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Newswise: Smoking has long-term effects on the immune system
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Smoking has long-term effects on the immune system
Institut Pasteur

Like other factors such as age, sex and genetics, smoking has a major impact on immune responses.

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New Research Explores the Effects of Cannabidiol on General Health
University of Northern Colorado

For 20 years, Laura Stewart, Ph.D., a professor in the Department of Kinesiology, Nutrition and Dietetics at the University of Northern Colorado, has been exploring how exercise improves the immune system.

   
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Released: 18-Dec-2023 1:05 PM EST
How Rutgers Health Research Informs Policy Changes at Local, State and National Levels
Rutgers University-New Brunswick

From advising on the dangers of menthol cigarettes to advocating for 9/11 first responders, faculty and researchers sit at the vanguard of informed policymaking

Released: 13-Dec-2023 1:05 PM EST
‘Tis the season to get vaccinated: How to stay healthy through the holidays
Michigan Medicine - University of Michigan

With virus cases rising and the holidays nigh, three expert from University of Michigan Health give their top 12 tips for avoiding or reducing the impact of COVID-19, flu, RSV, pneumonia and whooping cough in adults and kids.

Released: 12-Dec-2023 2:05 PM EST
Smoking causes brain shrinkage
Washington University in St. Louis

Smoking shrinks the brain and effectively causes premature brain aging, according to a study by researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis. Quitting smoking prevents further loss of brain tissue but doesn’t restore the brain to its original size.

Newswise: Cannabis Exposure Linked to 1.3 Times Higher Risk of Unhealthy Pregnancy Outcomes
7-Dec-2023 11:00 AM EST
Cannabis Exposure Linked to 1.3 Times Higher Risk of Unhealthy Pregnancy Outcomes
University of Utah Health

In a study of more than 9,000 pregnant people from across the U.S., researchers at University of Utah Health found that cannabis exposure during pregnancy is associated with a composite measure of unhealthy pregnancy outcomes, especially low birth weight, and that higher exposure is associated with higher risks.

Released: 11-Dec-2023 2:05 PM EST
Why get high? New study shows teens use cannabis for coping, enjoyment
UC Davis Health

A study in Psychology of Addictive Behaviors finds teens who have more demand for cannabis are likely to use it for enjoyment and coping. Understanding motives is important for addiction prevention.

Released: 7-Dec-2023 2:15 PM EST
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Released: 29-Nov-2023 10:05 AM EST
Drugs already licensed could be trialled to potentially treat secondary brain cancer, new research finds
University of Bristol

The largest review of papers for brain cancer that has spread from the lungs has found abnormalities in the brain cancer and for which licensed drugs could be clinically trialled to find out if they could treat the disease.

Released: 21-Nov-2023 3:45 PM EST
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Released: 16-Nov-2023 3:05 PM EST
From tobacco to alcohol to opioids, Sanford Burnham Prebys researchers are pursuing novel leads and promising therapies to treat addiction
Sanford Burnham Prebys

Tens of millions of Americans are addicted to illicit drugs, alcohol, tobacco and other substances including opioids, with both immediate and long-term harm to not just themselves, but also family, friends and society.

Released: 7-Nov-2023 6:05 PM EST
Suspected bronchiectasis associated with higher risk of mortality in smokers
Brigham and Women’s Hospital

Bronchiectasis, a condition defined by widened lung airways, cough and sputum production, and frequent infections, often presents along with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD).

Newswise: Online Shopping for Tobacco Products Rises with California Flavor Restrictions
3-Nov-2023 6:00 AM EDT
Online Shopping for Tobacco Products Rises with California Flavor Restrictions
University of California San Diego

A UC San Diego Herbert Wertheim School of Public Health and Human Longevity Science study reveals that online shopping for tobacco products increased the months following the California flavored tobacco ban and identified potential loopholes in tobacco control policies on e-commerce sales.

Released: 6-Nov-2023 4:05 PM EST
Ochsner Health and Chevron partner for a third consecutive year to offer smoking cessation and education program
Ochsner Health

Ochsner Health and Chevron formed a key partnership for the Lung Cancer Awareness, Education and Prevention Program to improve lung health and overall wellness. This critical initiative launched in November 2021 in St. Tammany Parish. Since then, the two organizations have worked together to improve resources and education around smoking cessation and overall lung health.

Released: 24-Oct-2023 1:35 PM EDT
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Released: 24-Oct-2023 1:05 PM EDT
Lung Cancer Awareness Month: Progress in early screening and diagnostics, plus smoking cessation programs to help reduce health disparities
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center

As Lung Cancer Awareness Month begins in November, experts at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center remain committed to advancing early screening, helping people quit smoking and developing new ways to detect and treat lung cancer.

Released: 24-Oct-2023 11:05 AM EDT
أسئلة وإجابات مايو كلينك: التعريف بسرطان الرأس والعنق
Mayo Clinic

منذ وقت قريب شُخِّص أحد زملائي في العمل بسرطان الفم بعد استشارته للطبيب حول سعال شديد. جعلني هذا الأمر أتساءل عن معدلات الإصابة بسرطان الرأس والعنق، وعن الفحوصات التي أحتاج للخصوع لها. أنا في منتصف الأربعينات، وأحاول الالتزام بالفحص الجسدي السنوي.

Released: 19-Oct-2023 12:05 PM EDT
Tobacco purchases rise following restrictions on e-cigarette sales, study finds
Yale University

E-cigarette flavor bans may drive people to smoke cigarettes instead, study finds

Released: 12-Oct-2023 11:05 AM EDT
How do tax proposals affect cancer health of tobacco users based on income, education?
Virginia Tech

Tobacco is the leading cause of preventable death in the United States, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and cigarette smoking causes three in 10 of all cancer deaths. Smoking also accounts for more than 30 percent of the difference in life expectancy among different socioeconomic groups. Roberta Freitas-Lemos, research assistant professor at the Fralin Biomedical Research Institute at VTC, recently received a career development award to explore the ways in which nicotine tax policies can influence health disparities.

Released: 9-Oct-2023 6:50 AM EDT
Factors associated with marijuana use among high-risk college students
Texas A&M University

The past decade has seen a significant increase in marijuana use among U.S. college students. This increase has coincided with notable changes in national and local cannabis laws and policies, and perceptions of the associated drug’s risk over the same period.

Released: 5-Oct-2023 10:30 AM EDT
Rutgers Helps Document How Surge of Cheap, Flavored Cigars Targets Young Consumers
Rutgers University-New Brunswick

A report from the university’s Institute for Nicotine and Tobacco Studies and the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids shows how companies have flooded the market with products that appeal to young people.

   
Newswise: Computer model predicts who needs lung cancer screening
26-Sep-2023 12:05 PM EDT
Computer model predicts who needs lung cancer screening
PLOS

A machine learning model equipped with only data on people’s age, smoking duration and the number of cigarettes smoked per day can predict lung cancer risk and identify who needs lung cancer screening, according to a new study publishing October 3rd in the open access journal PLOS Medicine by Thomas Callender of University College London, UK, and colleagues.

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Newswise: New California Tobacco Cessation Policy Research Center to be housed at cancer center
Released: 28-Sep-2023 1:05 PM EDT
New California Tobacco Cessation Policy Research Center to be housed at cancer center
UC Davis Health

California’s new Tobacco Cessation Policy Research Center will be located at UC Davis Comprehensive Cancer Center and funded with a $3.7 million state grant

25-Sep-2023 10:05 AM EDT
Risk of premature birth from smoking while pregnant more than double previous estimates
University of Cambridge

Cambridge researchers have found that women who smoke during pregnancy are 2.6 times more likely to give birth prematurely compared to non-smokers – more than double the previous estimate.

Released: 27-Sep-2023 12:50 PM EDT
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15-Sep-2023 7:05 AM EDT
Young Adults’ Simultaneous Use of Alcohol and Marijuana Linked to More Drinking, More Negative Alcohol Consequences, and More Hours High
Research Society on Alcoholism

Up to one in four young adults use alcohol and marijuana simultaneously (i.e., use at the same time with overlapping effects), a behavior linked to a greater risk of adverse consequences. Given the expanding legalization of non-medical marijuana use, there is an urgent need to better understand the effects of simultaneous use and who is most vulnerable to adverse outcomes.

     
Released: 18-Sep-2023 8:05 AM EDT
56 million Americans unknowingly exposed to secondhand smoke
University of Florida

Blood tests reveal that millions of Americans are exposed to tobacco smoke without knowing it.

Newswise: The Medical Minute: Talk to your health care provider about any use of cannabinoid products
Released: 13-Sep-2023 8:05 AM EDT
The Medical Minute: Talk to your health care provider about any use of cannabinoid products
Penn State Health

That CBD product might be legal, but is it safe to use with other medicine? Two Penn State Health experts agree ― talk it over with your provider.

Released: 7-Sep-2023 5:05 PM EDT
A tax on menthol cigarettes would work better than statewide bans, UW study finds
University of Washington

New research from Simha Mummalaneni and Ali Goli, assistant professors of marketing in the University of Washington Foster School of Business, finds that a menthol cigarette tax is a preferable policy to scattered statewide bans.

Released: 7-Sep-2023 2:05 PM EDT
UW assessment finds fentanyl and methamphetamine smoke linger on public transit vehicles
University of Washington

A UW research team conducted a limited-scope, first-of-its-kind assessment and detected fentanyl and methamphetamine on board numerous transit vehicles, both in the air and on surfaces.

Newswise: Study Identifies Geographic ‘Hot Spots’ for Cigarette, Firearm Deaths in the U.S. Over Two Decades
Released: 29-Aug-2023 11:05 AM EDT
Study Identifies Geographic ‘Hot Spots’ for Cigarette, Firearm Deaths in the U.S. Over Two Decades
Florida Atlantic University

A new study reveals geographically distinct areas of the highest death rates in the U.S. related to cigarettes as well as firearms, including both assault and suicide over two decades.

   
Newswise: Drs. Ken Kellar and Ryan Hibbs Win 38th Annual Alton Ochsner Award
Released: 22-Aug-2023 2:05 PM EDT
Drs. Ken Kellar and Ryan Hibbs Win 38th Annual Alton Ochsner Award
Ochsner Health

This prestigious honor bestowed by Ochsner Health recognizes scientists who have made major contributions in understanding the relationship between smoking and disease, along with the development of innovative treatment modalities.

Released: 18-Aug-2023 2:45 PM EDT
Largest U.S. study of e-cigarettes shows their value as smoking cessation aid
Medical University of South Carolina

E-cigarettes do have value as a smoking cessation aid, according to a new study just released by a team of MUSC Hollings Cancer Center researchers.

Released: 18-Aug-2023 11:20 AM EDT
Study finds secondhand smoke may be source of lead exposure in children
Texas A&M University

Lead exposure has long been a known health risk, especially for young children. Research has found that even at low levels, chronic exposure to lead can cause damage to the brain and other organs and cause problems with cognitive and motor skills.

Newswise: MD Anderson receives nearly $4.9 million in CPRIT funding for cancer prevention programs and recruitment
Released: 17-Aug-2023 8:50 AM EDT
MD Anderson receives nearly $4.9 million in CPRIT funding for cancer prevention programs and recruitment
University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center

The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center was awarded four grants totaling nearly $4.9 million from the Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas (CPRIT) to support the expansion of physical activity programs for survivors, the dissemination of targeted tobacco cessation programs and the recruitment of a first-time, tenure-track faculty member.

Released: 15-Aug-2023 5:05 PM EDT
Reduced grey matter in frontal lobes linked to teenage smoking and nicotine addiction – study
University of Cambridge

Levels of grey matter in two parts of the brain may be linked to a desire to start smoking during adolescence and the strengthening of nicotine addiction, a new study has shown.

   
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Released: 15-Aug-2023 8:55 AM EDT
New Evidence Bolsters Theory E-cigarettes May Increase Stroke Risk
American Physiological Society (APS)

There is new evidence that bolsters a possible link between e-cigarette use and increased risk of stroke, according to researchers from the University of Colorado Boulder.

Released: 9-Aug-2023 12:35 PM EDT
Rutgers Experts Oversee Journal Supplement Focused on Research About Premium Cigars
Rutgers University-New Brunswick

Experts at the Institute for Nicotine and Tobacco Studies at Rutgers served as guest editors of “Regulatory Research Advances on Premium Cigars,” a special supplement of Nicotine & Tobacco Research sponsored by the Center for Coordination of Analytics, Science, Enhancement, and Logistics in Tobacco Regulatory Science with funding from the National Institute on Drug Abuse at the National Institutes of Health and the Food and Drug Administration’s Center for Tobacco Products.

Newswise: Carpets Retain a Stubborn Grip on Pollutants from Tobacco Smoke
Released: 9-Aug-2023 11:15 AM EDT
Carpets Retain a Stubborn Grip on Pollutants from Tobacco Smoke
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

In rooms where smoking has taken place regularly, tobacco's imprint lingers on indoor surfaces, even long after regular smoking has stopped. The leftover residues, known as thirdhand smoke, can be a long-term source of indoor pollutants. New research from a team led by the Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) zeroes in on carpets as an especially potent – and difficult to clean – reservoir of tobacco contaminants.

8-Aug-2023 5:05 AM EDT
Rutgers-Eagleton Poll Reveals Tobacco Usage Trends and Public Opinion on Smoking
Rutgers University-New Brunswick

A spring Rutgers-Eagleton Poll conducted by the Eagleton Center for Public Interest Polling, part of the Eagleton Institute of Politics at Rutgers University, on behalf of Tobacco Free for a Healthy New Jersey (TFHNJ) sheds light on critical aspects of tobacco usage, including most used products and resources used to quit as well as opinions on cannabis smoking.



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