Tobacco companies designed cigarettes 'to addict women,' according to new study
...aw, increased sensory pleasure and altered tar and nicotine levels. The documents also show that cigarette ma...mokers have little notion of their brand's tar and nicotine levels. Perception is more important than reality, and in this case the perception is of reduced to...Easy access to nicotine patches could help more smokers to quit
Giving smokers easy access to free nicotine patches could substantially increase the likelihoo...cessfully stop for a year or more. Smokers who use nicotine replacement therapy (NRT) are much more likely to quit than those who do not use such treatment. Th...Tobacco use persists after liver transplant for alcoholic liver disease
...who smoked at all post-transplant were found to be nicotine dependent. Only a few associations were found between smoking and demographic and medical characteristics in the transplant population. Recipients who also had hepatitis B virus or hepatitis C virus were more likely to smoke, as were those with a hi...Study shows Philip Morris pursued tobacco regulation to enhance its image
...viously sued the FDA when it attempted to regulate nicotine as a drug and cigarettes as nicotine delivery devices, but beginning in 2000, the company began aggressively pursuing FDA regulation. "W...As morphine turns 200, drug that blocks its side effects reveals new secrets
..., such as strychnine in 1817, caffeine in 1820 and nicotine in 1828. In 1831, Serturner won a lucrative prize for the discovery. In 1818, French physician Francois Magendie published a paper that described how morphine brought pain relief and much-needed sleep to an ailing young girl. This stimulated widesp...Two studies offer clues about how alcoholic behavior is 'switched' on
...s behavior involving other drugs of abuse, such as nicotine and heroin," Thanos said. While it is well known that brain circuits modulated by other neurotransmitters (such as glutamate and serotonin) also play a role in alcohol intake, Thanos said, "these two studies provide further insight into the complex r...American Thoracic Society journal news tips for May 2005 (first issue)
... rhesus monkeys limited the deleterious effects of nicotine exposure to their offspring. According to the authors, earlier work had pointed out that nicotine from smoking resulted in many serious effects on the fetus during pregnancy. In this study, nicotin...Simple questions may determine children's exposure to smoke
...cco smoke exposure because it correlates well with nicotine levels in the blood, measures exposure over several months and is not influenced by short-term exposure. Hair samples were collected from 291 healthy children, two weeks to three years of age, at a primary care clinic and the children were divided ...Alcohol magnifies the rewarding effects of smoking, even for light smokers
...l Center, "by examining light smokers, the role of nicotine withdrawal symptoms is presumably minimized." "Tob... for why some people smoke when they drink is that nicotine may offset the sedative effects of alcohol," said King. "However, we showed that the desire to smok...