Tag: Smoking
Online Social Communities Can Help You Stop Smoking
Online social networks designed to help smokers kick the tobacco habit are effective, especially if users are active participants, according to a new study...
Passive Smoking in Childhood Linked to Rheumatoid Arthritis
The results of a study presented at the Annual European Congress of Rheumatology (EULAR) 2017 press conference confirmed the link between active smoking and...
World No Tobacco Day: Get ready for plain packaging
For this year's World No Tobacco Day, 31st of May, the World Health Organization is calling on countries to get ready for plain standardized...
Teen Smoking Hits All-Time Low
Teens are not what they used to be twenty years ago and there are major changes in their risky behavior, according to a new...
Job Loss as a Heart Attack Risk Factor
New study in the US discovers that unemployment and loss of a job can result in a higher risk of heart attack (acute myocardial...
Quit smoking to reduce risk of premature dying
A recent study which included more than 1 million women found that smokers are three times more likely to die than those who don’t smoke. In...
Strokes rising among youth
High blood pressure, smoking, diabetes, obesity and high cholesterol are all the risk factors for stroke, researchers highlighted in a report published in the...