Study finds lesbian and bisexual girls are at heightened risk for tobacco use
...to 17 were almost 10 times more likely to say they smoke weekly compared to heterosexual girls of the same ...bisexual boys in the study were not more likely to smoke compared to heterosexual boys. Girls and boys in the Growing Up Today Study, conducted primarily t...News briefs from the journal CHEST, April 2004
...ASES WITH EXPOSURE The more environmental tobacco smoke (ETS) male adolescents are exposed to, the greater the amount of lung damage they may experience. In a study of 80 healthy adolescent males (30 nonsmokers, 29 passive smokers, and 21 smokers), Milan researchers found a significant correlation betwee...Article examines reasons contributing to epidemic of lung cancer in U.S. women
...susceptible to the carcinogenic effects of tobacco smoke than men is debatable. What is not debatable, however, is that important differences exist among men and women with lung cancer. Women smokers are more likely than men to develop adenocarcinoma of the lung. Women who have never smoked are more like...Lung cancer now leading cause of cancer death in women
...uld impact how we evaluate and screen patients who smoke and how we direct smoking cessation and lung cancer prevention programs," Patel said. For example, women are more likely than men to develop adenocarcinoma, a subtype of lung cancer, than are men. Adenocarcinoma, once a rare type of lung cancer, is ...Are toddlers who can't sleep at higher risk of becoming teens who smoke, drink or do drugs?
... are far more likely than others to abuse alcohol, smoke and develop drug habits. Also, several studies...ng alcohol by age 14, and 2.3 times more likely to smoke cigarettes occasionally or regularly, than boys whose mothers hadn't cited sleep problems. Th...Oral cancer survey from Case dental school shows dental hygienist's role in catching cancer
...this information available. Dental hygienists that smoke were less likely to offer tobacco cessation materials than those who do not smoke. When compared to the 2003 dentist survey, dental hygienists' cancer knowledge that related to the cause, appearance of and risk factors related to oral cancer was com...Clinic-based intervention program improves smoking cessation rates, study says
...line-based methods to encourage their patients who smoke to quit increases the likelihood that their patien...s that all clinicians strongly advise patients who smoke to quit and instructs them in methods to help their patients successfully quit. Many physicians, how...Smoking linked to more than 60 percent of overall cancer death burden in black men
...other intervention -- if their exposure to tobacco smoke was eliminated, a new study suggests. The study i...ikow found compelling data suggesting that tobacco smoke exposure is responsible for more than half the non-lung cancer death rate in African-American males ...Smoking increases papillomavirus risk in HIV-infected women
Women with HIV infection who smoke are more likely than women not infected with HIV to acquire and have prevalent human papillomavirus (HPV) infection, according to a study published in the May 1 issue of The Journal of Infectious Diseases , now available online. Given the clear link...Asthma symptoms reduced among children whose schools provided asthma medication
... this program among those children with secondhand smoke in their homes," the authors write. The authors conclude: "Most children included in this study were poor and from minority populations, and represent the group with the greatest need for assistance with this common chronic illness. If these findi...Kids' year-round asthma symptoms triggered by parent's second-hand smoke
...AN FRANCISCO -- Children with asthma whose parents smoke at home are twice as likely to have asthma symptom... 13 percent of parents of asthmatic children still smoke -- even though second-hand smoke is known to trigger asthma attacks and symptoms in kids. Those find...Parent, guardian job loss may boost smoking among adolescent family members
...w puffs?) and past 30-day smoking (Did the student smoke on at least one of the 30 days preceding the survey?). When retaking the survey in seventh grade, the students who reported a job loss in the family since the previous survey were 87% more likely to have tried smoking or to have smoked in the past 30...UCI Tobacco research center reports why teens are most vulnerable to smoking addiction
...cotine as strongly. Another chemical in cigarette smoke works with nicotine to produce more rewarding effects in young people than nicotine alone can do. Together, these chemicals can alter the moods, behaviors and thought processes of teens. Nicotine causes changes in the adolescent brains of rats afte...New research shows reasons for smoking vary
...cle. "This measure helps us understand why people smoke and points us toward more individualized treatment... relieve stress, smoking for mental stimulation (I smoke to keep my mind focused), and smoking automatically (I smoke without thinking about it). The 68-que...Carbon monoxide from smoking helps keep arteries open following angioplasty
...nd that habitual to heavy smokers who continued to smoke after angioplasty had a lower rate of restenosis, or re-narrowing of the arteries, than nonsmokers. As expected, the researchers who conducted the study at the University of Vienna, Austria, do not advocate smoking. But the findings suggest that incr...Study measures risks of exclusive pipe smoking
...ell studied, few studies have focused on those who smoke pipes exclusively, and those that have were small and not able to consider confounding factors, such as socioeconomic status and alcohol use. To better estimate the risks associated with exclusive pipe smoking, Jane Henley of the American Cancer Soci...'Safe' levels of lead, cadmium
...o theorize that the cadmium contained in cigarette smoke may damage the lining of blood vessels and be a ma...need to know if there is something about cigarette smoke that makes it more specific to PAD than other vascular diseases," he said. ...Study: Too few doctors ask teens about smoking
...ts had documentation about this risk. Second-hand smoke was four times more likely to be documented for pregnant patients than non-pregnant ones. Researchers acknowledge that a gap may exist between what a physician discusses during an office visit and what is written in the patient's medical r...Parental control of media influences behavior
...particularly powerful for kids whose parents don't smoke because those kids aren't exposed to the realities of smoking, just to the glamorized images of smoking depicted in the movies. Their perceptions about smoking are more easily influenced by such images," Sargent said. Of the nearly 2,600 children ...Tobacco sponsorship of Formula One must stop, say health experts
...ion deaths each year by 2025. Half the people that smoke today - that is about 650 million people - will eventually be killed by tobacco 2 , and most of those deaths will be in the developing world. Regulation has curtailed more direct forms of tobacco advertising, making sport sponsorship central to the m...