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Banning Smoking At Home Protects Infants
Banning smoking in the home leads to a small but meaningful fall in infant exposure to environmental tobacco smoke, whereas less strict measures have no effect, finds a study in this week's BMJ. Parents from 314 households with young infants took part in the study. Parents were interviewed at home about their knowledge and use of harm reduction... view more... (2003-07-30)
Understanding teen attitudes critical to quit message
Teen attitudes to smoking need to be re-examined if anti-smoking health campaigns are to be effective, according to Hunter researchers. view more (2008-03-18)
Internet tobacco sales may have significant public health implications
Websites selling cigarettes operate in 23 states in the USA, presenting new regulatory and enforcement challenges for tobacco control advocates, finds a study in Tobacco Control. Researchers at the University of North Carolina used a rigorous internet searching strategy during January 2000 to identify the number of internet cigarette vendors in... view more... (2001-12-07)
Tobacco industry concealed its role in refuting important study
In 1981 an influential Japanese study showed an association between passive smoking and lung cancer. Using internal tobacco industry documents, researchers in this week’s BMJ describe how the industry tried to hide its involvement in refuting this study. view more (2002-12-11)
UCSF study shows attitudes toward tobacco industry linked to smoking behavior
A new study by UCSF researchers concludes that media campaigns that portray the tobacco industry in a negative light and that appeal to young adults may be a powerful intervention to decrease young adult smoking. view more (2009-05-07)
Tobacco industry courted African American leaders to boost sales and stave off anti-tobacco legislation
The tobacco industry deliberately courted African American leadership organisations to increase its sales and defuse attempts to control tobacco use, reveals research in Tobacco Control. Compared with other racial groups in the US, African Americans bear the brunt of tobacco related disease, with a death toll of around 45,000 people every year.... view more... (2002-11-12)
Tobacco use will continue, possibly grow, during recession, Georgia State expert says
Even though tobacco use is expected to kill 6 million people worldwide and drain $500 billion from the global economy each year - according to a new report co-authored by a Georgia State University tobacco expert - the recession will most likely do nothing to reduce use. view more (2009-03-13)
Smokeless tobacco safer than smoking
Smokeless tobacco products, as used in Europe and North America, do not appear to increase cancer risk. view more (2009-07-29)
Tobacco industry dominates the process of international tobacco standard setting
International standard methods to measure tar and nicotine yields in cigarettes are currently dominated by the tobacco industry, leading to false health claims surrounding low tar cigarettes and failing to protect consumers' health and safety, finds a study in Tobacco Control. The research team analysed tobacco industry documents made public as... view more... (2001-05-30)
Nurses should play larger role in helping smokers quit
Some good advice from nurses to patients who smoke significantly increases the likelihood of those smokers quitting, according to several articles in a special issue of the July-August 2006 Nursing Research journal. view more (2006-08-14)
Tobacco Industry Strategies For Influencing European Community Tobacco Advertising Legislation (pp 1264, 1323)
A public-health article in this week's issue of THE LANCET highlights how the tobacco industry lobbied individual member states of the European Community to prevent the introduction of a total ban on tobacco advertising in 1998. Restrictions on tobacco company advertising and sponsorship are effective parts of tobacco control programmes... view more... (2002-04-10)
Poorer lung function in workplace passive smokers
Non-smokers forced to breathe in their colleagues' cigarette smoke at work may significantly compromise the ability of their lungs to function properly, shows research in Occupational and Environmental Medicine. The study involved over 300 men and women employees who were randomly selected from general practitioner records in Glasgow, Scotland.... view more... (2001-08-14)
Salt of the Earth
A yeast gene responsible for salt tolerance has successfully been used to grow tobacco in a salty environment lethal to most plants. Dr Janey Henderson and Professor Phil Harris from Coventry University inserted the halotolerance gene HAL1 from yeast into a tobacco plant. HAL1 has previously been shown to confer salt tolerance in transgenic tomato... view more... (2001-04-04)
Emotional Intelligence and the use of tobacco and cannabis
The term Emotional Intelligence could be defined as the capacity to perceive, comprehend and regulate one's own emotions and those of others so as to be able to distinguish between emotions and use this information as a guide for one's thoughts and actions. view more (2007-11-02)
New study expands the list of hazardous chemicals in smokeless tobacco
Attention all smokeless tobacco users! It's time to banish the comforting notion that snuff and chewing tobacco are safe because they don't burn and produce inhalable smoke like cigarettes. view more (2009-08-17)
Smokeless tobacco more effective than cigarettes for delivering dangerous carcinogens into the body
It may not be inhaled into the lungs, but smokeless tobacco exposes users to some of the same potent carcinogens as cigarettes. view more (2007-08-10)
Huge increase in tobacco deaths in progress
If current smoking patterns persist, tobacco is set to cause one third of all deaths among middle aged men in China over the next few decades, predict researchers in this week's BMJ. More than 27,000 ethnic Chinese people, aged 35 or over, whose deaths were registered in Hong Kong in 1998 were identified. Information about the medical cause of... view more... (2001-08-15)
Survey identifies characteristics of teens who smoke marijuana but not tobacco
A Swiss study suggests that teens who use only cannabis appear to function better than those who also use tobacco, and are more socially driven and have no more psychosocial problems than those who abstain from both substances. view more (2007-11-06)
Carcinogens from parents' tobacco smoke found in their babies' urine
When mom or dad puffs on a cigarette, their infants may inhale the resulting second-hand smoke. Now, scientists have detected cancer-causing chemicals associated with tobacco smoke in the urine of nearly half the babies of smoking parents. view more (2006-05-12)
Waterpipe Smoking on College Campuses May Contribute to Growing Public Health Problem
More and more U.S. college students are smoking tobacco using waterpipes - or hookahs - and it's becoming a growing public health issue, according to a new study led by a Virginia Commonwealth University researcher. view more (2008-05-07)
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