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Smoking and ultraviolet radiation end the effects of aging. Credit: The Science website via DALEE

The cause of aging: cumulative damage from factors such as radiation and smoking causes low expression of long genes

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Dutch researchers found that this process happens all the time and damages all genes, but the longer the genes, the more likely they are to be damaged because they have more sites. Especially the great damage is to nerve cells due to their inability to regenerate
A smoker's lung compared to a clean lung. Illustration: depositphotos.com

Smoking on the balcony also harms children's health

Many parents think they are protecting their children by smoking on the balcony or near the bedroom window. But a new study by Tel Aviv University states that contrary to the popular opinion of those parents, restricting smoking to the balcony does not prevent the exposure of most children to the harm of tobacco smoke
Cigarette "factory". Image: depositphotos.com

Store managers received financial incentives to promote tobacco products

A study by the Hebrew University found that the tobacco companies offer benefits and gifts to store owners to market their product in a prominent location and in a more beautiful display, and teach them how to circumvent the legislation that prohibits the advertising and display of the products
Illustration image - Electronic cigarettes cause premature aging of the brain. Courtesy of the Cancer Society

A new study warns that electronic cigarettes may lead to premature aging of the brain

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Illustration: Sophie Riches / Wikimedia Commons.

Research: the benefit of smoking cessation drugs reaches only 8%

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Illustration: pixabay.

About 2,000 people die from lung cancer a year, 80% of them are smokers

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Population genetics. Figure: US Institutes of Health NIH

Evolution has not stopped - humans are still developing

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Drying tobacco plants. Photography: Shinya Suzuki.

The harms of tobacco

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Illustration: shutterstock

Diseases caused by smoking

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Cigarettes - a box full of carcinogens. Illustration: shutterstock

A new method for identifying substances that cause cancer

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Leonard Nimoy receives the Saturn Award in California, 2010. s_bukley / Shutterstock.com

Star Trek star Leonard Nimoy has COPD. A warning to his fans: stop smoking

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trachea and lungs. Illustration: shutterstock

Why are cigarettes more addictive these days?

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Prof. Ziv Gil, head of the Department of AEG at Rambam, performs surgery with the help of a robot. Photo by Rambam Medical Center PR

Rambam researchers are leading an international study, which indicates a significant decrease in mortality from cancer of the oral cavity

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to stop smoking. Photo: shutterstock

Israeli research: Contrary to popular belief, smokers are not risk takers but are influenced by immediate benefit

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Emotive's mobile brain scanner - brain examination outside the laboratory. PR photo from the company's website

"To understand what goes on inside the addict's head"

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Smoking utensils are served at an Aztec feast. From the Florentine codex, late 16th century

Brainwashing - what is between a cigarette, appetite and body weight? / Yitzhak Farnes

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Cross section of a human lung infected with cancer. The white block above is his tape and the black areas indicate that the original owner of the lung smoked. From Wikimedia

A new study conducted in the USA: within minutes of smoking a cigarette, immediate damage is caused to DNA

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Bees produce honey

Are the bees also addicted to caffeine and nicotine?

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Selected 2009: Scientific American's top ten

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Quitting smoking - the psychological dependence

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Breathing Association will set up awareness and early diagnosis stations for COPD

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About two Israelis arrive at the hospitals every hour, due to an acute myocardial infarction

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Addicted from the first cigarette

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Smoking also causes head and neck cancer

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Smoking and heart disease

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