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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>
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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>
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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>Researchers Developing Life-Saving Blood Test to Detect Lung Cancer</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 May 2011 14:54:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alex Crees</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Scientists may be close to discovering developing a blood test to identify lung cancer in its early stages, which would save thousands of lives each year.
Professor Jachim Shultze, M.D., and his team have identified over 480 molecules in the blood which show specific patterns of change when a person develops lung cancer.  The molecules are [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hospitals: &#8220;Smokers Need Not Apply&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Feb 2011 17:04:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dr. Manny</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The urine test has become a mainstay of American workplaces, used to test for illegal narcotic use among employees.
But, in a growing trend among hospitals, it&#8217;s being used to test for something decidedly less illegal &#8211; nicotine.
Hospitals around the country are shifting from smoking bans to all-out &#8220;smoker&#8221; bans, the New York Times reported.  Frustrated [...]]]></description>
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