Posts Tagged ‘Smoking’
Multiple factors modify the risk of adolescent smoking
There is no single explanation for why teens start smoking, so concentrate on a single risk factor does not help you better understand why young people smoke, according to a study conducted in Canada.
This is the conclusion of the team of Dr. Jennifer O’Loughlin, who published the results of their study in American Journal of Epidemiology.
O’Loughlin, of the University of Montreal, Quebec, suggests that efforts to prevent smoking should take into account “the individual factors such as age, self-esteem, alcohol use and school performance.”
They should also be considered “contextual factors such as parental smoking and friends, and school smoking policies,” the expert told Reuters Health.
The team investigated how these factors modify the onset smoking in 877 students (half male) who had 13 years at baseline.
Over the next five years, the team interviewed every three months to students on the consumption of snuff and other factors potentially associated with smoking initiation. During this period, 421 (48 percent) began smoking, 87 of them (21 percent), daily. Read the rest of this entry »
Smoking also cause back pain
A Finnish research was based on 81 previous studies confirmed that snuff addicts are more likely to suffer discomfort in the lower back. Teens, the most affected
After reviewing existing research, Finnish experts concluded that smoking is “modestly” associated with the risk of pain in the lumbar spine and the effects would be “at least partly reversible.”
These findings were published in the January issue of American Journal of Medicine.
Dr. Rahman Shiri, the Finnish Institute of Occupational Health, and colleagues wanted to know if smoking increases the risk of low back pain, a problem that affects about 8 out of 10 adults at some point in their lives.
Previous analysis of existing studies has reached different conclusions. While research suggests a relationship between smoking and back pain, another cast “unclear results.”
Finnish researchers identified and reviewed 81 studies conducted worldwide between 1966 and 2009, which included smokers, former smokers and people who had never smoked. They took account of back pain. Read the rest of this entry »
Alcoholic Beverages and Health
Besides smoking, alcoholic beverages is something that pretty much consumed by various circles. It is the custom in most of our society to consume less alcohol at a party. And we know that together, consume too much alcohol can harm your health. Read the rest of this entry »