Page 4 - Smoking

Smoking socially may cause heart problems

Social smoking was most common among adults under 40

Paying people to stop smoking works, especially in vulnerable groups

In some populations, such as disadvantaged women, smoking rates have increased during this period

Smoking could put your child's kidney at risk

Smoking during pregnancy has long been linked to pre-term and underweight babies

Smoking a pack a day causes 150 mutations in every lung cell

Smoking kills six million people a year worldwide and, if current trends continue, the World Health Organisation predicts more than one billion tobacco-related deaths this century

Chemical traces left on DNA by smoking: Study

"Many people think that after five years your health is mostly back to that of a non-smoker, but that may not be the case"

Female smokers at higher risk of brain bleed

Female sex has been described as an independent risk factor for subarachnoid hemorrhage

Smoking puts your sperm at risk

Cigarette smoking may promote an inflammatory response in the male reproductive tract

Do you know what you're smoking?

Only 27.5% adults reported having looked for information on different components of tobacco products, many of which are known to be poisonous or cause cancer

Larger pictorial warnings but little impact

More than 70 per cent of smokers feel larger pictorial warnings will have little impact on their habits

Mother's smoking may alter foetal DNA: study

The researchers also identified new development-related genes affected by smoking

36% rise in number of male smokers in India since 1998: Study

The study also found that cigarettes are replacing the traditional bidis