From Action toquit. Reposted at http://www.tobaccodeathray.blogspot.com,
June 14, 2013 Doctors should treat smoking
like a disease and adopt a more clinical approach, including pharmacological
tools, to help their patients quit rather than relying on encouragement or
admonition, says a leading Canadian smoking-cessation expert. The URL for the first article entitled “Doctors Urged to Adopt Clinical Approach to Target Smoking” cannot be directly accessed through the ActionToQuit website. Instead, the link will re-direct you to the Canadian Medical Association Journal homepage where you find the full article under News.
June 14, 2013 States that want to reduce
rates of adult smoking may consider implementing stringent tobacco restrictions
on teens, suggests a new study by researchers at Washington University School
of Medicine in St. Louis. Read More.
June 13,
2013 The researchers base their findings on over 1300 ten to 15
year old non-smokers whose exposure to tobacco advertising and subsequent
behaviour were monitored over a period of 2.5 years. Read more.
June 13,
2013 Britain will start regulating electronic cigarettes and other
products containing nicotine as medicines, according to the country’s top
regulator. Read more.
June 12,
2013 The state’s highest court on Tuesday partially set aside a landmark
judgment in a smoking lawsuit, unanimously ordering a retrial on $81 million in
punitive damages won by the family of a Roxbury woman who died of lung cancer. Read more.
June 12,
2013 A Yale doctor’s research into a technique called mindfulness
training and how it can help smokers quit is now available as an app. Read more.
June 11,
2013 Tobacco companies are now embracing electronic cigarettes to
help offset the loss of traditional cigarette smokers - even as the U.S.
Food and Drug Administration prepares to put forth regulations that could put
the skids on the nascent e-cigarette industry. Read More.
June 11,
2013 Vancouver, British Columbia – Researchers have yet again been
sent back to the drawing board in the development of the much-sought-after
vaccination for smokers, which would hypothetically inhibit the action of
nicotine and its pleasure-producing chemical response in the brain. Read More.
June 10,
2013 Send a text, stop a smoker? That’s what the National Cancer
Institute hopes for, as it pushes new smartphone-based tobacco cessation
programs. Read more.
June 10,
2013 Women are 37 percent more likely to have chronic obstructive
pulmonary disease (COPD) than men and now account for more than half of all
deaths attributed to COPD in our nation. Read more.
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