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Asbestos Risk Combined with Smoking Habit Asks for Double Trouble, Incites Deadly Cancer (PRWEB) April 18, 2013 Newly available conclusions from a Queen’s College study in New York reiterate that two added factors— smoking and/or asbestosis— dramatically increase the risk of developing mesothelioma and other asbestos cancers following asbestos exposure. Lead author Steven B. Markowitz (MD, PhD) is a Professor of Occupational and Environmental Medicine at the School of Earth &...
FIN'S WIDESPREAD AVAILABILITY & AFFORDABLE PRICE ALLOWS CONSUMERS TO REWRITE THE RULES(TM) OF SMOKING CULTURE ATLANTA, April 18, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- The electronic cigarette market is skyrocketing, with sales eclipsing $300 million last year and projected to double in 2013. FIN Branding Group has positioned itself as one of the fastest growing names in electronic cigarettes by announcing the roll-out of its product line to more than 35,000 retail establishments nationwide including...
Lee Rannals for redOrbit.com – Your Universe Online Feeling like you need to burn one down after a traffic jam or your boss chewing you out? Well, a new study suggests a little brain stimulation may help you stay away from those cancer sticks. The research shows a single, 15-minute session of high frequency transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) over the prefrontal cortex temporarily reduces those trigger cravings. Nicotine activates the dopamine system and reward-related regions...
WASHINGTON, April 16, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The following is a statement of Susan M. Liss, Executive Director, Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids: (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20080918/CFTFKLOGO) President Obama has proposed a 94-cent increase in the federal cigarette tax, and increased taxes on other tobacco products, to protect our children from tobacco addiction and save lives. Predictably, tobacco companies and their allies are attacking the proposal, claiming...
Tobacco Money in Politics report exposes industry's political contributions for 2011-2012 legislative cycle. SACRAMENTO, Calif., April 16, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Tobacco interests spent a total of $51.1 million during the 2011-2012 election cycle to fight Proposition 29 and to influence legislators and policies in California, according to a recent report by the American Lung Association in California Center for Tobacco Policy & Organizing. "The numbers in this...
Raising tobacco prices is one of the most effective means of reducing tobacco use, particularly among price-sensitive smokers such as young people and people with low incomes. But when the UK government has been raising cigarette taxes to increase prices and deter smoking, tobacco companies have been absorbing the tax increases on their ultra-low-price (ULP) brands to keep their prices low. As a result, real ULP cigarette prices have remained virtually unchanged since 2006 and their market...
Figures add up to around 1900 fewer such admissions among adults every year This adds up to around 1900 fewer such admissions every year, the authors calculate, and confirms the value of public health interventions, such as smoking bans, they say. They base their findings on the number of emergency admissions for asthma among adults aged 16 and over in England between April 1997 and December 2010. Smoking in all public places was banned in July 2007 in England, where the prevalence...
Vapor Corp. to Debut New and Improved E-Cigarette Product Line Featuring FLEX TIP Soft Filters DANIA BEACH, Fla., April 16, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Vapor Corp. (OTCQB: VPCO), a leading U.S. based electronic cigarette company whose brands include Krave®, VaporX®, Fifty-One®, EZ Smoker®, Alternacig®, Green Puffer®, Americig®, Fumare®, Hookah Stix(TM) and Smoke Star®, today announced that the Company will be participating in the NATO (National Association of Tobacco Outlets) Trade...
More Than 70 Countries Recipients Of The $100 Million Program NEW YORK, April 15, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Bloomberg Philanthropies today announced that the Bloomberg Initiative to Reduce Tobacco Use Grants Program has awarded 500 grants since 2007. The Bloomberg Initiative Grants Program was designed to provide direct funding to governments and non-government organizations located in low- and middle-income countries to support development and implementation of...
Other Flavors Prohibited, But Not The One Most Victimizing Youth and Minorities WASHINGTON, April 12, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Leading national public health advocates filed a Citizen Petition urging the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to prohibit the use of menthol as a characterizing flavoring in cigarettes. The historic menthol petition was delivered to FDA offices today by the Tobacco Control Legal Consortium on behalf of a long list of co-signing organizations focused on...
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...
