You can save up to 80% on your term life insurance premium if you quit smoking; when and how to buy itThe additional premium that you have to pay as a smoker varies from one insurance company to another. The premium rates for smokers can be ...
14 Aug, 2023, 04.39 PM IST
Kick the butt: Smoking can worsen severity of Covid infectionAccording to the researchers, smoking may have resulted in more severe corona infection.
19 Nov, 2020, 02.50 PM IST
Quitting smoking may reduce risk of severe coronavirus infection, shows studySmoking may cause an increase in the expression of ACE2, the protein that SARS-CoV-2 uses to enter human cells.
19 May, 2020, 05.21 PM IST
Smokers, those suffering from lung disease more likely to have health complications, face higher death risk due to Covid-19COPD is a common, persistent dysfunction of the lung associated with a limitation in airflow.
12 May, 2020, 05.15 PM IST
Stub the cigarette: Smokers may be at higher risk of severe coronavirus infectionsPatients with COPD were at higher risk of having worse outcomes from COVID-19.
13 Apr, 2020, 05.39 PM IST
The struggle is real: Smoking has a significant effect on your biological ageIt has long been proven to negatively affect people's overall health in multiple ways.
19 Jan, 2019, 05.20 PM IST
- Social smoking carries same heart-disease risks: Study
San Francisco, May 8 (IANS) A US study indicates that social smokers' carries the same high blood pressure and high cholesterol risk, ident...
08 May, 2017, 03.20 PM IST
Higher tobacco taxes can save 35-45 billion lives in South Asia: StudyIt stated that annual increase in tobacco tax has mostly been below the rate of inflation and income growth, thus cigarettes remain afforda...
11 Apr, 2017, 11.19 PM IST
India among top 4 countries for highest number of deaths by smokingMore than one in 10 deaths globally was caused due to smoking. India has 11·2 per cent of the world's total smokers.
06 Apr, 2017, 08.29 AM IST
It's not too late, yet: Quitting smoking even in your 60s helpsThe study also suggested that people aged 70 or older currently smoking were more than three times likely to die than never-smokers.
06 Dec, 2016, 09.58 AM IST
Smoking is associated with an increased risk of heart failure, says new studySmoking is associated with thicker heart walls and reduction in the organ's pumping ability.
14 Sep, 2016, 06.47 PM IST
Warning photo size matters: 46% of illiterate men smokeNearly 46 per cent of the men in bottom fifth smoke compared to only 20 per cent in the upper fifth.
05 May, 2015, 11.05 AM IST
E-cigarette ads may fuel urge to smokeFormer smokers who watched e-cigarette advertisements with vaping had less confidence that they could refrain from smoking tobacco.
13 Mar, 2015, 04.11 PM IST
Smoking thins vital part of brain, says studyThe study involved 244 male and 260 female subjects - five times larger than any previous similar research on smoking and cortical thicknes...
11 Feb, 2015, 03.38 PM IST
Combo treatments boost smokers' ability to quitTo measure the benefit of combining treatments, the researchers enrolled 349 adults who reported smoking 10 or more cigarettes a day.
21 Jun, 2014, 12.49 PM IST
More women in India smoke now than 30 years ago: StudyFemale smokers in India has gone up in the last 30 years but the number of men who puff daily dipped in the country where more people are s...
12 Jan, 2014, 03.32 PM IST
- Smoker? Your insurance premium will cost more
Insurance companies know that nicotine addicts have higher chances of contracting pulmonary and heart-related diseases.
20 Dec, 2010, 02.38 AM IST