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40171 Issue 8. Are the Adverse Effects of Smoking Exaggerated? YES: 34543 Robert A. Levy and Rosalind B. Marimont, from “Lies, Damned Lies, and 400,000 Smoking-Related Deaths,” Regulation (vol. 21, no. 4, 1998) ;
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Dr Ian Campbell, President of the British Thoracic Society, said: "Medical evidence has conclusively shown that passive smoking has a detrimental effect on children's lungs and there is also good evidence that suggests that passive smoking worsens the effects of asthma.
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WAY too much has been said about the 'ill-effects' of smoking, what it could 'do' to you and other crap. The effects of smoking have been greatly exaggerated, and it's us smokers who have to face the public sentiment on this. ... smoking actually makes people so stupid, they don't realize that smokers already...
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This report will focus on three main areas: (a) acute and chronic effects of cannabis in humans; (b) issues regarding its possible adverse effects on health, ... The belated recognition of the harmful effects on the fetus of smoking tobacco and drinking alcoholic beverages indicates that some caution with cannabis is wise.
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By 1995, national health expenditures are projected to reach $1.1 trillion, or 15.5 percent of GDP [5]. Accordingly, in 1995, by my estimate, the adverse health effects of cigarette smoking will be responsible for $88 billion in health-care spending, with an uncertainty range of ... These claims are markedly exaggerated.
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Is harm reduction a desirable national drug control policy goal? - -Are the adverse effects of smoking exaggerated? ... Should nonsmokers be concerned about the effects of secondhand smoke?
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Yet that didn't stop the U.S. Surgeon General himself from saying, in 2006, that "Even brief exposure to secondhand smoke has immediate adverse effects on the cardiovascular system and increases risk for heart disease and lung cancer." ... National anti-smoking groups were quick to repeat the line.
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Smoking may further impair the response, implying that smoking has exaggerated response to sympathetic stimulation of conduit and resistance vessels. The abnormal response was abolished by pretreated administration of doxazosin, ... ReviewHemodynamic and vascular effects of active and passive smoking.
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Exaggerated blood pressure responses during mental stress are associated with enhanced carotid atherosclerosis in middle-aged Finnish men: findings from the Kuopio Ischemic Heart Disease Study. ... Haemodynamic reactions to acute psychological stress and smoking status in a large community sample.
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