Science news articles about 'smokers'

... in restaurants may be less likely to become established smokers, according to a report in the May issue of Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent ... bans may influence youth by reducing their exposure to smokers in public places and also altering the perceived social ...

... by UCLA cancer researchers. UCLA researchers found that smokers who ingested high levels of natural chemicals ... lines and animal models to determine how they are protecting smokers from developing lung cancer. And in addition to larger ...

... who have a higher lifetime total use of cigarettes than never smokers," said lead author Nadine Jackson, MD ... months after their treatment. Forty-five percent were identified as past smokers, 9 percent as current ...

... ) compared with those who had never smoked. Those who reported being ex-smokers at the beginning of the study were 30 percent less ... and non-participation in cognitive tests among smokers." The results are important because individuals with cognitive ...

... lung cancer deaths in current and former smokers, but it won't protect them from other causes ... study of 1,520 current and former smokers into the Lung Cancer Policy Model (LCPM ...

... , N.Y. (AP) -- New York smokers have been sent outside in all kinds of weather, coughed ...

Smokers in deprived parts of the British city of Dundee are to be paid to kick the habit in an initiative between public health organisations, municipal authorities and the Scottish government.

Smokers suffer more chronic back pain. This was the result of the analysis of a questionnaire performed by Monique Zimmermann ... pain much more often than do non-smokers. The number of years the subjects had been smoking or had smoked ...

... Study. They assessed the level of nicotine dependence for all smokers, recording the age they began smoking daily ... per day. DNA samples were taken from all smokers, and the researchers recorded the occurrence of common SNPs ...

... with adolescents, and the highest use has been among younger, newer smokers. Researchers at Harvard School of Public Health ... and found a deliberate strategy to recruit and addict young smokers by adjusting menthol to create a milder experience ...

... nicotine dependence and to treat nicotine withdrawal when smokers try to quit. The paper is published in the August ...

... cancer among self reported never smokers. They report that their synthesis does not support previous ... by exposure to cigarette smoke and, on average, current smokers are 15 times more likely to die from lung ...

Non-daily or "casual" smokers tend to slip through the cracks of prevention efforts. Yet ...

Non-daily or 'casual' smokers tend to slip through the cracks of prevention efforts. Yet ...

... found that: Offering smoking cessation counseling to hospitalized smokers appears to be effective as long as supportive contacts ... be offered when clinically indicated, especially to hospitalized smokers with nicotine withdrawal symptoms," the authors write ...