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Lung Cancer

As we have learnt in previous posts Cancer is the disease caused by abnormal cells multiplying out of control. Normally, our body has a system to check and balance on cell growth so that cells divide to produce new cells, only when new cells are needed. When this system is disrupted it results in an uncontrolled [...]

Smoking and health risks

Health risk due to smoking/passive smoking:
Risk of unborn babies with smoking mothers:

Miscarriage and still birth
Premature birth and low birth weight
Sudden infant death syndrome
Complications during birth

Passive smoking

We might say that we don’t smoke but have you ever been to a public place/work place where there is people smoking around you, even at home our family members smoke indoors. When you inhale the smoke from a person standing next to you, it is called ‘passive smoking’ .
Tobacco smoke inside a room tends [...]