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Gonorrhea is a common sexually treated disease. Before HIV/AIDS, it was among the most feared to contract.
One of the symptoms of gonorrhea is local inflammation. This can affect the complete emptying of the bladder in men. It is not known if it’s the symptoms of gonorrhea or the disease itself, that increases the risk of bladder cancer in men. Being infected with gonorrhea can double a man’s risk of getting bladder cancer. Smoking also increases the risks, 65% of men who have bladder cancer, also have a history of smoking.
Tags: bladder cancer, Gonorrhea, smoking, STD
Nurses are on the front line treating the symptoms of self inflicted illnesses of the millions of smokers. It would make sense that they would be the ones who could have an impact to help smokers stop smoking. Their impact is weak due to so many of them being smokers themselves. Of all the health care professionals, they have the most direct contact with patients and they have the highest percentage of smokers (18% of nurses are smokers) of the health care professionals. The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation provided a 1.8 million grant to help nurses quit.
Tags: Grant, Healt Care Professionals, Nurses, smoking
Poor teens in rural areas aren’t getting the help to quit that they need to be successful. Half of the teens that want to quit fail due to attempting quitting on their own. Urban areas have most of the programs even though there are a growing number of teens in rural areas taking up smoking. Is it the rural schools that aren’t using the information out there or is it the American Lung Association turning their back on the low income population? I honestly don’t know the answer, but I do know, those kids deserve the help that their urban neighbors receive.
Tags: Quiting smoking, Rural, smoking, Teens, Urban
Varenicline is the first non-nicotine drug developed especially to help smokers quit, it works by mimicking nicotines effects on the body and reducing with-drawal symptons at the same time.
There is likely to be heavy demand for this drug ahead of next years smoking ban in the UK, which comes into force on July 1st.
Read more at BBC Health
Tags: ban, smoking, uk, varenicline
According to a long-term Norwegian study of 51,000 smokers aged 24-34 there is just as much danger in heavy smokers or people that cut down to half their normal intake or cigarettes. The participants were assesed for risk and then studied for an average of over 20 years.
It found that men who cut back had slightly lower risk of death in the first 15 years but after that, death rates were comparable. It also found that women who cut back has higher death rates than that of heavy smokers but this could be an anomaly.
Researcher Dr Kjell Bjartveit said :
“It is widespread to offer smokers a last resort: ‘If you are unable to quit, cut down’.
“In our opinion, this advice may offer people false expectations. There is only one safe way out: To quit smoking entirely.”
Source : BBC News