Cocaine use associated with often fatal heart condition
...9). For the 13 analyzed cases in which cocaine was smoked and the singular case in which it was snorted, the average onset of chest pain after use was 12 hours (ranging from 0 to 24 hours), according to the researchers. Type A dissections involve the ascending aorta (the portion closest to the heart) and ...Smokers disillusioned and over-optimistic about quitting
... 10 years, but in 1998 65% of people that had ever smoked were still smoking at age 40, and 46% at age 60. The widespread disaffection with smoking among smokers, combined with their tendency to be deluded about how easy and quick it will be to stop, justifies extra urgency in promoting chances to stop, say...Vitamin C reduces the odds of developing early-onset cataract
...acts was considerably lower in women who had never smoked and who had high intakes of folate and carotenoids. These results add to a growing body of evidence that certain nutrients can be utilized to reduce the rates of development of this major age-related complaint....American Thoracic Society Journal news tips for February (second issue)
...atic men and women 50years of age or older who had smoked at least 20 pack years of cigarettes. The research appears in the second issue for February of the American Thoracic Societys peer-reviewed AmericanJournal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine. ACUTE LUNG INJURY INCIDENCE HIGHER AND MORTALITY...Underage smokers respond to threat of legal penalties
...chool students. Nearly 49 percent of students who smoked no more than one cigarette a day said that penalti... smoking, compared with 23 percent of students who smoked two or more cigarettes a day and 18 percent of those who had smoked on the day of the survey. The po...Four researchers awarded Dutch Nobel Prize
...nfluences on variation in the number of cigarettes smoked was just as great as for the variation in cholesterol levels. Discovery of cause of cancer Professor Hans Clevers (born 1957), Professor of Clinical Immunology at Utrecht University, has discovered how a number of cancer types develop at molecul...Current interventions fall short for smoking cessation
...sked to rate on a scale if the cigarette they just smoked was satisfying, tasted good, made them dizzy, calmed them down, helped them concentrate, made them feel more awake, reduced their appetite, made them nauseous, decreased irritability, produced enjoyable sensations in the throat and chest and reduced ...Smoking prevention programs may miss minority teens
... multiple ethnicities were the most likely to have smoked within the past 30 days (22 percent each), white teenagers were in the middle (18 percent) and African American and Asian American teenagers were the least likely (12 percent each) to have smoked. Similarly, 71 percent of Hispanics were susceptible...Studies find eating fruits and vegetables good for lungs
...10 pack years of smoking history (meaning they had smoked at least 20 cigarettes per day, every day per year). She found that vegetable intake of one or more portions per day (equivalent to one or more tablespoons) almost halved the risk of the disease. Eating one-and-a-half pieces of fruit or more per day ...Smokers more likely to experience impotence, Wake Forest study shows
... a dose response relationship: the more cigarettes smoked per day the greater the chance of impotence. But most of these earlier studies looked at a highly selective group of patients going to urology or cardiology clinics, he said. "This is the first study that looked at a primary care population and i...UNC study shows family-directed program can reduce adolescent tobacco, alcohol use
...ed the number of adolescents who drank alcohol and smoked cigarettes, Bauman said. A report on the continuing research appears in the April issue of the American Journal of Public Health. Besides Bauman, authors are Dr. Vangie A. Foshee, Dr. Susan T. Ennett and graduate student Katherine A. Hicks of the...Bad habits, non-cholesterol risk factors in youth linked to fatty plaques
...iggers a heart attack. Those in the study who smoked had more extensive fatty streaks and three times the extent of plaques in the abdominal aorta, where aneurysms (bulgings of the artery wall) develop in middle age. Obese males had more extensive fatty streaks and twice coronary artery plaques compar...First medicinal cannabis studies approved by research center
..., M.D. (UCSF)An inpatient study on the efficacy of smoked marijuana for the alleviation of peripheral nerve ...)An outpatient study of the efficacy and safety of smoked marijuana versus placebo for the treatment of muscle spasms, loss of function, and related pain in p...Landmark school-based 'social influences' smoking-prevention program found not to work
...rade girls, 24.4 percent in the experimental group smoked daily, little different from 24.7 percent in the control group. For 12th grade boys, the percentages for daily smoking were 26.3 percent experimental and 26.7 percent control. The project's lead investigator, Arthur V. Peterson Jr., Ph.D., says that...New antipsychotic drugs combined with nicotine patch help schizophrenics quit smoking
...dent patients diagnosed with schizophrenia and who smoked about a pack of cigarettes a day. The patients were assigned either to the American Lung Association program for smokers or the specialized group for schizophrenic smokers. Each group received the therapy for 10 weeks. All of the subjects were given...Investigational drug study may determine if lung cancer is preventable in cigarette smokers
...ntly must smoke at least 20 cigarettes a day, have smoked to some degree for at least 10 years and have at l... in the past three years. The number of cigarettes smoked per day must be fairly constant for three months prior to entering the study....Analysis of study looks at why quitters return to smoking
...ling. At week seven, the 432 patients who had not smoked in the past seven days then continued for 45 weeks on either the drug or placebo. At the end of the study, the smokers who returned to smoking (128 in the placebo group and 116 in the group treated with Zyban) were asked to choose factors they felt ......rticipants, about 54 percent were female, they had smoked for an average of 22 years, and 91 percent had tried previously to quit. Before quitting, they averaged about 26 cigarettes per day, having the first one about 15 minutes after waking up (an indicator of tobacco dependence), on average, and had trie...Cigarette smoking among American teens
...are 13 or 14 years old, 17.5 percent said they had smoked one or more cigarettes in the past 30 days (defined as "current smoking"), down by one-sixth from a peak of 21 percent in 1996. Among 10th-graders, most of whom are 15 or 16 years old, 25.7 percent reported smoking in the past 30 days, down nearly o......escents receive counseling, whether they currently smoked or not," says Anne Thorndike, MD, the study's lead author. During the years 1991 through 1996, physicians responding to a national survey reported asking young patients ages 11 to 21 about their smoking habits at 71 percent of office visits. But th...