New study adds weight to link between passive smoking and death
Adults who have never smoked and who live with smokers have a 15% higher risk o...nvolved all adult census respondents who had never smoked and were aged 45-74 years at the time of either the 1981 or 1996 population censuses. Participants p...Environmental and dietary influences on cancer risk
...per liter in nonsmokers to about 11.7 in women who smoked more than two packs per day, about a 10-fold increase. Myers added that his group is now following the growth curves of these children, in addition to other short-term outcomes, including respiratory and cognitive function. C...Smoking linked to accelerated cognitive decline in the elderly
...al State Examination (MMSE). Among those who never smoked (41 percent), the MMSE score declined .03 points p...culation involving the number of years someone has smoked and the reported average daily number of cigarettes. This was significant mainly for the former smok...Novelty-seeking teens may be more easily influenced by tobacco advertisements
...ens with high degrees of symptoms for ADHD who had smoked cigarettes during their lifetimes also rated highest for novelty-seeking compared with other teens. The researchers say that teens with ADHD and novelty-seeking traits may be at a higher risk for smoking cigarettes than teens without these traits. Th...New drug may help fight some lung cancers
...n in smokers. One third of patients with BAC never smoked in comparison to about 10 percent of other lung ca... genetic changes in participants who smoke or have smoked may make them more resistant to this drug," said Dr. Patel. Northwestern Memorial is enrolling parti...American Thoracic Society Journal news tips for March 2004
...espiratory cycles. The mothers in the study group smoked from 10 to 40 cigarettes per day during pregnancy. None of the mothers in the control group smoked. The children in the study were 34 weeks gestational age, were not on respiratory stimulants, and did not have any listed cardiorespiratory events fo...Study examines why new lung cancer treatment is effective for some patients but not others
...ompared to those with other NSCLC; those who never smoked as compared to those who smoked at some time or smoke currently. They also looked at the response according to the gender of the pat...Data shows new drug, rimonabant, helps smokers quit while limiting post cessation weight gain
...rage, patients enrolled in the trial were aged 42, smoked 23 cigarettes a day, had been smokers for 11-24 years and were classified as moderately to heavily nicotine-dependent based on the Fagerstrom Scale (measures nicotine dependence). Patients received a daily fixed-dose of either 5mg or 20mg of rimona...Women who were sexually abused as children more likely to smoke
...e twice as likely as those not abused to have ever smoked cigarettes. Women reporting childhood sexual a...rrent smokers, and 69.3 percent of respondents had smoked at least once. About 29 percent of respondents reported being sexually abused as a child; 52 percent...American Thoracic Society Journal news tips for February 2004 (second issue)
...irflow limitation in offspring Mothers who have smoked adversely affect their offspring's lung function, as they grow older, in at least three major ways. The researchers concluded that maternal smoking: lowers lung function whether the offspring personally smoke or not; was associated with greater smok...Exposure to carcinogens not proportionally decreased by reduction in smoking
...hether smokers who reduce the number of cigarettes smoked per day also decrease their risk of lung cancer. ... cancer. The people in the study, who overall had smoked an average of 23.7 cigarettes per day, gave two urine samples 1 week apart before reducing their cig...Phone counseling helps smokers quit
...r women compared to men. Younger people, those who smoked more cigarettes each day and people with depressive symptoms also found it harder to quit. Failure to sustain a prior attempt to quit for more than six months increased the odds of smoking at one year. ...Heavy smokers see cigarettes as 'friends'
...y addicted to cigarettes. More than half said they smoked to relieve stress and anger or to keep people away. "For many of these participants, any threat to their world -- a scolding from their boss, an argument with a spouse -- was sufficient to drive them back to smoking as a way to cope and feel bette...Low tar cigarettes do not cut lung cancer risk
...n between the tar rating of the brand of cigarette smoked in 1982 and death from lung cancer over six years ...ater risk of lung cancer than people who had never smoked or who had quit. Men and women who smoked very low tar (7 mg or less) and low tar (8-14 mg) brands h...Active smoking associated with increased risk of breast cancer
...y, and who had a longer duration of smoking or who smoked 20 or more cigarettes per day. Current smoking was associated with increased breast cancer risk in women without a family history of breast cancer but not among women with a family history of the disease. There was no statistically significant incr...Annual CT detects early-stage lung cancer, saves lives
... age 60 or older, who had no history of cancer and smoked at least one pack of cigarettes a day for 10 years underwent low-dose CT of the lungs and chest and were added to the ELCAP annual report cases. As of November 2003, annual CT screenings have been performed on 4,658 people based on a positive findin...Female smokers are twice as likely as male smokers to develop lung cancer
...r lung cancer increases with the amount of tobacco smoked and as a smoker ages. The research was presented today at the 89th Scientific Assembly and Annual Meeting of the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA). "We found that women had twice the risk of developing lung cancer as men, independent of ho...Quality improvement program enhances heart care, closes gender gap
...le, at baseline, only 57.2 percent of patients who smoked received counseling to quit. The figure rose to 81.6 percent for hospitals that had used the GWTG-CADSM program for a year. The second analysis compared how male and female heart attack patients were treated in five key secondary prevention areas at...Mixed results for study investigating potential of cannabis treatment for MS
... have no data to compare the risks and benefits of smoked cannabis. Hopefully, this study will stimulate further research to develop and evaluate safe, effective formulations of cannabis, and will inform debate over the social and legal restrictions that limit its use. In the meantime, when other treatment ......res were used to determine whether people had ever smoked and whether they had MS or other diseases. Of the ...likely to develop MS than the non-smokers. Men who smoked were 2.75 times more likely to develop MS than men who never smoked. Women who smoked were 1.61 time...