Latest Health effects of tobacco Stories
WASHINGTON, March 29, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- The fight against youth tobacco use was accelerated today by Surgeon General Dr. Regina Benjamin, with the release of the Surgeon General's Report, Preventing Tobacco Use Among Youth and Young Adults. This report details the scope, health consequences and influences that lead to youth tobacco use and proven strategies that prevent its use. To view the multimedia assets associated with this release, please click:...
Public health researchers outline obstacles standing in the way of prevention More than half of all cancer is preventable, and society has the knowledge to act on this information today, according to Washington University public health researchers at the Siteman Cancer Center in St. Louis. In a review article published in Science Translational Medicine March 28, the investigators outline obstacles they say stand in the way of making a huge dent in the cancer burden in the United States...
World’s number one quit smoking site releases "Quitting Smoking Timeline" video emphasizing the positive effects of quitting smoking and how the body quickly restores itself to health. Cumming, Georgia (PRWEB) March 28, 2012 QuitSmoking.com© today announced the launch of the second video in a series about the effects of smoking. This second video, "Quitting Smoking Timeline" emphasizes the positive effects of quitting smoking and how the body restores itself to health....
A major research trial to test the effectiveness of extra support for smokers calling an NHS quitline - on top of what is already offered by the service - has found the additional help does not improve success rates for quitting the habit. The pilot scheme offered smokers additional help in the form of free nicotine patches and extra telephone counseling from the English National Quitline. The Department of Health and UK Centre for Tobacco Control Studies (UKCTCS)-funded study led by The...
More than 75 percent of fourth-graders in urban and rural settings have measurable levels of a nicotine breakdown product in their saliva that documents their second-hand smoke exposure, researchers report. A study of 428 fourth graders and 453 parents in seven rural and seven urban Georgia schools also showed that the urban children were more likely to be smokers – 14.9 percent versus 6.6 percent. Additionally urban children have the most exposure to smokers: 79.6 percent versus 75.3...
A team of researchers led by A. K. Rajasekaran, PhD, Director of the Nemours Center for Childhood Cancer Research, has shown that a key protein involved in cell function and regulation is stopped by a substance present in cigarette smoke. Their work is published online in the American Journal of Physiology - Lung Cell and Molecular Physiology. Cigarette smoke is well recognized as a cause of lung cancer and is associated with many other forms of cancer in adults. Cigarette smoke has more...
Latin America, Asia and Africa Suffer from Tobacco-Related Health Inequalities WASHINGTON, March 21, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Tobacco is the world's number-one cause of preventable death - responsible for nearly 6 million deaths annually. A new supplement published in the journal Cancer Causes and Control calls attention to the burden of tobacco-related inequalities in low- and middle-income countries (LMIC) in Latin America, Asia, and Africa, many of which have been targeted...
State Leaders Urged to Support Tobacco Prevention Initiatives WASHINGTON, March 19, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Kids in Florida will take center stage in the fight against tobacco on March 21 as they join thousands of young people nationwide for the 17th annual Kick Butts Day. More than 1,100 events are planned across the nation (for a list of local events see below). (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20080918/CFTFKLOGO) Organized by the Campaign for...
State Leaders Urged to Support Tobacco Prevention Initiatives WASHINGTON, March 19, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Kids in Connecticut will take center stage in the fight against tobacco on March 21 as they join thousands of young people nationwide for the 17th annual Kick Butts Day. More than 1,100 events are planned across the nation (for a list of local events see below). (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20080918/CFTFKLOGO) Organized by the Campaign for...
State Leaders Urged to Support Tobacco Prevention Initiatives WASHINGTON, March 19, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Kids in Washington will take center stage in the fight against tobacco on March 21 as they join thousands of young people nationwide for the 17th annual Kick Butts Day. More than 1,100 events are planned across the nation (for a list of local events see below). (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20080918/CFTFKLOGO) Organized by the Campaign for...
