Smoking exposes your lungs to harmful chemicals, including tar and nicotine, which lead to decreased lung function, chronic diseases, and an increased risk of lung cancer
Around 1.2 million of those deaths are non-smokers who breathe in second-hand smoke
After this session, the key public messages were refined by the working group, with additional feedback from phase 2 participants sought via email
The researchers said that their paper is the first to combine results across many studies covering both coronary heart disease and stroke
Treatment might be complicated by the fact that dopamine antagonists such as antipsychotics decrease pleasure, reinforcement and reward of tobacco smoking, which, in turn, might result in heavier smoking (66)