WASHINGTON—In an effort to accurately portray the risks of smoking tobacco, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved rules Wednesday that will require all cigarette packaging to bear a large warning label featuring a graphic image of Trish. FDA commissioner…
Monthly Archives: October 2011
Can it Be Healthy to Smoke Electric Cigarettes?
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This is a question that needs some context. If you smoke tobacco, then yes it can be very healthy to smoke electric cigarettes. E cigs are specifically designed as nicotine replacement therapy, allowing you to continue absorbing the drug you…
Latest Smoking Cessation Research Studies
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Computer Model Predicts Smoking Cessation Success by Treatment Type Researchers from the Clemson University in South Carolina and the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill developed a computer-aided model to evaluate the cost-effectiveness of various smoking cessation treatments. Based…
Anti-tobacco directive gathers
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KATHMANDU, OCT 24 – The government is likely to fail to implement by November 4 the anti-tobacco directive that requires tobacco-producing firms to print pictorial warnings about the hazards of the tobacco product consumption on 75 percent area of its…
Cancer law centre opens to fight big tobacco
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THE name of anti-tobacco litigant Rolah McCabe, who died from lung cancer, will live on in a unique new Melbourne legal centre that will explore using the law as an instrument to fight all cancers. The McCabe Centre for Law…
Quit Smoking, Spurn Alcohol to Improve Sleep Quality
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Quitting cigarettes and spurning alcohol before bed may help remedy poor sleep quality, according to a study in Japan. Pack-a-day smokers get 10 minutes less sleep a night than non-smokers, researchers at Kyoto’s Doshisha University found. The study of adult…
Can school nurses help teens quit smoking?
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Going to a few counseling sessions with a school nurse helped some high school students quit smoking in the short term — but it didn’t seem to influence whether they kicked the habit for good, according to a new study.…
Stop smoking sessions begin Tuesday in Lehigh
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Free nicotine replacement therapy with gum, patches and lozenges for those that are eligible will be provided to those at the Florida Sleep & Lung Associates at 2625 Lee Blvd. when it holds its first of six sessions of program…
Protein is potential new treatment target for adult pulmonary hypertension
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Blocking that protein, called calpain, in the lungs may prove an effective way to avoid narrow, scarred blood vessels and pulmonary hypertension, said Dr. Yunchao Su, pharmacologist at Georgia Health Sciences University. “Calpain enables the bad behavior that occurs in…
Want a healthy heart? Quit smoking
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Smoking increases the risk of cardiovascular disease and affects other major organs in the body as well. In India, 35% of people use tobacco and not only increase their own health risk factors but also affect their near and dear…
Public Unsure if Cancer Is Preventable
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A new study suggests that many people are unsure about whether cancer is a preventable disease. [Public Unsure if Can] A new study by a leading health charity has identified that many people are unsure about whether cancer is preventable.…
‘Youth in Europe’ drug prevention programme
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The Youth in Europe (YIE) drug prevention programme has released research tracking the incidence of smoking (daily), drinking and cannabis experimentation amongst 15 to 16-year-old students in Iceland from 1998 to 2011. And the results are astonishing. The number of…
WTO pushes harmful deregulation
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Unbeknownst to many, the World Trade Organization has increasingly attacked U.S. consumer and environmental policies. In the past month, the WTO has ruled that both dolphin-safe tuna labels and the U.S. Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act are, in…
Tobacco Free Program for people living with mental illness
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When: 13 Oct 11 @ 1:00 pm 20 Oct 11 @ 1:00 pm 27 Oct 11 @ 1:00 pm 3 Nov 11 @ 1:00 pm 10 Nov 11 @ 1:00 pm 17 Nov 11 @ 1:00 pm 1 Dec 11…