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Nicotine Rush Hinges on Sugar in Neurons
• Neurology • • Tobacco & Marijuana • Jul 22 07
When nicotine binds to a neuron, how does the cell know to send the signal that announces a smoker’s high?
As with other questions…
Safer Cigarettes Coming Soon?
• Public Health • • Tobacco & Marijuana • Jul 18 07
The federal agency charged with keeping food and drugs from harming people may soon be asked to take a consumer product that kills more…
Prognostic factors for tobacco consumption reduction after relapse
• Psychiatry / Psychology • • Tobacco & Marijuana • Jul 17 07
It is not properly estimated the cigarette consumption after a relapse compared with the consumption before a smoking cessation therapy. The aim of this…
Connection Between Anti-tobacco Ads and Consideration of Quitting
• Tobacco & Marijuana • Jul 12 07
Marketing researchers at the University of Arkansas have completed a study of the impact of an anti-tobacco advertising campaign and found that attitudes toward…
Some Smokers Have Genetic Predisposition to Develop COPD
• Genetics • • Respiratory Problems • • Tobacco & Marijuana • Jul 12 07
Some people have a genetic variation that makes them more susceptible to chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) if they smoke tobacco, according to new…
More muscle for the argument to give up smoking
• Cancer • • Heart • • Tobacco & Marijuana • Jul 09 07
Researchers at The University of Nottingham have got more bad news for smokers. Not only does it cause cancer, heart attacks and strokes but…
Inhaling from just 1 cigarette can lead to nicotine addiction
• Tobacco & Marijuana • Jul 03 07
A new study published in the Archives of Pediatric and Adolescent Medicine shows that 10 percent of youth who become hooked on cigarettes are…
Smoking could kill 1 billion this century
• Public Health • • Tobacco & Marijuana • Jul 02 07
One billion people will die of tobacco-related diseases this century unless governments in rich and poor countries alike get serious about preventing smoking,…
Smoking interferes with thinking and memory in recovering alcoholics
• Tobacco & Marijuana • Jun 30 07
Non-smoking recovering alcoholics outperform smoking recovering alcoholics on tests of memory, cognition, visual and auditory learning, and memory
After six to nine months of…
Mothers’ Second-hand Smoke Exposure Linked to Psychological Problems in Kids
• Children's Health • • Tobacco & Marijuana • Jun 27 07
Children whose mothers were exposed to second-hand smoke while they were pregnant have more symptoms of serious psychological problems compared to the offspring of…
How can I stop smoking? The Cochrane Library has evidence that can help
• Tobacco & Marijuana • Jun 26 07
Acupuncture? Nicotine patches? Telephone therapy? Antidepressants? Cognitive behavioural therapy?
Which work? Which have no effect? Which are dangerous? Confused?
Medical Marijuana?
• Tobacco & Marijuana • Jun 25 07
For more than 4,000 years, it was used medicinally. Then, in 1942, medical marijuana was banned in the United States. But that’s not the…
Cigarette Smoking Impairs Ligament Healing
• Tobacco & Marijuana • Jun 21 07
The list of reasons you shouldn’t smoke has gotten longer. Researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis are reporting that smoking…
Children of Smokers Have Five Times Higher Levels of a Nicotine Toxin
• Children's Health • • Tobacco & Marijuana • Jun 19 07
Children who have at least one parent who smokes have 5.5 times higher levels of cotinine, a byproduct of nicotine, in their urine, according…
Prenatal Cocaine Exposure Affects Attention in Early School Years
• Children's Health • • Pregnancy • • Tobacco & Marijuana • Jun 13 07
Adding to the evidence that maternal drug use can have lasting effects, a new study finds that young schoolchildren of cocaine-using moms scored more…
Rotterdam bans cannabis-selling cafes near schools
• Children's Health • • Public Health • • Tobacco & Marijuana • May 31 07
Almost half of Rotterdam’s coffee shops will be forced to stop selling cannabis because they are too close to secondary schools, Dutch news agency…
Increased smoking may be linked to asthma epidemic
• Asthma • • Tobacco & Marijuana • May 28 07
More adults, especially women, are smoking these days and their secondhand smoke may be contributing to the asthma epidemic among children in the United…
Telephone “Quitlines” May Help Dental Patients Stop Smoking
• Dental Health • • Tobacco & Marijuana • May 25 07
Dentists may be able to help their patients stop smoking by referring them to tobacco-use telephone “quitlines,” according to a pilot study published in…
Marijuana Worsens COPD Symptoms in Current Cigarette Smokers
• Respiratory Problems • • Tobacco & Marijuana • May 21 07
Marijuana worsens breathing problems in current smokers with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), according to a study presented at the American Thoracic Society 2007…
Cigarette Use May Explain Asthma Epidemic in Children
• Children's Health • • Asthma • • Tobacco & Marijuana • May 21 07
The rise in cigarette use by adults over the past century may explain the asthma epidemic in children according to a study published this…
Smokeless cannabis delivery device efficient and less toxic
• Tobacco & Marijuana • May 15 07
A smokeless cannabis-vaporizing device delivers the same levels of THC, the active therapeutic chemical, with the same biological effects as smoking cannabis without the…
Workplaces ‘should help smokers give up’
• Tobacco & Marijuana • Apr 25 07
Employees who smoke should be allowed to attend stop smoking clinics during working hours without loss of pay, new public health guidance recommended…
Heavy cannabis use by teens is more dangerous than alcohol
• Children's Health • • Tobacco & Marijuana • Apr 22 07
People who start using cannabis as teenagers are more likely than drinkers to suffer from mental illness, have relationship problems, and fail to…
Smoking ban dramatically reduces air pollution in Irish pubs
• Public Health • • Tobacco & Marijuana • Apr 16 07
A national workplace ban on smoking in Ireland resulted in an 83 percent reduction in air pollution in pubs, an 80 percent decrease in…
Passive smoking linked with TB risk in children
• Children's Health • • Infections • • Tobacco & Marijuana • Apr 05 07
A study conducted in South Africa suggests there is an association between passive smoking and increased risk of Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection in children living…