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Tobacco orphans urge ban by 2020 - Health - NZ Herald News.
The Deans describe themselves as a family "orphaned by the tobacco industry" after losing their mother at a young age.
Charlotte Dean was 35 when she died from a heart attack in 1987 while being treated for cancer. She left five children, aged from 5 to 13.
All now adults, they still have their father, Grant Dean - who gave up smoking last year - but the loss of their mother took a heavy toll.
Medical News: Smoking Linked to Eye Inflammation - in Ophthalmology, Ophthalmology from MedPage Today.
Yet another reason to quit cigarettes: a history of smoking appears to be a risk factor for uveitis, a retrospective, case-control study showed.
Patients at a single uveitis clinic were more likely to report past or current smoking than patients without ocular inflammation (35.5% versus 23.6%, P<0.001), according to Nisha Acharya, MD, of the University of California San Francisco, and colleagues.
MinnPost - Unassisted smoking cessation works -- why don't we publicize that?.
With so much attention given to assisted means of quitting smoking, it comes as a surprise to learn that the vast majority of those who do quit do so with no help at all. According to a recent article in PLoS Medicine, "The Global Research Neglect of Unassisted Smoking Cessation: Causes and Consequences," "two thirds to three quarters of ex smokers stop unaided." There is a glass half full/empty scenario at work here. According to the American Cancer Society, only 7 percent of smokers can quit without help. Yet the vast majority of those who do quit, according to the PLoS study, did so on their own. If we only look at all those who haven't quit, we might assume smokers should be directed to the pharmacy for help.
The Press Association: Quit smoking on Facebook.
Cyber-savvy smokers looking to quit on next week's No Smoking Day can kick the habit on Facebook.
The new social networking app lets smokers challenge themselves and their friends online, with rewards for success and forfeits for failure.
For example, a Wall of Shame lets users post photos of sneaky smokers caught breaking their resolution and a Head-to-Head challenge pits two quitters against one another in a battle of will power.
Obama advised, tame stress, quit smoking - UPI.com.
A U.S. health educator advises President Barack Obama and others trying to quit smoking to keep trying.
Susan Rausch, health educator at the Pat Walker Health Center and co-chair of the University of Arkansas' campaign to promote the tobacco-free campus policy, suggests first dealing with stress.
Advice for the smoker-in-chief - thestar.com.
Tommy Christopher, Asylum.com: "If the president truly wants to quit smoking, he should make it a point only to bum cigarettes from reporters. This would act as aversion therapy, since you can't just bum a smoke and walk away. If Obama knows that every time he falls off the wagon, he has to give out smoke-fuelled exclusives, it might deter him altogether."
Secondhand smoke visibly damaging to kids | MNN - Mother Nature Network.
Finnish researchers have found that the damage caused by secondhand tobacco smoke starts in childhood and causes measurable damage by the teen years. Children as young as 13 who have evidence of secondhand smoke in their blood also have visibly thicker arteries.
For the study, researchers studied 494 children aged 8 to 13 taking part in ongoing research on heart disease. They measured levels of cotinine, a byproduct of nicotine that is found in the blood after someone breathes in tobacco smoke.
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