How would you feel if the government told you that you couldn’t smoke in your own car?
Perhaps you’d endorse the idea that public health officials were trying to make it harder for people to maintain a habit that increases their risk of developing lung cancer, emphysema, heart disease and a host of other problems. Maybe you’d rejoice that you’d never again be forced to carpool to a meeting with a chain-smoking colleague. You might even breathe a sigh of relief for all the children of smokers who would be able to ride to school, soccer practice and piano lessons without being forced to inhale clouds of secondhand smoke.
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Eating processed meats and red meat regularly increases your risk of type 2 diabetes, a large new study shows.
Women who smoke have a 25 per cent higher risk of developing heart disease than males smokers, researchers have warned.