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Effect on smoking quit rate of telling patients their lung age: the Step2quit randomised controlled trial shows that telling smokers their lung age significantly improves the likelihood of them quitting.
A toxic pollutant spread by oil spills, forest fires and car exhaust is also present in cigarette smoke, and may represent a second way in which smoking delays bone healing.
A survey of 2,153 U.S. adults reveals that most are unaware that former smokers are still at risk for one of the country's most common lung diseases - chronic obstructive pulmonary disease or COPD.
About one million smokers may die annually in 2010s in India.
About 700 million children regularly breathe air polluted by tobacco smoke.
Research explains reasons for the increase in the use of cigarettes among women in the last 50 years.
Young people who read some of the most popular magazines on newsstands see a great deal of advertising from smokeless tobacco companies.
More elderly adults are smoking cigarettes and not reporting their nicotine habits to doctors and others
New York State DoH unveiled ad campaign urging health care providers to make quitting a priority for their patients who smoke.
The prevalence of smoking in Georgia decreased by 10 percent in 2006.
Greater investments in state tobacco control programs are independently and significantly associated with larger and more rapid declines in adult smoking prevalence.
New York DoH takes leadership role in petitioning FDA to allow over-the-counter sales of nicotine replacement therapies in all retail locations where cigarettes are sold.
Study provides powerful evidence of the direct relationship between increased funding for state tobacco prevention and cessation programs and declines in adult smoking.
DHMH has a tool kit on its Web site and a Help Line to help business owners prepare their establishments to go smoke-free.
Survey finds troubling rates of tobacco use, and even higher rates of exposure to secondhand smoke, among children around the world.
Don't let another year go up in smoke; give up cigarettes and live a healthier, happier life.
This New Year, it is anticipated that 15,992 smokers across Manchester will try to stop smoking.
Smokers who seek out treatment to give up the habit are less successful at quitting than smokers who try to snuff the habit without help.
County of Lambton Community Health Department wants all drivers and all passengers who smoke to keep the vehicle smoke-free by taking it outside and away from children.
Quitting smoking is a popular New Year's resolution, and the Tennessee Department of Health can increase your odds of keeping it.
Heath units from across southwestern Ontario are calling on Ontario's motorists to keep their vehicles smoke-free this winter.
More smokers in Wales than ever before using cessation services. Smokers were today urged to make giving up their number one New Year's resolution by the Chief Medical Officer (CMO) for Wales, following the success of smoking cessation services in Wales in 2007.
Dr Tony Jewell's advice comes after figures showed that 2007 has been the best year so far for Stop Smoking Wales, the service funded by the Welsh Assembly Government and provided by the National Public Health Service to help smokers quit.
CDHA is calling on smokers to resolve to quit in 2008 by taking a simple first step: calling the California Smokers' Helpline
Boston public health officials urged convenience stores and liquor stores to adhere to City regulations limiting the advertising of tobacco products to minors.
The Department of Health, Social Services and Public Safety has published statistics relating to the smoking cessation services for 2006/07.
Don't let another year go up in smoke; give up cigarettes and live a healthier, happier life.
Researchers has found an association between domestic violence and adult smoking.
Two more likely genetic locations for nicotine addiction have been identified through research by University of Virginia Health System researchers. This research explored the role of genetics, environmental factors and a brain compound called GABA, a chemical substance of the central nervous system that inhibits neurons in the brain.
January 1, 2008 will mark the ritualistic day of New Year's promises as many vow to stop smoking.
A Comparison of Mainstream and Sidestream Marijuana and Tobacco Cigarette Smoke Produced under Two Machine Smoking Conditions.
