The National Cancer Institute's Smokefree Women team is launching "Celebrating Smokefree Voices," a YouTube video contest, to capture the quitting experiences and reasons for quitting smoking among women and friends/families across the U.S. |
A woman who smokes while pregnant increases her baby's risk of developing psychiatric problems in childhood and young adulthood, a new Finnish study suggests. While there's plenty of evidence that smoking during pregnancy puts unborn children at risk for long-term health proble... Click here for entire article |
| In 2009, tobacco giant R.J. Reynolds launched Camel Orbs, dissolvable nicotine pellets flavored with cinnamon or mint that are intended for use by smokers who find themselves in smoke-free surroundings. But researchers writing in the April 19 online edition of Pediatrics warn that th... Click here for entire article |
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| Record numbers of U.S. smokers are turning to telephone quitlines for help in breaking their addiction, but access to this critical service is being put at risk by state budget cuts, according to a report released today by the North American Quitline Consortium and other public health organizations.... Click here for entire article |
In addition to the risks associated with directly inhaling cigarette smoke, smokers also face significant risk from their own secondhand smoke, researchers say. The finding, published online Jan. 29 in Environmental Health, challenges the widely held belief that the threat posed... Click here for entire article |
Babies of women who smoked during pregnancy have blood pressure problems at birth that persisted through the first year of life, a new study finds. "What is of concern is that the problems are present at birth and get worse over time," said Gary Cohen, a senior research scientis... Click here for entire article |
Not only does cigarette smoke cause lung cancer, it worsens the disease by increasing lung inflammation, U.S. researchers have found. The team at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine conducted tests on mice with early lung cancer lesions and found that thos... Click here for entire article |
| American teens believe that smoking cigarettes is riskier than using illicit drugs or binge drinking, a new government report shows.
That perception may increase the likelihood that they'll experiment with alcohol or illegal substances, the report authors said. "We are on the r... Click here for entire article |
The Louisiana Department of Health and Hospitals? Tobacco Control Program announced today that Louisiana is one of three states, including Montana and Michigan, to receive a competitive grant to expand comprehensive tobacco-free school policies in more schools. The grant comes from the Nat... Click here for entire article |
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Women may be more vulnerable than men to the carcinogens and other noxious substances in cigarette smoke, a growing body of research suggests. In one study of nearly 700 people with lung cancer, Swiss experts found that women tended to be younger when they received the diagnosis... Click here for entire article |
| WASHINGTON -- Smoking bans are effective at reducing the risk of heart attacks and heart disease associated with exposure to secondhand smoke, says a new report from the Institute of Medicine. The report also confirms there is sufficient evidence that breathing secondhand smoke boosts nonsmokers' r... Click here for entire article |
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