smoke effect

Antismoking Efforts Should Target Adults Too

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Antismoking policies targeting youths won't significantly reduce the number of smoke rs in the US for decades, according to researchers at the Pacific Institute for Research and Evaluation ...
we really need to use all the methods we can to reduce or prevent smoking ...
Campaign efforts should be directed towards adults instead, they suggest ...

Cigarette Use Among U.S. High School Students

Campaign efforts should be directed towards adults instead, they suggest ...
CrossRef | ISI | MEDLINE Cigarette use is the leading preventable cause of death in the United States ...
Temporal changes were analyzed by using logistic regression analyses that assessed linear and quadratic time effect s simultaneously and controlled for sex, race/ethnicity, and grade ...

Study: Strategies to Reduce ETS Exposure to Infants

Our results suggest that, independent of major confounding variables, banning smoking in the home significantly reduces infant exposure to environmental tobacco smoke but, as there are no data directly relating cotinine levels to risk of death, it is not possible to predict the likely effect of a reduction of this magnitude on the risk of sudden infant death ...
ever tried cigarette smoking, even one or two puffs), (2) current cigarette use (i ...
Data were weighted to provide national estimates, and SUDAAN was used for all data analyses ...

Increase in Cig Taxes May Lower Bond Returns

The group we studied was chosen to coincide with the peak age for sudden infant death syndrome ...
Only a small proportion of respondents reported not knowing of any harm reduction measures or knowing of measures but not using them ...
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 ...
smoke rs will consume fewer cigarettes because of per-pack tax increases in 18 states and New York City, according to a forecast by DRI-Wefa Inc ...

The War Over Cigar Labels Heats Up

It's not clear where the cigar companies stand on federal legislation ...
Surveys have found that almost 11 percent of men and 2 percent of women smoke cigars ...
Only a small proportion of respondents reported not knowing of any harm reduction measures or knowing of measures but not using them ...
Prevention efforts must be sustained to ensure this pattern continues and the 2010 objective is achieved ...

Proposes Root Beer Smelling Cigarette

Cigarette manufacturers use ammonia in cigarettes to enhance the effect of nicotine, two attorneys for the state said in a hearing Wednesday in which they sought more tobacco industry documents about ammonia technology ...
Over the past five years, the cigar industry has told the American public to light up a cigar to celebrate good times ...
Rather than take their share in annual installments, some municipalities have sold bonds that will be paid off by the settlement, which is estimated to generate a total of $285 billion through 2032 ...

Tobacco Documents Show Industry Intentionally Discounted Health Risks

scientist, Alan Rodgman, concluded that there is a `distinct possibility' that substances in cigarette smoke could have a carcinogenic effect ,'' the court wrote ...
Over the past five years, the cigar industry has told the American public to light up a cigar to celebrate good times ...
6 million packs were sold in the month, a 47 percent drop from July 2001 ...
CTR and the industry have publicly and frequently denied what others find as `truth ...

Learn Why This Session Could Be The Most Important

If participants wished, they could then draft a strongly-worded Conference resolution and send it to President Clinton in time to have it effect his decision ...
Actors who puff on the cigars include Bruce Willis, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Denzel Washington, and Whoopi Goldberg ...
The memo said the cigarette's rebellious image ``would be encouraged if the cigarette not only tasted horrible, but also had a totally distinctive aroma ...

Two New Studies Show: Ads Get Kids to Smoke

This would require the use of ``AMTECH technology, using ammonia to generate nicotine enhancement ...
As more people light up, some US officials are saying cigars should abide by the same rules as cigarettes ...
Green, a tobacco scientist at BAT Industries, stated, according to the judge's order: ``The public position of tobacco companies with respect to causal explanations of the association of cigarette smoking and diseases is dominated by legal considerations ...
Pierce and colleagues determined which of the adolescents had become susceptible to smoking, meaning that they now expressed a possible intention to smoke in the future ...

Tobacco Therapies Doubtful [02/22-4]

CTR and the industry have publicly and frequently denied what others find as `truth ...
These range from nicotine replacement gum, patches, inhalers and nasal spray to cigarette-like products that produce less smoke and even modified tobacco with fewer toxic chemicals ...
This study demonstrates that exposure to cigarette advertising and promotion causes kids to start the process of becoming addicted to cigarettes ...