Tobacco: Smoking Cessation and Weight Gain
On the average, smokers weigh less than nonsmokers, and approximately 80 percent of smokers who quit will gain weight. The average weight gain for smokers wh...
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Smoking
SMOKING. Plants whose properties when consumed place the user in an unusual state have always been looked upon as being endowed with supernatural power. Such plants play an important part in b...
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surplus announced by the state Senate weren't a big enough hurdle to Eliot Spitzer's plan to reduce health care spending, how about this letter from the American Cancer Society and other groups who...
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historic piece on the Israel lobby in the London Review of Books in March continues to reverberate. The latest LRB contains a dispute between the paper's authors, Stephen Walt and John Mearsheimer,...
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Ben Bernanke's Federal Reserve blew smoke at the markets last week, and markets blew smoke right back. Nothing was solved in terms of the growing global credit crisis, the result of a sub-prime vir...
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Italy's highest court has upheld a $290,000 damage award against a large tobacco company following the 1991 lung cancer death of a smoker, lawyers for the family said Monday.The ruling, which was m...
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