Declining physical activity levels are associated with increasing obesity
...x-smokers who never drank alcohol and also in male smokers who consumed more than ten drinks per week; and in women who performed physical work, but in men who did not. Changes in physical activity levels over time had the strongest relationship with increasing BMI in the cohort. An increasing intensity lev...Health benefits of leanness blown away by cigarette smoke
HONOLULU, April 25 Although smokers tended to be leaner than nonsmokers overall, their...eston. In our analysis, the risk of death faced by smokers from heart attack and other causes was very high. The benefit of thinness was negligible by comparis...Calcification of breast blood vessels may predict stroke risk
...roke, was more common among older women, cigarette smokers and among those who used hormone replacement therapy after menopause. Researchers say calcification of breast blood vessels and milk ducts may occur by different processes. The breast blood vessels probably become calcified as part of the atheroscle...Smoking cessation success equally good with over-the-counter or prescription nicotine replacement
...s (NRT), such as a skin patch or gum, when used by smokers on their own as over-the-counter (OTC) medicines, ...Addiction. The study analyzed data collected from smokers prior to the U.S. Food and Drug Administrations (FDA) switch of nicotine gum and the nicotine patch ...Some smokers can't quit even after suffering head and neck cancers
...ealed that 23 percent of the patients were current smokers and 35 percent had smoked in the past six months. ...onsistent with these results, about a third of the smokers and the depressed patients said they would welcome interventions for these problems, while less than...Obesity and smoking increase asthma risk
ATLANTAExtremely overweight people and smokers are more likely to report having asthma than are t...an adults of normal weight to have asthma. Current smokers were 29% more likely than people who never smoked to have asthma, while former smokers were 36% more...USC researchers suggest possible cause for kidney cancer
... lipid peroxidation also decreased in the blood of smokers after they consumed antioxidants. Gago-Dominguez explains that when rodents were given a chemical that induces the tiny tubes in the kidneys to die off and then causes renal cell carcinoma, researchers saw signs of increased lipid peroxidation. Howev...Physicians and dentists play important role in smoking practices of the elderly
... older who had complete data. In the study current smokers made up 15 percent of the sample, 41 percent were former smokers and 44 percent never smoked. The majority of older smokers had not visited a dentist in more than fi...NHLBI study shows weight concerns increase girls' risk of becoming smokers
...n this study as increasing girls' risk of becoming smokers were not even on our radar screens 10 years ago," ...nited States, more than 5 million of today's young smokers will go on to die of a tobacco-related illness. NGHS involved 2,379 black and white girls at three ......age. There are separate charts for male and female smokers and never smokers. Woloshin said, "We believe that... to age 90 and estimated these chances for current smokers and for never smokers. The researchers caution that the charts only present data about mortality, n...Media undermine efforts to tackle nicotine addiction
...ug when it was released in 2000. Not surprisingly, smokers queued up in waiting rooms, expecting their tobacc...paper profiled a few dramatic reports of deaths in smokers using bupropion. Although experts remain convinced of the safety of bupropion, the demand for treatm...Dartmouth researchers question use of tobacco funds
...nder this initiative, 10,000 present or past heavy smokers from New York are undergoing a CT scan of the chest to try and detect lung cancer at its earliest and most treatable stage. The authors comment, "Lung cancer is a major public-health concern. An effective screening program might save thousands of li...PET reveals early coronary damage in young smokers
...PET) can reveal long-term coronary damage in young smokers who may appear healthy on other cardiac diagnostic... Japan, reported on a comparative study of chronic smokers and nonsmokers aged 1835. PET examination of myocardial blood flow indicated that the smokers had di...More than 10 million developed cancer in 2000
...reater than previously estimated. Half of regular smokers are killed by the habit. One quarter of smokers will die prematurely during middle age (35 to 69 years). It has been long recognized that in additi...Peto and Doll win King Olav Vs Prize for Outstanding Cancer Research
... Peto is one of the world's leading experts on why smokers die prematurely. He is adept not only at collecting and analysing statistics, but at presenting them in simple terms which anyone can understand. For instance: "Smoking kills six people a minute world-wide." "A quarter of 20-year olds who smoke re...Cholesterol-lowering drugs should revolutionise treatment of heart attack and stroke
... Add to this the potential benefits of quitting in smokers (which lowers the risk of myocardial infarction by a half), and blood-pressure lowering (a 10 mm Hg reduction in systolic blood pressure could reduce the risk of vascular events by a quarter) in hypertensive patients, and it may be possible to lower ...Understanding genetic cancer risk might not help smokers kick the habit
DURHAM, N.C. -- If smokers knew that they were genetically susceptible to smo...ve Cancer Center. "We were concerned that telling smokers that they were not genetically susceptible might undermine their motivation to quit smoking and that...Children with asthma plagued by smokers and pets
...were quite surprised to learn that households with smokers differed quite significantly from those with furre...tinctly different profiles for the households with smokers and those with pets. "I believe that many doctors have two basic asthma patients in their minds: goo...Adolescents with inattention problems more likely to smoke
..., "stimulation derived from nicotine may help some smokers with ADHD compensate for their difficulties sustaining attention and concentration." Audrain and her colleagues interviewed 1,066 tenth-grade students from five high schools. The students completed a survey that assessed ADHD symptoms, as well as c...Smoke-free workplaces protect non-smokers and encourage smokers to quit
...he dangers of passive smoking, they also encourage smokers to quit or to reduce consumption, concludes a stud...ing, smoke-free workplaces also make it easier for smokers to reduce or stop smoking and substantially reduce tobacco industry sales, say the authors. This los...