61. Information Resource Centre - Tobacco your health will start improving from the moment you stop smoking or chewing tobacco. smoking tobacco is always addictive and damaging to your health. http://info.cancerresearchuk.org/healthyliving/tobacco/

CancerHelp UK Science and Research Main Site Home ... Our publications You are here: Home Healthy living Tobacco What’s in a cigarette? ... Reduce the Risk Tobacco, smoking and cancer Smoking is the biggest single cause of cancer in the world. In the UK tobacco: causes over one in four cancer deaths causes nine out of ten cases of lung cancer. Smoking increases your risk of cancer of the bladder, cervix, kidney, larynx (voice box), mouth, oesophagus (foodpipe), pancreas, stomach and some types of leukaemia. Smokeless or chewing tobacco can cause mouth cancer. Half of all smokers die from smoking related diseases. For more details on the links between smoking and cancer, go to our How do we know? section. Tobacco and other diseases Smoking also causes heart disease, stroke and chronic lung diseases such as bronchitis and emphysema. Smokers are two to three times more likely to have a heart attack than non-smokers. And for women, smoking whilst taking the Pill greatly increases your risk of having a heart attack. Smoking in the UK Over a quarter of UK adults smoke cigarettes. Smoking is highest amongst those aged 20-34 and in lower income groups. The worrying reality is that almost as many young people are starting to smoke as there are older people giving up. Breathing in other people's smoke also causes 700 premature deaths a year in the UK.

62. UMHS Press Release: Quit Smoking, And Your Whole Body Will Thank You: Top 10 health Reasons to Quit smoking. You’ll drastically cut your risk of “Very clearly, quitting smoking will improve your health, the health of the http://www.med.umich.edu/opm/newspage/2003/quitsmoking.htm

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63. Marijuana: Don't Let Your Health Go Up In Smoke Marijuana Don t let your health go up in smoke. • Stop smoking Kick the habit for a long and healthy life. • Teens and smoking What parents can do http://www.cnn.com/HEALTH/library/GA/00015.html

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64. Contraception Online: Contraception And Reproductive Health Info For OB/GYN Prof Patient Update. smoking and your Reproductive health Most people are aware that smoking cigarettes is bad for your health. smoking causes heart attacks, http://www.contraceptiononline.org/contrareport/article01.cfm?art=128

65. St.Francis Hospitals And Health Centers From the Fall 2003 issue of Good health Today Also, make sure your child understands the negative effects of smoking even the immediate ones, http://www.stfrancishospitals.org/DesktopDefault.aspx?tabid=667

66. Diabetes Monitor - Diabetes And Smoking Wash your clothes. Make your car and home smoke free! Become a NonSmoker To Improve your health! From the Rhode Island Department of health August 2003 http://www.diabetesmonitor.com/b56.htm

diabetes and smoking Improve your health over time After... ...you get these results 20 minutes Blood pressure and pulse rate drop to normal and circulation increases to your hands and feet. 1 day Your chance for a heart attack has already gone down. 2 days Your ability to smell and taste has improved and walking becomes easier. 1 year Your risk of coronary heart disease is cut in half. 5 years Your risk of cancer of the mouth, throat and esophagus is cut in half. Diabetes and smoking: a risky combination! People with diabetes are three times as likely to die of cardiovascular diseases. Smoking and diabetes together make you 11 times more likely to die of a heart attack or stroke. Smoking raises your blood sugar levels AND cuts your body's ability to use insulin, making it hard to control your diabetes. Smoking ONE cigarette reduces the body's ability to use insulin by 15%. Smoking increases your cholesterol levels and the levels of other fats in your blood. This increases your risk of having a heart attack. Smoking cuts the amount of oxygen reaching tissues. This can lead to a heart attack or stroke. Pregnant women who smoke are more likely to have a miscarriage or stillbirth.

67. BUPA Health Information - Smoking - What's Your Excuse? BUPA information help to stop smoking, giving up, health risks, the effects and why you should quit, nicotine and stopping for good. http://www.bupa.co.uk/health_information/asp/healthy_living/lifestyle/smoking/re

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68. BUPA Health Information - Smoking - What Cigarettes Do To Your Health BUPA information help to stop smoking, giving up, health risks, the effects and why you should quit, nicotine and stopping for good. http://www.bupa.co.uk/health_information/asp/healthy_living/lifestyle/smoking/wh

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69. Smoking And Diabetes - Everybody - Health Information For New Zealanders smoking and diabetes. If you have diabetes and smoke, quitting smoking helps lower your health risks. your heart. If you have diabetes, smoking makes you http://www.everybody.co.nz/page-6aab42ba-736e-4467-a418-f7016349bdce.aspx

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70. Effects Of Smoking On Your Health Herbs 2 Stop smoking is the best Internet resource for all natural herbal stop smoking products, programs and tobacco information. http://www.herbs2stopsmoking.com/health/health6u.htm

Some of the Effects of Smoking on your Health The following is an overview of some of the effects that smoking cigarettes can have on your health: · A recent study estimated that non-smokers are at a 26% greater risk of lung cancer if they are married to a smoker. · Exposure to second hand tobacco smoke contributes to the incidence of childhood asthma. · Research has shown that children with cystic fibrosis who are exposed to tobacco smoke in the home are smaller and lighter than those not exposed, suggesting a possible link between passive smoking and growth and appetite. · Smoking may contribute to cancer of the cervix. American research has shown that nicotine is present in the cervical fluid of non-smokers following exposure to passive smoking, although active smokers, who draw smoke directly into their lungs, have higher levels still. · Smoking accounts for about 80-90% of all chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (emphysema, chronic mucus secretion, chronic air flow blocks) · Smoking is involved in 85% of all lung cancer deaths!(which is incurable) An individual with chronic bronchitis (which is caused by smoking) is more likely to get a bacterial infection if he/she is a smoker. A smoker gets more nose and throat inflammations, respiratory infections, and chronic bronchitis.

71. Science And Your Health - Newsweek Health Beat - MSNBC.com Science and your health. A guide to some of the newest research and Save your Teeth Stop smoking. Smokers are about six times more likely to develop http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8619661/site/newsweek/

Skip navigation Newsweek Subscribe Now Periscope ... Most Popular NBC NEWS MSNBC TV Today Show Nightly News Meet the Press ... Newsweek Health Beat Science and Your Health A guide to some of the newest research and recommendations WEB EXCLUSIVE Newsweek July 19 - A new study has given hope to researchers that brain damage caused by Alzheimer's disease may not only be slowed down, but reversed. In their study, published in the journal Science, University of Minnesota neurology professor Karen Ashe and her colleagues bred mice with a human gene linked to dementia. When they activated the gene, the mice revealed signs of dementia through a decreased ability to swim through a water maze. But when the researchers de-activated the gene, not only did the signs of dementia decline, but the mental functions of the mice were actually restored. The researchers found that by blocking the production of tau-a mutant protein that's been linked to Alzheimer'ssome of the affected neurons were able to recover. Researchers have been unable to pinpoint the cause of Alzheimer's, a creeping brain degeneration that affects about 4.5 million Americans. Could the findings affect how the disease is treated?

72. Anti-smoking Teen Websites And Teen Anti-tobacco Resources! In turn gives them a new motivation to take care of your health, Content of antismoking lecture for communities, Universities or health conferences http://www.notobacco.org/

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73. NeLH Medicine In The News Project; Could Passive Smoking Damage Your Health? Analysis of recent research finds that a single study with a number of problems which failed to find an effect of secondhand smoke is best understood in the context of many studies that have found an effect, but notes that most news reporting failed to note that context. http://www.nelh.nhs.uk/hth/passive_smoking.asp

NHS Direct Online nhs.uk Department of Health Social Care ... Public Health 26th September 2005 NeLH Homepage Hitting the Headlines Archive Hitting the Headlines Article Could passive smoking damage your health? The news that the risks of passive smoking may not be as great as previously believed was reported by nine newspapers on 16 May 2003 (1-9). Although the reports were generally accurate, the research came from a single study which should be interpreted in the context of the existing scientific literature. The news that the risks of passive smoking may not be as high as previously believed was reported by nine newspapers on 16 May 2003 (1-9). Most of the newspapers commented that exposure to tobacco smoke from a spouse was not significantly associated with an increased risk of dying from coronary heart disease or lung cancer. The research study (10) found no significant associations between current or former exposure to tobacco smoke from a spouse and mortality from heart disease or lung cancer. The researchers claimed that the association between exposure to environmental tobacco smoke and coronary heart disease and lung cancer may be considerably weaker than generally believed. However active cigarette smoking was found to be strongly, positively associated with death from coronary heart disease, lung cancer and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). Most of the newspapers were broadly accurate in their reporting of this study. However only the

74. It's Your Life health promotion pamphlet created by Monash University medical students uses humor with a spoof TV game show approach to smoking. http://www.med.monash.edu.au/healthpromotion/pamphlets/smoking/

Well hello there! You're our next lucky contestant on "It's Your Life" . This is the game show where we find out some funky facts about cigarettes, smoking and your health! I'm your host Larry Barber With the help of my lovely assistants Miss Sasha and Miss Adreana and our resident expert Mrs Crabb we're going to have a lot of fun and learn heaps of interesting new stuff! For each of our games write down the answer you think is right and when you've finished each games check and see if you got the answers right by clicking on the answers button....you might be in for a few surprises! Oh and along the way there are also hints for the trickier questions, just click on the hints button... And now, on with the show...... Our first game today is.... The Price is Right In this game you have to choose which of the options in the second table you could purchase with the money a smoker would spend on cigarettes in one week, one month or one year or the amount of money the Australian government spends on the health care of smokers each year. The costs of smoking One Weeks Supply Of Cigarettes...

75. Women's Health Issues And Concerns- Women's Health Information And News- IVillag Research womens health issues and information at iVillage, the Internet for Women. Get your womens health questions answered and look up your symptoms with http://health.ivillage.com/

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76. You Can Control Your Weight As You Quit Smoking The best action you can take to improve your health is to quit smoking. smoking is much more harmful to your health than gaining a few pounds. http://www.pueblo.gsa.gov/cic_text/health/w8quit-smoke/

Return to Federal Citizen Information Center Home Page Will I Gain Weight if I Stop Smoking? Health Risks of Smoking Benefits of Quitting ... Additional Resources If you want to stop smoking but are worried about gaining weight, this brochure may help you. Many ex-smokers do gain a few pounds, but only a few gain a lot of weight. The best action you can take to improve your health is to quit smoking. Smoking is much more harmful to your health than gaining a few pounds. Making some simple changes, like developing healthier eating and physical activity habits, should help you control your weight gain when you quit smoking. Will I Gain Weight if I Stop Smoking? Not everyone gains weight when they stop smoking. On average, people who quit smoking gain only about 10 pounds. You are more likely to gain weight when you stop smoking if you have smoked for 10 to 20 years or smoked one or more packs of cigarettes a day. You can control your weight while you quit smoking by making healthy eating and physical activity a part of your life. Although you might gain a few pounds, remember you have stopped smoking and taken a big step toward a healthier life. What causes weight gain after quitting?

77. Health 24 - Stop Smoking, How Smoking Affects Your Health How smoking affects your health Other forms of tobacco use Prevalence in SA Quitting Research findings Real life story Resources http://www.health24.com/medical/Condition_centres/777-792-1952-1954.asp

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78. Search Go Button The Mark, American Cancer Society, Is A 5 years after quitting your stroke risk is reduced to that of a nonsmoker The health Consequences of smoking Cancer A Report of the Surgeon General. http://www.cancer.org/docroot/PED/content/PED_10_2x_Questions_About_Smoking_Toba

Home Community Get Involved Donate ... Site Index powered by GetRandomImage("headerImage", "jpg", 121, 77, 30); My Planner Register Sign In Are menthol cigarettes any safer than regular ones? Just what is smoker's cough, anyway? Get answers to these and other frequently asked questions. Prevention and Early Detection Prevention Early Detection Stories of Hope ... I Want to Help You can help in the fight against cancer. Donate and volunteer. It's easy and fun! Learn more Questions About Smoking, Tobacco, and Health Is there a safe way to smoke? No. Although some people try to make their smoking habit safer by smoking fewer cigarettes, most smokers find that hard to do. Some people think that switching from high-tar and high-nicotine cigarettes to those with low tar and nicotine makes smoking safer, but this is not true. When people switch to brands with lower tar and nicotine, they often end up smoking more cigarettes, or more of each cigarette, to get the same nicotine dose as before. A low-tar cigarette can be just as harmful as a high-tar cigarette when a person takes deeper puffs, puffs more frequently, or smokes them to a shorter butt length. Even if smokers who switch to lower-tar brands do not make these changes to compensate, the health benefits are very small when compared to the benefits of quitting for good. Is cigarette smoking really addictive?

79. To Your Health Healthy Families Smoking: How Does It Affect Your Baby? Healthy Families. smoking How Does It Affect your Baby? CONTENTS. Why Should If you continue not smoking after your baby is born, your baby will http://www.fepblue.org/toyourhealth/tyhhfsmokebaby.html

Healthy Families Smoking: How Does It Affect Your Baby? CONTENTS: Why Should You Quit? Need Help? Talk To ... Your Doctor How Does Smoking Affect Your Baby? Why Should You Quit? Are you pregnant and still smoking? Quitting smoking before you get pregnant is best, but quitting any time has benefits for both you and your baby. Carbon monoxide and other chemicals from cigarettes get into your baby's blood in utero. They can harm the baby and limit the baby's growth. Quitting smoking during your pregnancy: The benefits for you if you are smoke-free during your pregnancy are: Many pregnant women quit smoking during pregnancy, but return to smoking once the baby is born. If you continue not smoking after your baby is born, your baby will: Need Help? Your Blue Cross and Blue Shield Service Benefit Plan coverage provides many benefits for help to stop smoking. Under both Standard and Basic Option, benefits are available for smoking cessation programs. We also provide benefits for individual and group psychotherapy for smoking cessation. Please refer to the 2005 Service Benefit Plan brochure for more information.

80. Healthy Options For Women Who Smoke When you are thinking about how smoking affects your health, it can help to know why you smoke Here are some ways that smoking might affect your health http://www.cwhn.ca/resources/faq/smoking.html

Text Index What's Hot Databases Network ... Main Page Healthy Options for Women who Smoke What are some of the reasons women smoke? How does smoking affect my health? How can I get healthier if I'm not ready to quit smoking? Where can I go for more information? What are some of the reasons women smoke? Women smoke for many different reasons in addition to being physically addicted to the nicotine in cigarettes. When you are thinking about how smoking affects your health, it can help to know why you smoke. The following are some of the reasons that women smoke: to cope with stress or anger; to avoid eating or to control weight; to cope with poverty or unemployment; smoking can seem like an old friend; smoking can be a reward after completing a task; to take a break from caring for others, such as children or elderly parents; to take a break from work responsibilities; to cope with relationship problems; to cope with feelings of powerlessness; to cope with the loneliness or boredom of social isolation; to maintain social connections;

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