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Children of mothers who smoked during pregnancy and their early childhood years may be predisposed to take up smoking as teens and young adults, compounding the physical damage they sustained from the smoke exposure.
09:39 May 19, 2009
Chronic exposure to tobacco smoke in childhood may contribute to early emphysema later in life, according to new research. Environmental tobacco smoke is known to be associated with a variety of serious health problems, but it had not previously been ass
09:39 May 19, 2009
Women may be more susceptible to the lung damaging effects of smoking than men, according to new research by Inga-Cecilie Soerheim, M.D., and her colleagues from Channing Laboratory, Brigham and Women's Hospital and University of Bergen, Norway. They ana
14:39 May 18, 2009
New research suggests that exempting bars from community smoking bans makes no economic difference in terms of preserving bar employment, and that even the most comprehensive clean indoor air policies do not lead to a reduction in hospitality jobs.
09:39 May 18, 2009
New HIV therapies have prolonged lives and improved health for patients with HIV, but the treatments have also brought the longer-term effects of the disease into sharper focus.
14:39 May 17, 2009
Lower rates of smoking among black teens may be the result of black parents setting concrete guidelines about substance use and establishing clearly defined consequences for not following those guidelines.
10:39 May 14, 2009
Persons drinking well water may be at an increased risk of bladder cancer, according to new research from the University of Alabama at Birmingham. Researchers will present data about the relationship between bladder cancer and certain ecologic factors in
21:39 Apr 25, 2009
Individuals with serious illnesses make up a disproportionately high segment of current smokers and are among the most addicted to tobacco. But more than one third of these individuals are likely to give up smoking if they receive a combination of smokin
06:39 Apr 7, 2009
MTSU's Center for Health and Human Services has partnered with the Department of Health for the past five years to form coalitions throughout the state to educate citizens and encourage them to undergo cancer screenings. The partnership been renewed thro
10:39 Apr 3, 2009
Head and neck cancer patients who smoked, drank, didn't exercise or didn't eat enough fruit when they were diagnosed had worse survival outcomes than those with better health habits, according to a new study from the University of Michigan Comprehensive
08:39 Apr 1, 2009
A tiny variation within a single gene can determine not only how quickly and well lungs grow and function in children and adolescents, but how susceptible those children will be to exposure to second-hand tobacco smoke, even in utero, according to resear
21:39 Mar 25, 2009
Tobacco use is becoming a growing public health problem in the Asian-American community, but people living in more cohesive neighborhoods are less likely to smoke.
12:19 Mar 24, 2009
Aging cigars takes a major commitment of time, money and effort. Many people new to cigars don't have the resources available to purchase enough cigars to set aside for aging, or simply haven't been into the pastime long enough to have long-term aged the
02:59 Feb 24, 2009
Menthol cigarettes are harder to quit, particularly among African American and Latino smokers according to study of diverse group of 1,700 smokers attending a Tobacco Dependence Clinic at UMDNJ-School of Public Health.
06:19 Jan 9, 2009
While examining patterns of DNA modification in lung cancer, a team of international researchers has discovered what they say is a surprising new mechanism. They say that 'silencing' of a single gene in lung cancer led to a general impairment in genome-w
19:19 Dec 30, 2008
No evidence can confirm if men or women have more success in efforts to stop smoking.
10:19 Dec 9, 2008
Hospital admissions for lung cancer remained relatively stable - at roughly 150,000 a year between 1995 and 2006 - despite a steady decline in the number of Americans diagnosed with the disease.
08:19 Nov 24, 2008
Roswell Park Cancer Institute faculty members recently met with the Hungarian Health Minister and other government officials to discuss strategies to reduce smoking in Hungary.
09:19 Nov 6, 2008
Society for Women's Health Research President and CEO Phyllis Greenberger, M.S.W., issued the following statement in response to the decision of Philip Morris USA to introduce pink 'Purse Packs' for some Virginia Slims cigarette brands by early 2009.
06:19 Nov 5, 2008
Experts from UMDNJ provide tips on everything from managing children's expectations and coping with grief and caregiver stress to how to take care of your feet during marathon shopping, eating well, dieting success and quitting smoking. Also included are
08:19 Oct 31, 2008
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