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Wednesday, April 15th, 2009
Researchers have found a new strategy to wean smokers from tobacco: extend the nicotine kick that people get from each cigarette in ...
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Wednesday, March 18th, 2009
It's one of the biggest myths about smoking: "If I just cut back, my health will improve."
No such luck, says a team of Mayo Clinic ...
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Monday, March 9th, 2009
Even at 60, giving up smoking almost completely removes the risk of lung cancer, research has found. People who have not already developed the condition are ...
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Friday, February 27th, 2009
Smokers with a history of depression may have an especially difficult time kicking the tobacco habit, according to ...
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Friday, February 13th, 2009
Researchers are developing what they hope will be an entirely new way for cigarette smokers to kick their tobacco habit -- an oral nicotine solution that can be ...
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Monday, February 2nd, 2009
Just half an hour of secondhand smoke can impair normal blood flow to the heart, a Japanese study suggests.
The study examined the effects of spending 30 minutes in a hospital's smoking room on 15 ...
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Tuesday, January 20th, 2009
Health groups filed petitions with the Food and Drug Administration Tuesday urging the agency to regulate tobacco products the activists say are marketed as ...
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Friday, January 9th, 2009
If you want to kick the habit, whether it's cigarettes, cigars, or chewing tobacco, you don't have to ...
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Thursday, January 1st, 2009
Cessation Attempts Rise Since Introduction of Nicotine Replacement Therapies
If you make it easier to get over nicotine, more ...
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Wednesday, December 24th, 2008
This isn't the first time that the tobacco industry has come up with this idea. The soon-to-be-renamed Philip Morris Co. Inc. ...
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