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Leniency on R-rated movies linked to kids’ smoking
• Children's Health • • Tobacco & Marijuana • Dec 06 10
Kids whose parents let them watch R-rated movies may be up to three times more likely to start smoking compared to their more restricted…
Electronic cigarettes are unsafe and pose health risks, UC Riverside study finds
• Tobacco & Marijuana • Dec 06 10
Electronic cigarettes (or e-cigarettes), also called “electronic nicotine delivery systems,” are increasingly used worldwide even though only sparse information is available on their health…
Smoking may thin the brain
• Brain • • Tobacco & Marijuana • Dec 02 10
Philadelphia, PA, 2 December 2010 - Many brain imaging studies have reported that tobacco smoking is associated with large-scale and wide-spread structural brain abnormalities.
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Britain considers plain packaging for cigarettes
• Public Health • • Tobacco & Marijuana • Nov 30 10
The British government will consider whether to force tobacco companies to adopt plain packaging to try to reduce the attraction of smoking, according to…
Second-hand smoke kills 600,000 a year: WHO study
• Public Health • • Tobacco & Marijuana • Nov 26 10
Around one in a hundred deaths worldwide is due to passive smoking, which kills an estimated 600,000 people a year, World Health Organization (WHO)…
New study reveals how cannabis suppresses immune functions
• Immunology • • Tobacco & Marijuana • Nov 25 10
An international team of immunologists studying the effects of cannabis have discovered how smoking marijuana can trigger a suppression of the body’s immune functions.…
Tobacco: Out of sight, out of mind?
• Tobacco & Marijuana • Nov 23 10
Putting tobacco out of sight in shops can change the attitude of young people to smoking, while not hitting retailers in the pocket, researchers…
Cigarette smoking increases rheumatoid arthritis risk in African-Americans
• Arthritis • • Rheumatic Diseases • • Tobacco & Marijuana • Nov 23 10
A new study determined that African Americans who smoke cigarettes have a higher risk of developing rheumatoid arthritis (RA). RA risk is more pronounced…
World health officials take aim at tobacco additives
• Public Health • • Tobacco & Marijuana • Nov 22 10
World health officials recommended on Saturday limiting additives that make cigarettes more palatable, but they postponed until 2012 a number of other issues after…
One-quarter of U.S. airports allow smoking
• Public Health • • Tobacco & Marijuana • Nov 19 10
Seven of the largest U.S. airports still allow smoking indoors, exposing millions of U.S. airline passengers to secondhand smoke, U.S. health officials say.
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Best day to quit smoking: Any day
• Tobacco & Marijuana • Nov 19 10
Smoking kills about 25,000 New Yorkers annually so every day is a good day to quit smoking - but the Great American Smokeout is…
Smoking Cessation Program Open to Cancer Survivors Who Need Help Quitting the Habit
• Public Health • • Tobacco & Marijuana • Nov 17 10
Cancer survivors who smoke and need help quitting can receive help through a tobacco cessation program organized by St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital.
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Chemicals in Cigarette Smoke, Auto Exhaust and French Fries Accelerate the Development of Alzheimer’s Disease
• Neurology • • Tobacco & Marijuana • Nov 17 10
There is growing evidence that exposure to a group of chemicals known as type-2 alkenes - which are found in the smoke inhaled from…
World health officials debate new tobacco controls
• Public Health • • Tobacco & Marijuana • Nov 16 10
Health officials from across the world gathered on Monday in Uruguay to discuss tighter controls on tobacco that are rejected by farmers and the…
Smoking Cessation Experts Praise New Cigarette Labeling
• Public Health • • Tobacco & Marijuana • Nov 11 10
University at Buffalo smoking cessation researchers today applauded federal plans to require cigarette packs and ads to carry bigger, much more prominent and graphic…
U.S. unveils graphic tobacco warnings
• Public Health • • Tobacco & Marijuana • Nov 10 10
Diseased lungs, dead bodies, a man on a ventilator and mothers blowing smoke in their children’s faces are among the images U.S. health officials…
Do not abandon new cigarette warning labels
• Public Health • • Tobacco & Marijuana • Nov 09 10
Health Canada’s cancellation of plans to renew tobacco warning labels on cigarette packages may lead to increased smoking rates and smoking-related illnesses and deaths,…
‘Spiral’ CT scans reduce smoker deaths: U.S. study
• Public Health • • Tobacco & Marijuana • Nov 08 10
Screening smokers and former smokers for lung tumors using three-dimensional X-rays reduced their risk of dying from lung cancer by 20 percent, researchers said…
Studying the metabolome of smokers, Lombardi researchers find early signs of damage
• Tobacco & Marijuana • Nov 08 10
Examining the blood “metabolomics” profile of smokers immediately after they had a cigarette revealed activation of pathways involved in cell death, inflammation, and…
Russia’s heroin problem and ongoing battles over Afghan poppy fields
• Addiction • • Tobacco & Marijuana • Nov 02 10
Russia has a heroin problem - a bad one. And drug officials here have been blaming it on the United States, saying its refusal…
Childhood stroke study identifies the contraceptive pill and smoking as risk factors
• Children's Health • • Pregnancy • • Tobacco & Marijuana • • Stroke • Nov 01 10
Researchers are calling for clear guidelines on childhood stroke after a study, published in the November issue of Acta Paediatrica, found wide variations in…
E-cigarette maker accepts California marketing limits
• Tobacco & Marijuana • Oct 30 10
A leading U.S. maker of electronic cigarettes has agreed not to target its sales and advertisements to minors or to claim its products are…
The more someone smokes, the smaller the number of grey cells
• Tobacco & Marijuana • Oct 28 10
Is there a relation between the structure of specific regions of the brain and nicotine dependence? This is the question researchers of the…
Smoking isn’t just bad for your lungs
• Respiratory Problems • • Tobacco & Marijuana • Oct 28 10
No matter how you slice it, puffing on a cigarette, or any other tobacco product for that matter, simply ups the ante for more…
Contraband cigarettes main source of supply for Ontario youth
• Public Health • • Tobacco & Marijuana • Oct 25 10
A new study from The Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) found that contraband tobacco accounts for 43% of all cigarettes consumed by…