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| Pennsylvania Dental Association's Health Advice Decidedly Unhealthy, Says Renowned Tobacco Expert |
The following is a statement
by Dr. Brad Rodu, oral pathologist and professor of medicine at the
University of Louisville and an endowed chair in tobacco harm reduction
research: |
09/04/06 |
| Aktiv-Dry Awarded Research Grant To Develop Inhalable Vaccine To Help Stop Smoking |
Aktiv-Dry LLC, a biotechnology
company dedicated to developing inhalable aerosol vaccines, has been
awarded a 0,000 SBIR grant from the National Institute on Drug Abuse at
the National Institutes of Health to develop an inhalable nicotine vaccine
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09/04/06 |
| US Cigarettes Have 10% More Nicotine Today Than Six Years Ago |
All tobacco brands have been increasing the nicotine dosage in each cigarette steadily during the last six years, says a report from the Massachusetts Department of Public Health. |
09/01/06 |
| Therapeutic Nicotine Fast Facts - Celebrating Ten Years Of Progress |
Smoking increases the number of receptors in a smoker's brain that thrive on nicotine. Take that nicotine away, as with quitting, and the receptors "call out" for it, something the smoker feels as a craving. Cravings can be intense and last |
08/31/06 |
| Myths And Truths About Therapeutic Nicotine |
Currently, 70 percent of the 44.5 million adult smokers in the United States say they would like to quit, and about 40 percent make an attempt to quit each year. However, less than 15 percent of those quitters take advantage of therapeutic nicotine, whi |
08/31/06 |
| Tobacco: Smokeless Does Not Equal Harmless |
You don't smoke it. You don't
sniff it. You don't even have to swallow it, but its effects can harm your
body nevertheless. It's smokeless tobacco. |
08/30/06 |
| Mental Health Units Should Not Be Exempt From Smoking Ban In UK |
Exempting mental health units from the ban on smoking in public places would worsen health inequalities for people with mental health problems, warn doctors in this week's BMJ.
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08/29/06 |
| Teens And Smoking: Why Cessation Interventions Should Start After The First Puff |
Smoking prevention and cessation programs have met with little success for teenagers. The natural course of cigarette use has traditionally been thought to progress through 5 stages, ending with nicotine-dependent smoking.
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08/28/06 |
| Smokers With Chronic Pain Smoke More, But Show Desire To Quit |
Smokers who experience significant pain smoke more cigarettes per day than those who are not regularly in pain, according to a study published by researchers at the University of Kentucky. However, more than half of smokers with pain are at least consi |
08/28/06 |
| Increased Odds Of Rheumatoid Arthritis In Women Smokers Without Genetic Risk Factor |
Smoking increases the chance of developing rheumatoid arthritis in women who otherwise lack genetic risk factors for the disease, reveals research published ahead of print in the Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases.
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08/28/06 |
| Roswell Park Researchers Evaluate World-Wide Effort To Implement Tobacco Control Policies |
Scientific evidence can be used to direct and support tobacco control policies around the world, according to a newly released special issue of the journal Tobacco Control. K. Michael Cummings, PhD, Chair of the Department of Health Behavior at Roswell |
08/28/06 |