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DOHMH will contact program participants by phone after they receive their nicotine patches to offer advice and support on stopping smoking. Be Tobacco-Free – a Take Care New York Priority Smoking is the leading cause of preventable death in New York City, killing nearly ten thousand New Yorkers each year. That’s why being tobacco-free is a top priority of Take Care New York, the City’s health policy. A third of smokers are killed by tobacco, and they die, on average, 14 years earlier than non-smokers. Smoking increases a person's risk of heart disease, stroke, many types of cancer, blindness, and Alzheimer's disease. Smoking also causes many problems in pregnancy, including miscarriage, premature labor, and low birth weight. |
If you smoke, quitting is the single most
important thing you can do for your health. Call
311 for more information on
Take Care New York.
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Part 2 Nicotine patch kits from
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Third and fourth graders in New Jersey are being taught about the dangers and risks of smoking and are then sharing their new found knowledge with a smoker as part of the "Tell Someone You Love" letter writing program.
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Researchers at the University
of Michigan School of Public Health have confirmed that young adults, ages
18 to 24, are now the fastest
growing group of smokers.
Vice President for Campus Life, Princeton University, Janet S.
Dickerson announced she has accepted recommendations from students to
prohibit smoking in undergraduate dorms.
Smokers should
not believe that the tar and nicotine levels listed on a pack of cigarettes
are what they are actually inhaling. The take-home message of this
report is that the only proven way to reduce the disease risks
associated with smoking is to quit.
Three out of four smokers
in the United States say they want to quit, but less than 5% of
smokers who quit for at least a day are able to stay tobacco-free
for three to 12 months.
Tips to help you quit smoking.
Does banning smoking in
restaurants present any sort of economic risk? In areas where
smoking bans are already in place do people eat out less often, and
spend less money in restaurants?
Millions of Americans smoke
"low-tar," "mild," or "light"
cigarettes, believing those cigarettes to be less harmful than other
cigarettes. The evidence does not indicate a benefit to public health from
changes in cigarette design and manufacturing over the last 50 years.
The government is to provide
smoking cessation resources to the
46 million adults in the USA who smoke, we can make an enormous improvement
in public health."
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) are initiating a new Tobacco-Free Sports public education program at the Paralympic and Olympic Winter Games
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New findings from the Lung Health Study (LHS) show that, in general, the lung function in women improves significantly more than in men after sustained smoking cessation.
We can't say that we have found a cause-and-effect relationship between smoking and decreased thinking ability, or neuro-cognitive proficiency but we hope our findings of an connection will lead to further examination of this important issue.
Research conducted by the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) has found that nicotine addiction seems to be linked to increased craving for illegal drugs among drug abusers who also smoke tobacco.
Make no mistake about it: high blood pressure is dangerous. It is the number one modifiable cause of stroke. The higher the blood pressure, the greater is the chance for heart attack, heart failure, stroke and kidney disease.
Quitting the smoking habit will help your personal appearance, by reducing bad breath, yellowed teeth and fingernails, premature skin aging and early hair loss.
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