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Brett Smith for redOrbit.com - Your Universe Online According to a new study in JAMA Psychiatry, a team of international scientists has developed a genetic profile that indicates a greater risk for a teenager's progression into becoming a lifelong heavy smoker. People who share the genetic profile showed a greater risk of daily smoking as teenagers and then progressing more rapidly to smoking a pack a day or more as adults, the study said. High-risk individuals who were assessed in...
City Has Led Nation and World in Fighting Tobacco and Saving Lives WASHINGTON, March 27, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The following is a statement of Matthew L. Myers, President, Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids: (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20080918/CFTFKLOGO) The Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids congratulates New York City as it celebrates the 10th anniversary of its comprehensive smoke-free law this Saturday. For the past 10 years, New York City has led the nation...
$20 Million Investment to Increase Production, Create Jobs ARUA, Uganda, March 27, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Pan African Tobacco Group (PTG) Founder Tribert Rujugiro Ayabatwa today announced a $20 million (USD) expansion to the company's processing and production operations in northern Uganda that will directly create 700 new jobs and support thousands more throughout East Africa. The investment will allow for construction of a new 30,000 square-meter warehouse and a new factory that...
Blu Cigs Put to the Test by Trusted Online Reviewer TUSTIN, Calif., March 27, 2013 /PRNewswire-iReach/ -- Blu Cigs has gone from being a pillar of the e-cigarette community to a symbol of the increasing role played by Big Tobacco in the industry. The manufacturer was purchased by Lorillard around a year ago, known as the producer of cigarettes such as Newports and Kent. The new Blu Cigs review comes from E Cigarette Reviewed, a dedicated resource for smokers looking to make the...
USAcig Reveals Q2 2013 Strategy TEMECULA, Calif., March 26, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Hop-on, Inc. (OTC Pink: HPNN) and USAcig, Inc. announced today that after much research and development, consumer trials, and coordination with medical research studies, a line of newly designed, highly effective electronic cigarettes and cigars has finally begun shipping to distributors and retailers. Further work on effective nicotine substitutes has also completed and will be shipping into new...
BLACKBURN, England, March 25, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- The savings that can be made by smokers switching to electronic cigarettes has been demonstrated today by The Electronic Cigarette Company (TECC). With the price increases placed upon tobacco by the 2013 budget now in place, cigarette smokers are feeling the financial pinch more than ever. Using a simple infographic, TECC have highlighted the costs of a '20-a-day' cigarette habit against the equivalent electronic cigarette...
redOrbit Staff & Wire Reports - Your Universe Online Researchers at Dartmouth College have developed a device that is capable of detecting secondhand smoke – a gizmo that could be a powerful new tool in those attempting to avoid exposure to tobacco. The device, which is currently in the patent-pending prototype stage, weighs less than a cellphone and is approximately the same size as a Matchbox car, the researchers said. It uses polymer films to collect and measure the amount of...
Family-friendly advocacy event held in conjunction with Kick Butts Day VIRGINIA, Minn., March 21, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Approximately 100 Iron Range youth and their families gathered together at dusk on March 20 to send into the air 160, 3-foot tall biodegradable sky lanterns over Silver Lake. The lanterns are representative of the proposed significant cigarette tax increase (H.F. 91), a trending budget solution topic in the 2013 state legislative session. The event was held in...
PARIS, March 21, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Following National Geographic Society's successful expedition to the Pitcairn Islands (UK territory) in the Pacific Ocean, Coty Inc. has announced the renewal of the partnership agreement for the Pristine Seas program between the National Geographic Society and DAVIDOFF Cool Water. (Photo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20130321/NY80213 ) Today, the ocean covers 72% of the surface of the Earth, but only 1% is protected. National Geographic,...
WASHINGTON, March 19, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The following is a Statement of Matthew L. Myers President, Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids: (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20080918/CFTFKLOGO) We are disappointed that the government will not seek Supreme Court review of an appellate court ruling that blocked graphic cigarette warnings proposed by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). However, we welcome the FDA's announcement that it will begin development of new...
Latest Tobacco Reference Libraries
Nicotine replacement therapy is the administration of nicotine by other means than smoking. This change in the way nicotine is delivered prevents the harmful effects of smoking and is usually used in smoking cessation. Types Nicotine replacement therapy can be administered in several forms. The type used depends on the patient and what fits into their lifestyle best. The forms available include: Nicotine patches – transdermal (through the skin) Nicotine gum – orally (through the...
Tobacco mosaic virus (TMV) is a positive-sense single stranded RNA virus that infects plants, namely tobacco and other members of the family Solanaceae. It causes characteristic patterns on the leaves. In 1930 it was determined that an infectious agent was determined to be a virus. Adolf Mayer first described the disease in 1883. The disease can be transferred between plants similar to bacterial infections. Dimitri Ivanovski was the first to show that infected sap remained infectious even...
