Harmful metals found in vapors from tank-style electronic cigarettes
UC Riverside study analyzed six popular e-cigarette tanks and their atomizersCredit: I. Pittalwala, UC Riverside. RIVERSIDE, Calif. -- A team ...
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Teens share stories to deter other students from using tobacco
Credit: UTHealth An innovative strategy called Teens Against Tobacco Use showed promise as an effective strategy to deter tobacco use ...
Pathway found for treatment-resistant lung cancer
Credit: Phil Jones, Senior Photographer, Augusta University AUGUSTA, Ga. (Sept. 20, 2019) - A big way chemotherapy works is by ...
McLean’s Amy C. Janes, PhD, receives Presidential Honor for Young Scientists
Credit: McLean Hospital McLean Hospital's Amy C. Janes, PhD, has been named a recipient of the Presidential Early Career Award ...
National Academy of Medicine and FDA announce the 2019 Tobacco Regulatory Science Fellows
The National Academy of Medicine (NAM) along with the US Food and Drug Administration's Center for Tobacco Products (CTP) have ...
University of Toronto researchers show kids widely exposed to smoking in movies
More than half of the top-grossing movies in Ontario in the past 16 years featured smoking, according to University of ...
PCORI Board approves $2.3 million to support implementation of results from PCORI-funded research
Projects focus on lung cancer screening and therapy for adolescent traumatic brain injury WASHINGTON, DC -- The Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute ...
Study quantifies smoking’s strong link to peripheral artery disease
Elevated risk of this common arterial disease lasts 30 years after quitting smoking A new study led by researchers at ...
Predicting long-term risk of death from chest X-rays
What The Study Did: Researchers in this study looked at whether a computing system that analyzed data from thousands of ...
Cigarette butts hamper plant growth — study
New research is first to show damage caused to plantsCredit: Jaime Da Silva Carvalho, Anglia Ruskin University (ARU) New research ...
Legalized recreational marijuana a substitute for alcohol, but not tobacco
New Marketing Science Study Key Takeaways: Research shows once recreational marijuana is legalized, the number of online searches for tobacco ...
New e-cigarette laws could drive some users to smoke more cigarettes
Making e-cigs less appealing to youth may have unintended effects on existing usersCredit: Duke Health DURHAM, N.C. -- Efforts by ...
Fewer than half of US adults exposed to court-ordered anti-smoking advertisements
Reach of tobacco industry corrective statements even lower among certain groups with higher smoking ratesCredit: MD Anderson Cancer Center The ...
Seeing greenery linked to less intense and frequent cravings
Credit: University of Plymouth Being able to see green spaces from your home is associated with reduced cravings for alcohol, ...
Respiratory symptoms predict life expectancy in older adults
New research published in Respirology suggests that some respiratory symptoms may predict an earlier death in older adults. Also, such ...
Study finds electronic cigarettes damage brain stem cells
UC Riverside research on mouse neural stem cells has implications for nicotine useCredit: I. Pittalwala, UC Riverside. RIVERSIDE, Calif. -- ...
Scientists find thirdhand smoke affects cells in humans
UC Riverside-led study is the first to find an association between thirdhand smoke and gene expression in humansCredit: Stan Lim, ...
Evaluation of USPSTF lung cancer screening guidelines for African-American smokers
Bottom Line: An observational study suggests the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) lung cancer screening guidelines may be too conservative ...
Health disparity for blacks exists within lung screening guidelines
Guidelines that determine which smokers qualify for CT scans are excluding a significant number of African Americans who develop lung ...
From simple tools to high-level buy-in, how doctors can help cancer patients quit tobacco
Penn study shows Moonshot-funded program is making an impact PHILADELPHIA - A simple set of decision-support tools combined with institutional ...
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