disease from smoking

Tobacco Therapies Doubtful [02/22-4]

A variety of products have come on the market in recent years, promoted to help people stop smoking or reduce tobacco usage ...
The Marlboro Man and Joe Camel probably don't feel threatened, but an Indian cigarette that is wrapped in a leaf and sold in enough flavors ...
Psychologist Henning Damkjsterbro Investigation, which has been published in the current Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health ...
In 1962, Rodgman wrote: `The amount of evidence accumulated to indict cigarette smoke as a health hazard is overwhelming while the evidence challenging the indictment is scant ...

Text of Clinton's Speech on Tobacco

They are also linked to the same health problems, including lung and oral cancers as regular cigarettes ...
It adds to the growing evidence showing the tobacco industry deliberately misled the public ...
Temporal changes were analyzed by using logistic regression analyses that assessed linear and quadratic time effects simultaneously and controlled for sex, race/ethnicity, and grade ...
Luckily, that same study showed that the rate tapers off to the average by the time the local students hit high school ...

California: Court Seeks Tobacco Law Clarification for Sick Smoker Suits

According to Politiken, authorities in this country are already aware of several of the factors examined in the study, including the differing risks for male and female smokers ...
Patricia Henley, who was diagnosed with lung cancer 35 years after she started smoking at age 15, won $10 ...
When ASH learned that President Clinton would not announce his decision regarding the proposed deal until September (rather than in August as initially expected), ASH Executive Director John Banzhaf ...

Smoking By Kids Up - Again!

This session, however, could be the most important one of the Conference since it is designed to influence President Clinton's decision regarding the proposed US tobacco deal, and ultimately the deal itself ...
But it was the sharp rise in black youths' smoking rates, which other studies showed to have dropped sharply in the 1970's and 1980's, that experts found most troubling ...
In a move that could determine the future of tobacco lawsuits in California, a federal appeals court asked the state's high court Tuesday to resolve a conflict that has resulted in multimillion-dollar verdicts in state courts and dismissals of similar suits in federal courts ...
A court-appointed special master is determining whether any of those documents can be made part of the public file ...
The Conference organizers have agreed, and the special session is now scheduled for Wednesday, August 27th ...

President Pressures Industry on Radio

The Conference organizers have agreed, and the special session is now scheduled for Wednesday, August 27th ...
This morning, I want to report on the progress we're making in our country to free children from two of the greatest health and safety dangers they face: the cruel and deadly lure of smoking and the lethal combination of drinking and driving ...
Kalamazoo Valley Community College officials believe their policy ultimately will loosen up funds for other programs ...

Why Teenagers Smoke, and Quit

Hatai Chitanondh, Thailand Health Promotion Institute, The National Health Foundation Stephen L ...
Kalamazoo Valley Community College officials believe their policy ultimately will loosen up funds for other programs ...
The verdict was overturned by a state appellate court last year for reasons unrelated to the issue in Tuesday's request to the state Supreme Court ...
Once the politically popular bill cleared its first hurdle Wednesday, tobacco companies balked and warned that the added costs could bankrupt the industry ...
How can a teen be convinced to stop smoking --or persuaded never to take up the habit at all? Those questions became even more crucial last week, when the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported that tobacco use among teenagers increased by nearly one-third in the last six years ...

EXPERTS BAFFLED BY RISE IN TEEN SMOKING

Last year, according to the American Lung Association, 38 percent of movies included a cigar scene ...
The three girls are 14 years old -- they look not a day older -- and have been smoking cigarettes since they were 10 ...
Elif Dagli, Department of Pediatric Pulmonology, Marmara University ...
The study followed 12,000 individuals in this country for up to 22 years ...
Let's remember -- this is not about politics or money, or seeking revenge against the tobacco ...

Cigarette Company Considers Pulling 'Light" Label

Luckily, that same study showed that the rate tapers off to the average by the time the local students hit high school ...
Spokeswoman Sara Machir said the company will assess whether to remove the terms from its other brands -- Main Street, Sport and Gsmoke ...
That study showed that nearly 30 percent of Newark's sixth-graders and 50 percent of eight-graders have used tobacco, compared with 7 percent and 35 percent respectively across the state ...
For current cigarette use, temporal changes and subgroup differences in 2003 were analyzed by sex, race/ethnicity, and grade ...

New Survey: Amercians Want U.S. to Sign the FCTC

Have something they can go to right after school--at their school, not at another site ...
President Bush has until June 29 to sign it -- only 57 days from now ...
The nicotine wallop they pack can produce the dizzy, light-headed, vaguely intoxicated sensation dubbed a said Dr ...

New UK Study Adds More Evidence Against the Dangers of Passive Smoking

They claim the risk to non-smokers of going to pubs and restaurants where smoking is allowed is Fresh evidence of the health risk from passive smoking is revealed today ...
leveling off or change in direction) in addition to an overall increase or decrease over time ...
Eva Prescott of the Institute for Illness Prevention, in an interview with daily newspaper Politiken ...
The tests were carried out in four typical London venues - a local pub, a cocktail bar, a ...