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Public Smoking Bans Curb Asthma Hospitalizations Asthma-related hospitalizations of children in Scotland fell 13 percent a year after smoking was barred from workplaces and public buildings in 2006. Prior to the ban, these sorts of admissions had been rising 5 percent each year. Though public smoking bans largely target places where adults work and socialize, they appear to make the habit less popular in general, leading ...
Secondhand Smoke Exposure Linked to Hearing Loss Previous research has indicated that smoking can result in hearing loss, and researchers now say that just being exposed to secondhand smoke can increase one's risk of hearing loss. Data from a recent study suggest that passive smoking increases the risk of hearing loss across all sound frequencies by about a third. Experts believe that tobacco smoke may disrupt blood ...
Heart Patients Who Quit Smoking Live Longer It is never too late to stop smoking. A recent study found that heart attack survivors who quit smoking live longer than those who maintain the habit. The data even showed that simply cutting back on the amount of cigarettes heart attack survivors smoke provides them with some survival advantage. During the 13-year study period, first-time heart attack sufferers who ...
R-Rated Movies Linked to Underage Smoking Researchers say kids whose parents allow them to watch R-rated movies—films for which children under 17 years of age must be accompanied by a parent or guardian—are up to three times more likely to start smoking than those whose parents are more restrictive. They believe this sort of leniency could trigger smoking by exposing youngsters to depictions of smoking as ...
Shirley the Orangutan Kicks the Habit Shirley is a 20-year-old orangutan, and she is being forced to quit smoking. Authorities seized her from the state-run zoo in Johor, Malaysia, after she and several other animals there were deemed to be living in poor conditions. She is thought to have learned to smoke by mimicking people who were smoking around her and was often observed smoking cigarettes ...