News tagged with tobacco cigarettes


New e-cigarettes affect users' airways

(Medical Xpress) -- E-cigarettes, or electronic cigarettes, are promoted as a safer alternative to smoking. However, a new study published in the journal Chest, shows that these e-cigarettes cause immediate change ...

Health created Jan 06, 2012 | popularity 3.2 / 5 (10) | comments 18 | with audio podcast report

Electronic cigarettes do not damage the heart

Smoking is the most preventable risk factor for cardiac and lung disease and is expected to cause 1 billion deaths during the 21st century. Electronic cigarettes have been marketed in recent years as a safer ...

Addiction created Aug 26, 2012 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (5) | comments 4 | with audio podcast

Tobacco company misrepresented danger from cigarettes: study

A new UCSF analysis of tobacco industry documents shows that Philip Morris USA manipulated data on the effects of additives in cigarettes, including menthol, obscuring actual toxicity levels and increasing ...

Health created Jan 06, 2012 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (4) | comments 4 | with audio podcast

Researchers make less carcinogenic cigarette

(Medical Xpress) -- Though emphasizing that quitting is the best remedy to combat health problems for smokers, Cornell researchers have found a way to make cigarettes less toxic.

Health created Jan 03, 2012 | popularity 4 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Experts propose strategies to reduce, end tobacco use

What would it take to end tobacco use once and for all? This is the question several scholars, scientists and policy experts address in a provocative series of articles on various strategies for eliminating ...

Health created Apr 17, 2013 | popularity 4 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Big Tobacco knew radioactive particles in cigarettes posed cancer risk but kept quiet

Tobacco companies knew that cigarette smoke contained radioactive alpha particles for more than four decades and developed "deep and intimate" knowledge of these particles' cancer-causing potential, but they deliberately ...

Health created Sep 28, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 10 | with audio podcast

Egg yolk consumption almost as bad as smoking when it comes to atherosclerosis

Newly published research led by Dr. David Spence of Western University, Canada, shows that eating egg yolks accelerates atherosclerosis in a manner similar to smoking cigarettes. Surveying more than 1200 patients, Dr. Spence ...

Cardiology created Aug 13, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Judge orders tobacco companies to say they lied

(AP)—A federal judge on Tuesday ordered tobacco companies to publish corrective statements that say they lied about the dangers of smoking and that disclose smoking's health effects, including the death on average of 1,200 ...

Health created Nov 27, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 3

Occasional marijuana use doesn't harm lungs, study finds

Smoking marijuana on an occasional basis does not appear to significantly damage the lungs, according to a new study.

Health created Jan 12, 2012 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Trial against Big Tobacco starts in Montreal Monday

A groundbreaking trial gets underway in Montreal Monday against three leading tobacco companies which face a $25 billion lawsuit for allegedly failing to adequately warn smokers of the dangers of cigarettes.

Health created Mar 11, 2012 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (3) | comments 1

Tobacco industry claims on cigarette packaging are nonsense

Claims that replacing alluring designs on cigarette packs with a plain standardised look will increase illegal tobacco production are baseless - according to a new report published today (Friday) by an international expert. ...

Addiction created Nov 23, 2012 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (3) | comments 1

Doctor suggests tabloids publish daily smoking death toll

While smoking remains legal, the number of smokers is never going to fall significantly, argues public health doctor in a letter to this week's BMJ.

Health created Oct 25, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

New analysis casts doubt on results of tobacco industry studies into safety of cigarette additives

New analysis casts doubt on results of tobacco industry studies into safety of cigarette additives

Health created Dec 20, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Mapping the destructive path from cigarette to emphysema

From the cherry red tip of a lighted cigarette through the respiratory tract to vital lung cells, the havoc created by tobacco smoke seems almost criminal, activating genes and portions of the immune system to create inflammation ...

Medical research created Jan 18, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Secondhand smoke is linked to Type 2 diabetes and obesity

Adults who are exposed to secondhand smoke have higher rates of obesity and Type 2 diabetes than do nonsmokers without environmental exposure to tobacco smoke, a new study shows. The results will be presented at The Endocrine ...

Addiction created Jun 25, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0