Anirban, a good old friend, still remembers the kick that landed on his butt as a result of his adamant refusal to kick the butt. ...
01:06 PM, May 31, 2012
Washington: It's known that women find it a bit harder to kick the butt than men. Now, a new study has found why - it's because their brains respond quite differently to nicotine than male smokers. When a person smokes, the number of nicotine receptors in the brain - which bind to nicotine and reinforce the habit of smoking - are thought to increase in number. Researchers at the Yale...
10:40 AM, Apr 05, 2012
Mumbai: While cine-goers are still raving about the latest foreign import Maryam Zakaria, who set the screens ablaze in the recent Agent Vinod, there's another international hottie gearing up to woo the nation. International model Era Tsariova, who has taken the Russian modelling industry by storm, is making her way to Bollywood with Goyal & PY Films' Cigarette Ki Tarah directed by Akashaditya Lama. Hailing from St Petersburg, Era has...
12:33 PM, Apr 02, 2012
New Delhi: The Delhi High Court Friday issued notice to the health and family welfare ministry on film director Mahesh Bhatt's plea seeking quashing of a notification prohibiting smoking scenes in movies. Bhatt said that the government's notification of Sep 27, 2011 was 'illegal and arbitrary' and violated his fundamental rights. A division bench of Justice Sanjay Kishan Kaul and Justice Rajiv Shakdher refused to stay the notification as sought...
03:53 PM, Mar 17, 2012
Washington: Smokers can greatly cut down the risk of disease and death by replacing cigarettes with their smokeless version. They provide a much safer alternative to smokers, because they continue to deliver nicotine without the harmful effect of smoking, says Brad Rodu, professor of medicine from the University of Louisville (UofL), who led the study. 'Quit or die' has been the brutal message delivered to 45 million American smokers -...
06:05 PM, Feb 21, 2012
Washington: Cannot resist your urge to tweet or check emails? Don't get surprised, as a new study has found that checking email and social media is more addictive than cigarettes and alcohol. US researchers who carried out an experiment to test the will power of 205 people, aged 18 to 85, in the German city of Wurtzburg found that most of them were more likely to give in to urge...
06:27 PM, Feb 06, 2012
New Delhi: Smoke emitted from one mosquito repellant coil is equivalent to those of 100 cigarettes, thus causing harm to a large number of people in India, an expert said Wednesday. "Not many people know about it, but the damage done to your lungs by one mosquito coil is equivalent to the damage done by 100 cigarettes. This was according to a recent study conducted in Malyasia," said Chest Research...
10:26 PM, Sep 01, 2011
New York: Babies born to snuff-using mothers were more likely to have breathing problems than those whose mothers smoked while pregnant, according to a Swedish study. Snuff -- ground tobacco that is high in nicotine but doesn't generate the same additional chemicals as cigarette smoke because it's not burned -- is generally assumed to be safer than cigarettes, said lead researcher Anna Gunnerbeck, from the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm. That's...
12:23 PM, Sep 01, 2011
Washington: Smokers who are inclined to take a few puffs soon after waking up may face an increased risk of developing lung, head and neck cancers than smokers who do it later. Joshua Muscat, from the Penn State College of Medicine, Hershey, and colleagues investigated whether early morning puffing boosts smokers' risk of lung and head and neck cancers. "These smokers have higher levels of nicotine and possibly other tobacco...
11:02 AM, Aug 08, 2011
Richmond: In the most significant change to U.S. cigarette packs in 25 years, the Food and Drug Administration on Tuesday released nine new warning labels that depict in graphic detail the negative health effects of tobacco use. Among the images to appear on cigarette packs are rotting and diseased teeth and gums and a man with a tracheotomy smoking. Also included among the labels are: the corpse of a smoker,...
05:57 PM, Jun 21, 2011
New York: Teenagers who frequently encounter the Marlboro man, or other familiar icons of the tobacco and cigarette industry, may be more likely to be lured into lighting up, according to a study. Nearly a quarter of all high school students in the United States smoke cigarettes, according to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Of these, nearly a third will continue smoking and die early from...
03:37 PM, Jan 19, 2011
Wellington: Smokers who prefer roll-your-own tobacco may be more intensely addicted to the habit than those who puff on readymade cigarettes. Doctoral graduate Amy Lewis at the Victoria University in New Zealand investigated how tobacco smoke influences proteins involved in cigarette addiction. These include monoamine oxidase enzymes or MAOs that break down brain neurotransmitters such as serotonin, dopamine and adrenalin, which have a bearing on mood, according to a Victoria...
01:34 PM, Jan 13, 2011
Washington: When Massachusetts started paying for stop-smoking treatments, people not only kicked the habit but also had fewer heart attacks, researchers reported on Tuesday in the first study to show a clear payoff from investing in smoking prevention efforts. Smoking dropped by 10 percent among clients of Medicaid, the state health insurance plan for the poor, and nearly 40 percent of Medicaid patients who smoked used benefits to get nicotine...
03:05 PM, Dec 08, 2010
New Delhi: Union cabinet is likely to take a decision on a request from the tobacco industry to increase the duration of display of a set of pictorial warning in cigarette and other tobacco products. The Union Health Ministry approached the Cabinet for a direction in this regard to seek clarity about the demands being made by other ministries who are facing the brunt of decrease in tobacco production in...
03:24 PM, Dec 03, 2010
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