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If you don t want to stop smoking for your own health, you might have an incentive to stop smoking if you learn just how your smoking affects those around your smoke such as your family and other loved ones. What s really worse about second hand smoke than the damage smokers bring on themselves is that so many of the second hand smoke victims are children - those unable to make the decision to avoid the harmful effects of the smoke for themselves. These little folks who depend on your for their health care are the ones most adversely affected because you won t stop smoking. Second hand smoke is also known as environmental tobacco smoke ETS . It is a combination of the smoke that comes from the burning end of your cigarette or other tobacco product, which is called the sidestream smoke and the smoke that is exhaled by the smoker, called mainstream smoke. Over 400 chemicals are part of the mix in secondhand smoke. Over 50 of these chemicals are proven or probable as cancer causing agents in humans. The term...

A heart attack is a life-threatening event. It is a need to know about the basic things so that it can help you at the sudden causes. The information should be there so that it may enable us to take sudden and correct decisions for curing it when it appears. If we have prior information of it will be a valuable asset to our loved ones and us. This heart attack occurs when the supply of the blood and oxygen are blocked in to the area of heart muscle, especially the clot in a coronary artery. Due to this blockage of blood and oxygen it leads to the irregular heartbeat which causes severe decrease in the pumping of the heart and may bring about sudden death. This is the initial stage and it should be treated within few hours so that the heart muscles are not affected and are not replaced by the scar tissue. It is a require for us to know the caution signs of this disease and to get the emergency help at the time of need. Some people die because as they do not get the immediate help due to the permanent...

Over the past week Computer Vision Syndrome has been in the news. The latest story in The Frederick News-Post titled Prolonged computer use can lead to vision problems . The article states that more than 88 million people who use computers for more than 4 hours per day suffer from computer vision syndrome, that s about a quarter of the total population of the U.S. The Bureau of Labor and Statistics estimates state the enormous cost for workman s comp, to the economy, and employers: In 2002, employers reported a total of 487,900 lost workdays due to work-related musculoskeletal disorders MSDs , representing nearly 50 of all lost work days. On top of these productivity costs, employers have paid approximately 20 billion annually in direct worker s compensation costs. Indirect costs, like lower productivity at work, etc. add another 60 billion, for a total of 80 billion dollars. The articles quotes Dr. Frishman, an optometrist from Frederick, Maryland, that the top of the monitor should be at the same level...