Category Archives: Lifestyle Side Effects

Smokeless Tobacco Side Effects: Is It Safe and Not Addictive?

Smokeless Tobacco Side Effects. Healthwise, is smokeless tobacco safer than smoked tobacco? Is tobacco less dangerous to your body if you don’t smoke it and, instead, take it in through other ways? Is Ashton Kutcher — who was spotted by the paparazzi buying snuff — less likely to develop cancer if he uses snuff rather than cigarettes?

Apparently, smokeless tobacco is not safe at all. It can still give you cancer (oral, esophageal, and pancreatic). Smokeless tobacco can also cause heart disease, gum disease, and oral lesions such as leukoplakia.

Let this be a warning to those who mistakenly think that chewing or simply inhaling tobacco is not hazardous to their health.

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Statins Side Effects: Blurred Vision

Statins Side Effects. Statins may lower your bad cholesterol but what are its side effects that you should watch out for? We are republishing below the NHS.UK list of the common, uncommon, and rare statins side effects.

Common side effects may affect up to 1 in 10 people, uncommon side effects are reported among 1 in 100 people, while rare side effects may affect up to 1 in 1,000 patients.

The COMMON STATINS SIDE EFFECTS (may affect up to 1 in 10) include:

  • nosebleeds
  • sore throat
  • a runny or blocked nose (non-allergic rhinitis)
  • headache
  • feeling sick
  • problems with the digestive system, such as constipation, diarrhoea, indigestion or flatulence
  • muscle and joint pain
  • increased blood sugar level (hyperglycaemia)
  • an increased risk of diabetes

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Tobacco Side Effects: Short Term and Long Term

Tobacco Side Effects. Does smoking tobacco may make you look cool as cool as Joe Manganiello? Well, it might if you have his winsome smile and washboard abs. It may also may you more alert and relaxed. But the really bad long-term tobacco side effects should make you think twice before you lit them cigars.

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No, Virginia, tobacco does not give you washboard abs!

First, let’s talk about the short-term bad tobacco side effects. The immediate effects, particularly for a person smoking for the first time, may include the following: Continue reading Tobacco Side Effects: Short Term and Long Term

Douching Side Effects: Is Douching Good or Bad?

Douching Side Effects: So your boyfriend likes to go down on you and, because you want to make the experience more pleasant for him, you are now thinking of douching the vajayjay. Should you or shouldn’t you? What are the side effects, if any, of vaginal douching? Are there long term negative health effects that women should be aware of?

Well, curious internet friend, douching is BAD, BAD, BAD for you. Don’t do it! There’s no benefit in douching (unless you think a false sense of cleanliness is beneficial) and there’s a lot of health risks involved with the practice.

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E-Cigarette Side Effects: Safe or Dangerous to Your Health?

E-Cigarette Side Effects: Safe or Dangerous to Your Health? So you want to quit smoking and want to know if e-cigarettes can help you kick the deadly habit? Or do you want to help a loved one stop smoking?

Since the 1998 Master Settlement Agreement forced the four biggest American tobacco companies to compensate people with lung cancer and other ailments caused by smoking, awareness of the health hazards of smoking has grown by leaps and bounds.

The current global tobacco epidemic continues to claim nearly six million people each year, including five million smokers and ex-smokers and even more than 600,000 nonsmokers exposed to second-hand smoke.

But persistent anti-smoking campaigns launched by the World Health Organization (WHO) and other global public health authorities and nongovernment tobacco control groups over the past decades have made smoking an undesirable act and the smoker a pariah.

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