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WHO Report: Smoke Endangers 1/2 World's Kids

Studies had shown that smoke significantly damaged the health of children, it added, increasing the likelihood of them contracting respiratory ailments such as bronchitis, pneumonia and asthma ...
Then in 1991 he kicked the habit with the help of nicotine gum, which his doctor told him would help him over the biggest hurdle: the crucial first weeks when the vast majority of would-be quitters relapse ...
There was also some evidence that passive smoking in children affected the development of the brain and accelerated the onset of heart disease ...
The appeal of Judge Weinstein's decision has exposed alliances often unseen in large liability battles ...

Vaccines May Prevent Addiction

These findings help explain why some people won't quit, experts say ...
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In this test, Belluzzi and Leslie monitored behavioral responses and found that nicotine reinforcement did not occur in adult and late adolescent rats ...
But since most countries are failing to cut the number of children and teenagers taking up cigar ettes, many will ask if the vaccines should be used far more widely if they prove to be effective ...
Because coronary heart disease is a leading cause of death in many countries, even relatively small increases in risk from this one factor can result in a large population burden of disease attributable to exposure to tobacco smoke ...

Secondhand Smoke Tearing Families Apart

While the health consequences are devastating, the Foundation's report also details the significant economic costs of treating children with smoking -related illnesses ...
The study is the first of its kind to show the rapid changes in the brain and behavior of adolescents after just a single administration of nicotine ...
3 billion smokers worldwide, 84 percent live in developing countries ...
On a recent Wednesday morning he describes as typical, Jeff arrives at his 9: 30 class, a "gifted and talented" program reserved for the school's brightest students, and sits down at a computer ...
But lawyers with experience in tobacco cases say a national trial to determine punitive damages involving the claims of millions of smokers could invite jurors to hand down a verdict of unprecedented size ...

Teens' Brains May Make Them More Prone to Addiction

should learn to look at itself as a drug company,'' he said, ``rather than a tobacco company ...
If effected, tobacco companies could find themselves facing multi-million shilling suits over all manner of ill health allegations by active and passive smokers similar to those experienced by Western tobacco companies ...

Certain Gene May Put Some Children at Greater Risk of Developing Asthma from ETS

DURHAM -- Tethered to a pulse monitor, Robert Marrow sat in a tiny office and waited for the lab ...
Boyle, citing recent litigation involving flight attendants and custody and visitation issues concerning a child's exposure to a parent's second-hand smoke, said the extension was justified ...
That bill is scheduled to be considered Wednesday by the Senate Health and Human Services Committee ...
David Bernick, a lawyer for the Brown After eight months, hundreds of witnesses, thousands of documents ...
The researchers then studied the effects of their exposure to smoking Some children may be at a greater risk than others of developing asthma from second-hand smoke because of their genes, say scientists ...

New Zealand Students Smoke During Breaks

2 billion adults who smoke, according to a WHO consultation report to a conference on health and the environment in London ...
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An anti- smoking group is appalled over revelations that Whangarei children are allowed to smoke cigar ettes during breaks from alternative education classes ...
Study results appeared in the online version of Psychopharmacology ...
Across the room, Jeff's classmates are working on similar projects ...

NY Bans Sale of Water-Laced with Nicotine to Minors

Since the enhancement and expansion of New York's anti- smoking campaign under the Governor's direction in 1996, State Health Department statistics show that the number of everyday smokers declined from 19 ...
Let's hear it for the tobacco industry! The latest happy news from the jovial operators of this express service to the Pearly Gates comes from the ...
BALTIMORE - Just a little bit of secondhand smoke can cause measurable damage to a child's learning ability, affecting reading, math and reasoning, researchers say ...

Why second-hand smoke can really take your breath away

With the dawning of 1999, thousands of new laws go into effect around the nation - offering a freeze-frame look at ...
Jan-Christer Janson, of Uppsala University in Sweden, has carried out two surveys, nine years apart, on a sample of 4,200 non- smoking adults from 14 European countries ...
Taking the reader inside the once-impregnable industry, the papers disclose ...
Psychologist Henning Damkjsterbro Investigation, which has been published in the current Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health ...

Marriott: No Room for Smokers

Omni Hotels does not have a policy regarding the hotel rooms aside from assigning smoking and non- smoking rooms ...
Bidi sellers, aware of the misconceptions of their customers regarding the health risks of bidis, have made no attempt to correct the deceptive impressions in callous disregard for the bidi smokers health ...
He acknowledged children were allowed to smoke, after a complaint to the Northern Advocate newspaper from the caregiver of a 14-year-old alternative education student ...

Smoking ordinance benefits everyone

Bidis have been shown to contain even greater amounts of tar and nicotine then regular U ...
The ruling by Judge James Boyle appears to be the first in New Jersey to extend compensation for second-hand-smoke exposure beyond lung cancer ...
It's like having four witnesses to an armed robbery instead of just two," said John Coale, a plaintiffs' lawyer specializing in tobacco litigation ...
Whether from direct inhalation of cigar ettes or even secondhand smoke, the damage to a person's health can be great ...
It also contains specific provisions designed to reduce the trade in counterfeit and other illicit tobacco products in our country, which is costing governments at all levels billions of dollars a year ...