News Related to Smoking Cessation
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Movie Smoking Greatest in Kids' Movies
July 17, 2006 -- The silver screen may look a little hazy with cigarette smoke, especially in kids' films, according to a new study. The study comes from pediatrician James Sargent, MD, and colleagues at Dartmouth Medical School. They watched the top 100 box office hits for each year from 1996-2004
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Quit Smoking, Quickly Improve Asthma
July 14, 2006 -- Quitting smoking may have a quick pay off for people with asthma asthma. A single smoke-free week may be all it takes to start seeing improvements in asthma patients' lung function, researchers report in the American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine. "In smokers wit
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Class May Affect Men's Smoking Deaths
July 13, 2006 -- New research shows that men's odds of dying from a smoking-related illness are twice as high for those in the lowest social class as for those in the highest social class. The finding, published online in The Lancet, comes from experts including the University of Toronto's Prabhat J
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Light Cigarettes Harder to Quit
June 29, 2006 -- Smoking low-tar and low-nicotine -- or "light" -- cigarettes may actually make it harder for smokers to kick the habit. A new study shows that people who smoke light cigarettes are more than 50% less likely to quit smoking quit smoking than those who smoke regular cigarettes. "Even
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'Debate Over' on Secondhand Smoke
June 27, 2006 -- The federal government branded secondhand smoke a public health hazard Monday, urging states and individuals to do more to minimize nonsmoker's exposure to cigarette smoke. "The debate is over. The science is clear," U.S. Surgeon General Richard Carmona, MD, told reporters Tuesday.
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Report: Smokers Need More Help to Quit
June 14, 2006 -- Not enough Americans have access to methods that could help millions of smokers quit the habit, a government report concluded Wednesday. Experts say that quitting methods are available that could triple generally low quit rates for nearly 45 million adult Americans who still smoke.
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Study: Secondhand Smoke Fading
June 7, 2006 -- Secondhand smoke exposure may be dwindling in the U.S., a new study shows. The number of U.S. nonsmokers with detectable blood levels of cotinine -- a marker for tobacco exposure -- fell 70% from 1988 to 2002. James Pirkle, MD, PhD, and colleagues report that finding in the June issu
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Parents' Smoking May Affect Babies
May 12, 2006 -- Parents who smoke cigarettes may expose their children to cancer-causing agents through secondhand smoke, a new study shows. However, the study -- published in Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention -- doesn't show if babies exposed to chronic secondhand-smoke exposure later ha
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FDA OKs New Quit-Smoking Drug
May 11, 2006 -- The FDA has approved a new drug to help cigarette smokers quit smoking quit smoking. The drug is called Chantix. It comes in tablet form and is not recommended for pregnant smokers, smokers younger than 18, or use with other smoking-cessation products, the FDA's Curt Rosebraugh, MD,
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9 Million U.S. Smokers Are Obese
May 11, 2006 -- New research shows how common smoking and obesity obesity are among U.S. adults. In BMJ Online First, experts report that more than 41% of U.S. adults either smoke or are obese, and about 4.7% both smoke and are obese. Those figures work out to 81 million U.S. adults who either smoke
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