Showing posts with label nicotine. Show all posts
Showing posts with label nicotine. Show all posts
Monday, June 13, 2016

Nicotine Genes: Evidence From a 40-Year Study

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  How adolescent risk becomes grownup addiction.  Pediatricians have often remarked upon it: Give one adolescent his first cigarette, ...
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Wednesday, January 28, 2015

Smoking and Sadness

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The chemistry of sorrow during nicotine withdrawal. When you smoke a cigarette, nicotine pops into acetylcholine receptors in the br...
Wednesday, December 3, 2014

Cigarettes and Genetic Risk

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Evidence From a 4-Decade Study. Pediatricians have often remarked upon it: Give one adolescent his first cigarette, and he will coug...
Monday, September 22, 2014

The Genetics of Smoking

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Evidence from a 40-year study.    (First published March 28, 2013) Pediatricians have often remarked upon it: Give one adolescent his f...
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Thursday, May 8, 2014

Why the CDC Director Hates E-Cigarettes

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The pros and cons of getting your vape on. Last month, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) began a new era—regulating e-cigarettes. ...
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Sunday, June 16, 2013

A Weak Smoker’s Vaccine Might Be Worse Than None

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New PET scans show wide responses to antibodies. One of the brightest hopes of addiction science has been the idea of a vaccine—an anti...
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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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...
Monday, November 14, 2011

Researchers Eye a Cheap, Organic Alternative to Chantix for Smokers

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Meet cytisine, available in Bulgaria for 25 cents a pill. A clear majority of American smokers say they want to quit. But each year, only...
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Thursday, August 4, 2011

Cigarette Sadness

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The chemistry of sorrow during nicotine withdrawal. When you smoke a cigarette, nicotine pops into acetylcholine receptors in the brain, ...
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Friday, June 3, 2011

For Smokers, Nowhere to Run and Nowhere to Hide

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(With love and apologies to Martha and the Vandellas.) That wonderful song goes on to declare: 'Cause I know You're no good fo...
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Friday, May 13, 2011

Does Menthol Really Matter?

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Nicotine experts say menthol makes addiction more likely--but differ over what to do about it. Back in the 1920s, Lloyd “Spud” Hughes of M...
Tuesday, January 18, 2011

Visual Cues and Addiction

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Do smoking scenes in movies make smokers want to light up? Smokers and former smokers will understand what I mean when I say that an addic...
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