A decades-long decline in smoking rates leveled off in 2005 and has changed little ever since, according to a government study that calls for more funding for anti-smoking programs.
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Two new studies have shed more light on how smoking may damage fertility, and give further weight to advice that mothers and fathers-to-be should stop smoking before attempting to conceive. The research is published online in Europe's leading reproductive medicine journal Human Reproduction today (Wednesday 8 September).In the first study [1], researchers found that a mother's smoking during ...
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By Jessica Li Lollipops for cigarettes seems like an odd exchange, but Shanghai Children’s Medical Center is hoping that sugar hungry children will help their huffing parents to quit, thereby reducing the number of youth exposed to secondhand smoke. A special event held to mark the start of this campaign featured interactive games teaching children the risks associated with smoking, and ...
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Secret Changes Hypnosis recently moved to Issaquah, to help locals stop smoking. Hypnosis is often used to influence change in unwanted behaviors, such as smoking and other forms of tobacco use. The program is designed to give smokers a stop-smoking toolbox that includes hypnosis and instruction in self-hypnosis, as well as a hypnosis CD for continued [...]
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Addiction to nicotine is hardly a one-size-fits-all problem.
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THURSDAY, Sept. 9 (HealthDay News) -- Two new studies provide evidence that smoking can harm sperm - both in smoking men who may become fathers, and in sons born to women who smoked during pregnancy.
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Two new studies have shed more light on how smoking may damage fertility, and give further weight to advice that mothers and fathers-to-be should stop smoking before attempting to conceive. The research is published online in the reproductive medicine journal Human Reproduction today (Wednesday 8 September).
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