Tag: smoking
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"Cell phones do not cause cancer" and other Science-Money fairy tales. (as in "Smoking does not cause cancer")
According to studies, cell phones do not cause cancer. (1) So reassuring. In the same way the old days science was not sure whether smoking caused cancer, or was even convinced that in some cases it was even beneficial! (2) On one side, there is the ridiculously slow pace at which science crawled towards the…
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Whisky, cigarettes, long living !?
Whisky and 15 cigarettes a day is the secret of my good health' says Dorothy as she celebrates her 100th birthday (with a glass of her favorite tipple, of course). (1) Surely this went to the news. But we are all too afraid to acknowledge what conclusion might be drawn from this case. Is it…
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Smoke! Ehmmm...I meant "Play Tetris"! It is good for you!
Canadian doctors say they have found an inventive way to treat lazy eye - playing the Tetris video game. The McGill University team discovered the popular tile-matching puzzle could train both eyes to work together. [1] It reminds me of the era when we were all convinced that smoking was good for the blood flow…
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Smoking, epigenetics, changes, decisions...
A new research in Human Molecular Genetics [1] [2] shows that smoking can be related to changes in genes of specific segments of the DNA, thus increasing cancer risk. Weird how the same changes that are supposed to lead to the evolution of species from bacteria to the humans, are in other cases considered "bad".…
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