Showing posts with label cigarette addiction. Show all posts
Showing posts with label cigarette addiction. Show all posts
Tuesday, May 14, 2013

Six Arguments For the Elimination of Cigarettes

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Prohibition and the “tobacco control endgame.” Despite all our efforts in recent years to reduce the percentage of Americans who smoke ...
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Sunday, January 27, 2013

Novartis Gives Up On Nicotine Vaccine

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Another one bites the dust . Novartis, a leading health care products company, called it quits on its NIC002 nicotine vaccine project, ...
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Tuesday, January 22, 2013

Big Tobacco Makes a Move Into E-Cigarettes

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“A battery-operated, addiction-based market.” While the FDA dithered, and health advocates argued, Big Tobacco began placing its bets o...
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Sunday, July 15, 2012

Cigarettes: Should the FDA Mandate a National Taper?

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Addiction expert calls for reduced-nicotine tobacco. For years now, nicotine researcher Neal Benowitz has been a man on a mission. Dr. Ben...
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Monday, June 4, 2012

High-Risk Haplotypes in Smokers

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It’s getting harder to interpret genetics studies, and that’s a good thing. Reporting the results of published studies concerned with ge...
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Tuesday, May 29, 2012

Science, Academia, and Tobacco

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A review of The Golden Holocaust: Origins of the Cigarette Catastrophe and the Case for Abolition Part III Academic collaborations come...
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Saturday, May 26, 2012

The Tobacco Industry as Disease Vector

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A review of The Golden Holocaust: Origins of the Cigarette Catastrophe and the Case for Abolition Part II The famous Surgeon General’s ...
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Wednesday, May 23, 2012

The Hidden Story of How Big Tobacco Invented Freebasing

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Review of The Golden Holocaust: Origins of the Cigarette Catastrophe and the Case for Abolition. Part I It’s easy to think of cigarett...
Thursday, February 24, 2011

Smoking and Adolescent Attention Deficit

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Are young smokers risking cognitive impairment as adults?  Call it “nicolescence.” It’s that time of life when certain 18-and-unders disc...
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Monday, November 29, 2010

Challenging the Received Wisdom on Tobacco Addiction

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What does it take to get hooked on nicotine? --Smokers who smoke five or fewer cigarettes per day can still become addicted to tobacco. -...
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Monday, June 28, 2010

The Death of “Low Tar” Cigarettes… Or Maybe Not.

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Is this the best the FDA can do? Lots of cigarette news lately. To begin with, cigarette manufacturers will no longer be able to ma...
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Thursday, May 27, 2010

Life After Cigarettes: Book Review

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Why Women Smoke. Women are different from men. Well, maybe you already knew that.  But did you know that women smoke differently than men,...
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Thursday, March 18, 2010

Germs in Tobacco

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Bacteria found in major cigarette brands. It’s not enough that smoking causes all manner of cardiopulmonary complications, or that more th...
Friday, February 6, 2009

The Patch and How to Use It

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Take the Fagerstrom test. The U.K. Guardian , in partnership with the British Medical Journal , recently offered its readers a short version...