Smoking causes half the tuberculosis deaths in Indian men
...a are caused by smoking, and three quarters of the smokers who become ill with tuberculosis (TB) would not ha...er Research UK. The study found that in India male smokers are about four times as likely to become ill with TB as non-smokers, and consequently four times as ...Smoking causes half the tuberculosis deaths in Indian men
...tudy in this week's issue of THE LANCET shows that smokers in India are four times as likely as non-smokers t... area, the death rates from medical causes of ever smokers were double those of never smokers. The risks were substantial both for cigarette smoking (the main ...American Thoracic Society Journal news tips for August 2003 (second issue)
... almost 43 percent of the subjects were continuous smokers during the 25 years of the study.) Most of the participants were farmers and were involved in heavy to very heavy occupational activities, but all had retired by 1984. The study appears in the second issue for August 2003 of the American Thoracic S...Early detection of lung cancer possible with CAT and PET scans
...opulation of high-risk volunteers. Over 1000 heavy smokers (minimum consumption 26 cigarettes a day for 37 years) aged 50 years or older underwent annual low-dose spiral CT, with or without PET, for 5 years. Lesions up to 5 mm were deemed non-suspicious and low-dose spiral CT was repeated after 12 months (ye...DNA repair activity may be associated with risk of lung cancer
...individuals and may explain why only a fraction of smokers develop the disease. Tobacco smoke contains many...ncer patients than in controls and was the same in smokers and non-smokers. After adjusting for age and smoking status, people in the bottom third of OGG activ...Smoking linked to osteoporosis in women
...gests continuing high exposure to tobacco in older smokers and greater sensitivity to smoking-induced bone loss after menopause as possible explanations for the more pronounced negative effects of tobacco on bone loss in postmenopausal women. But Professor Wark says that much remains to be learnt about how s...Early nicotine use may lead to lasting addiction, study finds
...egins during adolescence, Levin pointed out. Among smokers in the United States, 88 percent smoked their firs...ts," Levin said. Other studies have suggested that smokers who take up the habit at a young age are more likely to continue to smoke, Levin said. However, rese...PET scans show cigarette smoke affects peripheral organs
...am compared PET scans showing MAO B activity in 12 smokers with scans from 8 nonsmokers. The researchers obse...ans was reduced by one-third to almost one-half in smokers compared with nonsmokers. The scientists caution that the effects of this finding remain unknown at ...Imaging study reveals effect of smoking on peripheral organs
...howed that the reduction of MAO B in the brains of smokers was not due to nicotine, but rather, to some other...ion tomography (PET) scans -- to determine whether smokers have reduced MAO B activity in their peripheral organs. The scientists administered MAO B-specific ...Nearly 5 million deaths worldwide caused by smoking
...n estimated 930 million of the world's 1.1 billion smokers live. Deaths from lung cancer among non-smokers was an important baseline in the study for the measurement of smoking deaths across different populations. The investigators estimate that 4.8 million deaths in 2000 were attributable to smoking, with...Link between cannabis and death still not established
...ly, the studies to date have not followed cannabis smokers into later adult life so it might be too early to detect an increase risk of chronic diseases that are potentially associated with the use of cannabis. Secondly, the low rate of regular cannabis use and the high rate of discontinuation during young a...Making tiny plastic particles to deliver lifesaving medicine
... administer to themselves. Inhalation, however, as smokers and asthmatics know, is generally a quick and painless method of getting a drug into the body. Still, Hanes noted, "the lungs are pretty sacred ground. You have to be very conservative about what you put in there." As a doctoral student at MIT, Hanes...OHSU researcher co-authors National State-By-State Report Card on women and smoking; Oregon flunks
... of adult women smoke. Among those, the number of smokers aged 18 to 44 is especially alarming, Berlin said....ave no health insurance. Also, 53 percent of women smokers in Oregon are trying to quit, but that does not meet the national goal of 75 percent. While only 30 ...New Penn study shows genes may influence smoking cessation
.... Dr. Lerman led a research team that examined 418 smokers enrolled in a randomized placebo-controlled clinic...nences rates and a longer time before relapse than smokers carrying other variants of these genes. "This gene-gene interaction provides new evidence for the e...Smoking more common among nursing than medical students
...pared to 57.6 percent of medical students. Female smokers in both groups had a higher FTND score than male smokers and reported smoking more cigarettes per day, more often, and sooner after waking up in the morning....Sperm from marijuana smokers move too fast too early, impairing fertility, UB research shows
...specific swimming behavior of sperm from marijuana smokers and to compare the results with sperm from men wit...received seminal fluid from 22 confirmed marijuana smokers and subjected the samples to a variety of tests. The volunteers reported smoking marijuana approxima...Novelty-seeking teens more receptive to tobacco advertising, new study shows
...-seeking trait. Novelty-seeking adolescents, both smokers and non-smokers, were twice as likely to be receptive to tobacco advertising. As a result of this finding researchers believe that novelty-seeking may be a key factor in receptivity to tobacco advertising regardless of smoking status and may put teen...New research links lung cancer screening to accelerated rates of smoking cessation
...ated smoking behavior change in current and former smokers undergoing low-dose, fast spiral CT screening in a... attention to see if after screening, more current smokers decided to quit, and if those who had already quit remained tobacco free. The researchers found af...Breast cancer patients treated with lumpectomy and radiation survive longer if they dont smoke
...py. The study evaluated 1,039 non-smokers and 861 smokers who were treated with conservation therapy at Fox ... deaths from breast cancer and overall survival in smokers and non-smokers"This analysis shows that smoking, either past or present, was associated with increa......ted at 18 percent, marks the highest percentage of smokers among all health professionals. "Nurses have a tremendous opportunity to assist in tobacco-control efforts," Sarna said. "However, smoking among nurses limits their ability to be strong tobacco-control advocates, including the act of engaging in smok...