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More than one in five pregnant white women smoke cigarettes

May 10, 2012
A new report shows that 21.8 percent of pregnant white women aged 15 to 44 currently (within the past 30 days) smoked cigarettes. The study also showed that cigarette smoking levels among pregnant white women were significantly higher than the levels among pregnant black women (14.2 percent) and pregnant Hispanic ...

Electronic cigarettes may help smokers’ memory while they kick the habit

April 18, 2012
Electronic cigarettes - battery-operated devices that provide nicotine via inhaled vapor - may help the memory as well as ease cravings as smokers quit their habit, new research suggests.

Tweens just say ‘maybe’ to cigarettes and alcohol

March 12, 2012
When it comes to prevention of substance use in our tween population, turning our kids on to thought control may just be the answer to getting them to say no.

Big jolt to California economy with new tax on cigarettes

February 7, 2012
A new analysis has found that a state ballot initiative to increase the cigarette tax would create about 12,000 jobs and nearly $2 billion in new economic activity in California.

Tobacco company misrepresented danger from cigarettes, study suggests

January 7, 2012
A new 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 the risk of heart, cancer and other diseases for smokers, study says.

Life after cigarettes: Compared with those who continue to smoke, quitters are both happier and more satisfied with their health

December 13, 2011
Life without cigarettes is not all doom and gloom. In fact, successful quitters are more satisfied with their lives and feel healthier, both one year and three years afterwards, than those who continue to smoke. That's according to new research by Dr. Megan Piper, from the University of Wisconsin School ...

Influencing craving for cigarettes by stimulating the brain

October 31, 2011
Targeted brain stimulation increases cigarette cravings, a new study has found, which may lead to new treatments. Cues such as watching someone else smoke, elicit craving and may provoke relapse. There are many methods that smokers use in an attempt to reduce their craving for cigarettes, including efficacious pharmacologic treatments ...

Smoking cigarettes simulates cystic fibrosis

October 12, 2011
If you smoke cigarettes, you have more in common with someone who has cystic fibrosis than you think. A new research report shows that smoking cigarettes affects the lungs in a way that is very similar to cystic fibrosis, a life threatening disease affecting the lungs and other organs.

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

September 28, 2011
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 kept their findings from the public, according to a new study.

Some smokers successfully switch to electronic cigarettes

September 14, 2011
While electronic cigarettes may be a long-term alternative to the real thing for some smokers, researchers suggest medical providers should continue to encourage more traditional smoking cessation methods.

New Nicotine Inhaler: A Safer Alternative to Cigarettes?

July 7, 2011
A British inventor has come up with a device that delivers the nicotine, as well as the psychological effects, of a real cigarette. Is his nicotine inhaler the future of quitting?

Menthol Cigarettes Marketed In ‘Predatory’ Pattern

June 25, 2011
Tobacco companies increased the advertising and lowered the sale price of menthol cigarettes in stores near California high schools with larger populations of African-American students, according to a new study from the Stanford School of Medicine.Although cigarette makers have denied using race or ethnicity to target customers, the lead researcher ...