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Cigarette Use Among U.S. High School Students

T-tests were used to examine differences in current cigar ette use in 2003 by sex, race/ethnicity, and grade ...
Data were weighted to provide national estimates, and SUDAAN was used for all data analyses ...
Data are presented only for non-Hispanic black, non-Hispanic white, and Hispanic students because the numbers of students from other racial/ethnic groups were too small for meaningful analysis ...
leveling off or change in direction) in addition to an overall increase or decrease over time ...
Quadratic trends indicated significant but nonlinear trends in the data over time ...

The War Over Cigar Labels Heats Up

The media often picture athletes, celebrities, and politicians puffing away on giant stogies at parties or awards ceremonies ...
Actors who puff on the cigar s include Bruce Willis, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Denzel Washington, and Whoopi Goldberg ...
Data were weighted to provide national estimates, and SUDAAN was used for all data analyses ...
When a significant quadratic trend accompanied a significant linear trend, the data demonstrated a nonlinear variation (e ...

Smoking, Even More Lethal for Women

They might want a relatively relaxed federal law to preempt states from acting ...
Researchers in this country have released the results of a major study demonstrating that moderate smoking carries drastic health risks, and that women are particularly vulnerable to health problems correlated with tobacco use ...
Data are presented only for non-Hispanic black, non-Hispanic white, and Hispanic students because the numbers of students from other racial/ethnic groups were too small for meaningful analysis ...
The California warning label, by comparison, is almost inconspicuous ...

Australian Competition and Consumer Commission Wants Big Tobacco to Run Ads Admitting They Misled Smokers

Mr Samuel will also decide in the next few weeks whether the ACCC will launch legal action against cigar ette makers for alleged past deceptive and misleading conduct over the issue - potentially starting one of the biggest compensation cases in Australian history ...
Quadratic trends indicated significant but nonlinear trends in the data over time ...
Eva Prescott of the Institute for Illness Prevention, in an interview with daily newspaper Politiken ...
The media often picture athletes, celebrities, and politicians puffing away on giant stogies at parties or awards ceremonies ...

Med Students Are Not Taught to Counsel Tobacco Using Patients

Despite them, she said, the failure rate among those who try to stop smoking by whatever means is still 85 percent or higher ...
The national YRBS, a component of CDC's Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance System, used independent three-stage cluster samples for the 1991-2003 surveys to obtain cross-sectional data representative of public and private school students in grades 9-12 in all 50 states and the District ...
During 1991-2003, sample sizes ranged from 10,904 to 16,296, school response rates ranged from 70% to 81%, student response rates ranged from 83% to 90%, and overall response rates ranged from 60% to 70 ...

Smoking Among Kids Keeps Rising

Have something they can go to right after school--at their school, not at another site ...
The national YRBS, a component of CDC's Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance System, used independent three-stage cluster samples for the 1991-2003 surveys to obtain cross-sectional data representative of public and private school students in grades 9-12 in all 50 states and the District ...
Sussman thinks designers of smoking cessation programs should accommodate young smokers' lifestyles ...

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 ...
Some young people are social smokers, lighting up only at parties or when they go out ...
Psychologist Henning Damkjsterbro Investigation, which has been published in the current Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health ...
The wealth of cumulative information in the study strongly indicated a much higher vulnerability in women to health problems correlated with tobacco use ...
Data are presented only for non-Hispanic black, non-Hispanic white, and Hispanic students because the numbers of students from other racial/ethnic groups were too small for meaningful analysis ...

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

Experts warned the levels of nicotine encountered in two of our samples could lead to permanent damage to the arteries of non-smokers ...
The popular television show, says Jeff Stier, associate director of the group ...
Data are presented only for non-Hispanic black, non-Hispanic white, and Hispanic students because the numbers of students from other racial/ethnic groups were too small for meaningful analysis ...
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 ...

US News on Secret Tobacco Papers

But the latest cigar ette papers, which were subpoenaed and posted on the Internet by Virginia Republican Rep ...
Experts warned the levels of nicotine encountered in two of our samples could lead to permanent damage to the arteries of non-smokers ...
The health risks associated with moderate daily use are, in fact, quite staggering', said researcher Dr ...
On top of that, she said, doctors have become discouraged at the success rate of nonprescription nicotine-replacement chewing gums, patches and sprays ...

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

During 1991-2003, sample sizes ranged from 10,904 to 16,296, school response rates ranged from 70% to 81%, student response rates ranged from 83% to 90%, and overall response rates ranged from 60% to 70 ...
Whereas animals initially show no preference for either of two distinct compartments, they will later choose to spend more time in an environment in which they received a drug that has rewarding effects ...
Quadratic trends indicated significant but nonlinear trends in the data over time ...
The California warning label, by comparison, is almost inconspicuous ...
Maybe Joe Camel was not the pied piper after all--the one who started young people down the path to nicotine addiction ...