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.