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2. Health effects of tobacco - Wikipedia

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   Smoking most commonly leads to diseases affecting the heart and lungs and will commonly affect areas such as hands or feet. First signs of smoking-related health issues often show up as numbness in the extremities, with smoking being a major risk factor for heart attacks, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), emphysema, and cancer, particularly lung cancer, cancers of the larynx and ...

3. Smoking in the United Kingdom - Wikipedia

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   Smoking is prevalent among a sizeable, but continuously reducing minority of the population. It has been argued that smoking puts considerable strain upon the National Health Service (NHS) due to the health problems which can be directly linked with smoking, though early deaths from smoking relieve the NHS from caring for long-term debilities ...

4. Positions of medical organizations on electronic cigarettes

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   The scientific community in the United States and Europe are primarily concerned with the possible effect of electronic cigarette use on public health. [1] There is concern among public health experts that e-cigarettes could renormalize smoking, weaken measures to control tobacco, [2] and serve as a gateway for smoking among youth. [3]

5. New ‘game changer’ stop smoking pill to be given to thousands ...

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   A daily pill designed to help people give up smoking will soon be rolled out on the NHS as experts hope it could prevent thousands of smoking-related deaths a year.. Called varenicline, the pill ...

6. Cancers caused by smoking reach UK high of 160 new ... - AOL

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   Although smoking rates in the UK are going down, a growing population means there are still about 6.4 million smokers in the UK. Cancers caused by smoking reach UK high of 160 new cases per day ...

7. NHS hospital stop-smoking services criticised in new audit - AOL

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   One in five hospitals still offer dedicated smoking areas for patients.

8. Smoking bans in the United Kingdom - Wikipedia

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   On 16 November 2004, a Public Health white paper proposed a smoking ban in almost all public places in England and Wales.Smoking restrictions would be phased in, with a ban on smoking in NHS and government buildings by 2006, in enclosed public places by 2007, and pubs, bars and restaurants (except pubs not serving food) by the end of 2008.

9. Smoking’s effects on the immune system can last years ... - AOL

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   Smoking, the study found, seemed to have long-term epigenetic effects on the immune system’s two major forms of protection: the innate response and the adaptive response.