A new study published in the August 31 online edition of the journal Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention has found that eating a variety of fruits and vegetables, rather than quantity, may lower your lung cancer risk. “Although quitting smoking is the most important preventive action in reducing lung cancer risk, consuming a mix of [...]
A drug widely used to treat high blood sugar in type 2 diabetics may hold some promise in the prevention of tobacco-induced lung cancer, according to extremely preliminary findings in a mouse study. In the September issue of Cancer Prevention Research, researchers report that metformin was associated with a substantial reduction (up to 73 percent) [...]
Eating a wide variety of fruits and vegetables may help protect some smokers from lung cancer, a new European study suggests. But, the researchers stressed that quitting smoking will do far more to reduce risk than “an apple a day” or having a salad for lunch. In the study, participants who ate a diet that [...]
When it comes to scaring and delighting youthful audiences these days, zombies are right up there with vampires and werewolves. An effort to discourage smoking among teenagers and young adults is seeking to take advantage of that lively interest in the undead. The American Legacy Foundation in Washington, which sponsors the anti-smoking “Truth” campaign, is [...]
Researchers at M.D. Anderson Cancer Center are using real-time smart phone data from struggling-to-quit smokers to better understand the quitting process — and develop improved and individualized treatment options. The team, led by Dr. David Wetter, recently completed a study of more than 400 smokers. Their current effort focuses on Spanish-speakers. I spoke with Dr. [...]
Six directors of the Office of National Drug Control Policy over the previous 3 administrations penned a cooperative op-ed Wednesday in opposition to California’s Proposition 19 ballot proposal to legalize marijuana. The editorial, written by Gil Kerlikowske, John Walters, Barry McCaffrey, Lee Brown, Bob Martinez and William Bennett — that’s every United States “drug czar,” [...]
obacco use in films is falling, a US report on smoking in movies has found. Yet its authors claim smoking still features in too many films and could be influencing young people to take it up. “There’s a declining trend which is good to see,” said Ursula Bauer of the Center for Disease Control. “But [...]
Large percentages of Mexican adults have risk factors for heart disease and stroke — suggesting, researchers say, that without intervention, the nation’s rate of cardiovascular disease will continue the climb it began several decades ago. In a study of 20,000 Mexicans age 20 and older, researchers found that smoking and obesity were the most prevalent [...]
Desperate Housewives star Kathryn Joosten would like a word with the folks behind Mad Men. No, she’s not looking for a job on the hit AMC drama, but… Joosten, who plays Karen McCluskey on Housewives, thinks there should be a warning at the beginning of Mad Men episodes because of all the smoking the characters [...]
More and more women are dying from lung cancer. In new statistics released by the Philippine Cancer Society (PCS), with a rate of 2,500 (per 100,000 research population) new cases of women with lung cancer monitored, 2,043 patients have died. The higher mortality rate is due to the fact that more females smoke cigarettes; and [...]
As if the growing number of smoking bans in restaurants, airplanes and other public places isn’t sending a strong enough message, researchers now have the first biological data confirming the health hazards of secondhand smoke. Scientists led by Dr. Ronald Crystal at Weill Cornell Medical College documented changes in genetic activity among nonsmokers triggered by [...]
Current and former smokers may have no higher risk of developing an early form of breast tumor after menopause than non-smokers do, a new study suggests. Cigarette smoking has been clearly linked to increased risks of a number of cancers, including cancers of the lungs, colon, pancreas and bladder. But studies have yielded conflicting results [...]
NHS smoking services helped a record number of people quit last year, figures show. The NHS Information Centre said 373,964 had successfully given up, an 11% rise from the 337,054 who gave up in in 2008/09. The figures are for people in England who successfully stopped when they were followed up after four-weeks. A separate [...]
ST. PAUL, Minn. – Teens who are overweight, get little exercise or who smoke may be more likely to have frequent headaches and migraines than teens with none of these factors, according to a study published in the August 18, 2010, online issue of Neurology®, the medical journal of the American Academy of Neurology. Teens [...]
A new study by researchers with the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) shows that ozone can react with the nicotine in secondhand smoke to form ultrafine particles that may become a bigger threat to asthma sufferers than nicotine itself. These ultrafine particles also become major components of thirdhand smoke – the residue from tobacco [...]
Hollywood icon Michael Douglas’ years of smoking and drinking is the probable culprit for his throat cancer diagnosis, according to one doctor who said the “Wall Street” star’s condition is likely curable. The actor will undergo chemotherapy and radiation to treat the cancer. “That combination is, unfortunately, a recipe for development of a throat cancer,” [...]
New Zealanders would live longer if tobacco sales were ended by 2020, according to new research published today in the New Zealand Medical Journal. Maori could expect a five-year gain, while the life expectancy of non-Maori would be three years longer if sales ended by 2020 and the gains projected to 2040, researchers from Otago [...]
A Canadian developer of flu inoculations and other vaccines plans to use a $21 million U.S. Defense Department grant to build an 87,000-square-foot production facility in Research Triangle Park. Medicago, based in Quebec, plans to create 85 jobs paying $50,229 on average, not including benefits, over three years. The Medicago jobs would pay less than [...]
Tokyo, – Japan Tobacco Inc. (JT) (TSE: 2914) today announced the results of its Japan Smoking Rate Survey, a study that has been carried out annually since 1965. The survey, conducted in May 2010, showed that 23.9 percent of Japanese adults are smokers. Other results are summarized below. 1. Japanese smoking rate as of May [...]
While most people are currently hiding in their air-conditioned homes, Errol Povah is running across the country to support his goal of a tobacco-free world. Povah, 57, left Victoria May 31, which was the World Health Organization’s 23rd annual World No Tobacco Day and is walking toward Montreal and, if he has time and the [...]
In the space of three months, the thrust of public health policy has shifted towards a desire for individuals to take more personal responsibility for their health and the health of their children. It is a dramatic change in emphasis from the last government, sometimes accused of wanting to remove all our personal freedoms and [...]
Moscow is mobilising more forces to fight hundreds of wildfires raging across a vast area of central Russia amid a record heatwave. At least 40 people have died in fires in the past week, and seven regions are under a state of emergency. Some fires are in danger of getting out of control, the government [...]
It’s not just cigarettes that school children are smoking behind the bike shed they are also into inhaling shisha and chewing tobacco, health bosses have now warned. A recent survey by Dubai Health Authority of pupils in Dubai revealed that more than one in ten of those questioned said they smoke the water pipe shisha, [...]
WAYLAND — By the spring of 2011, smoking will be history throughout Cochituate Village Apartments, Bent Park, and all the single and multi-family homes operated under the auspices of the Wayland Housing Authority. After two public hearings in June, the five-member Housing Authority voted unanimously on July 15 to institute a blanket prohibition on smoking [...]
Fathers who can’t seem to quit smoking will have to choose between their daily nicotine fix and the pleasure of kissing and cuddling their children. Recent studies have found a link between passive smoking and the deadly meningococcal disease — commonly called ‘brain fever’. Australian researchers have proved that children exposed to passive smoke and [...]
Women who smoke or pierce their nipples are more likely to develop a breast abscess, according to a new study in the July issue of the Journal of the American College of Surgeons. Researchers at the University of Iowa found the odds of developing primary breast abscess were six times higher in smokers than in [...]
A Marine veteran in Congress wants to lift new restrictions on tobacco being sent through the mail so that families and friends can continue to send cigarettes and smokeless tobacco to troops in combat. Rep. Duncan D. Hunter, R-Calif., a member of the House Armed Services Committee and a former Marine captain who served in [...]
TAIPEI — There is no doubt that smoking or the inhalation of second-hand cigarette smoke can cause breast cancer, Taiwan researchers said yesterday, citing their recent findings in a study on smoking and breast cancer. The study found that a receptor, known as alpha 9 (a9), on breast tissue cells is very sensitive to nicotine. [...]
The African Tobacco Control Consortium (ATCC), an alliance of about five regional public health institutions involved in the campaign against increasing use of tobacco announced it had launched a call for concept notes for Tobacco Control Action Grants. Aimed at NGOs and Academic Institutions, the grant, according to a press statement from the Communications office [...]
Children and teenagers exposed to secondhand smoke at home may get poorer grades than their peers from smoke-free homes, a study of Hong Kong students suggests. Secondhand smoke is a well-known health threat to children, being linked to increased risks of asthma, as well as bronchitis, pneumonia and other respiratory infections. Studies have also found [...]
