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- Reports of American Longevity Greatly Exaggerated
- More than half of babies born in rich nations today will live to 100 years if current life expectancy trends continue, according to a European study.
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- Warning: Homegrown Tobacco Still Deadly
- Tobacco seeds sales have sharply risen this year as smokers try growing their own.
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- Key to Affordable Health Care Revealed
- A breakthrough therapy lowers the risk of developing the most common and deadly chronic diseases.
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Never Too Late: 5 Bad Habits You Should Still Quit
A new study finds it's never too late to gain health benefits by knocking off bad habits.
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Smokers Would Kick Habit for Pet's Sake
Smokers might care more about Fido than they do about themselves, it would seem, given a new study.
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Divorce Makes Women Look Older
Being divorced is one of several factors now found to add years to a woman's face.
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5 Tips: How to Keep Your New Year's Resolution
Whatever you resolve to do differently in 2009, vow also to develop a strategy to make it happen.
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Smoking's Many Myths Examined
A public health message has been spun to imply that not only will smoking surely kill you.
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Brisk Walk Can Curb Chocolate Cravings
Walking can reduce cravings for chocolate, even during activities that increase munchies.
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How to Cheat Death
A combination of positive lifestyle changes is shown to work. For a while, anyway.
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Magician Trick: Misdirection

The magician uses misdirection to pull spectators' attention to either the cigarette or the lighter, while he drops the out-of-focus object. [Story]
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Bad Habits: Why We Can't Stop
Scientists are discovering why humans choose self-destructive behavior even when they know it could kill them.
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Study Reveals 10 Most Terrible Office Behaviors
Office mates reveal what they consider top rude behaviors.
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Spouses Copy Each Other's Health Habits
If one spouse gives up a health vice, the other is more likely to do the same.
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Secondhand Smoke Causes Cancer in Pets
Secondhand smoke gives pet cats and dogs cancer too.
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Volume Knob Found in Brain
Study changes view of how the brain works.
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12 Common Cancer Myths Debunked
Americans believe a score of scientifically unproven claims about cancer.
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Sex Makes Teens Feel Older
Teens who date older people, have sex and drink booze feel older than they are.
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Study Links Candy Cigarettes to Smoking
Candy cigarettes might make it so kids who play with them later really light up.
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Study Finds Cocaine, Pot in Rome's Air
Researchers report trace amounts of drugs in Eternal City's air.
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Smokers Are Dead Weight at the Office
Employers should hire smokers at their own risk, suggest two new studies about job performance.
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After Lung Cancer Surgery, Nearly Half of Patients Resume Smoking
More than a third of smokers who had surgery to remove early stage lung cancer were smoking again within a year, a new study finds.
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Weird Finding: Smoking Causes Knee Pain
Men with osteoarthritis in the knee experience more severe pain and more loss of cartilage if they smoke.
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10 Easy Paths to Self Destruction
Rocker Tommy Lee once said we're not here for a long time, we're here for a good time. Amen, Tommy. Many of us follow his lead every day by shunning the most basic principle of Darwinian evolution?trying to survive?with food, toxins and reckless lifestyle
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