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How bad is second-hand smoke for your health?

Some jobs involve engineering and selling industrial air filtration systems which are designed to remove process emissions. Process emissions like welding smoke for example which factory employees are exposed to all day every day.
October 14th | Read full story


Smoking tobacco and your brain's addiction center

People often view quitting smoking as a question of willpower - a problem of the mental world. But like all mental processes, addiction eventually boils down to physical matter, to our brains and the chemicals that reside within. Neurological studies have found that smoking causes long-term changes to various parts of the brain including the dopamine system involved in feelings of pleasure, and the amygdala, involved in emotional responses. Even cues associated with smoking such as the smell of smoke or the sight of a cigarette, can trigger distinctive patterns of activity in these areas, and are likely to contribute to the urges that smokers feel.
October 12th | Read full story

Gates and Bloomberg spend $500 million to stop smokers

The campaign is called Mpower, and most of the money will be going to poorer 3rd world countries, and middle class people in Russia. Bloomberg pledged $375 million over 4 years, Bill Gates pledged $175 million over 5 years. Doesn't Bill have more money than Michael?
July 28th | Read full story

Cigarette smoke makes flu and viral infections worse

Scientists have known about it for years, but now scientists have an explanation. Viral symptoms that are often mild in non-smokers can make smokers seriously ill. They used to think smoke caused the immune system not to respond properly, but now evidence is showing that might be wrong.
July 28th | Read full story

Cigarettes may cause hair loss

It's common knowledge that smoking cigarettes can cause a wide range of disease, and it looks like it's time to add another problem to the list. A new study shows that cigarettes can cause your hair loss, too.
July 2nd | Read full story

Red wine could counter-act smoking damage


Certain constituents in red wine may be able to reverse some of the damage caused by cigarettes, suggests a new study presented at the European Society of Cardiology meeting in Vienna last week.

The small study found that red wine, but not its alcohol content, counteracted acute arterial dysfunction left by cigarettes. The researchers from Alexandra Hospital in Athens, Greece, reported that a dose of two glasses (250 mL) of red wine eradicated the harmful effect of one cigarette. Cigarette smoking is a major risk factor for cardiovascular disease.

The team assessed the arterial function of 16 healthy adults after smoking one cigarette. They also measured the effects on this group of drinking two glasses of a Greek red wine, which had had the alcohol removed, and smoking one cigarette and again after drinking two glasses of normal red wine and smoking one cigarette.

The researchers claim that the non-alcoholic wine was tested against the original wine, to guarantee that there were no differences in flavor, color and taste and constituents, except from their alcohol content. This means that volunteers could not distinguish which type of red wine they consumed each time.

Results confirmed previous findings that after smoking one cigarette and for the following 60 minutes there is a significant arterial dysfunction. However, simultaneous consumption of either regular red wine or non-alcoholic red wine with smoking one cigarette did not cause any such dysfunction.

“Since the presence or absence of alcohol on the two types of wine didn’t influence the results, we can conclude that constituents of red wine other than alcohol are responsible for the reversal of arterial dysfunction caused by smoking,” said the researchers. More.

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