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More Cigarettes News and Information

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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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  Withdrawal Symptoms Come Quickly After Last Cigarette

  Smokers trying to quit start to feel withdrawal symptoms within the first half hour of quitting.

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  Smoke in the Womb Makes Unruly Toddlers

  Unborn babies regularly exposed to cigarette smoke are much more likely to have behavioral problems as young children.

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  Sucking Helium Could Reveal Hidden Lung Damage

  Soon, seemingly healthy smokers could inhale the gas in a new MRI technique to explore early signs of emphysema and asthma.