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Smoking while pregnant exposes a woman and her unborn child to an increased risk of health problems.

People with a mental illness who are receiving effective treatment are no more violent than anyone else in the community.

It is rare for a person with epilepsy to have a seizure during physical activity, but you should always take safety precautions when exercising.

A negative body image increases the risk of engaging in unhealthy lifestyle behaviours, such as dieting or restrictive eating, overexercising and other disordered eating or weight control behaviours.

Internet addiction refers to the compulsive need to spend a lot of time on the Internet, to the point where relationships, work and health suffer.

If you want to quit smoking, think about how much of your weekly income is going up in smoke.

Tobacco causes more illness and death than any other drug.

Breathing in other people's cigarette smoke can be harmful to a person with asthma, especially a child.

Along with nicotine, people who smoke inhale about 7,000 other chemicals in cigarette smoke. Many of these chemicals come from burning tobacco leaf. Some of these compounds are chemically active and trigger profound and damaging changes in the body.

Belief in a treatment may be enough to change the course of a person's physical illness.