New type of vaccine against nicotine addiction developed by TSRI scientists
...ir recovery. Many believe that people continue to smoke because tobacco contains nicotine, which is an add...ion. Although the percentage of U.S. residents who smoke has declined steadily in the United States since the mid-1960s, about 22.8 percent of the total adul...Smoke-free rules may be good news for business
ITHACA, N.Y. -- Restaurants and hotels that go smoke free will not lose dollars by doing so -- contrary... managers need not fear loss of patronage by going smoke free and should welcome the opportunity to protect the health of their workers and patrons." Hyland ...Message to pediatricians: advise parents to limit movie access to reduce chances of teen smoking
...nd impact on reducing their chances of starting to smoke and drink." Sargent's team studies adolescent behavior and how it's linked to exposure to movies. They have published numerous papers and articles, which this most current study cites. According to this body of research, adolescents see thousands o...New research reveals banning smoking at home protects infants
...80% of parents believed that environmental tobacco smoke is harmful and 90% believed that infants can be protected from it in the home. Only one in 10 parents was unaware of any measures to reduce exposure. More than half the parents reported using more than one measure. Just under a fifth reported banning...Banning smoking at home protects infants
...80% of parents believed that environmental tobacco smoke is harmful and 90% believed that infants can be protected from it in the home. Only one in 10 parents was unaware of any measures to reduce exposure. More than half the parents reported using more than one measure. Just under a fifth reported banning...JCI table of contents, 1 August 2003
...docannabinoids and the regulation of body fat: the smoke is clearing AUTHOR CONTACT: Tamas Horvath Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, USA. Phone: 203-785-4597 Fax: 203-785-4747 Email: tamas.horvath@yale.edu View the PDF of this commentary at: https://www.the-jci.org/press/19376....Green teas cancer-fighting allure becomes more potent
...l. Gasiewicz has previously shown how both tobacco smoke and dioxin manipulate the molecule a favorite target of toxic substances to cause havoc within the body. The team isolated the chemicals that make up green tea and found two that inhibit AH activity. The two substances, epigallocatechingallate (EG...Smoking causes half the tuberculosis deaths in Indian men
...ve TB infection in their lungs, but if they do not smoke then most will never become seriously ill from it. Smoking increases the danger that any TB infection already in the lungs will get out of control and cause clinical TB, which can kill and can easily be spread to other people. Tuberculosis still cau...Smoking causes half the tuberculosis deaths in Indian men
...losis infection in their lungs, but if they do not smoke then most will never become seriously ill from TB. Smoking increases the danger that any TB infection already in the lungs will get out of control and cause clinical TB, which can kill and can easily be spread to other people. In some parts of the wo...Workplace exposure a significant cause of severe respiratory disease
... classified in three categories. Vapors, gases and smoke released by the combustion of various materials were associated mainly with blast-furnaces and foundries, work with diesel engines and firefighting. Miners and metalworkers were the group most exposed to non-organic dust and smoke, while farmers, bak...DNA repair activity may be associated with risk of lung cancer
...fraction of smokers develop the disease. Tobacco smoke contains many carcinogens that are known to damage DNA. Reduced ability to repair damaged DNA has been associated with a predisposition to lung cancer in previous studies. To examine the association between a specific DNA repair enzyme and risk of lu...PET scans show cigarette smoke affects peripheral organs
...and the Department of Energy, shows that cigarette smoke also decreases levels of a critical enzyme called monoamine oxidase B (MAO B) in the kidneys, heart, lungs, and spleen. Too much or too little of this crucial enzyme can have an effect on a person's mental or physical health. MAO B is important bec...Link between cannabis and death still not established
... their adult lives, writes the author. Exposure to smoke is generally much lower in cannabis than in tobacco cigarette smokers, even taking into account the larger exposure per puff. Existing studies do not support a link between the use of cannabis and heart disease, the leading cause of death in many Wes...OHSU researcher co-authors National State-By-State Report Card on women and smoking; Oregon flunks
... smoke; in the 25-to-44-year-old group, 24 percent smoke all higher rates than the national numbers. Oregon also fares worse than the nation for how many pregnant women smoke, especially for teenagers. More than 25 percent of pregnant girls aged 15 to 19 smoke. Overall, 13 percent of pregnant women s...Obesity can be harmful to your child's mental health
...d nervousness. These children were more likely to smoke and drink alcohol compared with obese children with normal self-esteem. Depression, often an outcome of low self-esteem, affects as many as 750,000 teens in the U.S. (Source: Pediatrics, "Childhood Obesity and Self-Esteem," January 2000.) Untreated...Smoking more common among nursing than medical students
Nursing students are more likely to smoke cigarettes and to be more severely nicotine-depend...udy found that four times as many nursing students smoke cigarettes than medical students, and nearly twice as many nursing students are former smokers. The...Sperm from marijuana smokers move too fast too early, impairing fertility, UB research shows
BUFFALO, N.Y. -- Men who smoke marijuana frequently have significantly less semin...f fertilization." Burkman noted that many men who smoke marijuana have fathered children. "The men who are most affected likely have naturally occurring bo...New research links lung cancer screening to accelerated rates of smoking cessation
...ancer ). "I think it is easy to look at people who smoke and assume that they are unable or unwilling to quit," said Lisa Sanderson Cox, Ph.D., assistant professor of oncology at the Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center and principal investigator of this study. "This research shows us that even people at ...Breast cancer patients treated with lumpectomy and radiation survive longer if they dont smoke
...fferent prognostic factors, those who continued to smoke during treatment did not live as long as those who had stopped. "Our study suggests that smoking cessation remains an integral component in the comprehensive management of breast cancer," Nguyen added.Other study authors include Gary M. Freedman, M.D......nationwide initiative that will provide nurses who smoke with cessation resources." One of these resources will include $100 of free, individualized smoking-cessation services that will be offered through the Internet for each nurse who chooses to participate. Additionally, in partnership with nursing orga...