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According to a new study by Harvard and Penn State researchers, lowering the amount of nicotine in cigarettes may reduce smoking without worsening mental health in smokers with mood or anxiety disorders.Decreasing the amount of nicotine in cigarettes to non-addictive levels may reduce smoking without worsening mental health in smokers with mood or anxiety disorders. This is according to new research from scientists at Penn State College of Medicine and Harvard Medical School. They said that lowering the nicotine content…

Scientists may have discovered why lifelong smokers never get lung cancer. That sentence probably seems silly, especially given that cigarettes are the number one risk factor for lung cancer. Despite tobacco products being the cause of 90 percent of deaths, lifelong smokers somehow tend to avoid getting lung cancer. Now, science may have finally figured out why that is. Some smokers never get lung cancer – this study may have figured out why Image source: Keystone-SDA/Shutterstock According to new findings…

Researchers have discovered that smokers have a reduced chance of acquiring prostate cancer but an increased risk of dying from the disease.Smoking worsens the prognosis for men with prostate cancerAccording to a large population study led by Lund University in Sweden, smokers had a decreased chance of acquiring prostate cancer but a greater risk of dying from the disease. The researchers tracked over 350 000 patients over several decades, and the findings have recently been published in European Urology.Although it is…

Smoking cigarettes is the number one risk factor for lung cancer, with tobacco products causing up to 90 percent of lung cancer deaths in the United States. Without a doubt, the safest way to protect yourself against lung cancer is to avoid smoking cigarettes, and yet, at the same time, it's also true that not all lifelong smokers are doomed to develop cancer.  In fact, the vast majority don't. Scientists have long wondered why, and a new study adds weight to the idea that genetics has a role to play.Among people who…