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American smoking rate down from 42 percent to 20.8 percent but needs to go lower says Loyola University Health System integrative medicine physician. At $7 to $9 a pack for cigarettes, annual smoking budgets can run from $2500 to more than $3300, ...
08:46 Nov 8, 2011
College students who have served in the U.S. conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan are more likely than their non-veteran peers to use tobacco, drink in excess and engage in other behaviors that endanger their health and safety, according to a study ...
14:20 Nov 4, 2011
The poor safety profile of the smoking-cessation drug varenicline makes it unsuitable for first-line use, according to a study published in the Nov. 2 edition of the journal PLoS One, an online publication of the Public Library of Science.
14:45 Nov 2, 2011
Cigarette smoking appears to impair pancreatic duct cell function--even for those who quit--putting all smokers at risk of compromised digestive function regardless of age, gender and alcohol intake, according to the results of a study unveiled ...
06:40 Oct 31, 2011
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12:21 Oct 30, 2011
Smoking tobacco cigarettes becomes more than a dangerous habit, it can feel like imprisonment. Thousands of people try to quit smoking tobacco cigarettes without success.
08:04 Oct 30, 2011
More than 157,000 lung cancer deaths are expected nationally this year, accounting for 27 percent of all cancer deaths. The Cancer Institute of New Jersey is making experts available to discuss the risk factors surrounding the disease, as well as ...
06:40 Oct 27, 2011
A simple blood test could someday quantify a smoker's lung toxicity and danger of heart disease, researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center have found.
08:50 Oct 25, 2011
The prevalence of smoking in China may contribute to children's second-hand smoke exposure and resulting respiratory symptoms.
22:40 Oct 10, 2011
The University of Illinois at Chicago has received $14.2 million from the National Cancer Institute to study how mass media and tax and pricing affects tobacco use and behavior.
10:20 Oct 10, 2011
RPCI's Andrew Hyland, PhD, is lead investigator on a study funded by the NIH's National Institute on Drug Abuse that will be the largest study to date of tobacco use in the U.S.
09:40 Oct 6, 2011
Researchers sought to determine if racial health disparities typically reported in national studies remain the same when black and white Americans live in integrated settings.
08:45 Oct 6, 2011
Delaying the age when kids try alcohol or smoking decreases the likelihood that they will become dependent later in life. A new study of Communities That Care, a prevention system developed by University of Washington researchers, shows that tenth ...
14:35 Oct 3, 2011
Why are African Americans more likely than Caucasians to be not only diagnosed with head and neck cancer, but also die from the disease? While the answer isn't a simple one, differences in lifestyle, access to care and tumor genetics may, in part, ...
11:30 Sep 14, 2011
A campus smoking ban -- lightly enforced at that -- significantly reduced student smoking during a two-year period and changed students' attitudes toward smoking regulations, according to an Indiana U. study.
10:25 Sep 14, 2011
National Institutes of Health awards $2.6 million grant to researchers with UCSF and UC Merced to study tobacco programs at the state and local level.
10:25 Sep 7, 2011
Women smokers who live and work where bans are enforced, even those who did not previously plan to stop, are more likely to attempt quitting.
12:40 Sep 1, 2011
The newly released Smoking Prevalence, Savings, and Treatment Framework is a tool designed to calculate the impact of investments in tobacco treatment programs on health and medical cost savings. The framework combines what is already known about ...
21:25 Aug 31, 2011
A recent study accepted for publication in The Endocrine Society's Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism found that postmenopausal women who smoke have higher androgen and estrogen levels than non-smoking women, with sex hormone levels ...
04:50 Aug 31, 2011
In an essay published this month in the Public Library of Science journal Medicine, two prominent tobacco researchers argue against adopting adult movie ratings in the United States for films that include on-screen cigarette smoking.
09:45 Aug 26, 2011
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