Brain chemicals can thwart desire to smoke cigarettes
...sociated with feelings of pleasure. Test subjects smoked less when given a drug that mimics the effects of dopamine in the brain than they did when given a second drug that impedes dopamine's effects. When the subjects were given the dopamine-mimicking drug, their desire to smoke dropped, but when the same...Concern about future health problems goes up in smoke
...eagues evaluated 23 current cigarette smokers (who smoked at least 20 cigarettes a day for the past five years), 21 ex-smokers (who hadn't smoked for at least a year), and 22 people who had never smoked to compare the groups' different values on ...When moms smoke, certain kids are more vulnerable
...sceptible to respiratory problems if their mothers smoked during their pregnancy, according to preventive me...n the study, more than 16 percent had a mother who smoked while the child was still in the womb. More than 45 percent of all children had the GSTM1 null varia...High mental stress linked with increased risk of cardiovascular death
...men reporting low mental stress. These women also smoked more and were more likely to work full time. In ratings on psychological variables, high-stress women were more likely to be angry, be in a hurry, feel hopeless and feel unfulfilled. In men, there was similar association between mental stress and he...American Thoracic Society Journal news tips for July (second issue)
...p, approximately 50 percent said that their mother smoked and about two-thirds noted that their father smoked. Of this group, almost 44 percent had ever smoked, with slightly over 20 percent being current smokers. (Current smokers demonstrated a lower lung function at age 18 and a faster rate of lung dete...Wine drinkers have healthier lifestyles
...ently consumed less saturated fat and cholesterol, smoked less, and exercised more than those who preferred beer, spirits, or had no preference. Abstainers, who made up 20% of the subjects, have been shown in previous studies to have higher disease and death rates than moderate drinkers. Negative health an...Infant mortality rate drops, children more likely to have working parent, be read to
...t in 2000), the number of 12th grade students who smoked daily (19 percent in 2001) and the number of 12thg...For example, the number of 12th grade students who smoked daily has shown a downward trend since 1993. Today's children are more diverse than in previous year...NHLBI study shows weight concerns increase girls' risk of becoming smokers
...gories were based on the number of days a girl had smoked over 30 days: No smoking, experimental (5 or fewer days), occasional (6-19 days), regular (20-29 days), and daily (30 days). Researchers also assessed the girls' blood lipids, blood pressure, food intake, and physical activity. Additionally, girls...Link between stress and heart disease may be premature
...aw themselves as most stressed in this study, also smoked more, drank more alcohol and took less exercise. However, most stressed men tended to have better jobs. This greater affluence probably explained why, by most objective measures of heart disease, they were healthier....Obesity and smoking increase asthma risk
...smokers were 29% more likely than people who never smoked to have asthma, while former smokers were 36% more likely to have asthma than those who never smoked. The study, from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, using data from the 2000 Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System, also found that...Some smokers can't quit even after suffering head and neck cancers
...k cancer patients continued to smoke; most of them smoked more than half a pack per day, says lead author So...e patients were current smokers and 35 percent had smoked in the past six months. The study also found that nearly half of the patients (46 percent) continued...Health benefits of leanness blown away by cigarette smoke
...thnic and racial lines, he says. Overall, men who smoked cigarettes had a 50 percent greater relative risk of dying from a heart attack compared to nonsmoking men. The numbers were even more dramatic for female cigarette smokers they had an 80 percent greater relative risk of dying from a heart attack co...Parental smoking around time of conception linked to reduction in male births
...groups: men and women who did not smoke, those who smoked up to 20 cigarettes a day, and those who smoked more than 20 cigarettes a day. The male to female sex ratio declined with increasing numbers of ciga...Why heart transplant patients resume smoking revealed in University of Pittsburgh study
...sional cigar. Throughout the three-year period, 25 smoked 10 or fewer cigarettes a day, nine smoked between 11 and 19 a day, and four smoked a pack or more daily. Amount was unknown for the remaining ...Document destruction practices obliterate tobacco company defenses in critical Australian decision
...e Australian subsidiary of tobacco giant BAT. She smoked Escort and Capstan brands. Ms. McCabe alleged that BAT Australia, itself or through its predecessor and affiliated companies, knew that cigarettes were addictive and dangerous to health, and by its advertising targeted children to become consumers. ...Marijuana use linked to hallucinogen use
...y age 21, almost one-half of the teenagers who had smoked marijuana had a chance to try a hallucinogen, comp...d to only one in 16 of the teenagers who had never smoked marijuana. Within a time period of one year after the first chance to use a hallucinogen, two-thirds...Report shows decline in youth smoking, but work remains
...2th-graders are current smokers (defined as having smoked within the past 30 days). The highest rate of current smoking for 12th-graders in the 1990s occurred in 1997, with almost 37 percent reported as current smokers. According to Healthy People 2010, the government's comprehensive set of health ob...Depressed teens receptive to tobacco advertising more likely to experiment with smoking
...ty percent reported ever being smokers, i.e., ever smoked at least a partial or whole cigarette. The data show that adolescents who are exposed to peer smoking are more likely to smoke themselves. Furthermore, adolescents who are highly receptive to tobacco advertising and have clinically significant sympto...Seeing movie stars smoke makes teens more vulnerable to tobacco use
...ing the number of times a major or minor character smoked in each of 601 recently released movies. They then...schools in New Hampshire and Vermont who had never smoked tobacco, and gave each one a different, randomly selected list of 50 of the films. Each participant ......sers), more likely to be African American, and all smoked cigarettes. Hypertension had been diagnosed in 79 percent of the cocaine users, 71 percent had documented left ventricular hypertrophy (thickening of the heart wall), and at least 64 percent were not taking their prescribed anti-hypertensive medica...