The fixation on potentially cancer-causing chemicals in the air, food and consumer products is diverting attention from the real risks, according to a review of global evidence by an Australian cancer…
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The NSW government will introduce a smoke-free outdoors law this year, making it the sixth state or territory to have some variation of this kind of legislation. The announcement shows that community health…
Young girls who are exposed to cigarette smoke could experience reduced fertility later in life, a three-year study has found. Researchers at the University of Newcastle found that three cigarette toxins…
Pharmaceutical companies have aggressively promoted nicotine replacement patches, chewing gums, inhalers and nasal sprays as effective tools to improve smokers’ chances of quitting for more than 20 years…
You may have missed it, but the stoush between Big Tobacco and the Australian government over the plain packaging legislation took an odd turn late last year. The government’s response to Philip Morris…
Want to quit smoking, lose weight, manage your diabetes or get a good night’s sleep? No worries. There’s an app for all of that. But it’s not always clear which medical apps are based on solid evidence…
Reports that Nicola Roxon plans to encourage state governments to consider legal action to recover around A$31 billion in smoking-related health-care costs from the tobacco industry highlight the incoming…
Quitting smoking is clearly beneficial but a growing push by the pharmaceutical industry to encourage drugs for the purpose should be strongly resisted. Not only do most smokers successfully quit by other…
Tests on mice have given German researchers fresh hope that existing drugs could be used to reverse the debilitating effects of emphysema but experts have cautioned that the results may not apply to humans…
One of the few positives put forward by smokers to justify their habit is that it helps keep their weight in check. And while smoking may be harmful to their health, so is obesity. So how does this claim…
Young overweight adults are more likely to die earlier than others, even if they exercise and lose weight later in life…
Smokers who light up within 30 minutes of waking up are 1.79 times as likely to develop lung cancer as those who have their first cigarette at least an hour after waking up, a study has found. It’s no…
Findings from a brain imaging study may provide clues for why some individuals with heavy cigarette-smoking habits experience…
Exposure to second-hand tobacco smoke nearly doubles the risk of hearing loss in teenagers, according to US university researchers…
Women who smoke while pregnant may raise the resulting child’s risk of developing heart disease by as much as 15%, a new study has found. Smoking during pregnancy has previously been linked to fetal health…
Exposure to second-hand smoke can create symptoms of nicotine dependence in non-smoking pre-teens, according to a study from…
Young people excluded from school are more likely to become teenage smokers. That’s the finding of a study by the Australian…
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