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Smoking
Study findings from J. Pericas et al provide new insights into smoking
March 17th, 2009
According to recent research from Spain, "To estimate the prevalence of tobacco smoking among physiotherapy and nursing students at the University of the Balearic Islands in Spain and to describe their perceptions, attitude and behaviour towards smoking and towards the Spanish Smoking Prevention Act. Active smoking is the first avoidable cause of death in the world while passive smoking is the third." "The tobacco epidemic kills 5.4 million people a year from lung cancer, heart disease and other related illnesses. In Europe, around one-third of the Community population are smokers, with about 650 000 smoking-related deaths per year in the Community. In Spain, 56 000...
Source: TB & Outbreaks Week (2009-03-17)
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