Have you bothered to look at cigarette packaging these days? They can be so scary you may probably want to throw one out the window even before you could open it.
Cigarette packs nowadays carry pictures of the ill effects of smoking to our health. Yet, how effective are they in keeping smokers away from their nasty habit?
A recent health story from Reuters claims that smoking and exposure to secondhand smoke is tied to infertility in women and early menopause, according to a new study.
Compared to women who never smoked and those exposed to the least secondhand smoke, Reuters said that women who smoked or were exposed to the most secondhand smoke were more likely to have problems getting pregnant and more likely to enter menopause before age 50, researchers found.
Andrew Hyland of the Roswell Park Cancer Institute in Buffalo, New York, who led the research, said earlier studies had linked smoking to reproductive issues in women, but few had looked at links between secondhand smoke and infertility and early menopause.
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The Reuters story continued: Compared to women who never smoked, researchers found that those who reported being active smokers at some point in their lives were 14 percent more likely to have infertility and 26 percent more likely to enter menopause early.
Women who smoked the most reported entering menopause about two years earlier than women who didn’t smoke, the researchers report in the journal Tobacco Control.
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TRIVIA PA MORE: The speed of light is generally rounded down to 186,000 miles per second. In exact terms it is 299,792,458 m/s (metres per second – that is equal to 186,287.49 miles per second).
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It takes 8 minutes 17 seconds for light to travel from the Sun’s surface to the Earth.
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October 12, 1999 was declared “The Day of Six Billion” based on United Nations projections.
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10 percent of all human beings ever born are alive at this very moment.
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The Earth spins at 1,000 mph but it travels through space at an incredible 67,000 mph.
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Every year over one million earthquakes shake the Earth.
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When Krakatoa erupted in 1883, its force was so great it could be heard 4,800 kilometres away in Australia.
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