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• 1 in 5 Oz women smokes during pregnancy

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 728
  Melbourne, Dec 2 (ANI): A new Australian research has found that one out of five women smokes during pregnancy despite increased awareness about the effect of tobacco on children.Dr Elizabeth Maloney and Dr Delyse Hutchinson of the National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre at the University of New South Wales reviewed ...
  5 hours ago

• #1165: Forgotten lessons: WHO, Big Tobacco and protecting the integrity of WHO decision making

  
  EMFacts Consultancy — Authority: 124
  Exerpt from my forthcoming book, chapter 4:____In July 2000 the WHO Committee of Experts on Tobacco Industry Documents released a 260 page report documenting the tobacco industry’s strategies to undermine the work of the WHO. At the same time the WHO issued a 15 page response document listing detailed steps to ...
  18 hours ago

• Does Size Really Matter?

  
  THE SAME ROWDY CROWD — Authority: 127
  Danielle Steele’s novels are automatically superior to Leo Tolstoy’s novels, right? That’s must be the conclusion if you adopt the logic of a common contemporary Republican talking point: Big documents are automatically inferior to short documents. Increasingly, it seems Republican pols and pundits love to ...
  20 hours ago

• Virginia smoking ban begins today

  
  William World News - William F. Yurasko's blog — Authority: 432
  Smokers take their last legal puffs in Va. restaurants - The Post Smoking in bars and restaurants is banned in the commonwealth of Virginia unless separate rooms with separate ventilation systems are available. Smoking is permitted outdoors on patios which could become a problem for non-smokers who like to dine al ...
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• #1164: Exposing WHO’s risk analysis process for declaring a pandemic: Who profits?

  
  EMFacts Consultancy — Authority: 124
  Back in June of this year the World Health Organisation (WHO), acting on the expert advice of its supposedly independent influenza advisers, declared the H1N1 Swine Flu as a world pandemic that activated a number of processes to combat the disease, obstentially to protect the world’s population against the ...
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• Finnish study reveals carcinogenic link to alcohol

  
  IceNews - Daily News — Authority: 483
  Tobacco and alcohol both contain similar carcinogenic substances, with the risk of cancer increased if one is vulnerable to the effects of alcohol in low doses, according to Finnish research. Helsingin Sanomat reveals that one out of every five Finns holds a gene that can accelerate the metabolic effect of alcohol, ...
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• Alcohol takes its toll on Russians health

  
  Fight Hangovers — Authority: 157
  Link: http://www.cnn.com/2009/HEALTH/11/30/russia.alcohol.health/index.html?section=cnn_latest By Grace Wong In Russia, where the government has designated alcoholism a "national disaster," men have an average life expectancy of just 60 years -- one of the lowest in Europe. Life expectancy for Russian men is ...
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• Hookas

  
  The Punctuator! — Authority: 120
  This ad, from the same publication featured in yesterdays post, is itself from the same establishment that brought us this . I believe that the operators of said establishment are ESL folks, which could forgive them the sign, but the copy of the ad is the sole responsibility of the company that created the ...
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• Universe of Lies: Big Warmers Try to Whitewash ClimateGate Fraud

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 176
  The authors of these research papers have been personally attacked by name and by innuendo, being called "deniers" and so forth. This is how The Universe of Lies operates. This is the left. Wherever you find it, Marxists, socialists, communists, liberals, progressives, this is how they do everything. I want you to ...
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• Als Risk Higher Among Smokers

  
  HealthMad — Authority: 486
  If you still can’t decide whether to kick the smoking habit, here are two more good reasons to quit. A new study shows that smoking tobacco increases the risk of two serious neurological problems – seizures and amytrophic lateral sclerosis. The Risks of Smoking: Smoking and ALS Amytrophic lateral sclerosis, or ...
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• Tin Tobacco Barn, Lands Crossing

  
  Vanishing South Georgia — Authority: 140
  [IMG: http://vanishingsouthgeorgia.files.wordpress.com/2009/11/tin-tobacco-barn-irwin-county-ga-jeff-davis-park-road-rural-country-agriculture-photo-copyright-brian-brown-vanishing-south-georgia.jpg?w=450&h=299][IMG: ...
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• Drop in smoking cuts cancer deaths in Europe

  
  Latest Breaking Health News & Information -RSS headlines- Health.am — Authority: 441
  A decline in smoking in Europe and better screening mean fewer people are dying of cancer, but lung cancer deaths in women are rising in places like Scotland and Hungary where more women smoke, doctors said on Monday.Early diagnosis and better treatments have pushed down deaths from cervical cancer and breast cancer, ...
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• The Penguins and Steelers Suggest You Pack it Up

  
  The Slanch Report — Authority: 580
  As weird as it is to believe, over the last decade the second-best city for championships has been Pittsburgh. Sure, the Pirates are miserable, but 2 Steelers championships, a Penguins Cup and multiple late-round playoff trips for both teams shows that the Pittsburgh is a force to be reckoned with. On the heels of ...
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• How Hipnosis Stop Smoking Permanently

  
  Health Resources — Authority: 148
  There are many destructive habits which people indulge in. Smoking is one such fatal habit, which has proved to be the biggest killer of human beings. Numerous health problems like strokes, coronary heart disease, chronic bronchitis, lung cancer, oral cancers and emphysema are caused by the addiction of tobacco ...
  2 days ago

• Free Hypnosis To Stop Smoking Is Highly Effective

  
  Health Resources — Authority: 148
  Most of the smokers lack confidence that they can escape from the terrible jaws of smoking.  They accept defeat before entering the battle field and lament their fate.  Having the feeling that their future is doomed, they even do not try to find a way to escape.  Free hypnosis to stop smoking addresses this problem ...
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• No smoking at IFFI venue, film stars told

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 728
  Panaji, Nov 30 (IANS) The National Organisation for Tobacco Eradication (NOTE) has taken objection to film stars smoking at the ongoing 40th International Film Festival of India (IFFI) venue here.“Rajat Kapoor, Radhika Apte and other delegates were seen smoking within the INOX courtyard. This appeared in local ...
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• New Zealand: Sophistication turned into binge-booze culture

  
  Fight Hangovers — Authority: 157
  Link: http://www.nzherald.co.nz/opinion/news/article.cfm?c_id=466&objectid;=10612387 Conservative estimates are that 25 per cent of Kiwis have a drinking problem. Photo / Dean Purcell A once-in-a-generation "first principles" review of the liquor laws is being conducted by the Law Commission, headed by ...
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• Popular Teeth Whitening Options

  
  Wish Everyone Good Health. — Authority: 463
  You’ve seen the ads. By using either strips soaked in a special solution or by brushing your teeth with a special formula, you can whiten your teeth. Many consumers are opting for these less expensive forms of teeth whitening. Others may choose to have their teeth bleached by a dentist, while still [...]
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• Amusing Paranoia, Goofy Silliness

  
  American Conservative Daily — Authority: 502
  “Man doth not live by bread alone.”  He also needs some laughs amidst all the dire warnings and true dangers in our world to make that bread more palatable. Fortunately, mankind being what it is, someone is always out there who will temper the serious with some chuckles, intentionally or not. Amusing ...
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• #1162: Manufacturing doubt on cellphone hazards

  
  EMFacts Consultancy — Authority: 124
  From Bürgerwelle News:Link: http://www.buergerwelle.de:8080/helma/twoday/bwnews/stories/53/The Effects of Mobile-Phone Electromagnetic Fields on Brain Electrical Activity: A Critical Analysis of the Literature AbstractWe analyzed the reports in which human brain electrical activity was compared between the ...
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