http://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress internet news portal provides the latest news on Health and Medicine. (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 Quitting smoking is a common New Year's resolution for Americans each year, but research has repeatedly shown it is not an easy task. Some groups, such as racial/ethnic minorities, have an even harder time quitting. New research suggests hard-hitting graphic tobacco warnings may help smokers of diverse backgrounds who are struggling to quit. A new study by researchers at Legacy® and Harvard School of Public Health provides further evidence that bold pictorial cigarette warning labels that visually depict the health consequences of smoking—such as those required under the 2009 Family Smoking and Prevention Tobacco Control Act—play a life-saving role in highlighting the dangers of smoking and encouraging smokers to quit. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-01-graphic-cigarettes-effective-demographic-groups.html Health Mon, 14 Jan 2013 17:00:02 EST news277404129 (HealthDay)—U.S. teens are much less likely to buy cigarettes if they are hidden from view, new research suggests. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-12-cigarettes-kids.html Addiction Mon, 03 Dec 2012 14:10:01 EST news273753335 (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