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08/28/2008 06:00 AM
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Health Risk Behaviors Associated With Lower Prostate Specific Antigen Awareness |
According to a study conducted at Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health, health risk behaviors such as smoking and obesity are associated with lower awareness of the Prostate Specific Antigen (PSA), which could lead to a lower likelihood of undergoing actual prostate cancer screening.
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08/28/2008 05:00 AM
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Postpartum Smoking Relapse May Be Prevented By Newly-Defined Factors |
Although many women quit smoking during pregnancy to protect their unborn children from the effects of cigarettes, half of them resume the habit within a few months of giving birth. By shedding light on the factors that enable the other half to put down that cigarette for good, a study by researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill could lead to programs designed to help women quit and stay quit.
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08/28/2008 03:00 AM
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Smoking Study May Explain Why We Have Trouble Quitting |
A new study from researchers at the University of Pittsburgh and Carnegie Mellon University sheds light on why smokers' intentions to quit "cold turkey" often fizzle out within days or even hours. If a smoker isn't yearning for a cigarette when he makes the decision to kick the habit-and most aren't-he isn't able to foresee how he will feel when he's in need of a nicotine buzz.
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08/27/2008 02:00 AM
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Global Survey Highlights Need For Cancer Prevention Campaigns To Correct Misbeliefs |
Many people hold mistaken beliefs about what causes cancer, tending to inflate the threat from environmental factors that have relatively little impact while minimizing the hazards of behaviours well established as cancer risk factors, according to the first global survey on the topic.
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08/26/2008 05:00 AM
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8 Of Every 10 Spanish Adolescents Who Play A Sport Do Not Smoke, And More Than 40% Do Not Practice Any Physical Activity |
Sports and tobacco consumption are directly related, according to a study carried out by researchers of the University of Granada, the Spanish National Research Council- CSIC, the Universities of Murcia, Zaragoza and Cantabria, and the Nuestra Señora de la Consolación School of Granada. This work has proved that those Spanish adolescents who play a sport do not smoke usually (8 of every 10), and more than 40% of the adolescents aged between 13 and 18 do not practice any physical activity.
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08/26/2008 02:00 AM
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Health Care Costs Reduced By California Tobacco Control Program |
Tobacco control programs can reduce smoking, and when successful, they reduce personal health care costs, according to a study released on August 25, 2008 in the open-access journal PLoS Medicine. The study specifically tracks the California Tobacco Control Program, which was established in 1989 with the goal of changing social norms surrounding tobacco use.
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08/22/2008 05:00 AM
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Tobacco Industry's Marketing Linked To Youth Smoking |
The National Cancer Institute (NCI) has released a report, co-edited by University of Minnesota professor Barbara Loken, that reaches the government's strongest conclusion to date that tobacco marketing and depictions of smoking in movies promote youth smoking.
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08/21/2008 04:00 AM
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BJOG Release: Using Nicotine Replacement Therapy During Pregnancy |
Smoking during pregnancy is known to increase the risk of stillbirth and pregnancy complications. To assist in smoking cessation, nicotine replacement therapy (NRT) is commonly prescribed but there is little information about the effects of NRT on a pregnant woman and her baby. New research to be published in BJOG: An International Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology examines whether NRT is safe to use during pregnancy.
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08/21/2008 03:00 AM
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Lung's Protective Response Against Tobacco Smoke Blocked By Infection |
An infection that often goes undetected can block the lung's natural protective response against tobacco smoke, according to researchers at National Jewish Health. The findings, recently published online and scheduled to appear in the October issue of Infection and Immunity, suggest one mechanism that may cause smokers to develop chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.
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08/21/2008 02:00 AM
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Link Between Low Level Cadmium Exposure And Lung Disease |
New research suggests that cadmium is one of the critical ingredients causing emphysema, and even low-level exposure attained through second-hand smoke and other means may also increase the chance of developing lung disease. The University of Michigan School of Public Health study suggests that higher cadmium levels in the body as much as double the risk of developing a pulmonary disease diagnosis such as emphysema or chronic bronchitis.
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08/20/2008 06:00 AM
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Confusion About Nicotine May Stop Smokers From Kicking The Habit |
Over two thirds of smokers incorrectly believe that nicotine replacement therapy (NRT) products, like NiQuitin, are just as harmful as cigarettes, and this misconception may even be stopping them from getting the support they need to give up smoking. Quitting smoking cold turkey can be quite a shock to the body and can make quitters more likely to fail than if they were to use a product with therapeutic nicotine, like NiQuitin.
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08/20/2008 02:00 AM
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Smokers More Likely To Hemorrhage After Throat Surgery |
According to a report in the August issue of Archives of Otolaryngology - Head & Neck Surgery, patients who undergo a surgical procedure that removes excess tissue from the throat (uvulopalatopharyngoplasty or UPPP) along with a surgical tonsil-removing procedure (tonsillectomy) have an increased rate of hemorrhage (bleeding) if they are smokers. However, smokers do not have an increased rate of bleeding if they undergo tonsillectomy alone.
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08/19/2008 03:00 AM
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Medicare Support Pays Off For Senior Smokers Trying To Quit |
New research suggests that Medicare could help seniors stop smoking by providing nicotine patches and a telephone hotline to those who want to quit. Nearly 20 percent of seniors who tried that approach managed to quit smoking for a year, according to a study designed to gauge how much smoking-cessation efforts will cost Medicare.
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08/18/2008 10:00 AM
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Kaiser Daily Health Policy Report Feature Highlights Recent Blog Entries |
While mainstream news coverage is still a primary source of information for the latest in policy debates and the health care marketplace, online blogs have become a significant part of the media landscape, often presenting new perspectives on policy issues and drawing attention to under-reported topics.
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08/15/2008 01:00 PM
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FDA Should 'Quickly' Determine The Effects Of Menthol-Flavored Cigarettes, New York Times Editorial States |
"There is ample reason to suspect that menthol may be harmful to many smokers and disproportionately harmful to black Americans," to whom "[m]entholated cigarettes have been marketed aggressively," a New York Times editorial states. More than 70% of black smokers prefer menthol brands, compared with 25% to 30% of whites, according to the Times.
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08/14/2008 08:00 AM
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BJOG Release: Stop Smoking If You Are Pregnant |
New research to be published in BJOG: An International Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology examines the results of maternal smoking on birth outcomes. Previous studies have focused on the consequences of smoking during each pregnancy, in isolation. This new study analysed outcomes according to whether women continued to smoke in successive pregnancies, or managed to give up smoking after their first pregnancy.
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08/14/2008 04:00 AM
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Home Smoking Bans Prevent Teens From Lighting Up |
Parents who enforce no-smoking rules at home are less likely to have teens who experiment with cigarettes, a new study finds. "This basic intervention implementing a household smoking ban has the potential to promote antismoking norms and to prevent adolescent smoking," said lead study author Alison Albers, Ph.D., an assistant professor at Boston University School of Public Health.
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08/13/2008 08:00 AM
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Kaiser Daily Health Policy Report Feature Highlights Recent Blog Entries |
While mainstream news coverage is still a primary source of information for the latest in policy debates and the health care marketplace, online blogs have become a significant part of the media landscape, often presenting new perspectives on policy issues and drawing attention to under-reported topics.
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08/13/2008 07:00 AM
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CQ's Carey Discusses Tax Treatment Of Employer-Sponsored Health Coverage, Tobacco Regulation Bill, Foreign Nurse Visas Legislation |
Mary Agnes Carey, associate editor of CQ HealthBeat, discusses possible changes to tax rules for employer-sponsored health coverage, House approval of legislation that would allow FDA to regulate tobacco and a House committee's approval of a bill that would allow more visas to be issued to foreign nurses in this week's "
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08/13/2008 05:00 AM
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International Association Of Fire Fighters Launches Smoking Cessation Campaign With Pfizer |
The International Association of Fire Fighters has announced the launch of a new initiative to help fire fighters, family members and friends to quit smoking cigarettes. "Our goal is to help make the IAFF the first smoke-free union," IAFF General President Harold Schaitberger said in his address to delegates at the IAFF 49th Convention. The IAFF is collaborating with pharmaceutical company Pfizer Inc. to promote smoking cessation.
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08/12/2008 01:00 PM
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Congress Should Not Finance SCHIP Expansion With Cigarette Tax Increase, Editorial States |
"Maryland is only the latest state to prove the folly of trying to finance" health care and other programs with a "tax on a shrinking pool of smokers," and federal lawmakers should "take note," a Wall Street Journal editorial states.
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08/12/2008 02:00 AM
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Russian People Favour Much Tougher Curbs On Smoking |
Most Russians favour much tougher curbs on smoking, and a substantial number want smoking in restaurants and on public transport to be banned, reveals research published ahead of print in the journal Tobacco Control. Between 1990 and 2000, cigarette consumption increased by an estimated 81% despite a declining population. And since 1991, the number of smokers in Russia has continued to rise steadily, with a more than doubling in the number of women smokers.
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08/11/2008 01:00 PM
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Smoking Ban On Navajo Nation Reservations Vetoed |
Navajo Nation Tribal President Joe Shirley on Thursday vetoed a ban on smoking and chewing tobacco in public places on the reservation, the Boston Globe reports (Boston Globe, 8/7). The
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08/09/2008 02:00 AM
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Study Links Buzz From First Smoke, And Regular Smoking, With Gene |
Anyone who has ever tried smoking probably remembers that first cigarette vividly. For some, it brought a wave of nausea or a nasty coughing fit. For others, those first puffs also came with a rush of pleasure or "buzz." Now, a new study links those first experiences with smoking, and the likelihood that a person is currently a smoker, to a particular genetic variation. The finding may help explain the path that leads from that first cigarette to lifelong smoking.
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08/08/2008 02:00 AM
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Media- Literate Teens May Be Less Likely To Smoke Cigarettes, Pitt School Of Medicine Study Finds |
Adolescents who are skilled in interpreting media messages about tobacco may be less likely to smoke and less likely to start smoking in the future, according to a new study by University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine researchers. The report is now online in the American Journal of Health Behavior. In this study, researchers assessed the media literacy of more than 1,200 adolescents.
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