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Tobacco: A packet of diseases Have you enjoyed enough? Wanted to leave this spirited world, contact Mr. Tobacco. As studies of past have shown that the smoking and chewing tobacco is associated with shorter length of life, more lung cancer, more heart and circulatory disease. Your Dead Bed Tobacco smoke apart from nicotine may contain carbon monoxide, hydrogen sulphide, hydrocyanic acid, quinoline, phenols, pyridene etc. Nicotine is probably the chief poison in tobacco affect adversely on health. As in rapid smoking, more of the smoke may be breathed into the mouth then escapes into the outside air resulting half of the nicotine is drawn in the mouth. Nicotine causes a constriction of the superficial blood vessels, resulting in lowering the temperature of the fingers and toes, increasing heart rate and blood pressure. Results have revealed that in every case after smoking two cigarettes the skin temperature of the finger dropped between 1 and 2 F, blood pressure increases...

Most Expensive Particle !! Game of Hide and Seek 3,000 one side and Higgs on other side. The biggest hunt on the hidden particle came to an end on July 4; it was the Eureka moment for the team of scientists and engineers, who were investigating for the particle. Man who stated about the particle 48 years was on cloud nine ! because of this breakthrough discovery. Peter Higgs states “I never expected this to happen in my lifetime and shall be asking my family to put some champagne in the fridge”.  Peter Higgs Why Boson attracted so much attention of scientists (both experimental and theorists) all over the world?? Since from the dawn, man is eager to understand nature and his surroundings. His thirst for this knowledge took him high in the Cosmos. With the advancement in understanding and to explain the universe and the forces, a standard Model was presented which explain the basic building block of the universe and the forces acting in the universe. This model pred...