The article discusses a study led by Dr. Rachel Whitmer at the research division of Kaiser Permanente in Oakland, California, which claims that smoking during ages of 50s and 60s can double the risk of dementia in later life.Wall Street Journal - Eastern Edition...
Smoking tobacco has been around practically forever, but cigarettes as a commercial product are actually a fairly recent invention. Before the Crimean War most Europeans smoked pipes or cigars. During the war, however, English soldiers picked up the habit of rolling their tobacco in newsprint from ...
The home-run record holder appeared in Camel ads in the 60s Martin, Dean, 78, singer; acute respiratory failure. (December 25, 1995) Ocean’s Eleven Marvin, Lee, 67, actor; heart attack. (August 29, 1987) Cat Ballou Marx, Groucho, 86, actor/entertainer; lung cancer. (Aug. 19, 1977...
in the United Kingdom are caused by smoking in their 50s, 60s, and 70s,1 and the figures are likely to be similar in other industrialized countries.2 Breast cancer was recently included among the 30 most common specific causes of death among smokers,1 and it is emerging that smoking ...
Cigarette smoke triggers many cellular and signaling responses in the lung and the resulting inflammation plays a central role in smoke-related lung diseases, such as COPD. We explored the effects of smoking on the small airway proteome in samples obtain
eTable 1.Tabulation of the Maximum Reported Number of Cigarettes Smoked per Day Over the Participant’s Lifetime eTable 2.Hazard Ratios (HRs) and 95% Confidence Intervals (CIs) for Smoking Status With All-Cause Mortality in Men and Women ...
The mRNA and protein expression of OLC1 were higher in tumor samples (p < 0.01) and significantly correlated with tumor stage (p < 0.05). OLC1 protein expression and smoking history were correlated with disease-free survival (p < 0.05). OLC1 expression was significantly elevated in smoking ...
where the whole cast including the women, smoke to accurately depict the American culture of the 60s. Furthermore, in the TV series Friends, the so known “uncool” Chandler gained little respect by smoking when all others hated it and he was again “living on the edge”. Through out thes...
Female smokers born before the first world war were less likely to describe themselves as inhalers or as having started to smoke while young than were female smokers who were born later. In these respects this younger group resembled male smokers, and as they move into their 60s and 70s ...
E-cigs first emerged in China in 2003 as an alternative to tobacco, which kills nearly six million people each year. Just like their predecessors in the 1950s and 60s, electronic cigarettes are being advertised with attractive women and rugged, virile men—hinting at a better, more popular yo...