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M. D. Anderson Offers Guidance on Choosing Tobacco Cessation Products
• Public Health • • Tobacco & Marijuana • Nov 12 09
Whether you smoke three cigarettes or three packs of cigarettes a day, kicking the habit is difficult. Various nicotine replacement products are on the…
90 percent of Africans are not protected by smoke-free laws
• Public Health • • Tobacco & Marijuana • Nov 11 09
As African nations are poised to undergo the highest increase in the rate of tobacco use among developing countries, nearly 90 percent of people…
Tobacco Smoke Has Harmful Impact on Asthma, Rhinitis and Immunity
• Asthma • • Immunology • • Tobacco & Marijuana • Nov 09 09
Tobacco smoke is involved in uncontrolled asthma, a diminished response to anti-asthma drugs, rhinitis, nasal obstruction, and deregulation of the immune system according to…
Kicking the Smoking Habit Improves Surgical Outcomes
• Surgery • • Tobacco & Marijuana • Nov 09 09
With the American Cancer Society’s Great American Smokeout Challenge just a week away, the American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA) is giving smokers yet another…
Want to quit? Don’t go to light smokes
• Tobacco & Marijuana • Nov 05 09
Smokers who switch to a low-tar, light or mild brand of cigarette will not find it easier to quit and in fact may find…
Most who OD on prescription opiates took methadone
• Tobacco & Marijuana • Nov 04 09
A new study of overdose deaths in Washington State due to prescription opiate drugs shows that most of these deaths involved methadone, and that…
Patch plus lozenge equals more quitting success
• Psychiatry / Psychology • • Tobacco & Marijuana • Nov 03 09
Smokers who are ready to quit will have the most luck if they combine the nicotine patch with nicotine lozenges and some counseling or…
Genes may explain why churchgoers are teetotalers
• Genetics • • Public Health • • Tobacco & Marijuana • Oct 30 09
Churchgoers have been found to have lower rates of drinking and smoking than those who spend their Sundays elsewhere. Now a new study suggests…
Canada study finds link between smoking crack, HIV
• AIDS/HIV • • Tobacco & Marijuana • Oct 20 09
Smoking crack cocaine daily adds to the risk of spreading HIV, a Canadian study published on Monday says, although researchers acknowledge they are not…
U.S. won’t go after medical marijuana where legal
• Public Health • • Tobacco & Marijuana • Oct 20 09
In a policy shift, the Obama administration told federal prosecutors not to go after patients who use medical marijuana or dispensaries in states where…
Where There’s Smoke, There May Be Health Risks
• Tobacco & Marijuana • Oct 16 09
Where there are wildfires, there’s smoke. And where there is climate change, there may be more—and more intense—wildfires. What does that mean for the…
Award Recognizes 30 Years of Anti-smoking Work
• Public Health • • Tobacco & Marijuana • Oct 09 09
An international award has today been given to the University of Adelaide’s Professor Konrad Jamrozik, who has spent the past 30 years campaigning against…
Canada bans fruit-flavored cigarettes
• Tobacco & Marijuana • Oct 09 09
Canada has banned the manufacture, importation and sale of most flavored cigarettes and small cigars, which have been slammed as little more than an…
Calling All Smokers: Cell Phones Could Help You Quit
• Tobacco & Marijuana • Oct 07 09
Hooked on your cell phone and cigarettes? Fortunately, your mobile device could help you kick the nicotine habit, according to a new review from…
Teen Smoking Linked to Drinking and Drug Use
• Psychiatry / Psychology • • Tobacco & Marijuana • Oct 01 09
New research by Weill Cornell Medical College researchers looks at the specific ways parents and peers influence teenagers to smoke, drink and use marijuana…
Smoking during pregnancy puts children at risk of psychotic symptoms
• Pregnancy • • Psychiatry / Psychology • • Tobacco & Marijuana • Oct 01 09
Mothers who smoke during pregnancy put their children at greater risk of developing psychotic symptoms in their teenage years.
New research published in the…
Moms-to-be who smoke risk psychotic kids: study
• Children's Health • • Pregnancy • • Psychiatry / Psychology • • Tobacco & Marijuana • Oct 01 09
Mothers who smoke during pregnancy put their children at greater risk of developing psychotic symptoms as teenagers, British scientists said on Thursday.
Researchers from…
Weeding out marijuana: Researchers close in on engineering recognizable, drug-free Cannabis plant
• Psychiatry / Psychology • • Tobacco & Marijuana • Sep 15 09
In a first step toward engineering a drug-free Cannabis plant for hemp fiber and oil, University of Minnesota researchers have identified genes producing tetrahydrocannabinol…
Multiple factors impact adolescent smoking risk
• Children's Health • • Tobacco & Marijuana • Sep 11 09
There is no one-size-fits-all explanation for why teenagers take up smoking, hint findings of a Canadian study.
Therefore, focusing on one single risk factor…
Nicotine creates stronger memories, cues to drug use
• Brain • • Neurology • • Tobacco & Marijuana • Sep 10 09
Ever wonder why former smokers miss lighting up most when they are in a bar or after a meal with friends?
Researchers at…
Smoke no longer found in European hospitals
• Public Health • • Tobacco & Marijuana • Sep 06 09
Tobacco use is prohibited in hospitals in many European countries, although levels of compliance with this regulation differ. A study carried out by researchers…
It pays to quit smoking before surgery
• Surgery • • Tobacco & Marijuana • Sep 03 09
People who start nicotine replacement therapy at least four weeks before surgery can halve their risk of poor wound healing. This is what the…
For heart health: avoid tobacco smoke, pollution
• Tobacco & Marijuana • Sep 01 09
If you want to dramatically lower the odds that you’ll die of heart disease, go live someplace where public smoking is banned.
In…
Cigarettes, Not Swedish Snuff Linked to Increased Risk of MS
• Neurology • • Tobacco & Marijuana • Sep 01 09
While smoking cigarettes appears to significantly increase a person’s risk of developing multiple sclerosis, using Swedish snuff does not, according to a study published…
Parents important in teens’ smoking risk
• Children's Health • • Tobacco & Marijuana • Aug 26 09
Friends have a strong influence over whether teenagers move from experimenting with cigarettes to becoming full-fledged smokers - but so do parents, a new…