Smoking accelerates hair loss

Researchers from the hospital said, "Far Eastern Mumuryal" and from the University "Taipei National" in Taipei that smoking may destroy hair follicles, interfere with the way the blood circulation and hormones in the scalp or increase the production of the hormone estrogen.
The researchers added that a study of 740 men in Taiwan with an average age 65 years and found that smoking played an important role in the development of hair loss in cases where the men smoked 20 cigarettes or more a day.
The study, published in November of the "Archive dermatologist" that should provide advice to smokers on the role that smoking may play in its effect on the hair.

More than 400 thousand people stopped smoking .. After it was banned in Britain

A study conducted in Britain to ban smoking in public places significantly raise the number of people who have given up the smoking habit.
The study indicates that more than 400 thousand people have stopped smoking because of smoking bans in public places.
Another study says that the ban on smoking in public places has helped people with lung disease to survive outside the hospital.
The main objective of the resolution (which came into force last year) is to set aside those who do not smoke the consequences of involuntary smoking.
But it seems that he had paid a number of smokers in England as in Scotland (where he entered into force two years ago) to think about giving up smoking.
The study, conducted on 32 thousand people that smoking fell by 5.5 per cent during the nine months that followed the entry into force of the ban, compared with 1.6 per cent during the nine months preceding the decision.
Said Professor Robert West, who headed the research team of the Research Unit in health behavior, he did not expect this effect is clear to the ban.
And urged the body fight cancer British funded this study, Cancer Research UK on the need to maintain this momentum.
Said Jane King, director of tobacco control in this body: "The results show that the anti-smoking laws that encourage people to quit the habit."
Some reports indicate that sales of cigarettes decreased significantly during the past year, falling by more than 1.93 billion cigarettes in England, and 220 thousand in Scotland.

 BBC

WHO: Smoking biggest cause of preventable death around the world

Geneva: World Health Organization said that chronic diseases such as heart disease and stroke, often associated with Western lifestyle, have become major causes of death worldwide.
The Organization of the United Nations in a report in this regard that the shift from infectious diseases including tuberculosis, AIDS and malaria (traditionally the biggest killers) to non-communicable diseases is expected to continue until 2030.
And Ties Boerma, Director of the department of health statistics and information organization in a statement: "In more and more countries the chief causes of death are noncommunicable diseases such as heart disease and strokes."
The annual report entitled "World Health Statistics 2008" on data collected from the SCO member states and the 193.
The report lists data on levels and mortality in children and adults, patterns of disease and the spread of factors endangering life such as smoking and drinking alcohol.
According to the text of the report "with the aging of the population in middle-and low-income over the past twenty-five the next, the proportion of deaths due to noncommunicable diseases will rise significantly."
By 2030, the report says that deaths from cancer, cardiovascular diseases and traffic accidents will together account for 30 percent of the total deaths.
The Director-General Margaret Chan in a speech to the annual meeting of the Organization for the concerns of the growing rate of chronic non-communicable diseases.
Chan said that "the rates of diabetes and asthma are on the rise everywhere. Even low-income countries are seeing shocking increases in obesity, especially in urban areas and often starting in childhood."
That smoking is the single largest cause of preventable death worldwide, killing "a third and half of all smokers," according to the WHO. And cast blame on smoking in deaths from heart attacks, strokes and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease which numbered 5.4 million in 2004.
The report added that more than 80 percent of the deaths is expected to grow up to 8.3 million cases in 2030 due to smoking will be witnessed by developing countries.

Spouses and children of smokers are threatened with exposure to blood clots

A medical study reported that passive smoking increases the risk of stroke injury non-smokers.
The U.S. researchers from the Faculty of Public Health at Harvard University in Boston and Columbia University, New York, that the marriage of a smoker increases the risk of stroke by 42% among those never smoked compared with married couples from people who have never smoked.
The study included 16 225 people were in the fifty years of age did not become infected by a stroke, and were followed for nine years on average.
The results showed that percentage rises to 72% for former smokers married to smokers.
The researchers stressed that quitting smoking improves the health of the smoker and the health of residents with him, arguing that there is growing evidence of a link to several health problems, passive smoking.
A previous study indicated that passive smoking increases the risk of stroke, but the research team pointed out that the risk of stroke has been studied in greater depth between smokers and passive smokers not.
And people who breathe in secondhand smoke, smoking also are more likely to develop lung cancer and cancer of the sinuses and respiratory infections, heart disease and other diseases compared with non-exposed to smoking.

 Reuters

Report: California campaign to combat smoking and provided $ 86 billion

Chicago: U.S. researchers said that large-scale campaign in the state of California to combat smoking and provided a value of $ 86 billion of health care expenditures in its formative years the first fifteen.
The researchers added that the decrease in health care costs more than a return of almost 40 times the amount spent on the California program, which is $ 1.8 billion.
Said Stanton Glantz Director of the San Francisco Tobacco Control at the University of California, "the program's benefits accrued very quickly and become very large."
In contrast to many programs focus on adolescents, the California program focuses on efforts to combat smoking among adults through active media campaign and changes in public policy including the promotion of smoke-free environments.
According to the study, the program prevented the sale of 3.6 billion package of cigarettes .. Worth an estimated $ 9.2 billion ... Between 1989 and 2004.
The report will help to persuade other U.S. states to increase funding for such efforts to balance the annual spending of $ 13 billion spent by the tobacco industry on advertising and promotion campaigns related to smoking.
A report released by the National Council for the fight against cancer last week that such advertising increases tobacco consumption. But he also revealed that large-scale campaigns against smoking have an impact and called for more funds for such efforts.
According to WHO, smoking is responsible for one out of every ten deaths among adults in the world and is the leading cause of death in the world which can be prevented, and in the United States, smoking kills more than 400 thousand people every year.

 Reuters

Study: Cigarettes contain radioactive material

A recent study led by researchers at the Mayo Clinic, Minnesota, U.S. companies that produce tobacco maintained its research on the radioactive substance polonium-wrapped secrecy At the same time industrialists tried to remove this article from cigarettes to no avail.
The researchers measured the existence of this article on the tobacco leaf and within the chemical composition of cigarettes together, while scientists tried to cooperating with companies that produce tobacco work for a long time to remove this article but all attempts ended in failure.
The researchers believe that the concealment of the secret of the presence of polonium-210 last since 1978, however, decided the giants of tobacco production in order to avoid silence awaken public opinion and the relevant health authorities around the world.
This time is not limited discovery to add another charge to a series of precedents that put cigarettes in the dock only, but also warns that cigarette smoking makes a person voluntarily implants of radioactive material directly into the body.

 SANA

Before breakfast, smoking causes ulcers

Cigarette or Alnrgelep and breakfast key to smoking addiction, where their preferred food and drink, ignoring the negative damage left by the toxic contents of this diet on their overall health.
Studies have shown that smoking causes weakness in the contractions of the stomach, leading to a feeling of satiety when eating, as well as to relax the beginning of the stomach, with a lack of pancreatic secretions, which increases the acidity of the stomach .. And help of a peptic ulcers.

Smoking increases the risk of cancer of the colon and rectum

A medical study warned smokers that they are more susceptible to colon cancer as well as the risk of dying from this cancer.
The study, conducted by Italian researchers published their findings in the latest issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association that tobacco smoking increases the risk of developing colon cancer by 18%, and increases the risk of death from the malignancy rate of 25%, compared to non-smokers.
According to the study's lead author Eduardo Puteri biometrician and his colleagues in the department of epidemiology and biostatistics at the European Institute of Oncology in Milan, Italy, the statistical analysis shows a significant association between smoking and injuries and deaths from cancer of the colon and rectum.
Smoking is not restricted to the lungs: The study emphasizes the importance of public awareness that smoking increases the risk of cancer, not only in organs directly related to Bemsrtnat tobacco such as lung, pharynx, larynx and upper digestive tract, but also in organs exposed indirectly to the degradation products of tobacco, Kalpnkerias, kidney, bladder, cervix, colon and rectum.
Remember, the statistics contained in the study that tobacco is responsible for about 100 million deaths over the past century, more than five million deaths annually. However, the study indicates that there is still a billion smokers in different parts of the world.
The Puteri and his colleagues analyzed data from 106 studies to monitor and follow-up to previous studies, ranging from small trials, which include several hundred participants only, and surveys and very large trials with more than million participants.
When the researchers looked at the overall framework of pooled risk, they found that smoking was associated with an increase of 18% in the risk of cancer of the colon and rectum.
The researchers add that they found a positive correlation between increased risk of this cancer and the increase in the number of cigarettes and cans consumed per day, multiplied by the number of cigarettes consumed per day in a number of years of smoking.

 Al Jazeera

Global Report: Numbers terrifying because of smoking

Washington: He said international experts in cancer in a report released recently found that tobacco smoking would kill six million people next year, cancer and heart disease, pulmonary embolism and a host of other ailments.
According to estimates contained in the "Tobacco Atlas," its new global institution to diseases of the lungs and the American Cancer Society, the cost of tobacco use on the global economy is about $ 500 billion per year in the form of direct medical expenses and a decrease in productivity and environmental damage.
The report said "the case of tobacco causes one out of every ten deaths in various parts of the world and will kill 5.5 million people this year alone." If current trends continue the number will increase by 2020 to an estimated seven million people and will exceed eight million by 2030.
According to the two organizations and two bodies of research and consulting non-profit Hadftin that smoking rates declined in rich countries like the United States, Britain and Japan over the last four decades while it rose in most parts of the developing world.
Among the information contained in the report that the number of smokers than men, "billion" representing 35 percent of men in rich countries and 50 percent of men in developing countries.
The report said the risk of dying from lung cancer more than 23 times more than in smokers compared to non-smokers.
He added that tobacco kills between one third and half of all smokers, smokers and reconstruction of about 15 years shorter on average than non-smokers ages, and smoking tobacco will kill 250 million at the end of teenagers and children who are now living.
The report said that tobacco smoking killed one hundred million people in the twentieth century and predicted that the number of victims up to one billion people in the twenty-century atheist if they apply effective measures to prevent young people from smoking and help current smokers to quit smoking.

the first cigarette after waking up is the most serious health

A recent U.S. study revealed that smoking a first cigarette after waking up is the most dangerous to health to receive greater levels of smoked nicotine.

According to BBC that smokers who lit a cigarette immediately after waking up every morning at risk to receive higher levels of nicotine than those who are waiting for some time.

The scientists in a study by the University of Pennsylvania to reduce the risks of smoking, measured levels of cotinine, a product of nicotine in order to show the risk of lung cancer.

The study showed that the percentage of cotinine rise among those who lit a cigarette immediately after waking from their peers who waited until breakfast.

The study says that the percentage of cotinine vary dramatically among smokers who use twenty cigarettes a day and the highest level was detected in those who got Sijarthm during the first half an hour after waking.

The study says it can not be considered for all smokers in the same perspective and work to reduce smoking requires taking into account the individual behaviors, such as those concerning the number of cigarettes smoked and in a manner and physiological symptoms that characterize each case separately.

SANA