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| Medicare Support Pays Off for Senior Smokers Trying to Quit | | 2008-08-17 20:31:14 | | New research suggests that Medicare could help seniors stop smoking by providing nicotine patches and a telephone hotline to those who want to quit. Older people can benefit from quitting, even if they have smoked for decades.
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Related NewsDrug Spending Caps Cause Some Seniors To Quit Taking Key MedicinesSavvy senior: Seniors need vaccinations, tooFew [...] | | By: A Medicare News Blog - Care About Medicare | | |
| | Passive Smokers raises stroke risk | | 2008-08-06 11:12:38 | | Smokers do not only harm themselves but also therenearby. Recently a study has been done which founded that Nonsmokers married to smokers have a greatly increased chance of having strokes, showing yet another hazard from secondhand smoke.Being married to a smoker raised the stroke risk by 42 percent in people who have never smoked compared to those married to someone who never smoked, the researchers said. This jumped to 72 percent for former smokers married to a current smoker, according to the study published in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine. Quitting smoking helps your own health and also the health of the people living with you.Previous research had suggested that secondhand smoke increases the risk of stroke, but stroke risk has been studied more extensively in smokers than in people exposed to secondhand smoke. People who breathe in secondhand smoke also have a higher risk of lung cancer, nasal sinus cancer, respiratory tract infections and heart disease, among oth | | By: Complete Health Blog | | |
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| | | Do you know why smokers quit smoking? | | 2008-05-26 15:32:09 | | Prof. Know Why answers for your general knowledge and awareness on why smokers quit smoking: If you are a smoker, you may know that the urge to smoke is contagious, but did you know that quitting the puff is, too? Well, a team of researchers, recently, has found that contagious pattern with smoking cessation. They observed that a smoker is more likely to kick the habit of smoking if a spouse, friend, co-worker or sibling does so. Moreover, the research showed that smokers tend to quit smoking in groups as those who don't stop puffing, increasingly find themselves pushed to the edge of their social circles. "Your smoking behavior depends upon not just the smoking behavior of the people you know, but also the people who they know" and so on, said Dr. Nicholas Christakis, a medical sociologist at Harvard Medical School and lead author of the new report. This latest study, by Christakis and his colleague James Fowler of the University of California, San Diego, which app | | By: WHY CORNER | | |
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| For Smokers, Quitting Is Tied to Social Circles | | 2008-05-21 23:24:59 | | By GINA KOLATA : For years, smokers have been exhorted to take the initiative and quit: use a nicotine patch, chew nicotine gum, take a prescription medication that can help, call a help line, just say no. But a new study finds that stopping is seldom an individual decision.
Smokers tend to quit in groups, [...] | | By: ArticlesModern | | |
| | Smokers have a 41 percent higher risk of suffering depression | | 2008-04-24 11:37:08 | | The risk of suffering depression increases 41% in smokers, in comparison with non-smokers. This was the conclusion of a study undertaken with 8,556 participants by scientists of the University of Navarra, in collaboration with the University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria and the Harvard School of Public Health (USA), and which demonstrates in a pioneering way the direct relationship between tobacco use and this disease.
read more | | By: Machines Like Us - Science and Technology News | | |
| | I Hate Smokers! | | 2008-04-04 18:39:32 | | Honestly I think smokers have a disgusting habit and I guess you would know what that is right? SMOKING!I don't know what is it with them that they want to die that much! There are so many reasons to quit and one reason is good enough to quit! So what are these reasons? Here they are:CANCER! What kind of cancer? Adult Acute Leukemia, Adult Chronic Leukemia, Cervical Cancer, Esophagus Cancer, Laryngeal Cancer, Lung Cancer, Kidney Cancer, Oropharyngeal Cancer, Pancreas Cancer, Stomach Canc | | By: My Nurse\'s Notes | | |
| | Smokers Sleep Less Soundly | | 2008-04-01 03:09:37 | | (HealthDay News) -- Smokers are four times more likely to feel tired when they wake up and they spend less time in deep sleep than nonsmokers do, a new study finds.This may be because smokers experience nicotine withdrawal each night, which may contribute to sleep disturbances, suggest the study authors, whose report appears in the February issue of Chest."It is possible that smoking has time-dependent effects across the sleep period. Smokers commonly experience difficulty falling asleep due to the stimulating effects of nicotine. As night evolves, withdrawal from nicotine may further contribute to sleep disturbance," study author Dr. Naresh M. Punjabi, of Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in Baltimore, said in a prepared statement.Punjabi and colleagues studied the sleep patterns of 40 smokers and 40 nonsmokers. They found that 22.5 percent of smokers reported a lack of restful sleep, compared with only 5 percent of nonsmokers. Smokers also experienced a lower percentage of | | By: Live Blood Cell Darkfield Analyse Blog | | |
| | Cigarettes pack will alert smokers about danger of smoking | | 2008-03-18 03:19:05 | |
It was invented digital papers that can say something in depends what was programmed in it memory. Scientists affirm that new technology can be used in advertising and products packing.
For example, Tourist Company prints advertising prospect on the same paper. In this case situation will be very interesting. When a client touches postcard with [...] | | By: cigarettes and gadget | | |
| | Earlier Colon Cancer Screens Urged for Smokers | | 2008-02-23 04:51:00 | | (HealthDay News) -- Smokers and people with significant exposure to secondhand smoke should start getting screened for cololon cancer five to 10 years earlier than the current recommended age of 50, a new study says.Researchers at the University of Rochester Medical Center in New York analyzed the cases of 3,450 colon cancer patients and found that current smokers were diagnosed with the cancer an average of 6.8 years earlier than people who never smoked, while former smokers who'd quit less than five years before were diagnosed 4.3 years earlier than people who never smoked.People who'd quit more than five years before were the same as never-smokers.People who started smoking before age 17 and those who were heavy smokers (one pack or more a day) were most likely to be diagnosed with colon cancer at a younger age.The study also found that people exposed to secondhand smoke, especially early in life, tended to be younger when they were diagnosed with colon cancer.The findings were publ | | By: Integrative Medicine (CAM) Blog | | |
| | Smokers in the UK may Soon Have to be Licensed | | 2008-02-16 12:40:12 | | Under a proposal by the health advisory body in Britain smokers would need to buy a permit in order to buy cigarettes. You read that right, a person would need a permit to BUY cigarettes.
Smokers could be forced to pay £10 for a permit to buy tobacco if a government health advisory body gets its [...] | | By: Wake Up America | | |
| | Quality of sleep worse for smokers | | 2008-02-09 04:01:59 | | The sleep of smokers is less deep than that of non-smokers and smokers feel often less rested after a full night of sleep.
Brain scans of smokers show that at night they experience light withdrawal symptoms. This causes a light disturbance of the sleep. Also nicotine makes it harder to fall asleep.
Forty middle-aged smokers participated in [...] | | By: Masenka.Be - your guide to a healthy lifestyle | | |
| | | Rehab for Smokers | | 2008-01-11 22:15:01 | | My husband is trying to quit smoking. he has gone 2 weeks now without a cigarette. I really hope he makes it this time. This is not the first time he’s tried to quit smoking but I do hope its the last. Since the Nicotine they put in cigarettes is [...] | | By: Quietly Into the Night | | |
| | Smokers Breath | | 2008-01-02 13:44:35 | | Are you a smoker? Kiss the bad taste goodbye. Here's a great brand of gum for for breath conscious smokers. It provides long lasting fresh breath. SmokeScreen Gum Freshens Smokers Breath. It is not only sugar-free, but also aspartame-free. This gum is not available in stores and is only available online. They ship priority mail anywhere in the United States for absolutely free shipping because they are so confident that you will like their products. ElimiTaste SmokeScreen chewing gum is the first and only mainstream chewing gum that reduces the bad breath and aftertaste from smoking cigarettes and cigars. Find our why over 100,000 smokers worldwide have switched to SmokeScreen. Order online and experience the difference first hand. | | By: Life's Journey | | |
| | Why should smokers pay for fatties? | | 2008-01-02 13:36:16 | | Copyright © learnsigma 2008 . This article may be out-of-date; visit the latest version at http://learnsigma.com/why-should-smokers-pay-for-fatties/.
Americans get really weird when we talk about obesity. They’re terrified of hurting the feelings of fat people and treat their condition as a mystery, a phenomenon that modern science may someday unravel. If you can’t drink four litres of [...] | | By: learn about lean & six-sigma | | |
| | Attention Maryland Smokers: Buy Your Cigarettes Before Midnight | | 2007-12-31 00:00:00 | | As we've reported before, Maryland's cigarette tax is doubling to $2 per pack as of Tuesday. The Washington Examiner lays out the math:"Sales are going to drop all over Maryland, I'm sure," said Ragu Nanthan, an employee at TJ Beer Wine and Liquors on New Hampshire Avenue in Takoma Park. The regular price for a pack of Marlboros at the shop ran $4.97 on Friday. On Tuesday, that cost will spike to $6.35, he said.Nationally, the price per pack of cigarettes is expected to hit $4.63 on Tuesday, said Vince Willmore, vice president for communications for the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids. In D.C., the average is expected to be $4.64. In Virginia, smokers will pay an average $3.84 per pack.So, two cartons, with 20 packs and 400 cigarettes, would sell for $127 in Maryland but only $77 in Virginia. Our previous report on illegal cigarette smuggling showed it was on the rise because of high cigarette taxes, and in this case, such an illegal transaction could net the smuggler a | | By: Tax Policy Blog | | |
| | Women Smokers, Obesity And Addictive Behaviors | | 2007-11-20 05:46:35 | |
Is a fear of getting fatter partly to blame for the fact that nearly one in five American women still smokes, and many don't try to quit?
Although there are many possible reasons for the stubborn persistence of smoking, fear of weight gain is high on the list for many women, says a University of Michigan Health System researcher who has devoted much of her career to studying this issue.
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| | Maryland Gov. Wants More Revenue? Who Do You Go To? Smokers, Business, and Rich People, of Course | | 2007-09-19 07:00:00 | | Maryland Governor Martin O'Malley wants to raise more revenue for the state, and, of course. he is seeking to do it in a way that is most politically feasible. In other words, he wants a tax plan that will tick off the fewest voters. How do you do that? Go after corporations and smokers. From the Baltimore Sun:Marylanders would pay more in sales taxes and higher titling tax when they buy cars, and corporations and smokers would pay more under Gov. Martin O'Malley's plan to fix a budget shortfall he now estimates at $1.7 billion. But those increases would be coupled with a cut in the property tax and reductions in the income tax rate for most Marylanders, though top earners would pay more, according to legislators O'Malley briefed Tuesday. Despite his plans to add hundreds of millions in new spending to build new roads, protect the Chesapeake Bay, expand access to health care and hold down college tuition -- a total package of $2 billion or more -- the governor said most people would wi | | By: Tax Policy Blog | | |
| | Aargh!!! Smokers! | | 2007-09-10 12:41:38 | | Can't they stop smoking, at least when they come for prayers!Today, while praying my Maghreb prayers a man comes from behind exhaling all the cigarette smoke in the mosque. It was so disgusting and irritating. It was first time in my lifetime that I had experienced such a situation while praying!I wonder if they will stop in Ramadan...
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| | Tax Smokers In the Name of Public Health, But Not Bad Drivers | | 2007-07-25 07:00:00 | | The public outcry over Virginia's new policy of extremely high driver's fees is unfortunately a sign of hypocrisy within the general public with regards to government taxing bad behavior to fund a general government function. When cigarette taxes are proposed to fund general government programs as they have been recently at the federal level and as was passed in Virginia three years ago, there is/was little outcry. Yet the justification for such cigarette taxes is no different than the justification used for these Virginia driver's license fees, as well as the arguments against them. Let's take a look at them:(1) "Taxing cigarettes will reduce smoking rates and thereby save lives (and save people from themselves)." Such paternalism is the same justification for seat belt laws and is no different from increasing fines on traffic violations in order to have people drive safely. "We're just looking out for you." "This higher fine | | By: Tax Policy Blog | | |
| | Connecticut Smokers Discuss Tax Policy | | 2007-06-22 07:00:00 | | It doesn't always take an economist to point out the perils of bad tax policy. In response to the 49-cent per-pack cigarette tax increase included in Connecticut's proposed 2007-08 budget—about a 33% increase—the New Haven Register interviewed local smokers, who accurately described the problems caused by imposing such high taxes on cigarettes—problems that apply not only to tobacco taxes but to "sin taxes" in general. On the creation of black markets and increased crime:"I think cigarette smokers are an easy target," said Brian Lima of New Haven. "I think anything above $7 a pack is going to force a cigarette black market."A store owner who had been robbed for $500 worth of cigarettes, which would presumably be sold on the black market, said:"Now [the governor is] making cigarette stores more of a target for robberies. ... It's more lucrative for people to steal the cigarettes than to g | | By: Tax Policy Blog | | |
| | Pocket ashtray for smokers | | 2007-06-12 15:07:53 | | These pocket-ashtrays were created for smokers in order not to pollute streets of the city, throwing cigarette stubs on the ground.
If you smoke, creators offer you to bring this pocket ashtray in cigarette meter. And if you go somewhere and there are no bins around, you have this ashtray to throw stubs.
The ashtray [...] | | By: cigarettes and gadget | | |
| | | Jacket for smokers | | 2007-05-25 14:37:00 | |
People are divided into smokers and non-smokers.
But members of the second “category” are often forced to be passive smokers and to inhale cigarette smoke that is around them.
The designer Fiona Carswell decided to make smokers think about surroundings and about her health. She invented the jacket for smokers. Inhaling the cigarette, the smoker blows smoke into the jacket’s collar.
The collar absorbs the smoke and transmits it through special “pipe” system into the “lungs” – they are depicted on the breast part of the jacket. As time goes by, “lungs” darken and finally become absolutely dark.
Carswell doesn’t intend to change people, but she hopes that her vivid anti-advertisement of smoking is more effective than the primitive propaganda. | | By: cigarettes and gadget | | |
| | Here there be smokers… | | 2007-04-27 17:01:28 | | Here there be a picture of my new lighter:
No, I didn’t buy it for the trite little racial stereotyping of the Caribbean male on the side… I got it because it was the only type the gas station was selling.
There is apparently a bit of controversy and debate about our government’s
decision to pursue stiff anti-smoking measures. If you want to know the whole story… Google it… The only facts you’ll find here are the ones I make up…
The general gist of it though [from what I’ve heard] is that they plan to ban smoking in
all buildings which are accessed by the public… This will obviously include bars and
nightclubs… This has raised much ire in the smoking community, as the ban is proposed extend to 10 feet outside any of these establishments.
Many people have asked my opinion as a smoker, and presupposed that I am against the new policy. To the contrary, I support it.
It reeks of the typical fanaticism that is common practic | | By: Trouble's Island | | |
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