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By Daniel J. DeNoon, WebMD Medical News
Reviewed by Louise Chang, MD
Sept. 18, 2007 — A new blood test promises to detect lung cancer at its earliest, most curable stages.
The test is under development by Panacea Pharmaceuticals, Gaithersburg, Md. It detects a recently discovered protein called HAAH. People with at least 20 different kinds of cancer — including lung cancer — have much higher than normal HAAH levels in their blood.
The test does not prove that a person has cancer. But it does identify people who need additional, more definitive tests, says Panacea research scientist Mark Semenuk.
“The important thing is that we can pick up even stage I lung cancer,” Semenuk tells WebMD. “To diagnose lung cancer really early provides the opportunity for curative treatment. Unfortunately, lung cancer does not cause symptoms until fairly late in the disease process.”
Semenuk presented studies of the new lung cancer test to this week’s American [...]

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Women who smoke have been found to be four times more likely to get acne than their non-smoking counterparts. In a study conducted on 1000 women between the ages of 25 and 50, 42% of smokers were found to have acne compared with only 10% of the non-smokers in the group.
This ’smokers’ acne’ is characterised by blocked pores and large blackheads but less inflamed spots than normal acne.
Smokers who had suffered from acne in their teens were found to be 4 times more likely to suffer from this smoker’s acne.
Dr Bruno Capitanio, one of the study’s authors, said:
“Our study demonstrates that NIA affects a high percentage of women, and is especially high among smokers. Recognizing this form of acne is fundamental to providing correct information about the effects of tobacco on the skin.

Dr Colin Holden, President of the British Association of Dermatologists, said:
Dermatologists have long associated smoking with [...]

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by Rhodri Clark, Western Mail
PARENTS could be banned from smoking in their homes to protect their children’s health, following the success of the smoking ban in public places, legal experts have claimed.
But such a ban may not happen for many years, because society is not yet ready for such a draconian step, they admit.
One legal option would rest on the human rights of children, whose health is damaged more by passive smoking than adults’.
However, human rights rulings usually balance the rights of two sets of people, and one legal expert said judges would currently come down in favour of an adult’s right to smoke in their home rather than the child’s right to breathe clean air.
The ban on smoking in public places across Britain appears to have improved health already.
On Monday it emerged that heart-attack admissions to Scottish hospitals had dropped 17% in the first year of Scotland’s smoking ban.
Researchers [...]

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by John R. Polito
Saturday, December 16, 2006
Ten links at Pfizer’s “My Time to Quit” website (www.mytimetoquit.com) transport visitors to
its Chantix website. If it truly is time for them to quit, it’s unlikely that Chantix is the answer.
Pfizer markets varenicline as Chantix in the U.S. and Champix in Europe. On September 29, 2006 its press release boasted that “after one year, approximately one-in-five patients who received the 12-week course of varenicline remained smoke-free.”
What we do not know is whether Chantix’s modest 1 in 5 success rate is attributable to the effects of Chantix, to the 16 clinical counseling sessions participants received, to the use of nicotine replacement therapy (NRT) following 12 weeks of Chantix use, or to the fact that more than 1,000 hard to treat smokers who would likely have generated substantially higher failure rates were denied participation. What we do know is that Pfizer’s clinical Chantix studies [...]

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Quitting smoking impacts just about every aspect of someone’s life – Health, Relationships, Finances, Time, and Job Productivity.  It is very rewarding to us to know that we have helped someone change their life in such a positive way.  If we have helped you or someone you care about quit smoking, please share your comments about your experience with us here. 

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