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		<title>Despite Misconceptions, Smoking Hookah Can Be Just As Dangerous As Smoking Cigarettes</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Aug 2011 17:18:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alex Crees</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Despite a growing number of cities instituting smoking bans across the country, hookah bars are continuing to crop up everywhere and gaining a loyal customer base in young adults.
Hookahs, for those who are unfamiliar, are smoking instruments that use charcoal to heat flavored tobacco. The smoke from the heated tobacco is then sucked through a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Early Morning Smokers At Higher Risk of Developing Cancer</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Aug 2011 15:44:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alex Crees</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[According to two new studies, smokers who tend to take their first cigarette soon after waking up in the morning appear to have a higher risk of developing cancer than smokers who wait until later in the day.
The finding is independent of cigarette smoking frequency and duration.
For one study, researchers looked at 4,775 lung cancer [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Air Cleaners Can Reduce Asthma Symptoms in Children Who Live With Smokers</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Aug 2011 16:57:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alex Crees</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[While a smoke-free home for children who have asthma is the best option, a new study shows that indoor air cleaners can significantly reduce household air pollution and reduce rates of daytime asthma symptoms.
Johns Hopkins researchers found that air cleaners could improve overall air quality in homes, and in some cases lead to a reduction [...]]]></description>
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		<title>E.D. Education</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Jul 2011 18:21:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dr. Manny</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It used to be called impotence. But thanks to the proliferation of drug industry advertisements that now threaten to overwhelm our television programs, today we know it as erectile dysfunction, or, more discreetly, simply as E.D. Whatever you want to call it, though, it’s the man’s inability to achieve or maintain an erection sufficient to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Texting May Help People Quit Smoking, Study Says</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Jul 2011 15:52:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alex Crees</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Forget nicotine patches and gum.  Efforts to quit smoking have officially moved into the 21st century.
According to British researchers, smokers are twice as likely to succeed in quitting if they receive supportive text messages, USA Today reported.
The researchers followed 5,800 smokers in their attempts to quit the habit.  One group was sent motivational text messages [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Smoking: Kicking the Habit</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Jun 2011 10:16:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dr. Manny</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Nobody wakes up one morning and suddenly decides to be a smoker. Smoking is a habit picked up from others who smoke. It&#8217;s a social disease. Individuals do it in imitation of somebody they respect who smokes, like parents or teachers, or they do it because their high school or college friends smoke and they [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Secondhand Smoke Can Create Symptoms of Nicotine Addiction in Non-Smoking Teens</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Jun 2011 14:40:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alex Crees</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Think your smoking isn’t affecting your kids?  Think again.
According to a new study, mere exposure to secondhand smoke can spur symptoms of nicotine dependence in non-smoking pre-teens.
Not only that, the study also indicated that pre-teens who repeatedly observe a parent, sibling friend or neighbor smoking cigarettes are more likely to pick up the habit themselves [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Secondhand Smoke Exposure Can Deliver Nicotine to Brains of Non-Smokers</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 May 2011 16:23:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alex Crees</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Even if you’re not a smoker, you still may be getting a dose of nicotine to the brain if you’re around someone who is, a new study says.
Researchers observed that exposure to secondhand smoke has a direct, measurable impact on the brain – and the effect is similar to what happens in the brain of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Study: Parents Shouldn&#8217;t Let Up in Preventing Children From Smoking</title>
		<link>http://www.askdrmanny.com/study-parents-shouldnt-let-up-in-preventing-children-from-smoking/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 May 2011 19:30:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alex Crees</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When it comes to discouraging children from smoking, parents should try, try again, a new study advises.
Researchers monitored adolescents over a period of three years to see how many picked up smoking cigarettes during the time period.  They also assessed changes in family factors thought to protect against smoking initiation over time.
Protective family factors included [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rates of &#8220;Pack-A-Day&#8221; Smokers Fall in the United States</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Mar 2011 14:41:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alex Crees</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[According to a new study, the rate of “pack-a-day” or more smokers in the United States has fallen sharply since 1965, particularly in California, which has led the nation in its anti-smoking efforts, the Chicago Sun-Times reported.
In the mid 1960s, 56 percent of smokers in the U.S. lit up 20 or more cigarettes a day.  [...]]]></description>
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