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Victoria Barron: Tobacco education
In an era of increasing awareness about the negative health effects of tobacco, it seems to me that we may be missing the boat on tobacco prevention in ways other than cigarette smoking and chew tobacco.
With the help of Amendment 35 funding, Colorado has achieved tremendous success in the prevention of tobacco in our state [...]
Quickly leads to reduced risk of heart trouble
Blood vessel function rapidly recuperates after smokers kick the habit, leading to a reduced risk of heart disease and heart attack, new research shows.
The study included more than 1,500 people taking part in a clinical trial to help them quit smoking. Before and one year after the participants stopped smoking, doctors [...]
Teen Smoking Called a ‘National Catastrophe’
Moscow’s top doctor said Friday that smoking-related diseases were growing and warned that teenage smoking was leading to a “national catastrophe.”
Dr. Leonid Lazebnik painted a grim picture of the harm that tobacco was causing Russians, telling a round table that 65 percent of men and 30 percent of women have smoked at some time in [...]
Romance and angst in New York
Like James Dean smoking and brooding through Rebel Without a Cause, Robert Pattinson puffs and sulks – often, impressively, at the same time – in the intense romantic drama Remember Me.
Twilight’s pale and immortal lover boy, adopting a New York accent and a slouchy demeanor (the better to reflect his directionlessness by!), is rich [...]
People With Cancer in Family History Must Avoid Smokers
“If you have a family history of lung cancer, you probably should not even be around cigarette smokers,” says a researcher who showed the people with a particular gene can easily get lung cancer from very light smoking, and even from exposure to secondhand tobacco smoke. This research may provide strong legal remedies for [...]
Genetic variant raises lung cancer risk for light smokers
WASHINGTON: Individuals who carry a particular genetic variant are at much higher risk of developing lung cancer from exposure to second-hand smoke than others, even if they rarely come into contact with it, according to a new study.
Researchers at the University of Cincinnati say that for family members who carry this genetic variant, the risk [...]
Genetic variant greatly increases lung cancer risk for light smokers
CINCINNATI—Individuals with a certain type of genetic susceptibility to lung cancer face a greatly increased risk for the deadly disease with even a small exposure to cigarette smoke, a study team that includes researchers from the University of Cincinnati (UC) has concluded.
For family members who carry this genetic variant, the risk of lung cancer is [...]
Smoking has Immediate, Adverse Effects on the Body
The World Health Organization calls tobacco the leading cause of preventable death in the world. In December, the WHO launched a campaign against cigarette smoking in Africa, saying a rapidly growing population is creating “larger and more accessible markets” on the continent for tobacco companies.
While the risks of cancer and heart disease are generally well-known, [...]
Cigarette sales drop 52 percent, but teens still at risk
Iowans are smoking less, though young people continue to be at risk for starting. That’s according to a report released today by the Iowa Department of Public Health (IDPH).
Conducted by the University of Northern Iowa’s Center for Behavioral Research, the 2009 Tobacco Control Progress Report shows that Iowa and the state health department have made [...]
Fight for Children get D.C. smoking ban exemption for 2010 events
For decades, Washington power brokers have gathered on Saint Patrick’s Day to toast, and in some cases invent their Irishness with Guinness, Kelly green cummerbunds and cigar smoke.
Last year, they survived without the smoke. But not everyone was happy, to the point that one legislator has pushed an emergency bill in the D.C. Council to [...]
Grant to fight Big Tobacco’s new dissolvable tobacco products
APPLETON — City officials could know this week whether Appleton will receive $3 million in federal stimulus money to fight a new form of tobacco product seen as threatening children with nicotine addiction.
Accepting the grant would mean creating four full-time jobs, including a police officer and a school health and tobacco educator, and filling several [...]
Cigarette smoking may raise prostate cancer risk
NEW YORK – Cigarette smoking may increase a man’s risk for developing and dying from prostate cancer, pooled data from 24 studies involving 21,600 men with the disease indicates.
This study “provides good evidence that prostate cancer is likely a smoking-related tumor,” Dr. Michael Huncharek, at Meta-Analysis Research Group in Columbia, South Carolina, wrote in an [...]
Smoking Cannabis Linked to Psychotic Disorders in Young Adults
Scientists in Queensland, Australia, on Monday suggested that young adults who smoke cannabis or marijuana for six years or more are twice as vulnerable to suffer from psychotic episodes, hallucinations or delusions compared to people who have never used the drug.
In addition, the researchers also checked out pot use and psychosis symptoms among siblings with [...]
Smoking cannabis for more than six years increases risk of delusions
Teenagers who started smoking the drug when aged just 15 were twice as likely to suffer ‘non-affective psychosis’ and four times more likely to suffer delusions after six years than those who abstained.
Scientists at the University of Queensland in Australia examined 3,081 adults born between 1981 and 1984 and questioned them when they reached 21.
Of [...]
