tobacco cessation

Cigarette Use Among U.S. High School Students

Temporal changes were analyzed by using logistic regression analyses that assessed linear and quadratic time effects simultaneously and controlled for sex, race/ethnicity, and grade ...
1 One of the national health objectives for 2010 is to reduce the prevalence of current cigarette use among high school students to 16% (objective no ...
Data were weighted to provide national estimates, and SUDAAN was used for all data analyses ...

Study: Most States Get Short End of Landmark Tobacco Agreement

smoked cigarettes on 1 of the 30 days preceding the survey), and (3) current frequent cigarette use (i ...
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 ...
Temporal changes were analyzed by using logistic regression analyses that assessed linear and quadratic time effects simultaneously and controlled for sex, race/ethnicity, and grade ...
Twenty-nine states would have been better off passing a $4 excise tax on a carton of cigarettes rather than signing multibillion-dollar tobacco settlements, a study concludes ...

Smoking Among Kids Keeps Rising

For current cigarette use, temporal changes and subgroup differences in 2003 were analyzed by sex, race/ethnicity, and grade ...
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 ...
Sussman thinks designers of smoking cessation programs should accommodate young smokers' lifestyles ...
1 To examine changes in cigarette use among high school students in the United States during 1991-2003, CDC analyzed data from the national Youth Risk Behavior Survey (YRBS ...
leveling off or change in direction) in addition to an overall increase or decrease over time ...

Tobacco Therapies Doubtful [02/22-4]

A variety of products have come on the market in recent years, promoted to help people stop smoking or reduce tobacco usage ...
This report summarizes the results of that analysis, which indicated that although (1) the prevalence of lifetime cigarette use was stable among high school students during the 1990s and (2) the prevalence of both current and current frequent cigarette use increased into the late 1990s, all ...
Prevention efforts must be sustained to ensure this pattern continues and the 2010 objective is achieved ...

Why Teenagers Smoke, and Quit

smoked cigarettes on 1 of the 30 days preceding the survey), and (3) current frequent cigarette use (i ...
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 ...
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 ...
For each cross-sectional national survey, students completed an anonymous, self-administered questionnaire that included identically worded questions about cigarette use ...
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 ...

Many Former Smokers Become Hooked on Smoking Cessation Products

For people addicted to nicotine, using the replacement products properly can be difficult ...
1 One of the national health objectives for 2010 is to reduce the prevalence of current cigarette use among high school students to 16% (objective no ...
T-tests were used to examine differences in current cigarette use in 2003 by sex, race/ethnicity, and grade ...
A third of the nation's nearly 50 million smokers attempt to quit each year, according to the American Cancer Society, and that has made smoking- cessation products an $800 million business in the United States alone ...
What ended up working for him was counseling, not a hit of nicotine ...

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

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 ...
does not support the treaty, even though it would be possible for the U ...
Under the MSA, Richmond's Philip Morris USA and other large cigarette companies have paid about $4 for ...
In the survey, respondents were asked to indicate their most important reasons for supporting the treaty ...
The FCTC requires ratifying nations to eliminate all tobacco advertising, promotion and sponsorship, with a narrow exception for nations such as the United States that have constitutions that may not allow a complete ban ...

NC Doctors Provide Cessation Treatments for Workplace Smokers

Quadratic trends indicated significant but nonlinear trends in the data over time ...
leveling off or change in direction) in addition to an overall increase or decrease over time ...
The products include gum and patches sold over the counter; pills, inhalers and nasal sprays sold by prescription; and even more exotic products like nicotine-infused lollipops sold on the Internet ...
T-tests were used to examine differences in current cigarette use in 2003 by sex, race/ethnicity, and grade ...
Spangler acknowledged the Triad's long history of tobacco use and sales, but said that the health risks made the program important ...

Scotland: Pregnant Women Tested for Smoking

More businesses have become aware of the revenue losses from smoking ...
Any woman found by the clinics to have more than 10 parts per million of carbon monoxide in her breath is likely to be a smoker and will be offered the chance to see a smoking cessation midwife ...
What works for adult smokers--and researchers are still trying to figure out that problem too--may backfire for adolescents ...

WV Supreme Court Upholds Tobacco Verdict Rejecting Smokers' Medical Claims

The medical field has accepted that fact since the mid-80's, when the Food and Drug Administration approved, by prescription, products like gum to give would-be quitters a substitute comparable to cigarettes in price and nicotine content, but without other cigarette toxins ...
The habit can seriously damage unborn babies and is linked to premature births, miscarriages and still births ...
Four states made separate deals in the '90s worth roughly $40 billion _ which are combined with the MSA for the ...
The West Virginia Supreme Court upheld yesterday a jury's decision that the tobacco industry should not have to pay for medical tests that could lead to the early detection of lung cancer and other health problems in about 270,000 healthy smokers ...