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...think that way," Jones says, as another student's foot slams through the gym's low ceiling on an errant flip. "Making it takes discipline, desire and dedication," he adds. Then he goes outside, lights a Camel and coughs up what sounds like part of a lung...
BREAK THE HABIT Over the past decade, there has been a 30% surge in the number of U.S. teens who have taken up smoking. But there is hope. The American Lung Association last year initiated a program in schools called Not-on-Tobacco (800-LUNG-USA) to help teens address the reasons they smoke and aid them in dropping the habit. So far, the quitting rate of participating teens has been around...
...Mixed people have a harder time adjusting to racial categories," says William Lung-Fu "Lonnie" Everson '02, HAPA's "Master of the Big Pants...
...addressing women's health issues, it looks like no news might have been better. The outlook for female patients is grim on multiple medical fronts: Women are contracting AIDS at higher rates than men, they are suffering from myriad heart problems, and they seem to be more prone to lung cancer. A study released Wednesday in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute finds that a gene thought to cause lung cancer is active in more women than men. Researchers speculate that this could explain why women smokers are more than twice as likely to develop lung cancer than their...
...take-home message from this study is that women are more susceptible to lung cancer than men," says TIME medical writer Christine Gorman. These results, warns Gorman, should not be interpreted as a green light for women to go ahead and light up, figuring that genetics are predetermined and that resistance is therefore futile. "While we can't do anything about our genes, we can determine whether we smoke or not," Gorman says. "And although this gene is active in women who don't smoke, especially relative to nonsmoking men, it's even more active in women...