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 Scientists confirm cancer risk from secondhand smoke
Nonsmokers who regularly breathe others’ tobacco smoke have a one-fifth greater chance of developing lung cancer because of it, said scientists with the International Association for Research on Cance..
 Public health leaders learn from tobacco industry marketing savvy
For the past 40 years, public health officials told teenagers and young adults about the harms of cigarette smoking. Meanwhile, a new study said, the tobacco industry was engaged in an increasingly ta..
 Investing in smoking prevention pays dividend to taxpayers
Educating youth about the dangers of tobacco makes sense from a public-health policy standpoint. But with states facing budget deficits, can they afford to devote to such programs some of the money th..
 Dry mouth drug may help prevent lung cancer in former smokers
A drug that is used in Canada and Europe to treat dry mouth may be an effective agent for preventing lung cancer in former smokers, according to a report given at the April 9 at the 93rd Annual Meetin..
 Bold new warnings make canadian smokers think twice
In-your-face reality checks now required on Canadian cigarette packs have gotten the attention of almost all of the country’s smokers. Many have been motivated to try to quit, according to a report on..
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 Smokers get lung cancer despite exercising
Some men believe leisure time exercise or a physically demanding job can reduce their risk of lung cancer from smoking cigarettes, but they are wrong, researchers said in the International Journal of..
 Large decline in teen smoking rates reported by cdc
A new report by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said teenage smoking rates have been declining since 1997.
These findings are from the Youth Risk Behavior Survey, part of CDC’s Y..
 Smoking costs us $157 billion each year
The consequence of smoking a pack of cigarettes is estimated to cost the nation $7.18 per pack in medical care and lost productivity, or about $157 billion and 440,000 premature deaths each year, acco..
 Physicians need to stop patients’ smoking
Despite the fact that nearly one-fourth of Americans are smokers, about two-thirds of them say they’d really like to quit.The author of a New England Journal of Medicine article (Vol. 346, No.7: 506-5..
 Computer program helps evenhard smokers quit
A personalized stop-smoking program can increase smokers’ chances of quitting, even among those least likely to quit, according to a report in the Archives of Internal Medicine (Vol. 161, No. 21: 2596..
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