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Smoking is the inhalation of the smoke of burning tobacco encased in cigarettes, pipes, and cigars. Casual smoking is the act of smoking only occasionally, usually in a social situation or to relieve stress . A smoking habit is a physical addictio...
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Medicine
Question: What are the negative effects of smoking? Answer: Smokers have an increased risk of the following: Lung cancer; Lung disease; Heart attack; Heart disease; Hypertension; Stroke; Oral cancer; Bladder cancer; Pancreatic cancer; Cervical can...
Source:ADAM
Date:February 23, 2009
Use of cigarettes and other tobacco products to engage in a habit that almost always leads to addiction. Every day 3,000 young people light up their first cigarette; every year a million teenagers become regular smokers. Adolescent smoking has ris...
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Childhood and Adolescence
Smoking is the inhalation of the smoke of burning tobacco encased in cigarettes, pipes, and cigars. Casual smoking is the act of smoking only occasionally, usually in a social situation or to relieve stress . A smoking habit is a physical addictio...
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Alternative Medicine
Smoking is the inhalation of the smoke of burning tobacco that is used mostly in three forms: cigarettes, pipes, and cigars.
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Children's Health
Smoking is an important and preventable cause of death and illness. However, as more money has been spent on smoking cessation programs, the incidence of cigarette smoking has risen. In 2002, 48 percent of men and 12 percent of women in the world ...
Source:Gale Nutrition and Well-Being A to Z
Ethyl alcohol, or ethanol, is the most commonly used drug in the world. Pharmacologically, alcohol is classified as a central nervous system depressant. Like other depressants, in small doses alcohol slows heart rate and respiration, decreases mus...
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Public Health
Alcoholism is drinking alcoholic beverages at a level that interferes with physical health, mental health, and social, family, or job responsibilities.
Source:ADAM
Date:January 15, 2009
Helicobacter pylori (H. pylori) is the bacteria responsible for most ulcers and many cases of stomach inflammation (chronic gastritis. The bacteria can weaken the protective coating of the stomach, allowing digestive juices to irritate the sensiti...
Source:ADAM
Date:August 1, 2009
Helicobacteriosis refers to infection of the gastrointestinal tract with the bacteria, Helicobacter pylori ( H. pylori ). While there are other rarer strains of Helicobacter species that can infect humans, only H. pylori has been convincingly show...
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Medicine
Starting at what is commonly called middle age, operations of the human body begin to be more vulnerable to daily wear and tear; there is a general decline in physical, and possibly mental, functioning. In the Western countries, the length of life...
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Medicine
Aging is the process of growing older, a process that includes physical changes and, sometimes, mental changes. "The aged" refers to elderly people, those who have reached an advanced age.
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Nursing and Allied Health
Starting at what is commonly called middle age, operations of the human body become more vulnerable to daily wear and tear. There is a general decline in physical, and possibly mental, functioning. In the Western countries, the length of life ofte...
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Alternative Medicine
This term is used by demographers when referring to an increase over time in the proportion of older persons in the population. It does not necessarily imply an increase in life expectancy, that "people are living longer that they used to," or tha...
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Public Health
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