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Smoking, Even More Lethal for Women

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 ...
We also know that women are at greater risk for developing emphysema than men, and are therefore more sensitive to cigarette smoke', said Dr ...
The research team discovered that men double their risk for coronary bloodclots compared to non-smokers, even for those smoke just six to nine cigarettes daily ...

Med Students Are Not Taught to Counsel Tobacco Using Patients

One result is that the rate of cigarette smoking has not declined in the United States in more than five years, with about one in four people still smoking , according to Linda Ferry, a doctor on the faculty of the Loma Linda Schools of Medicine in California ...
Among women smokers, however, the risk of bloodclots was doubled among those studied who smoked just three to five cigarettes ...
We also know that women are at greater risk for developing emphysema than men, and are therefore more sensitive to cigarette smoke', said Dr ...
According to Politiken, authorities in this country are already aware of several of the factors examined in ...

Smoking Among Kids Keeps Rising

Among women smokers, however, the risk of bloodclots was doubled among those studied who smoked just three to five cigarettes ...
Sussman thinks designers of smoking cessation programs should accommodate young smokers' lifestyles ...
The study followed 12,000 individuals in this country for up to 22 years ...
The journal article found that during the first two years of medical school when basic science is taught 54 ...

Tobacco Therapies Doubtful [02/22-4]

We also know that women are at greater risk for developing emphysema than men, and are therefore more sensitive to cigarette smoke', said Dr ...
According to Politiken, authorities in this country are already aware of several of the factors examined in ...
Maybe Joe Camel was not the pied piper after all--the one who started young people down the path to nicotine addiction ...
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 ...
The research team discovered that men double their risk for coronary bloodclots compared to non-smokers, even for those smoke just six to nine cigarettes daily ...

Why Teenagers Smoke, and Quit

These range from nicotine replacement gum, patches, inhalers and nasal spray to cigarette-like products that produce less smoke and even modified tobacco with ...
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 ...
We also know that women are at greater risk for developing emphysema than men, and are therefore more sensitive to cigarette smoke', said Dr ...
Teens have their own issues, their own persuasion trigger points, their own pressures ...

EXPERTS BAFFLED BY RISE IN TEEN SMOKING

The three girls are 14 years old -- they look not a day older -- and have been smoking cigarettes since they were 10 ...
Teens have their own issues, their own persuasion trigger points, their own pressures ...
According to Politiken, authorities in this country are already aware of several of the factors examined in ...
Some young people are social smokers, lighting up only at parties or when they go out ...

Many Former Smokers Become Hooked on Smoking Cessation Products

According to Politiken, authorities in this country are already aware of several of the factors examined in ...
Kenneth Strahs, GlaxoSmithKline's vice president for research and development in smoking control, said, In 1989, Mr ...
In 2001, researchers at Stanford University found that nicotine speeds the growth of malignant tumors by stimulating the formation of the blood vessels that feed them, a process called ...

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

It is already the number one cause of death in the United States, claiming over 440,000 lives per year ...
In 2001, researchers at Stanford University found that nicotine speeds the growth of malignant tumors by stimulating the formation of the blood vessels that feed them, a process called ...
In the survey, respondents were asked to indicate their most important reasons for supporting the treaty ...
The treaty -- the World Health Organization's Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC) -- would save millions of lives worldwide by promoting effective policies to help children reject tobacco use and to help adults quit smoking ...

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

Young people ages 16 to 24 interviewed across Southern California say it was often someone in their family who led them down that road, usually a relative they wanted to emulate, or a friend ...
According to Politiken, authorities in this country are already aware of several of the factors examined in ...
It also requires warning labels to occupy at least 30 percent of the front and back of every pack of cigarettes; prohibits misleading tobacco product descriptors such as and calls for higher tobacco ...
In 2001, researchers at Stanford University found that nicotine speeds the growth of malignant tumors by stimulating the formation of the blood vessels that feed them, a process called ...
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

Reverend Norman Ford, the director of the Caroline Chisholm Centre for Health Ethics in Melbourne, says while there should be no blanket ban or refusal for any surgery, the allocation of public health funds needs to be taken into account ...
At current rates, tobacco will become the world's number one cause of premature death by 2025 ...
The research team discovered that men double their risk for coronary bloodclots compared to non-smokers, even for those smoke just six to nine cigarettes daily ...
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 ...
Young people ages 16 to 24 interviewed across Southern California say it was often someone in their family who led them down that road, usually a relative they wanted to emulate, or a friend ...