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Smokers more likely to snore: study 

A study of 15,555 men and women in five Scandinavian countries found that people who smoke are more likely to snore, even if they have quit smoking, according to results.

The study, published Friday in the October edition of the American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care, found that tobacco use contributed 17.1 percent to the risk of frequent snoring in people 25 to 54 years of age, compared to 4.3 percent for obesity and 2.2 percent for passive smoking.

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Maternal smoking linked to testicular cancer 

A new statistical analysis suggests maternal smoking during pregnancy may cause testicular cancer and fertility problems in male children.

The study, published in the International Journal of Cancer, extracted data from the Nordic Cancer Registries on smoking habits among women of child-bearing age (25 to 29 years) in five year birth cohorts from 1920 to 1940 and for men ages 30 to 34 during the same period...

The authors found a significant correlation between maternal smoking and testicular cancer in male children.

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Health effects associated with smokeless tobacco: a systematic review 

Conclusions: Chewing betel quid and tobacco is associated with a substantial risk of oral cancers in India. Most recent studies from the US and Scandinavia are not statistically significant, but moderate positive associations cannot be ruled out due to lack of power. Further rigorous studies with adequate sample sizes are required, especially for cardiovascular disease.

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General practitioners' perceived barriers to smoking cessation-results from four Nordic countries.  

CONCLUSION: The main barriers identified in this study indicate that smoking cessation expertise needs to be more accessible. One alternative is to establish telephone help-lines (Quit-lines) that are easily available for all and could serve as a back-up for the GPs. Another more costly approach is to develop smoking cessation expertise at major clinics. A combination of both is probably the best solution.

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I just love your smoke / Danes are far more tolerant of passive smoking than their Scandinavian neighbours. 

A new survey of the smoking habits of Scandinavians reveals that Danes are far more content to accept second hand smoke than are Norwegians, Swedes and Finns – and are also much more inclined to believe that the dangers of passive smoking are ‘wildly exaggerated.’

Two out of three Danes believe that people should be allowed to enjoy a cigarette, compared to a figure of less than one in ten in the rest of Scandinavia – possibly a result of the fact that Danes smoke considerably more than their Nordic neighbours.

Despite recent figures showing that 70% of all Danish companies with more than 25 employees have introduced no-smoking areas, 36% of individuals surveyed in the most recent research stated that there wasn’t any smoking policy at their place of work.

Meanwhile insurance company Zurich has come under fire for its policy of awarding non-smokers an extra free day every year – an initiative termed ‘wage discrimination’ by a spokesperson for the Confederation of Trade Unions and ‘distasteful’ by the head of the Society for Considerate Smokers, Kirsten Halberg.

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