Smoking Stop - Antismoking Poster Law In New York City Is Struck Down

A plan requiring that graphic images of diseased lungs and other body parts be displayed in New York convenience stores was struck down.

Stop Smoking - Today's Opinions: Ariz. Hospital And Abortion; Wall Street Journal's Issues With Politifact; Calif.'s Anti-smoking Success

The New York Times: A Matter Of Life Or Death St. Joseph's Hospital and Medical Center in Phoenix announced on Tuesday that it will continue to provide life-saving abortion care to patients even though it means losing its affiliation with the local Roman Catholic Diocese (12/23). The Washington Post: David Camp's Plan: Taxes Made Simple Many parents have heard FICA Screams...

Smoking Stop - $7.5 Million Award To Identify Potential Drug Candidates To Treat Nicotine Addiction

The Scripps Research Institute and the University of California, San Diego, (UCSD) School of Medicine have been awarded approximately $7.5 million over five years to develop novel compounds that could eventually become drug candidates for the treatment of nicotine dependence, and possibly other drug addictions. Of the funds awarded, $5 million will go to Scripps Research, $2.5 million to UCSD...

Stop Smoking - Leaders Must Implement Policies To Reduce Tobacco Use

Today's release of, "How Tobacco Smoke Causes Disease: The Biology and Behavioral Basis for Smoking Attributable Disease" by U.S. Surgeon General Regina Benjamin focuses attention on tobacco use and its devastating effects, including the major finding that there is no safe level of exposure to tobacco smoke...

Stop Smoking - E-cigarettes Warning: Safety Evaluation Urgently Needed, Researchers Say

Electronic cigarettes (or e-cigarettes), also called "electronic nicotine delivery systems," are increasingly used worldwide even though only sparse information is available on their health effects. In the United States, e-cigarettes are readily available in shopping malls in most states and on the Internet...

Stop Smoking - Blf Stresses Dangers Of Passive Smoke Following New Study, Uk

The British Lung Foundation is raising awareness of the dangers of passive smoking after a new report published in The Lancet shows around one in 100 deaths worldwide each year is due to passive smoke. Furthermore, the figures also reveal that more than 600,000 people die each year worldwide...

Smoking Stop - Menthol Cigarette Smokers Find It Much Harder To Give Up

People who smoke menthol flavored cigarettes, known as menthols, have a much higher level of addiction than non-menthol smokers, and consequently find it more difficult to stop smoking, according to a Supplement in the medical journal Addiction. Menthols in the USA are popular among African-Americans and young adults...

Stop Smoking - Chemicals In Cigarette Smoke, Auto Exhaust And French Fries Accelerate The Development Of Alzheimer's Disease

There is growing evidence that exposure to a group of chemicals known as type-2 alkenes -- which are found in the smoke inhaled from cigarettes, the exhaust of automobiles and even in French fries - can increase the chances of developing Alzheimer's disease and other neurological conditions such as Parkinson's disease...

Stop Smoking - Unintended Consequences: Encouraging Smoking

Letter to the editor regarding lung cancer and smokers.

Smoking Stop - Adult Smoking Ranges From 25.6% In Kentucky To 9.8% In Utah, Usa

Adult smoking rates in the USA vary greatly according to state, with West Virginia and Kentucky at 25.6% to Washington at 14.9%, California at 12.9%, and Utah at 9.8%. In none of the US states and territories was smoking prevalence higher among adult females than males...

Smoking Stop - Specialized Interventions Help Latinos Stop Smoking

Latinos who live the United States are more likely to stop smoking when they take part in an intervention program, finds a systematic review of studies conducted by Monica Webb Hooper, Ph.D., and colleagues at the University of Miami. According to U.S. Census data, Latinos are the largest, fastest growing minority population in the country...

Stop Smoking - Ob-gyns Encouraged To Help Pregnant Women Kick The Habit

Asking pregnant women about whether they smoke and about their exposure to secondhand smoke should be a routine part of prenatal care beginning with the very first prenatal visit, says The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (The College)...

Stop Smoking - Louis F. Bantle, Chief Of U.s. Tobacco, Dies At 81

Under Mr. Bantle’s leadership, sales for U.S. Tobacco, best known for its Skoal and Copenhagen brands, grew tenfold.

Stop Smoking - Cancer-linked Epigenetic Effects Of Smoking Revealed By Study

For the first time, UK scientists have reported direct evidence that taking up smoking results in epigenetic changes associated with the development of cancer. The results were reported at the 35th Congress of the European Society for Medical Oncology (ESMO) in Milan, Italy...

Stop Smoking - Quitting Smoking – Are You Suffering From Avoidance Syndrome

Because most people don’t want to feel their desire to smoke after they have stopped, they often try to avoid any circumstance that has an association with smoking. They reorganize their lives as much as they can, so that they will be faced with temptation as little as possible. If someone goes to a particular [...]

Stop Smoking - New Nist 'standard Cigarette' Available For Fire-resistance Testing

Cigarettes are the most frequent cause of fatalities from residential fires in the United States. So, it might seem surprising to learn that a cigarette that burns stronger than others has been used for decades by manufacturers of home furnishings to test the fire resistance of their products...

Smoking Stop - Smoking During Pregnancy May Harm The Child's Motor Control And Coordination

Women who smoke during pregnancy run the risk of adversely affecting their children's coordination and physical control according to a new study from Orebro University, Sweden, published in the Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health...

Smoking Stop - Medications Used To Treat Neurologic And Psychiatric Conditions Increase Smokers' Nicotine Metabolism

UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School researchers have determined that carbamazepine and oxycarbamazepine, medications commonly used to treat neurologic and psychiatric conditions, increase nicotine metabolism in smokers...

Smoking Stop - A Smoker, No Apologies About It

Mr. Boehner conceded Sunday that cigarettes were a “bad habit” but expressed little willingness to give them up.

Stop Smoking - Can You Expect Immediate Results When Giving Up Smoking?

There is, of course, no way to guarantee that you will get all the benefits (see previous post here) you hope for straight away. Sometimes, for example, people anticipate having more energy when they stop, and are disappointed to find it doesn’t seem to increase much at all. This actually depends on your level of [...]

Stop Smoking - Is Quitting Smoking Like Quitting The Miracle Drug

If you study the delusions we have about why we need to smoke, you can begin to see how ridiculously varied and even contradictory they are. You may tell yourself that smoking wakes you up in the morning and also believe that it helps you get to sleep at night. You simultaneously believe that smoking [...]

Smoking Stop - The Motivation To Stop Smoking

A fundamental goal all of us, as living things, have in common is the goal of staying alive and in good health. Most of the primary functions of our minds and our bodies are, in fact, orientated towards helping us to survive and to live full lives. Like most goals it is not reached in [...]

Smoking Stop - How To Stop Smoking – Imagine Being An Ex Smoker

Many smokers lie to themselves – and others – about how much they smoke, and few want to keep track of how many years it has been since they started. What It’s Like To Be An Ex-Smoker This list will help you to identify some of the specific ways in which the quality of your [...]