned that daily exposure to these household cleaning sprays is like smoking an entire pack of cigarettes each day, an article in the University of Bergen news page reported. Professional cleaners who use these cleaning […]

07/18/2018 / By Russel Davis

It’s working: Lung cancer rates have gone down in communities with strong smoking laws, study results reveal

Imposing strong smoke-free workplace laws may lead to a significant decline in lung cancer rates, according to a study published in the journal Cancer. A team of researchers at the University of Kentucky has examined how smoke-free laws affect lung cancer prevalence across the state as part of the study. Data show that Kentucky has more cases of lung […]

06/28/2018 / By Ralph Flores

Consuming high-fat dairy products found to make lung function in smokers even worse

It’s common knowledge that smoking is bad for your health. However, add high-fat dairy to the mix, and you could be looking at worse damages, according to a study published in the Journal of Nutrition & Intermediary Metabolism. In the study, Australian researchers explored the association between lung function and dairy consumption in smokers. How […]

06/13/2018 / By Janine Acero

Clever solution: Crows are cleaning city streets – a Dutch startup is training them to pick up cigarette butts in exchange for treats

A new Dutch startup called “Crowded Cities” is training crows to recognize and pick up cigarette butts in exchange for treats, effectively cleaning up the city streets and parks. The crows would drop the cigarette butts into a “Crowbar” device, which then scans the piece of litter to confirm that it is a cigarette butt. […]

04/10/2018 / By Jessica Dolores

Say what? Smoking found to increase risk of hearing loss, according to study

Still dying for a smoke? Besides, emphysema, diabetes, rheumatoid arthritis, blindness and of course cancer, here’s one more reason to stop smoking — hearing loss. A recently-published study published by Oxford University Press showed that the more than 50,000 participants of the over eight year-study showed that “smoking is an independent risk factor of hearing […]

02/06/2018 / By Jhoanna Robinson

Research shows smoking just one cigarette per day increases risk of heart attack and stroke

A recent study has shown that smoking even just one cigarette per day heightens the risk of heart attack and stroke by nearly 50 percent for men and a hundred percent for women. In fact, men who smoke even just a single cigarette expose themselves to the dangers that people who smoked 20 cigarettes had […]

12/27/2017 / By Frances Bloomfield

A new gateway drug? Many high school kids “graduate” to using cigarettes after trying e-cigarettes

Electronic cigarettes, or e-cigarettes as they’re more commonly known, are usually considered to be safer than traditional tobacco cigarettes. However, new research from Yale University has shown that these “healthier” cigarette alternatives can be just as dangerous. According to the study, teenagers who smoke e-cigarettes have a greater chance of taking up tobacco cigarettes in […]

11/10/2017 / By Isabelle Z.

Peer pressure turnaround: New research shows a reduction in youth tobacco use when friends stage an intervention

Despite an abundance of smoking cessation aids available, many people struggle to kick this dangerous habit. It’s not surprising that some adults who have been smoking for decades cannot imagine living without their cigarettes, but are the chances any better of getting young people to abandon the habit? A study that was recently published in […]

09/27/2017 / By Russel Davis

Reverse damage from smoking just by quitting: The body has a remarkable ability to heal itself

A recent study published in the American Chemical Society‘s Journal of Proteome Research reveals that quitting cigarette smoking may still reverse the damage done by years of tobacco use. A 2013 study once suggested that changes in metabolic profiles a few months after quitting smoking may speed up the recuperation process among smokers and may lead to such as improved lung function […]

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