http://www.physorg.com/ en-us Physorg.com internet news portal provides the latest news on science including: Physics, Nanotechnology, Life Sciences, Space Science, Earth Science, Environment, Health and Medicine. (PhysOrg.com) -- Besides delectable dishes that help us pack on the pounds during the holiday season, many people also let loose with a bottle of wine or a pack of cigarettes. Richard Rood, MD, says moderation is the key, but to also keep in mind that you may be harming more than your liver or your lungs with these social activities. http://www.physorg.com/news180287170.html Medicine & Health Thu, 17 Dec 2009 16:00:01 EST news180287170 New research showing that thrill-seeking teenagers are especially susceptible to fruit-flavored cigarettes is in line with the recent ban on the sale of flavored cigarettes by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in September 2009. According to the FDA, the ban, authorized by the new Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act, is part of a national effort by the FDA to reduce smoking, which is the leading preventable cause of death in America. http://www.physorg.com/news180082664.html Medicine & Health Tue, 15 Dec 2009 06:58:17 EST news180082664 (PhysOrg.com) -- A new University of Pittsburgh study reveals that craving a cigarette while performing a cognitive task not only increases the chances of a person's mind wandering, but also makes that person less likely to notice when his or her mind has wandered. http://www.physorg.com/news179430373.html Medicine & Health Mon, 07 Dec 2009 20:10:02 EST news179430373 New study results strengthen the evidence that people who smoke cigarettes over a long period of time have an increased risk for developing colorectal cancer, even after adjusting for other risk factors. http://www.physorg.com/news179152104.html Medicine & Health Fri, 04 Dec 2009 14:10:01 EST news179152104 Assurance of a cancer-free status did not prompt people participating in a long-term computerized tomography (CT) lung-cancer screening program to pick up their cigarettes again, researchers wrote in a study published in Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention, a journal of the American Association for Cancer Research. The December issue contains a special focus on tobacco. http://www.physorg.com/news179152085.html Medicine & Health Fri, 04 Dec 2009 13:20:01 EST news179152085 Cigarettes are "widely contaminated" with bacteria, including some known to cause disease in people, concludes a new international study conducted by a University of Maryland environmental health researcher and microbial ecologists at the Ecole Centrale de Lyon in France. http://www.physorg.com/news177852930.html Medicine & Health Thu, 19 Nov 2009 11:50:01 EST news177852930 (AP) -- Cigarette smoking rose slightly for the first time in almost 15 years, dashing health officials' hopes that the U.S. smoking rate had moved permanently below 20 percent. http://www.physorg.com/news177255483.html Medicine & Health Thu, 12 Nov 2009 14:00:24 EST news177255483 Inflammation still ravages the lungs of some smokers years after they quit the habit. What sparks that smoldering destruction remained a mystery until a consortium of researchers led by Baylor College of Medicine found that certain dendritic cells in the lung - the cells that "present" a foreign antigen or protein to the immune system - provoke production of destructive T-cells that attack a key protein called elastin, leading to death of lung tissue and emphysema. http://www.physorg.com/news175958093.html Medicine & Health Wed, 28 Oct 2009 14:16:16 EST news175958093 Smokers who crushed computer-simulated cigarettes as part of a psychosocial treatment program in a virtual reality environment had significantly reduced nicotine dependence and higher rates of tobacco abstinence than smokers participating in the same program who grasped a computer-simulated ball, according to a study described in the current issue of CyberPsychology and Behavior. http://www.physorg.com/news175870193.html Medicine & Health Tue, 27 Oct 2009 13:50:55 EST news175870193 (PhysOrg.com) -- Exercise can help smokers quit because it makes cigarettes less attractive. A new study from the University of Exeter shows for the first time that exercise can lessen the power of cigarettes and smoking-related images to grab the attention of smokers. The study is published in the journal Addiction. http://www.physorg.com/news175787829.html Medicine & Health Mon, 26 Oct 2009 15:20:01 EST news175787829 For the first time, researchers at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center have demonstrated that it is possible to successfully recruit and retain a large number of adolescent smokers from the general population into a smoking intervention study and, through personalized, proactive telephone counseling, significantly impact rates of six-month continuous quitting. These findings, by Arthur V. Peterson Jr., Ph.D., Kathleen A. Kealey and colleagues, are reported in a pair of papers in the Oct. 12 "Advance Access" online edition of the Journal of the National Cancer Institute. http://www.physorg.com/news174584678.html Medicine & Health Mon, 12 Oct 2009 16:46:01 EST news174584678 Tonya Moraffah takes a deep drag on her cigarette, feels the soothing surge of nicotine and explains what extinguished her 30-year, pack-a-day smoking habit. http://www.physorg.com/news172860742.html Medicine & Health Tue, 22 Sep 2009 22:00:01 EST news172860742 (AP) -- The new federal ban on flavored cigarettes took effect on Tuesday, marking one of the first visible signs of the Food and Drug Administration's new authority to regulate tobacco. http://www.physorg.com/news172847214.html Medicine & Health Tue, 22 Sep 2009 14:30:18 EST news172847214 Consumption of contraband cigarettes amongst adolescent daily smokers in Canada accounts for 17% of all cigarettes smoked by this age group, and rises to more than 25% in Ontario and Quebec. This behaviour may be undermining tobacco-prevention strategies, as they focus on taxation and minimum age restrictions to curb and prevent smoking, states an article in CMAJ (Canadian Medical Association Journal). http://www.physorg.com/news171605926.html Medicine & Health Tue, 08 Sep 2009 05:19:23 EST news171605926 While smoking cigarettes appears to significantly increase a person's risk of developing multiple sclerosis, using Swedish snuff does not, according to a study published in the September 1, 2009, print issue of Neurology, the medical journal of the American Academy of Neurology. http://www.physorg.com/news170954792.html Medicine & Health Mon, 31 Aug 2009 16:40:06 EST news170954792 Smoking still kills more men than women, because men started smoking substantial numbers of cigarettes long before women did. http://www.physorg.com/news170938427.html Medicine & Health Mon, 31 Aug 2009 12:10:01 EST news170938427 People who use smokeless tobacco products like snus have a slightly higher risk of having a fatal heart attack or stroke, according to research published on bmj.com today. http://www.physorg.com/news169984787.html Medicine & Health Thu, 20 Aug 2009 11:20:06 EST news169984787 Smokeless tobacco products, as used in Europe and North America, do not appear to increase cancer risk. A large meta-analysis, published in the open access journal BMC Medicine, has shown that snuff as used in Scandinavia has no discernible effect on the risk of various cancers. Products used in the past in the USA may have increased the risk, but any effect that exists now seems likely to be quite small. http://www.physorg.com/news168030060.html Medicine & Health Tue, 28 Jul 2009 22:10:01 EST news168030060 New research suggests that current regulations have failed to remove misleading information from cigarette packaging, revealing that a substantial majority of consumers believe cigarettes are less hazardous when the packs display words such as "silver" or "smooth," lower numbers incorporated into the brand name, lighter colours or pictures of filters. http://www.physorg.com/news167988818.html Medicine & Health Tue, 28 Jul 2009 09:20:02 EST news167988818 (AP) -- Federal health officials said Wednesday they have found cancer-causing ingredients in electronic cigarettes, despite manufacturers' claims the products are safer than tobacco cigarettes. http://www.physorg.com/news167547486.html Medicine & Health Thu, 23 Jul 2009 06:20:01 EST news167547486 France's latest rise in the indirect taxation on tobacco and alcohol took place in June. The most popular brand of cigarettes went up in price from 3.10 euros to 3.30 euros per packet. Are these taxes a form of dissuasion or a way of compensating the rest of society for the harm generated by those who smoke? A study by the Polytechnic University of Cartagena has looked into the most significant questions concerning the tobacco economy. http://www.physorg.com/news166968515.html Medicine & Health Thu, 16 Jul 2009 13:08:51 EST news166968515 Using a nicotine patch before quitting smoking can double success rates, according to Duke University Medical Center researchers. They say their latest data suggest changes should be made to nicotine patch labeling. http://www.physorg.com/news166363480.html Medicine & Health Thu, 09 Jul 2009 13:06:32 EST news166363480 (PhysOrg.com) -- Despite recent declines in cigarette use in the U.S., nicotine dependence has remained steady among adults and has actually increased among some groups. The finding by researchers at Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health suggests that public health initiatives have been far more successful in preventing Americans from taking up smoking than in persuading hard-core smokers to stop. The study is available online in the American Journal of Public Health and will be published in the August 2009 issue. http://www.physorg.com/news165845935.html Medicine & Health Fri, 03 Jul 2009 13:19:05 EST news165845935 Despite recent declines in cigarette use in the U.S., nicotine dependence has remained steady among adults and has actually increased among some groups. The finding by researchers at Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health suggests that public health initiatives have been far more successful in preventing Americans from taking up smoking than in persuading hard-core smokers to stop. The study is available online in the American Journal of Public Health and will be published in the August 2009 issue. http://www.physorg.com/news165064403.html Medicine & Health Wed, 24 Jun 2009 12:13:43 EST news165064403 Tobacco acts as a precipitating factor for headaches, specifically migraines. This is indicated in a study which shows that smokers have more migraine attacks and that smoking more than five cigarettes a day triggers this headache. The work has appeared in the Journal of Headache and Pain. http://www.physorg.com/news165057802.html Medicine & Health Wed, 24 Jun 2009 10:24:03 EST news165057802 More than a decade after Harvard researchers first revealed that life and health insurance companies were major investors in tobacco stocks - prompting calls upon them to divest - the insurance industry has yet to kick the habit, they say. http://www.physorg.com/news163270429.html Medicine & Health Wed, 03 Jun 2009 17:54:33 EST news163270429 Long-running US cartoon show "The Simpsons" may inadvertently promote smoking with its frequent depictions of the habit and references to cigarettes, Australian research has found. http://www.physorg.com/news163056342.html Medicine & Health Mon, 01 Jun 2009 06:26:09 EST news163056342 (AP) -- It may be riskier on the lungs to smoke cigarettes today than it was a few decades ago - at least in the U.S., says new research that blames changes in cigarette design for fueling a certain type of lung cancer. http://www.physorg.com/news161845870.html Medicine & Health Mon, 18 May 2009 06:11:35 EST news161845870 Everyone knows that smoking can kill you, but did you know that it may help with your allergies? A new study shows that cigarette smoke can prevent allergies by decreasing the reaction of immune cells to allergens. http://www.physorg.com/news161520042.html Medicine & Health Thu, 14 May 2009 11:41:23 EST news161520042 The landlady of a British pub has exploited a loophole in the country's smoking ban by opening a "smoking research centre" where drinkers can light up legally, reports said Wednesday. http://www.physorg.com/news161412971.html Medicine & Health Wed, 13 May 2009 05:56:33 EST news161412971