Showing posts with label smoking. Show all posts
Showing posts with label smoking. 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, 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, November 24, 2014

Why Do Patients With Schizophrenia Smoke So Many Cigarettes?

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For sound neurological reasons, that's why. (Originally published May 2, 2012, by The Dana Foundation ) For mental health wo...
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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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Saturday, June 22, 2013

Smoking and Surgery Don’t Mix

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Even routine operations are riskier for smokers. Smokers who are scheduling a medical operation might want to think seriously about quit...
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...
Thursday, March 28, 2013

Smokers’ Genes: Evidence From a 4-Decade Study

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How adolescent risk becomes adult addiction.  Pediatricians have often remarked upon it: Give one adolescent his first cigarette, and h...
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Saturday, March 16, 2013

Big Tobacco Easily Evades “Light” Cigarette Ban

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Color coding allows smokers to easily identify their former brands. The tobacco industry has once again made a mockery of the Food and ...
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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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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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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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Monday, November 7, 2011

Judge Rules Against Graphic Cigarette Packs

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District Court says FDA mandate would violate First Amendment. Consumers may yet be spared graphic images of diseased lungs and smokers w...
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Saturday, July 9, 2011

Teachable Moments in the Life of a Cigarette Smoker

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Child surgery makes smoking parents more likely to try quitting. Here’s a strange one: Doctors at Mayo Clinic wanted to find out whether ...
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...