… to 21 or even 25 years would reduce smoking initiation substantially, reduce the prevalence of smoking, improve health across the lifespan, improve the outcome of many teenage pregnancies and save lives.” He said if a man has never smoked by age 18, …
Category: Toronto, ON
Sudden bankruptcy stuns immigrant settlement agency’s clients
Doreen Bartley, whose son attended the youth programs at MicroSkills and volunteered there, says she is “saddened not only for my child, but for the entire community.” A settlement services agency that served northwest Toronto’s immigrant community for 33 years has abruptly gone bankrupt and closed its doors, leaving 90 employees and hundreds of clients in the cold.
Marijuana legalization could normalize smoking again: Canadian experts warn
Health officials are voicing their concerns about normalizing marijuana smoke in a new editorial in the Canadian Medical Association Journal. While Canadians may be anticipating the legalization of marijuana, experts worry that the move could usher in the normalization of smoking again.
Living close to high-traffic roads linked to dementia risk
… could help shed light on causes of the disease, which remain largely unknown. To learn more, researchers at Public Health Ontario and the Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences examined records of more than 6.5 million people in the province …
Living close to high-traffic roads linked to dementia risk
… could help shed light on causes of the disease, which remain largely unknown. To learn more, researchers at Public Health Ontario and the Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences examined records of more than 6.5 million people in the province …