News tagged with smoking rates
Enforcing bans on cigarette sales to kids reduces youth smoking
Apr 17, 2009 |
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A new study finds that enforcing federal and state laws against tobacco sales to minors dramatically decreases underage smoking rates. The results show that laws prohibiting sales of cigarettes to minors and stepped up enforcement ...
More good news on teen smoking: Rates at or near record lows
Dec 11, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Cigarette smoking rates among American teens in 2008 are at the lowest levels since at least as far back as the early 1990s, according to the Monitoring the Future study based at the University of Michigan, ...
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Study links smoking with most male cancer deaths
Jan 21, 2009 |
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The association between tobacco smoke and cancer deaths — beyond lung cancer deaths — has been strengthened by a recent study from a UC Davis researcher, suggesting that increased tobacco control efforts could save more lives ...
Do women who smoke like men die like men?
Aug 31, 2009 |
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Smoking still kills more men than women, because men started smoking substantial numbers of cigarettes long before women did.
Quit smoking message not getting air time in mental health care
May 12, 2008 |
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People with mental illness are not receiving the support they need to stop smoking, despite high rates of nicotine dependence and deaths from cardiovascular and respiratory illnesses.
Smoking kills -- irrespective of social class and gender
Feb 17, 2009 |
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A well-off professional who smokes has a much lower survival rate than a non-smoking low-paid worker of the same sex concludes new research published today on bmj.com.
More Men Die from COPD Compared to Women
Jan 05, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Men across the Asia-Pacific region have consistently higher mortality and hospitalization rates for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) than corresponding rates for women in the region.
US adult smoking rate rises slightly
Nov 12, 2009 |
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(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.
Smoking rates significantly higher among homosexual men, women
Jul 24, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Men and women who are gay or lesbian are more likely than their heterosexual counterparts to smoke, according to findings from a review study carried out by the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Using the Internet to help young smokers quit
Jun 30, 2009 |
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Many young smokers want to quit but don't know what methods work.
Study finds racial disparities increasing for cancers unrelated to smoking
Nov 06, 2008 |
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A new American Cancer Society study finds that recent progress in closing the gap in overall cancer mortality between African Americans and whites may be due primarily to smoking-related cancers, and that cancer mortality ...
Certain states more aggressive with anti-smoking policies
Apr 08, 2009 |
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A new study published in the journal Contemporary Economic Policy assesses the impact of state attributes on the likelihood that a state adopts policies to limit youth access to tobacco. Across nine different measures of you ...
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