disease from smoking

New Study: First Exposure to Nicotine May Change Adolescents' Brain And Behavior

CrossRef | ISI | MEDLINE Cigarette use is the leading preventable cause of death in the United States ...
The sensitive tobacco industry documents that he refers to in his order remain under seal ...
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 ...
These findings may help explain why teen smokers are prone to continue the habit into adulthood ...
While there are multiple reasons why teens try smoking , this study supports earlier findings identifying biological reasons for cigarette addiction ...

NJ: After 20 Years, Epic Tobacco Lawsuit Settled

For the first time this fall, the Memphis researchers will include bidis in the list of tobacco products whose use they chart with Memphis seventh-grade students ...
The settlement also enabled Rossi's family to celebrate the rarest of occasions in such cases -- a payout from a tobacco company ...
But it's a daunting task in a nation that has had a steamy love affair with tobacco for more than five centuries ...

MI May Increase Cigarette Tax by 75 Cents

For each cross-sectional national survey, students completed an anonymous, self-administered questionnaire that included identically worded questions about cigarette use ...
But Democrats have their own objections to the tax increase, saying it would unfairly affect low-income adults who might not be able to quit smoking or afford smoking cessation aids ...
If so, all but six Democrats would have to vote for the measure for it to pass ...

New Evidence that Teens are Most Vulnerable to Smoking Addiction

Airport General Manager Benjamin DeCosta agrees Atlanta's airport should be smoke-free ...
Quadratic trends indicated significant but nonlinear trends in the data over time ...
Teenagers have long been regarded as the age group most vulnerable to the addictive lure of cigarettes, and a new report compiling five years of studies from a UC Irvine tobacco research program provides details why this is very likely true ...
The health risks associated with moderate daily use are, in fact, quite staggering', said researcher Dr ...
A recent analysis by the Licking County Juvenile Court revealed that Newark's middle-school children on the average smoke more than their counterparts in the rest of the state and nation ...

More Teen One-Timers Getting Hooked

Above all, we need to put in place tough penalties that will cost the tobacco industry if it continues to sell cigarettes to young people ...
The disagreement means that the fate of a lawsuit often depends on whether it is heard in state or federal court ...
If the court agrees to take up the issue, its ruling Williamson Tobacco Co ...
More than a third of high school students who try cigarettes develop a daily smoking habit before they graduate, the Government said today ...

St. Paul to Hold Public Hearing for Debate Over Proposed Smoking Ban

The tests were carried out in four typical London venues - a local pub, a cocktail bar, a ...
Surveys have found that almost 11 percent of men and 2 percent of women smoke cigars ...
Paul would be the largest city in the state to ban smoking in bars and restaurants ...

Wichita Tobacco Free Coalition Pushes for Smoking Ban

The nicotine wallop they pack can produce the dizzy, light-headed, vaguely intoxicated sensation dubbed a said Dr ...
The Tobacco Free Wichita Coalition plans to lobby the City Council by September to ban smoking in all enclosed public establishments, including restaurants, bars, bowling alleys and sports arenas, coalition chairwoman Pat MacDonald said ...
Data were weighted to provide national estimates, and SUDAAN was used for all data analyses ...
It is critical to the public's health that all indoor facilities be smoke-free ...
Two cases that remained in state court led to large damage awards ...

U.S. Surgeon General Releases Comprehensive Report on Smoking and Health

Published 40 years after the surgeon general’s first report on smoking — which concluded that smoking was a definite cause of three serious disease s — this newest report finds that cigarette smoking is conclusively linked to disease s such as leukemia, cataracts, pneumonia and cancers of the cervix, kidney, pancreas and stomach ...
Even when he was near death, on morphine to ease the pain of cancer, Rossi pretended to drag on a cigarette ...
Where do kids get their cigarettes? Cigarette machines in public places aren't nearly as plentiful as they once were ...
Have something they can go to right after school--at their school, not at another site ...

Surgeon General: More Diseases Linked to Smoking

In his May order, Fitzpatrick ruled that the government has made a successful preliminary showing that such documents were fraudulently protected under the attorney-client privilege ...
A report for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released yesterday said that 22 ...
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 ...
But it said more study is needed to determine if there is the direct cause-and-effect relationship found with other cancers and leukemia ...
And perhaps most of all, let them know that you do care whether they smoke ...

WHO says Tobacco Kills 1 Person Every 6.5 Seconds

Countries have until June 29 to sign the treaty, which also sets out provisions and minimum standards signatories will have to respect in their tobacco control One person dies from a tobacco-related disease every 6 1/2 seconds, the head of the U ...
Among women smokers, however, the risk of bloodclots was doubled among those studied who smoked just three to five cigarettes daily ...
This decline is too slow to achieve the federal government's goal of reducing the number of smokers to 12 percent of the adult population by 2010 ...
In a study last year of 2600 youths aged 10 to 14, she found that movie portrayals of tobacco use are a major reason why children smoke ...