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U.S. report: teen pregnancies up, 8th grade smoking down, 9% asthma in children
By: William Atkins

The Federal Interagency Forum on Child and Family Statistics released the tenth edition of its report "America's Children in Brief: Key National Indicators of Well-Being 2008” on Friday, July 11, 2008. We have both good and bad news to report.


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May 31: World No Tobacco Day 2008
By: William Atkins

Each year on May 31, the World Health Organization celebrates “World No Tobacco Day,” a day that WHO uses to highlight the risks of smoking and to advocate for effective policies to reduce tobacco consumption.

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Study finds quitting smoking easier in groups
By: William Atkins

Harvard University/University of California study finds friends, family, and coworkers who stop smoking makes it much more likely for a smoker to also stop smoking.


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Marijuana and depression a bad mix with teens
By: William Atkins

On Wednesday, May 9, 2008, the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP) released the report “"Teen Marijuana Use Worsens Depression: An Analysis of Recent Data Shows 'Self-Medicating' Could Actually Make Things Worse.”


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CDC links obesity, smoking, heavy drinking with sleep
By: William Atkins

A U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) study finds that people who sleep the least each night are more prone to have health issues with obesity, smoking, and alcoholic drinking.


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Falling women lifespans in Deep South, Appalachia, lower Midwest
By: William Atkins

A Harvard, UC, and UW study has found female life spans in 180 impoverished and rural U.S. counties fell from the early 1980s to the late 1990s, with causes including increased  smoking, being overweight and obese, and having high blood pressure.


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The portable oxygen generator – not a load of hot air
By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt

A medical gadget called the Inogen ONE is a “breakthrough” portable oxygen generator that concentrates oxygen, doing away with cumbersome liquid oxygen tanks and restoring quality of life to the ultimate form of organic technology: human beings.


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Smokers more likely to stop if they know age of lungs
By: William Atkins

British researchers gave a lung function test to subjects and found that smokers are about twice as likely to stop smoking if they know their “Lung Age.”


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