http://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress internet news portal provides the latest news on Health and Medicine. Smoking prevention in schools reduces the number of young people who will later become smokers, according to a new systematic review published in The Cochrane Library. For young people who have never smoked, these programmes appear to be effective at least one year after implementation. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-04-schools.html Health Mon, 29 Apr 2013 19:00:01 EST news286480715 (HealthDay News) —The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday rejected a tobacco industry challenge to a controversial 2009 federal law that mandates graphic warning labels on cigarettes. The high court refused to hear the case, essentially upholding a lower court ruling in favor of the government's labeling changes. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-04-supreme-court-cigarette.html Health Mon, 22 Apr 2013 17:50:01 EST news285871017 (HealthDay)—Tobacco retailers are generally adherent to all provisions of the Tobacco Control Act, according to a study published in April issue of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Preventing Chronic Disease. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-04-adherence-high-tobacco-provisions.html Health Thu, 11 Apr 2013 17:30:02 EST news284918915 (HealthDay)—Adults with a mental illness or a substance-abuse disorder represent about 25 percent of the U.S. population but account for nearly 40 percent of all cigarettes smoked in the country, according to a new study. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-03-people-mental-illness-large-smokers.html Health Wed, 20 Mar 2013 18:00:01 EST news283019915 Smoking significantly increases individuals' risk of developing serious forms of urothelial carcinoma and a higher likelihood of dying from the disease, particularly for women. That is the conclusion of a recent study published in BJU International. While the biological mechanisms underlying this gender difference are unknown, the findings indicate that clinicians and society in general should focus on smoking prevention and cessation to safeguard against deadly cancers of the bladder, ureters, and renal pelvis, especially in females. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-03-linked-worse-urothelial-cancer-prognosis.html Cancer Thu, 14 Mar 2013 10:44:38 EST news282476672 (HealthDay)—Strong school smoking-prevention programs and high cigarette prices can reduce smoking among high school students, according to a new study. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-12-pricey-cigarettes-strict-schools-curb.html Health Thu, 13 Dec 2012 17:53:42 EST news274643610 While many might see the case for programs to prevent adolescent cigarette smoking as already made, a pair of Wayne State University researchers believes that due to increasingly challenging economic times, policymakers need to be reminded to continue allocating funding for such programs. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-08-adolescent-critical.html Addiction Fri, 31 Aug 2012 11:50:53 EST news265632644 (HealthDay) -- Although eight states boosted their sales taxes on cigarettes over the past two years, that's a decline in the number of such increases by states compared to 2009, a new report from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-03-states-efforts-boost-cigarette-taxes.html Health Thu, 29 Mar 2012 18:00:02 EST news252261168 (HealthDay) -- In the latest salvo in the battle over U.S. government plans to put graphic anti-smoking images on cigarette packs, a federal appeals court has upheld the proposed changes. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-03-appeals-court-fda-graphic-images.html Health Mon, 19 Mar 2012 14:50:01 EST news251385086 A new Institute of Medicine report specifies the types of research that the Food and Drug Administration should require before allowing tobacco companies to sell or advertise 'modified risk' tobacco products as being capable of reducing the health risks of tobacco use. While modified risk tobacco products could be one part of a comprehensive strategy to lower tobacco-related death and disease in the U.S., especially among tobacco users who are unable or unwilling to quit entirely, little is currently known about the products' health effects and whether they pose less risk than traditional tobacco products. Examples of modified risk tobacco products may include e-cigarettes and tobacco lozenges. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-12-tobacco-products.html Health Wed, 14 Dec 2011 11:34:01 EST news243084832 (Medical Xpress) -- A research team from Yale and the University of Connecticut has found that the cooling effect of menthol may actually cause people to smoke more and become addicted to cigarettes because it reduces the protective respiratory response to irritants in cigarette smoke. The biggest danger, they argue, is to young smokers, because they disproportionately prefer menthol cigarettes and are therefore likely to become addicted more quickly. The study appears online in the Journal of the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology (FASEB). http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-09-menthol-effects-addiction-illness-young.html Health Tue, 13 Sep 2011 05:30:47 EST news235110616 Devices marketed as "electronic cigarettes" are in reality crude drug delivery systems for refined nicotine, posing unknown risks with little new benefits to smokers, according to tobacco control experts. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-07-e-cigarette-drug-delivery-device.html Health Wed, 20 Jul 2011 17:46:13 EST news230402724