Cigarette smoke worsens respiratory infections in infants
... pregnancies, including whether or not they smoked cigarettes either before or after giving birth. And they asked mothers about their own problems with allergies and asthma. The idea was to learn about several potential risk factors to determine why RSV affects some children so severely. "What we're trying to s...Tobacco industry pays scientists to challenge secondhand smoke's link to infant death risk
...fficials have concluded that secondhand smoke from cigarettes causes disease, including lung cancer and heart disease, in non-smoking adults, as well as causes conditions in children such as asthma, respiratory infections, cough, wheeze, otitis media (middle ear infection) and sudden infant death syndrome. In a...Study examines racial differences among children to environmental tobacco smoke exposure
...related products. But differences in additives to cigarettes commonly smoked by African Americans, such as menthol, could also explain the observed racial differences." The study will be published in the March issue of Environmental Health Perspectives and is currently available online at http://ehp.niehs.nih...Parents who quit smoking may influence their offspring to quit as young adults
...ortunate distinction of being more likely to smoke cigarettes than any other age group, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. What's more, low quitting rates among young-adult smokers underscore the need to find ways to help young adults quit, Bricker said. "Overall, these findings sugges...Brain activity of men and women during hostile or impulsive acts differs less on nicotine
...instance, we already know that men and women smoke cigarettes with varying rates and reasons. We also know women take fewer and shorter puffs of cigarettes than men. Women also are less successful using the nicotine patch or gum therapies when trying to qu...Dialogue & personal example work best for parents in drug talks with teens
...dgment; require them to pay for their own alcohol, cigarettes and over-the-counter and prescription drugs; and accept the consequences for use of those drugs. "There is no one right way to conduct parent-child discussions about drugs and drug use," says the Penn State researcher. "Parents must consider their o...Migraine-sparked vision loss may increase stroke risk in women; Migraine
...ependent of the stroke risks presented by alcohol, cigarettes or oral contraceptives. The first study investiga... participants use of contraceptive pills, wine and cigarettes as well as blood pressure, migraine history and cardiac rhythm. Sixty-three stroke survivors had ex...State policies decrease youth smoking, drinking and sex
State policies, such as taxing the sale of cigarettes and alcohol, decrease teenage smoking and drinking...d unhealthy behaviors by implementing laws to make cigarettes and beer more difficult to obtain and increase the number of family planning clinics. The study is p...Smoking hurts wealth as well as health, study suggests
COLUMBUS, Ohio Maybe packs of cigarettes should come with a new warning: "Smoking is hazar...together, it seems that the money smokers spend on cigarettes comes out of income that normally would be saved," Zagorsky said. "It may be that smokers spend as m...Smoking causes cognitive impairment in adolescents
...Psychiatry. More than 4.5 million teenagers smoke cigarettes in the United States, according to the Centers for Disease Control and the U.S. Census Bureau. Leslie Jacobsen, M.D., associate professor of psychiatry and pediatrics at Yale School of Medicine, and her research team tested working memory. This form ...Animal study shows link between nicotine and atrial flutter
...ican Heart Association, people who smoke a pack of cigarettes a day have more than twice the risk of heart attack than people who've never smoked; and smokers who have a heart attack have less chance of surviving than nonsmokers. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports that cigarette smoking res...Marijuana associated with same respiratory symptoms as tobacco
...nalysis statistically controlled for the number of cigarettes smoked per day. Individuals who smoked both marijuana and tobacco had increased rates of respiratory symptoms compared to those who smoked tobacco only. "Our interest is in the additive effect of marijuana," Moore said....Tobacco-company-sponsored parties with free cigarettes may encourage students to start smoking
...tegy sponsoring social events and giving out free cigarettes at bars, clubs, and college parties is reaching s...tobacco-industry-sponsored social event where free cigarettes were distributed. Bars and nightclubs were the most common settings, but students also reported atte...Do cigarette additives pose additional risk to smokers?
...isks for smokers are not known after combustion in cigarettes and inhalation. Can the toxicological effects for ...lative risk approach. Investigators could compare cigarettes containing an ingredient to otherwise identical cigarettes lacking the same ingredient. This approa...Scientists study fish oil diet in bid to cut heart attack risks
...r 20 healthy men aged 25-40 who smoke at least ten cigarettes a day and 30 life-long non-smokers aged 40-75 to join the study, which is based at the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh. The study is due to end in the summer of 2005. Dr Din said: "We need smokers for this study because we know smoking can impair blood ...Smokers' lung cancer risk identified in CT screening study
... lung cancer also increased by the total number of cigarettes smoked: 28 smokers per 1,000 were found to have lung cancer if they smoked three packs a day for 20 years or more, compared with 16 smokers per 1,000 who smoked three packs a day for 10-20 years. Variances in lung cancer rates were marginal between s...Brain's nicotine receptors also target for anti-depressants
... the brain that are activated when a person smokes cigarettes also play a critical role in the effectiveness of antidepressants, according to a study by Yale researchers in the November issue of Biological Psychiatry. What this means, particularly for patients who are suicidal, is that finding a way to activate...Good intentions versus bad habits: Why the old ways win out
...ts that over time, our bad habits (such as smoking cigarettes or over eating) become automatic, learned behaviors. Even if we consciously try to put new good intentions into place, those previously learned habits remain stronger in more automatic, unconscious forms of memory. This research may help explain wh...Majority of cigarettes in the US smoked by nicotine-dependent or psychiatrically ill persons
...ndividuals consume approximately 70 percent of all cigarettes smoked in the United States, according to an artic...re nicotine-dependent consumed 57.5 percent of all cigarettes smoked in the United States. Among respondents with nicotine dependence, the prevalence of any alcoh......or psychiatric disorders consume 70 percent of all cigarettes smoked in the United States, according to results ... of the population and consume 46.3 percent of all cigarettes smoked. Nicotine dependent persons with co-existing psychiatric disorders comprise only about 7 pe...