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Childhood asthma 'admissions down' after smoking ban
BBC News There was a sharp fall in the number of children admitted to hospital with severe asthma after smoke-free legislation was introduced in England, say researchers. A study showed a 12% drop in the first year after the law to stop smoking in enclosed … UK Kids Breath Easier With Smoke-Free Laws |
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Kicking the habit—New research examines the barriers to quitting smoking for …
Medical Xpress McLeish's study of 125 smokers with asthma found that anxiety sensitivity was a significant factor in impeding the smokers' efforts to quit smoking, even though the participants with higher anxiety sensitivity were more likely to report that they … |
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Smoking & Asthma: Get A Free Electronic Cigarette And Quit Smoking With 31 …
Midland Daily News Smoking is an unhealthy habit. Nicotine addiction is one of the major challenges smokers face when trying to quit smoking. For smokers with asthma, it's even worse. In its support, http://electroniccigarettehub.org is distributing free electronic … |
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 Voice of America |
Studies Show Maternal Smoking Triggers Asthma in Grandchildren
Voice of America Everyone knows that smoking cigarettes and other tobacco products is bad for your health… and for those around you. Now, there's new evidence from studies with lab rats that the habit can cause asthma not only in smokers' children, but in their … |
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 Daily Mail |
Smoking ban reduces the number of people admitted to hospital for heart …
Daily Mail Admissions for strokes declined by 16 per cent, while hospitalisations for respiratory diseases such as asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, were rapidly followed by a 24 per cent decrease in hospitalisation. Exposure to cigarette smoke … Smoking bans reduce hospitalizations, study says Smoking Bans Boost Heart Health Smoking bans cut number of heart attacks, strokes |
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Smoking causes asthma in second generation offspring
Medical Xpress During pregnancy nicotine can affect a developing foetus' lungs, predisposing the infant to childhood asthma. Researchers from Harbor-UCLA Medical Centre, California, tested the effect of nicotine exposure during pregnancy on rats, looking not only at … Smoking can causes asthma in third generation Women who smoke during pregnancy could put their future grandchildren at risk … Smoking During Pregnancy can Impair Lung Function in Grandchildren |
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Smoking can causes asthma in third generation
Times of India The dangers of smoking on users and their children are known but new research demonstrates that it also can causes asthma in their grandchildren. Asthma is a major public health problem. It is the most common chronic disease of childhood. While there … Women who smoke during pregnancy could put their future grandchildren at risk … |
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Childhood asthma induced by maternal smoking may pass on to many generations
Newstrack India Washington, October 16 (ANI): An Indian origin scientist was recently awarded a two-year, 377,220-dollar grant by the National Institutes of Health/National Institute of Child Health and Human Development to conduct a study that could potentially lead … |
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Asthma And Smoking Mothers Linked
WOWT Preschoolers are more likely to wheeze and develop asthma when their mothers smoked early in pregnancy. A European analysis of more than 21,000 children found the more a woman smoked during her first trimester of pregnancy, the greater the risk her … |
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Amy: Mom's smoking triggers asthma
Minneapolis Star Tribune Dear Amy: Three years ago I became very sick with an upper respiratory infection. The illness was bad enough to damage my lungs, leaving an asthmatic condition that has me on a daily steroid inhaler and a rescue inhaler for when my lungs close up. |
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