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The University of Illinois at Chicago is leading a $2.9 million National Cancer Institute project to increase demand for evidence-based, Internet-based smoking cessation treatment among young adults.

The tobacco industry knows exactly what makes social smokers tick. Now, researchers want to use that once-secret information to help them quit.

Although alcohol consumption is known to be associated with chronic pancreatitis, new evidence indicates that a threshold of five or more drinks per day is required to significantly raise risk; however, most patients with chronic pancreatitis do not drin

The consequences of tobacco use for people with developmental or intellectual disabilities can be especially severe, and the medical community often tends to overlook the tobacco-related burdens these people face. An extensive review of published researc

It's common knowledge that smoking raises risks of lung cancer. And yet researchers haven't known whether continued smoking by lung cancer patients would increase the risk of the cancer's spread. Researchers at West Virginia University have found that sm

Children from high-conflict families are more likely to drop out of school, have poor grades, smoke, binge drink, use marijuana, have early sex, be young and unmarried when they have a child and then experience the breakup of that relationship.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.