Maternal smoking during pregnancy can lead to arterial damage detectable in the child for at least 5 years. The greatest damage was found in children with two parents who smoked during the pregnancy. Passive smoking has also been linked to thickening of arterial walls in young adults and abnormalities of endothelial (the insides of the arteries) function in children. "This study is the first to show that the effect of smoking during pregnancy on the vasculature of children is (still) visible at the age of 5 years."
 www.medpagetoday.comMaternal smoking during pregnancy can lead to arterial damage detectable in the offspring at age 5 years, yet three-quarters of parents of young children continued to smoke after participating in smok
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Use of smokeless tobacco (or snuff) may increase the risk for heart failure.
www.medpagetoday.comUse of smokeless tobacco (or snuff) may increase the risk for heart failure, mainly of nonischemic origin and chiefly by increasing blood pressure and heart rate, a Swedish study found. ..............................................................................................
Smoking kills. Women who smoke are 25 percent more likely than their male counterparts to develop heart disease. The risk increases by 2% for every additional year. Women who smoke also have double the risk of lung cancer compared with their male counterparts.
www.medpagetoday.comWomen who smoke have a greater risk of developing coronary artery disease than men who smoke, a large systematic review and meta-analysis showed.
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This works. Smoking kills. Tobacco smoke is associated with childhood developmental, cognitive, and behavior abnormalities, including learning disabilities, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder/attention deficit disorder and conduct disorders. 274,100 excess cases of these disorders could have been prevented if the children were not exposed to secondhand smoke. www.medpagetoday.comAn increased risk of neurobehavioral disorders among children should be added to the list of the adverse effects of secondhand smoke, according to the results of a nationwide telephone survey.
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This works! Smoking kills. Mothers who smoke cause life long damage to their children, including lower HDL, higher triglycerides, higher blood pressure, higher levels of C-reactive protein and obesity. All parental smoking damages children, but prenatal exposure is the worst.
www.medpagetoday.comEight-year-old children of women who smoked during pregnancy were found to have lower than normal levels of high-density lipoprotein cholesterol, independent of smoke exposure after birth.
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This works! Smokers have greater prostate cancer mortality, all-cause mortality and cardiovascular mortality. Quitting smoking for 10 years reduces the risks to the level of those who never smoked.
www.medpagetoday.comMen who are smokers when they receive a prostate cancer diagnosis have significantly worse survival and a greater risk of biochemical recurrence than never-smokers or those who had quit, researchers f
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This works! Tobacco kills up to half its users. Nearly six million people will die from tobacco this year, including 600,000 non-smokers.
 LONDON (Reuters) - Tobacco will kill nearly six million people this year, including 600,000 non-smokers, because governments are not doing enough to persuade people to quit or protect others from second-hand |
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