Health
Smoking rates halve since 1970s in Britain
The number of smokers in Britain has more than halved in the past four decades, according to the latest figures.
Nov 28, 2014
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News tagged with tobacco addiction
Addiction
Electronic cigarettes: many questions, limited research
Electronic cigarettes (ECIGs) are booming in popularity—but there's still only limited evidence on their potential health risks, or their advertised benefits in helping people to quit smoking, according to a research review ...
Aug 5, 2014
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Addiction
New data shows spike in smokeless tobacco sales
The number of smokeless tobacco products sold in Massachusetts is soaring, as are the levels of nicotine packed into many of them, according to a new analysis from UMass Medical School and the Massachusetts Department of ...
Mar 20, 2014
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Health
With training, friends and family can help loved ones quit tobacco
Today, one in five people in the U.S. smokes tobacco. Traditionally, doctors, nurses and other healthcare providers have been the ones to deliver smoking cessation messages. A new study in the American Journal of Health Behavior ...
Feb 5, 2014
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Maternal stress hormones and maternal smoking increase daughter's risk of nicotine dependence
Tobacco smoking by pregnant women has long been viewed as a public health risk because of smoking's adverse effects on the development of a fetus.
Jan 9, 2014
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Addiction
Research attributes high rates of smoking among mentally ill to addiction vulnerability
People with mental illness smoke at much higher rates than the overall population. But the popular belief that they are self-medicating is most likely wrong, according to researchers at the Indiana University School of Medicine. ...
Sep 27, 2013
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Health
Chronic care management does not result in increased abstinence from alcohol
Persons with alcohol and other drug dependence who received chronic care management including relapse prevention counseling and medical, addiction and psychiatric treatment were no more abstinent than those who received usual ...
Sep 17, 2013
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Health
Australian parties snub tobacco money
Australia's ruling Labor party pledged a ban on tobacco company donations if returned to office Thursday and the conservatives followed suit, ordering an end to campaign funds from cigarette firms.
Aug 22, 2013
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Health
Smoking abstinence research receives major financial boost
Warren Bickel, an internationally recognized addiction expert at the Virginia Tech Carilion Research Institute, recently received a $3.2-million grant from the National Institute on Drug Abuse for research on improving self-control ...
Aug 5, 2013
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Health
Young cannabis-smokers aware of the health risks
Young Swiss men who drink alcohol and smoke tobacco or cannabis read up on addictive substances more frequently than their abstinent peers. They report their knowledge of the health risks as very good whereas abstainers rate ...
Jul 29, 2013
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