2020-09-30 WHO: Quitting Smoking Has Immediate Health Effects
The World Health Organization has released a new report this week linking the yearly deaths of 1.9 million people to tobacco use. The report was released for World Heart Day…
2018-02-27 Smoking Rates Around the World
From VOA Learning English, this is the Health & Lifestyle report. “Tobacco is the only legal drug that kills many of its users when used exactly as intended by manufacturers.”…
2017-01-06 Groups Seek to Ban Smoking at U.S. Colleges and Public Housing
New efforts are underway to make American college campuses and public housing off limits to cigarette smoking. Twenty colleges in the United States recently received grants to help make their…
2016-10-01 Report: Smoking May Permanently Damage Genetic Material
Here is another reason to not light up a cigarette. Smoking can permanently damage your genetic material, according to a new study. Researchers at the Hebrew SeniorLife Institute for Aging…
2015-10-21 Report: Smoking Will Kill One in Three Young Men in China
From VOA Learning English, this is the Health & Lifestyle report. If you are a man living in China and smoke, you may want to stop. That is because one…
2015-07-29 Study: Smoking May Increase Risk of Schizophrenia
Studies have linked cigarette smoking to a number of health problems, including lung cancer and heart disease. Now, a new study shows a possible link between smoking and the disabling…
2015-06-01 WHO: Smoking Costs More Than You Think
A single cigarette sold on a street corner may not cost a lot; however, the overall costs of smoking are huge. First, consider the cost of human life. The World…
2014-03-19 WHO Anti-Smoking Measures Could Prevent 13 Million Deaths in China by 2050
From VOA Learning English, this is the Health Report. A new study finds that more than 13 million deaths could be prevented in China over the next 40 years if…
2011-11-23 Study Links Smoking to Millions of TB Deaths
This is the VOA Special English Health Report. The World Health Organization recently reported that the number of cases of tuberculosis has been falling since two thousand six. Also, fewer…
2009-06-03 Smoking and the Risk to Women’s Lungs
This is the VOA Special English Health Report. C.O.P.D., chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, blocks airflow through the lungs. It makes breathing difficult. The leading cause is cigarette smoking. Experts at…
2004-06-16 Surgeon General Links More Diseases to Smoking
This is the VOA Special English Health Report. Tobacco is even more dangerous than doctors have known. A new report says smoking causes disease in almost every organ in the…
2010-03-09 Smoking – The Leading Cause of Preventable Death
FAITH LAPIDUS: This is SCIENCE IN THE NEWS, in VOA Special English. I’m Faith Lapidus. BOB DOUGHTY: And I’m Bob Doughty. This week, we talk about smoking – the leading…
2008-12-02 New Warnings About Smoking and Tobacco Products
VOICE ONE: This is SCIENCE IN THE NEWS, in VOA Special English. I’m Shirley Griffith. VOICE TWO: And I’m Steve Ember. This week, we will present some new warnings about…
2004-12-07 Special Report on Tobacco / How to Stop Smoking
(MUSIC) VOICE ONE: This is SCIENCE IN THE NEWS, in VOA Special English. I’m Sarah Long. VOICE TWO: And I’m Bob Doughty. On our program this week, we tell about…
2001-12-18 – Smoking
VOICE ONE: This is Sarah Long. VOICE TWO: And this is Bob Doughty with SCIENCE IN THE NEWS, a VOA Special English program about recent developments in science. Today, we…