Cancer
Non-smokers still have lung cancer
The research of Mayo Medical University scientists, USA, explains why people who never smoke still get lung cancer.
Tobacco
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Articles about Tobacco
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Cancer
Testing for lung cancer warning in smokers
US scientists have discovered a way to inform high smokers about lung cancer risk by measuring changes in the windpipe.
Cancer
Genetic mutations for smoking
Three separate studies demonstrate that smoking habits actually cause human genes to change.
Cancer
Vietnam has the highest smoking rate in the world
According to Luong Ngoc Khue, Director of the Medical Examination Department (Ministry of Health), about 50% of adult men in our country smoke cigarettes (equivalent to…
Cancer
Eating betel nuts increases the risk of throat cancer
Taiwanese medical experts said that those who have a habit of eating betel nut are 28 times more likely to develop throat cancer than the average person.
Cancer
From January 1, 2010: Smoking is strictly prohibited in public places
The Prime Minister has just signed Decision 1315 / QD-TTg approving the Plan for implementing the Framework Convention on tobacco control.
Cancer
Lung cancer and carcinogens in cigarettes
We all know two factors that contribute to cancer in tobacco - nicotine and associated hydrocarbon aromatic rings (PAHs) are carcinogenic culprits.
Cancer
Cigarette filters are convicted of increasing lung cancer
Until now, people still think that filters are effective at filtering down harmful substances of tobacco into the body. But according to the Healthday issue of Sept. 6,…
Cancer
Smoking can cause colon cancer
Tobacco is condemned ... A study published in the international scientific journal Gastroenterology said smoking increased the risk of colon cancer by 2.14 times compare…
Cancer
Passive tobacco poisoning increases the risk of lung cancer
According to epidemiologist Leslie Stayner and colleagues at the University of Illinois (USA), passive cigarette poisoning, which does not smoke but inhales the smoke of…
Science invention
4 inventions destroy most people in the world
About 100 million people died of tobacco in the 20th century, while atomic bombs, AK guns and explosives also killed millions of people in battles.