Science news articles about 'tobacco consumption'

  • Smokers suffer more back pain

    ... not play a role. However, the authors pointed out that tobacco consumption does not necessarily cause chronic back pain. It is just as possible that people with chronic ...
  • 80 percent of adolescents who play sports don't smoke

    ... to promote the practice of physical activity and eradicate tobacco consumption, as it has been proved how physical activity, diet ... . This work has also analysed the attitudes and motivations that encourage to tobacco consumption among the young, such as the use of this toxic substance ...
  • World Cancer Declaration sets ambitious targets for 2020

    ... in the declaration include significant drops in global tobacco consumption, obesity and alcohol intake; universal vaccination programmes for hepatitis B and human papilloma ...
  • New studies on the Mediterranean diet confirm its effectiveness for chronic disease prevention

    ... practices, the lack of exercise and unhealthy habits (such tobacco consumption or excessive alcohol). According to Martínez de Victoria, who pointed it out in one of the courses of the Mediterranean Centres ...
  • Pregnancy diabetes doubles the risk of language delay in children

    ... including family socioeconomic status, alcohol and tobacco consumption as well as maternal hypertension during pregnancy. However, the study suggests that the impact of pregnancy ...
  • Behavior/lifestyle factors influence cancer risk among the elderly

    ... due to all causes as people age. As expected, tobacco consumption was significantly associated with lung cancer ... at some of the findings. Cancer risk was not associated with alcohol consumption, which has been reported in other studies. A possible explanation may be a moderate ...
  • Smoking associated with increased risk for colorectal cancer and death

    ... of cigarettes smoked/day, multiplied by years of consumption) and cigarettes per day. However, the association ... occurs earlier in smokers, particularly in those with heavy tobacco consumption, and our previous and present findings provide ...
  • Widespread stress among vets

    ... and reveals a complex relationship with binge drinking, tobacco consumption and drug use. A team of researchers co ... and regular drug use while demoralization is associated with tobacco consumption, problem drinking and regular drug ...
  • Nicotine dependence remains prevalent despite recent declines in cigarette use

    ... . Another factor that has changed dramatically in the epidemiology of tobacco consumption and dependence over the past several decades is gender. Smoking has been far more common among men ...
  • Is a society with smokers profitable?

    ... hypothesis but rather carried out an appraisal of the studies on tobacco consumption from the economic point of view, including ... arising from secondhand tobacco". According to López, "both taxes and the restrictions on consumption are measures which impose ...
  • Anti-smoking law helps waiters to quit smoking

    ... restrictions in place. "Changing the partial ban on tobacco consumption in bars and restaurants for a total ban would have beneficial effects on the health of all the workers in this sector ...
  • New figures on cancer in Europe show a steady decline in mortality but big variations

    ... Europe and between sexes. For instance, where alcohol or tobacco consumption, or a combination of the two, has increased (particularly ... countries, mainly Hungary and Slovakia. This is related to tobacco, but also to the consumption of alcohol (often made from fruit ...
  • A compound in smokers' breath

    ... samples. "Benzene, which is sometimes appears in the bibliography, is only useful when tobacco consumption is relatively high and in short periods –between 1 and 2 hours– after having smoked a cigarette, which means ...
  • Alcohol consumption may protect against risk of AD, particularly in female nonsmokers

    ... of Alzheimer's disease was unaffected by any measure of tobacco consumption, but a protective effect of moderate alcohol ... , mostly in nonsmokers, and the need to consider interactions between tobacco and alcohol consumption, as well as interactions with gender, when assessing ...
  • UCSF analyses detail tobacco industry influence on health policy

    ... period of abstinence from all forms of tobacco consumption across the globe. "Tobacco industry activity has influenced ... and it is ineffective. Willful misconduct: How the U.S. government prevented tobacco-disabled veterans from obtaining disability pensions ...

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