Addiction
Targeted anti-smoking messages for LGBTQ+ young women
In the U.S., young women who identify as LGBTQ+ are up 4.8 times more likely to smoke cigarettes than their heterosexual peers.
Jan 26, 2024
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News tagged with tobacco
Obstetrics & gynaecology
E-cigarettes help pregnant smokers quit without risks to pregnancy, trial finds
A new analysis of trial data on pregnant smokers, led by researchers at Queen Mary University of London, finds that the regular use of nicotine-replacement products during pregnancy is not associated with adverse pregnancy ...
Jan 17, 2024
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Oncology & Cancer
Survey finds link between drug/cannabis use during pregnancy and certain childhood cancers
While the risks of drug use, smoking and drinking during pregnancy are widely accepted, a new survey of parents has identified clear associations between certain types of childhood cancers and gestational substance use, notably ...
Jan 15, 2024
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Immunology
How gum disease aggravates chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
Severe gum disease has been linked to the progression of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, or COPD, but an understanding of how the connection plays out in the immune system remains unclear. This week in mSystems, a ...
Jan 12, 2024
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Health
Wristband monitors provide detailed account of air pollution exposure
Environmental epidemiologists at Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health, in collaboration with an interdisciplinary team of researchers at Oregon State University, Pacific Northwest National Labs, and Mt. Sinai ...
Jan 10, 2024
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Health
Thirdhand smoke study teaches reveals more about the risks
It's long been established that secondhand smoke is a detriment to health and linked to cancer. Now, researchers are looking more closely at thirdhand smoke, which is the presence of toxic tobacco by-products that remain ...
Jan 8, 2024
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Health
E-cigarettes found to help more tobacco smokers quit than traditional nicotine replacement
Nicotine e-cigarettes are more effective in helping people quit smoking than conventional nicotine-replacement therapy (NRT), according to the latest Cochrane review co-led by a University of Massachusetts Amherst public ...
Jan 8, 2024
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Addiction
California banned sales of flavored e-cigarettes in 2022, but a new study finds online stores are still selling them
Californians—including minors—are still able to buy flavored electronic cigarettes online, even after the state's much-publicized ban went into effect. That's the key finding of my team's new study, published in JAMA ...
Dec 21, 2023
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Health
Want to keep Gen Z off vaping? Teach them about the industry's marketing tactics, study says
Young adults who are more familiar with e-cigarette marketing practices are more likely to have attitudes against vaping than those unaware of the industry's marketing, according to a study led by Drexel University public ...
Dec 20, 2023
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Understanding ear infection in children
"My ear hurts." There are many conditions that can trigger this complaint from a young child. Depending on the symptoms, causes of earache in children include a foreign object in the ear, the common cold, swimmer's ear and ...
Dec 18, 2023
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