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Vision India 2020: A Complete Ban on Tobacco Is Need of the Hour
Health & Wellness  (tags: Tobacco, India, Health, Fitness, Disease )

Jollygirl
- 163 days ago - breakingnewsonline.net
The bottom line is clear that reducing tobacco use is good for health, and makes sound economic sense. If we want to see India as a developed country by 2020, then we need to put a complete ban on the use of tobacco.
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A New Cigarette Hazard: 'Third-Hand Smoke'
Health & Wellness  (tags: tobacco, cigarettes, smoking in presence of children, third hand, toxins, poisons )

Road
- 324 days ago - nytimes.com
Parents who smoke often open a window or turn on a fan to clear the air for their children, but experts now have identified a related threat to children's health that isn't as easy to get rid of: third-hand smoke.
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When You Smoke a Cigarette, What Are You *Really* Smoking??
Health & Wellness  (tags: cigarettes, chemicals, big tobacco, tobacco, health, cancer )

Kristy
- 612 days ago - realage.com
In addition to highly addictive nicotine, cigarette smoke contains over 4,000 chemicals. Here's what you're inhaling with each puff:
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Marijuana Smokers Face Rapid Lung Destruction -- As Much As 20 Years Ahead Of Tobacco Smokers
Health & Wellness  (tags: study, disease, drugs, lungs, marijuana, tobacco, smokers )

Maria
- 669 days ago - sciencedaily.com
A new study finds that the development of bullous lung disease occurs in marijuana smokers approximately 20 years earlier than tobacco smokers.
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Wonder Drug for Smokers Linked to Seven Deaths
Health & Wellness  (tags: champix, wonder drug, britain, uk, death, suicidal thoughts, side-effects, dangerous, smoking, tobacco )

Cissy
- 697 days ago - dailymail.co.uk
A new anti-smoking 'wonder drug' taken by nearly a quarter of a million Britons is feared to be linked to the deaths of seven people. Their cases are included in a dossier featuring more than 1,300 people who have used the drug Champix...
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Expert: Modern Chemicals Brought Cancer Epidemic
Health & Wellness  (tags: cancer, toxins, modern, asbestos, tobacco, epidemiologist, ritalin, aspartame, pesticides, radiation )

Gregory
- 744 days ago - discovermagazine.com
First tobacco. Then asbestos. Now we're awash in a sea of new poisons. For those involved in the ongoing drama of cancer research, a pressing mystery remains: While treatments are better and survival times longer, there are far more cancer
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Minimum Age for Purchasing Tobacco Rises to 18 in Britain
Health & Wellness  (tags: humans, health, smoking, tobacco )

Cathryne
- 787 days ago - uk.news.yahoo.com
The legal minimum age to buy cigarettes in Britain went up Monday from 16 to 18 as the government tries to slash the number of young smokers. Nearly ten percent of Britain's 11 to 15-year-olds smoke and the government hopes that raising the minimum age
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PCRM Responds to Smear Tactics By Tobacco/Meat Industry Front Group
Health & Wellness  (tags: tobacco, meat, junk food, diet, food, nutrition, health, humans, healthcare )

Rabbit
- 805 days ago - pcrm.org
PCRM responds to a news release published recently by the "Center for Consumer Freedom" (CCF), a group funded by the tobacco, meat, and junk food industries.
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