PSYA02H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 14: Osteoarthritis, Extraversion And Introversion, Psychoneuroimmunology
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Smoking cigarettes causes life shortening health problems including lung, mouth, and throat cancer; heart disease; and pulmonary disease such as emphysema: 21% of all deaths in canada over the past decade were due to smoking, life expectancy = 7 14 years shorter than that of a nonsmoker, quitting by the age of 30 greatly reduces the likelihood that a person will die of smoking related cancers, reducing second hand smoking by banning smoking in many public places, researchers found that image based warnings were much more likely to be noticed by both smokers and nonsmokers than were text only messages. Canadian community health survey: television is the biggest culprit; as the hours of tv viewing factors (how and what you eat) set point increased, so did obesity rates: females who spend more than 11 hours/week in front of a computer had a slightly higher rate of obesity than those who spent little time using a computer.
