Category Archives: smoking

Pregnant Women Who Smoke Are Increasing Their Children’s Future Risk of Cancer

January 15, 2009 – 4:40 am

Pregnant woman who smoke are increasing the risk of their children getting serious cancer later in life.
This was revealed in a study commissioned by the newspaper “The Australian” and carried out by the Cancer Institute in New South Wales.

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Smoking Raises Colorectal Cancer Risk

January 13, 2009 – 8:19 am

A study carried out in Italy has revealed that smoking increases the risk of getting colorectal cancer by about 18%, as well as of dying from the disease by about 25%.
The study was published in the Journal of the American Medical Association.

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Smoking and Alcohol Linked to Esophageal and Stomach Cancers

January 13, 2009 – 1:02 am

A long-term study conducted by Dutch researchers has linked smoking and drinking to three subtypes of esophageal and stomach cancer.
The study was conducted on almost 121,000 people and spanned about 16 years. Its findings were presented at the annual cancer prevention conference of the American Academy of Cancer Research, held in Washington DC. [...]

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Smoking Increases Risk of Bladder Cancer

December 28, 2008 – 3:05 pm

Smoking plays a huge part in causing lung cancer and other respiratory problems – this is common knowledge. But it also greatly raises the risk of getting bladder cancer, something which most of us are unaware of.
Research at the University of Michigan Comprehensive Cancer Center looked at information from other studies in the MEDLINE database [...]

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