effect of cigarette smoking

Antismoking Efforts Should Target Adults Too

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Anti smoking policies targeting youths won't significantly reduce the number of smokers in the US for decades, according to researchers at the Pacific Institute for Research and Evaluation ...
Campaign efforts should be directed towards adults instead, they suggest ...

Cigarette Use Among U.S. High School Students

For current cigarette use, temporal changes and subgroup differences in 2003 were analyzed by sex, race/ethnicity, and grade ...
Prevention efforts must be sustained to ensure this pattern continues and the 2010 objective is achieved ...
Quadratic trends indicated significant but nonlinear trends in the data over time ...

Study: Strategies to Reduce ETS Exposure to Infants

The national YRBS, a component of CDC's Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance System, used independent three-stage cluster samples for the 1991-2003 ...
leveling off or change in direction) in addition to an overall increase or decrease over time ...
Our sample was more socially disadvantaged than all UK households with infants, consistent with the known association between smoking and social disadvantage ...

Increase in Cig Taxes May Lower Bond Returns

What's ironic is that states that have already securitized their payments don't care about damaging cigarette sales because they've already collected their money,'' Gonze said ...
Reducing the exposure of infants to tobacco smoke is likely to be important in preventing sudden infant death as there is a close association between the ...
That positive health news may have negative implications for investors in tobacco bonds ...

The War Over Cigar Labels Heats Up

leveling off or change in direction) in addition to an overall increase or decrease over time ...
Prevention efforts must be sustained to ensure this pattern continues and the 2010 objective is achieved ...
The national YRBS, a component of CDC's Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance System, used independent three-stage cluster samples for the 1991-2003 ...
Any new rules would come at a time when smoking cigars is on the rise ...

Proposes Root Beer Smelling Cigarette

Gentry, attorneys for the state, included the memo as evidence in their attempt to convince special master R ...
Only a small proportion of respondents reported not knowing of any harm reduction measures or knowing of measures but not using them ...
The unsigned document describes discussions about the taste of the cigarette , including possible ``nicotine enhancement'' and packaging ...

Tobacco Documents Show Industry Intentionally Discounted Health Risks

In the May order, the judge noted that the government has made a case that the tobacco industry over the years has assured the public that it would not knowingly distribute a dangerous product and in fact that it was committed to providing safe ...
States from Connecticut to Hawaii have considered tobacco levies and other ``sin taxes'' on gambling and alcohol to help eliminate record budget gaps ...
In this memorandum, Wakeham wrote: ``It has been stated that CTR is a program to find out about the `truth about smoking health ...

Learn Why This Session Could Be The Most Important

Acting at the suggestion of Action on Smoking and Health (ASH), the 10th World Conference of Tobacco OR Health has added a special session to its already crowded agenda ...
an affiliate of Brown and Williamson -- is titled Project Kestrel ...
The once-confidential ruling by Judge Kenneth Fitzpatrick, issued in May, was made public Friday after the judge unsealed it ...

Two New Studies Show: Ads Get Kids to Smoke

an affiliate of Brown and Williamson -- is titled Project Kestrel ...
Data were weighted to provide national estimates, and SUDAAN was used for all data analyses ...
Taken together, these two studies provide strong new evidence that cigarette companies specifically target youth in their marketing and that this marketing is effect ive in causing kids to start the process of becoming addicted to cigarette s ...

Tobacco Therapies Doubtful [02/22-4]

Advocates of tobacco bonds say they permit local governments faster access to the settlement funds while shifting the risk of default to investors ...
These range from nicotine replacement gum, patches, inhalers and nasal spray to cigarette -like products that produce less smoke and even modified tobacco with fewer toxic chemicals ...
What has the cigar manufacturers upset is that the new Massachusetts law requires a conspicuous black-and-white health warning label on the top 25 percent of any package ...
A recent Federal Trade Commission (FTC) study found that between 1996 and 1997, the number of cigar brands increased from 207 to 319 ...