Hookah can also be reason for Cancer, finds new study.

In a new study conducted by researchers from UC San Francisco find that smoking hookah is no good from smoking cigarette. The researchers came to this conclusion by studying and measuring the chemical in the urine and blood sample of hookah smokers contains a different, but still harmful mix of toxins.

UCSF research chemist Peyton Jacob III, PhD, and UCSF tobacco researcher Neal Benowitz, MD, both based at San Francisco General Hospital and Trauma Center, said hookah use exposes smokers to higher levels of carbon monoxide, especially hazardous to those with heart or respiratory conditions, and to higher levels of benzene, long associated with leukemia risk.

Hookah can also be reason for Cancer, finds new study.

Wanna quit smoking??? Try Texting !!!!!!

Trying hard to quit smoking, but not able to???? Then try this........... Recharge you mobile with SMS(message) plan and start texting. This may help you to cease your smoke urge, according to studied carried out by researchers at the University of Oregon and other institutions.

Both projects used the same group of test subjects  27 heavy smokers recruited from the American Lung Association's Freedom From Smoking program in Los Angeles.

Wanna quit smoking??? Try Texting !!!!!!

Second hand smoke kills 600,000 people per year :WHO

According to estimation by World Health Organisation(WHO) researchers, one in a hundred deaths worldwide is due to passive smoking.

In the first study to assess the global impact of second-hand smoke, WHO experts found that children are more heavily exposed to second-hand smoke than any other age-group, and around 165,000 of them a year die because of it.

Second hand smoke kills 600,000 people per year :WHO

Quit-smoking drug linked to suicides

Many smokers who take pills to quit the habit have developed suicidal tendency and at least 15 have committed suicide while on medication since 2008, Australian drug-control authority has said.

Hundreds of people have considered killing themselves while taking the popular quit-smoking pill Champix and 15 have in fact committed suicide, the statistics show.

In an update sent to doctors, the Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) said 206 "suicide-related events" and 15 suicides had been linked to the drug, which has been prescribed more than a million times since becoming available on the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme two and a half years ago, The Age reported.

Quit-smoking drug linked to suicides

Diabetes could harm lungs just like smoking .

People with diabetes may have impaired lung function, which is similar to the impairment found in smokers, according to a recent study.

Researchers from The Netherlands conducted a literature review of 40 studies describing the pulmonary function data of 3,182 patients with diabaetes and 27,080 control subjects.

The meta-analysis showed that, in the absence of overt pulmonary disease, diabetes was associated with a modest but statistically significant impairment in lung function in a restrictive pattern.

Diabetes could harm lungs just like smoking .

Smoking in pregnancy & sleep problems in children

Article appeared on doctor.ndtv.com.

Mothers who smoke during pregnancy are more likely to have children with sleep problems from birth all the way through age 12 years.

Past studies have linked substance abuse during pregnancy to physical and behavioural problems in children. To examine the association between sleep problems and prenatal exposure to cocaine, alcohol, opiates, marijuana and nicotine in children aged 1 month to 12 years, researchers followed 808 American children. Out of all, 374 were exposed to cocaine and/or opiates before birth, while 434 were not.
Children's mothers or other caregivers reported on whether a child had difficulty falling asleep and staying asleep during three periods: one month to four years of age; five to eight years, and nine to 12 years.

It was found that exposure to cocaine, marijuana, or alcohol in the womb had no effect on a child's risk of having sleep problems, but nicotine did, and problems were seen at each of the three time points. Nicotine exposure in the mother's womb was found to be the only unique predictor of sleep problems in the children and the link remained the same even after taking into accounts other factors such as socioeconomic status, marital status, physical abuse, prenatal medical care, and postnatal cigarette smoke exposure.

The above findings show that prenatal exposure to cigarette smoking or nicotine could lead to sleep problems in children.

Smoking in pregnancy & sleep problems in children