For the first time, the scientists have found nicotine receptors on kidney cells, a further suggestion that smoking cigarettes can speed up kidney damage.

"There is a lot of clinical evidence with patients indicating that patients suffering from kidney disease and who smoke cigarettes have a worse prognosis than non-smoking patients," said co-author of the research Dr Edgar A. Jaimes, an associate professor of medicine at the University of Miami School of Medicine. "They end up on dialysis faster. We have discovered one of the possible mechanisms that makes that take place."

It is possible that nicotine is not all bad: The latest research discovered that nicotine encouraged new blood vessel growth in mice by actively signaling their bone marrow to release vessel-forming adult stem cells.

The vast majority of people connect smoking with breathing problems and lung cancer. However, were you aware of the fact that smoking is also the main cause of heart disease both for men and women?

How to Give up Smoking

One perfect way to give up smoking by everybody does not exist. To stop smoking, you have to be ready both emotionally and mentally. You also need to be willing to stop smoking for yourself, and not to satisfy your friends or relatives. It is helpful to plan it ahead. This guide may help get your started.

There are lots of various social, economic and environmental issues. However, health issues are appearing at the fastest rate. Outdoor contamination is degrading the natural environment, but indoor contamination, that is constantly increasing, is harming not only the health of the smoker but also the health of all his/her family members.

Influenza or flu is a severe viral infection of the respiratory system, occurring in epidemics, pandemics and in isolated cases. It can result in mild to severe disease, and in some cases
it can lead to death. Smokers are more likely to suffer from flu because smoking is connected with chronic coughing as well as sneezing. Respiratory droplets generated during the process become the medium through which the flu virus is transmitted.

According to recent research, smoking cigarettes incredibly increases the risk of vision loss due to age-related macular degeneration. What’s more, that risk hits not only smokers but also people living with them.

Macular degeneration is a progressive eye disease. It is one of the major causes of partial vision loss and blindness in the US and many European countries.

According to recent research, only 5 per cent young people in Norway between the age of 13 and 15 smoke every day. The number has been diminished by 50 per cent in five years.

The survey was conducted for the Department of Health by TNS Gallup. It examined more than 4000 students of secondary schools.

A new study finds that putting a lot of attention and planning into quitting smoking don’t guarantee success.

According to British researchers, those smokers who quit on impulse were much more prone to start again than the smokers who planned quitting earlier.

Andrew Lamerton, a vascular surgeon, refused treatment to Frederick Smith suffering narrowed arteries, until he gave up smoking for six months. The ailment can result in the patient being confined to a wheelchair. The doctor also said that smoking only made Smith’s condition worse, and he would feel better after quitting it.