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  E-cigarette use may increase heart disease risk: Study

  Science | May 28, 2019 12:04 IST

  The severity of the damage, aspects of which occur even in the absence of nicotine, varies among popular flavours, the researchers said. Cinnamon and menthol were found to be particularly harmful.

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  69 percent of Indians believe that warning images on tobacco packs don't work

  Lifestyle | June 01, 2017 10:53 IST

  63 percent of smokers believe that government should come up with strict rules to tackle smoking addiction in country

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  Smoking during pregnancy may damage babies' liver

  Lifestyle | May 31, 2017 15:35 IST

  We have often heard that smoking cigarettes causes harm. But what does it do to Human body? Smoking during pregnancy causes damages to foetal organs.

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  Smoking or Alcohol: Which one is more dangerous?

  Lifestyle | May 31, 2017 12:46 IST

  Choosing between alcohol and cigarettes is like picking the lesser venomous poison among two venoms

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  World No Tobacco Day 2017: Teenage kid addicted to smoking? Here’s how you can help him quit!

  Lifestyle | May 31, 2017 16:14 IST

  Due to peer pressure and first experiment with smoking, teenagers fall prey to this vicious cycle of tobacco addiction

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  Social smoking carries same heart-disease risks: Study

  Lifestyle | May 08, 2017 19:02 IST

  A US study indicates that social smokers' carries the same high blood pressure and high cholesterol risk, identical to those who smoke every day.

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  People who smoke are actually harming their kids. Here’s how

  Lifestyle | April 09, 2017 12:35 IST

  Do you smoke? Then chances are that your kids may be exposed to the harmful levels of nicotine on their hands. Do you know how this happens?

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  "Smoking kills more people than Obama" ad in Moscow creates flutter

  World | February 18, 2016 10:15 IST

  Moscow: An advertisement, illegally placed at a bus stop in Moscow declaring that “smoking kills more people than Obama” has gone viral on social media.The inscription on the poster reads: "Smoking kills more people than

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  A quarter of young men in Kerala capital smoke

  Lifestyle | August 31, 2013 11:59 IST

  Thiruvananthapuram: Nearly a quarter of young rural men in Kerala's Thiruvanathapuram district are prone to the habit of smoking, says a study.While 21.1 percent of young men (15-24 years) are prone to the smoking habit,

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  More young people falling prey to hypertension

  Lifestyle | April 09, 2013 13:16 IST

  New Delhi: Changing social norms on smoking and drinking and a fast-food dominated lifestyle are causing a growing number of young people to fall prey to hypertension and a host of other diseases, doctors warn.This