affect of cigarette smoking

Study: Strategies to Reduce ETS Exposure to Infants

The strengths of our study were that we sampled a representative population of smoking households with infants, we assessed the cotinine to creatinine ratio, which corrects for dilution of urine, and we studied a narrow age range of infants thus reducing the variation associated with differential speed of metabolism and excretion of nicotine ...
Our study is the first to report, in detail, parents' knowledge and use of measures to reduce the exposure of their infants to tobacco smoke in the home ...
The group we studied was chosen to coincide with the peak age for sudden infant death syndrome ...

Highlights Advantages of State Lawsuits Over Flawed Global Deal

3 billion over 25 years to settle the state's massive suit against the industry--one of the largest court-approved settlements in U ...
The industry also must remove cigarette -vending machines from any place accessible to children and remove tobacco advertising in sports arenas and on public buses and trains ...
Following are excerpts on the Florida settlement from various news reports ...

Tobacco Therapies Doubtful [02/22-4]

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Anti- smoking therapies and modified tobacco products have the potential to reduce the danger of smoking , but not enough is known about their use to be certain, a research panel said Thursday ...
Lawton Chiles insisted be part of any deal to resolve the suit, which was about to go to trial ...
Florida's historic victory demonstrates the significant public health gains that can be achieved through the individual state medicaid suits without having to give the tobacco industry major concessions such as those contained in the ...
Our study is the first to report, in detail, parents' knowledge and use of measures to reduce the exposure of their infants to tobacco smoke in the home ...

Children with Asthma Twice as Likely to Face Year-Round Attacks if Parents Smoke

The new analysis was conducted by Kathryn Slish, a researcher in the U-M Department of Pediatrics, with assistant professor of pediatrics Michael Cabana, M ...
Following are excerpts on the Florida settlement from various news reports ...
Those findings, made by University of Michigan researchers and scheduled to be presented here on May 4 at the Pediatric Academic Societies Annual Meeting, reinforce the importance of educating parents about how their own smoking can affect their children with asthma ...
to avoid seeing vast quantities of its internal documents released at trial -- a sign that cases like his state's, scheduled to begin early next year, must move forward, and that the national settlement is unnecessary ...
The industry also agreed to several public health concessions that Florida Gov ...

Scotland: Pregnant Women Tested for Smoking

Experts say smoking during pregnancy can adversely affect lung development in an infant, and the child has a higher risk of asthma and inner ear problems ...
3 billion over 25 years to settle the state's massive suit against the industry--one of the largest court-approved settlements in U ...
The scheme, known as breathe, is thought to be the first of its kind in Scotland ...
Florida's historic victory demonstrates the significant public health gains that can be achieved through the individual state medicaid suits without having to give the tobacco industry major concessions such as those contained in the ...
Those interviews were done as part of the Physician Asthma Care Education (PACE) project, which is designed to improve asthma education for physicians, and consequently the health of their young patients who have asthma ...

Australian Doctors Debate Smokers' Rights to Surgery

Our study is the first to report, in detail, parents' knowledge and use of measures to reduce the exposure of their infants to tobacco smoke in the home ...
Peters, a thoracic surgeon and chairman of action on smoking and health, based his argument on a Danish study which found that after joint replacement surgery, smokers could reduce their risk of post-operative wound infection from 27 per cent to zero if they quit smoking six weeks before the operation ...
3 billion over 25 years to settle the state's massive suit against the industry--one of the largest court-approved settlements in U ...
In Glasgow, 27% of women smoke during pregnancy, but this rises to 51% in the most deprived neighbourhoods ...

MI May Increase Cigarette Tax by 75 Cents

The Florida settlement,therefore, should strengthen the resolve of other states and the U ...
Florida's historic victory demonstrates the significant public health gains that can be achieved through the individual state medicaid suits without having to give the tobacco industry major concessions such as those contained in the ...
A higher cigarette tax would generate about $295 million, with $30 million raised for smoking cessation and chronic disease programs and the rest helping the state offer health care coverage to low-income residents through Medicaid ...
to avoid seeing vast quantities of its internal documents released at trial -- a sign that cases like his state's, scheduled to begin early next year, must move forward, and that the national settlement is unnecessary ...

DC Judge Sets Back Smoking Ban Ballot Initiative

He says when wound infections occur among smokers, their hospital stay is extended and costs are increased ...
They argued that the initiative illegally infringed upon powers of local government officials to make decisions that affect city revenue ...
The study is based on data from in-depth phone interviews with 896 parents of asthmatic children ages 2 to 12 years in 10 states ...
Reducing the exposure of infants to tobacco smoke is likely to be important in preventing sudden infant death as there is a close association between the two ...
Congress to find out just what the tobacco industry is hiding before the flawed tobacco bailout goes any further ...

Gene Linked to Nicotine Addiction

The scheme, known as breathe, is thought to be the first of its kind in Scotland ...
and don't start if you aren't a smoker, suggests Action on Smoking and Health (ASH), a national anti smoking group ...
5 million package of cuts it said would be better than Granholm's proposals ...
He says when wound infections occur among smokers, their hospital stay is extended and costs are increased ...
This suggests that health promotion messages urging parents to protect their children from tobacco smoke may ...

Supreme Court's Decision in Massachusetts Advertising Case

In Glasgow, 27% of women smoke during pregnancy, but this rises to 51% in the most deprived neighbourhoods ...
It's the second time Republican House Speaker Rick Johnson of LeRoy has hinted that the chamber could take up legislation imposing the $2-per-pack tax ...
Only a small proportion of respondents reported not knowing of any harm reduction measures or knowing of measures but not using them ...
Bills need 55 votes to win approval in the 110-member House, rather than 56, because there is one vacancy ...