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“Tobacco smoke – with more than 4,000 toxic substances – is associated with more than 27 diseases and, therefore, affects the human body as a whole,” says José Luis Díaz-Maroto, family doctor and coordinator of the Group of Tobacco Work of the Spanish Society of Primary Care Physicians (Semergen). There …

In this article, our expert doctors in smoking cessation present you with 10 fundamental tips to stop smoking successfully. These are a number of methods to stop smoking that we believe are essential to understand how to stop smoking once and for all. Set a date to smoke your last …

More than any other disease, smoking is the major source of death and disability worldwide today. Not surprisingly, the consumption of snuff is responsible for about 3 “5 million deaths a year worldwide, according to the World Health Organization. 80% of these deaths are from lung cancer, bronchitis cancer emphysema, …

The study conducted by researchers at the University of Michigan clearly suggests that the consumption of snuff long term is associated with slowness in thinking and at a rate lower intelligence. The association between consumption of snuff long term and a decline in mental abilities in 172 male alcoholics and …

There have been many efforts to reduce consumption of cigarettes. The laws have increased the restricting places where people can smoke and increased cigarette taxes. Study after study shows the damage that smoking causes. But still people are not willing to quit. Here are some popular reasons why it begins …

Pregnant women who smoke jeopardize the health and lives of their unborn babies. Statistics show that there is a direct relationship between smoking during pregnancy and spontaneous abortions, premature births, low birth weight births in which the baby is stillborn, mortality among infants and sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS, for …

Passive Smokers The smoke inhaled by passive smoking contains up to three times more nicotine and tar than smoking sucking and five times more carbon monoxide. Passive smokers who are exposed to snuff smoke for an hour, inhale an amount equivalent to two or three cigarettes.  Physical Effects Short-term:Cough,dental problems …