Tobacco

Increase in tobacco deaths

Around one third of men in China will die from smoking, unless they give up now.A survey of deaths occurring in Hong Kong in 1998 may foreshadow what is likely to happen on the mainland in the future. Doctors at the University of Beijing find that tobacco was the cause of 33% of all male deaths and 5% of female deaths in the 30 to 65 age group. When male smokers only are considered, to...

Tobacco chewing leads to dental caries

Scientists from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) say that tobacco chewers are more prone to caries.The researchers studied dental caries and tobacco use data from more than// 13,000 adults aged 19 and over. The researchers illustrated between the two types of spit tobacco, also called smokeless tobacco, and other types of tobacco such as cigarettes, pipes, and cigar...

Tobacco and alcohol connected to larger health problems

Patients in hospital who smoke and have a history of alcohol problems have poorer general and mental health. Doctors surveyed almost 400 patients// to find if there was a link between health status and smoking habits. They classified them into four groups:current tobacco use only, history of alcohol problems only, both, or neither. The patients with both current tobacco use and past alc...

Vegetables decrease Tobacco Toxins

According to cancer researchers, smokers who eat at least two servings of cruciferous vegetables a week have lower levels of tobacco-related toxins in their urine.// Dr. Gina Day Stephenson of the American Health Foundation,N.Y., felt that the vegetables, which include broccoli, cauliflower, Brussels sprouts, and dark greens such as turnip and collard greens, appear to change the way smokers met...

Exposure To Tobacco Smoke Can Lead To Sickle Cell Crisis

A recent study finds children with sickle cell disease are more likely to end up in the hospital with a sickle cell crisis if they live in households where people smoke.// Study after study has confirmed exposure to secondhand tobacco smoke can harm the health of nonsmokers. It is found that exposure to smoke affects the way the blood handles oxygen, leading to a vast array of problems....

Tobacco Found To Trigger Familial Pancreatic Cancer

Tobacco may trigger early onset of pancreatic cancer in those with a genetic predisposition to the disease, according to a new study.// Pancreatic cancer is rare and has a 4-percent five-year survival rate. Only a small percentage of patients have the familial form. Researchers studied 826 patients with pancreatic cancer. Thirty of these patients had familial pancreatic cancer, in which...

Tobacco smoke increases the levels of Cox 2.

According to an article in the journal cancer Research, tobacco smoke have been linked with the rising levels //of the chemical compound called Cox 2. Cox 2 is a cellular protein that had been related to onset and development of cancer. The tobacco smoke had also been related to rise in production of two proteins that start an epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) function that can lead to the...

Aggressive Tobacco taxation policy can reduce cigarette smoking

Lung cancer is the most common and deadly cancer worldwide. About 1.4 million people are diagnosed of lung cancer this year out of which // 85% will die before 2010. Habit of smoking is reducing in high income countries, but it is fastly increasing in low and middle income countries. The most important cause of lung cancer occurrence is smoking. Globally smoking related disease causes 5 million d...

Anti-tobacco Advertising Can Reduces smoking Among Teens

At last a study shows that anti-smoking advertisements in media can reduce cigarette smoking among the teenagers. // Researcher Sherry Emery examined the association between exposure to state anti-tobacco advertising and youth smoking-related beliefs and behaviors. They surveyed data from school-based samples of 51,085 students from 48 states. And used targeted ratings point (TRPs) t...

Exposure to tobacco smoke causes genetic damage in fetus

Exposure of pregnant women to tobacco smoke causes genetic damage// in the developing fetus, says a US study. Earlier studies have shown that smoking during pregnancy causes genetic damage in the developing fetus that can be detected at birth. Stephen G. Grant, Ph.D., associate professor of environmental and occupational health in the University of Pittsburgh Graduate School...

Lawmakers alerted on new tobacco control policies by research team

The Smoking ban around the world can be materialized by increasing cigarette taxes, raising the smoking age and adopting new or enforcing current regulations that prevent or delay youth smoking according to a researchers. // This move is expected to improve the lives of billions of people addicted to this habit. It is time that lawmakers quickly adopt the suggestion and act accordingly. <b...

Role Of Tobacco In Development Of Oral Cancer And Heart Disease

October has been designated as the National Dental Hygiene Month (NDHM) and the American Dental Hygienists’ Association (ADHA) has announced that it would be focusing on the relation between oral health, tobacco use, and heart disease during this whole time//. Using tobacco or tobacco products is the single biggest risk factor in the development of oral cancer. Smoking increases the ch...

Women More Prone To Risk of Colorectal Cancer from Tobacco

HONOLULU, A new study indicates that there maybe gender difference of the risk of tobacco for Colo-rectal cancer and women who smoke and drink maybe at higher risk of developing the cancer. // Researcher Anna L. Zisman, M.D. of Evanston Northwestern Health Care presented her findings at the 70th Annual Scientific Meeting of the American College of Gastroenterology. It is known that...

WHO Intensifies Anti-Tobacco war

The World Health Organization (WHO) has intensified its drive against tobacco consumption by refusing to employ smokers. The 2,400 staff already employed by the WHO // at its Geneva headquarters will not be affected by the new policy, even though they will also be encouraged to quit smoking. Serving members will be prohibited from smoking at the premises of the WHO. The new people to...

New Zealand Researchers Call For Tobacco-Free Society

That smoking is a hazardous activity is a well-known fact. Now two researchers from New Zealand are calling for a complete ban on smoking in that country since it affects the poorest who have no funds to get expensive treatments for the same//. University of Otago's Associate Professor Tony Blakely and Dr Nick Wilson say that the New Zealand governments needed to set a time frame to era...

Tobacco plant based Vaccine against Plague

Researchers from the Biodesign Institute, Arizona State University have successfully produced Plague vaccines from Tobacco plants. The researchers were able to produce vaccines from bioengineered // plant which is found to be effective against guinea pigs which were exposed to pneumonic plague bacterium. The researchers are to start a clinical trial of the new vaccine in human to study the effica...

Smokers Sue Tobacco Major Philip Morris

Tobacco major Philip Morris is being sued by four Marlboro smokers for hi-tech screenings aimed at the early detection of lung cancer. The four people are demanding that the company pay for spiral CT scans which is estimated at ￡300. //If this were to be brought into force, it will serve to save several thousand lives as a result of early detection. The company has been accused of indulging in de...

Ventilation Systems Not Effective in Blocking Tobacco Smoke

In an article published in the British Medical Journal, Nadine Rae Leavell, Monique E Muggli, Richard D Hurt, James Repace, say that the ventilation systems supposed to prevent tobacco smoke and help in cleaning the air that we breathe are ineffective. // The report also says that British American Tobacco (BAT) was aware that the ventilation systems do not work, but still proceeded to...

Tobacco industry legally sued by Manitoba and other provinces

The bone of contention between provinces and tobacco industry battle is// the health care costs. The suit is of a multibillion-dollar nature and could kick into high gear within two years. This info was provided by Manitoba Health Minister Tim Sale. Tim Sale said, "This will unfold in a stepwise fashion over the next couple of years. We are putting Manitoba in a position to...

Alternate ways to produce HAS from tobacco plants

Ms Alicia Fernández San Millán’s, an agricultural engineer has developed a technique which uses plastidial transformation which results in the production// of Human serum albumin (HSA) from tobacco plants. HSA is an intravenous protein most commonly used in the world for therapeutic needs. It is mainly used to stabilize blood volume and to avoid risk of heart attacks. It is used for hae...

Bihar Banned Tobacco Chewing In State Assembly

Bihar government imposed a ban on chewing betel leaves and tobacco products inside the state assembly on Thursday. // Bihar Assembly Speaker Udai Narayan Choudhary Thursday prohibited chewing of paan (betel leaf), gutka and khaini (tobacco products) by legislators inside the assembly. The move will not only have a salubrious impact on the health of the legislators but also sa...

Tobacco to be sold only top adults: a ban on younger than 18.

As a precautionary measure and action against smoking in Scotland, it would stop sales of tobacco to people under 18. Only adults// would be permitted to buy it. Ministers have not decided whether to back the recommendation, but they are likely to do so, given Jack McConnell's determination to reduce smoking rates in Scotland. In the words of Maureen Moore, the chief executi...

Tobacco and use by teen’s common worldwide: Surve

A new survey has shown some alarming world statistics regarding the use of tobacco amongst teenagers, which has indicated// that almost one in five 13-15 year olds consume tobacco and its products. These figures were made available in the run up to the World Health Organization's World No Tobacco Day; on May 31st. This years theme will revolve around the topic, 'tobacco: deadly in any...

Many teens resort to Tobacco,worldwide: Survey

A new survey has shown some alarming world statistics regarding the use of tobacco amongst teenagers, which has indicated// that almost one in five 13-15 year olds consume tobacco and its products. These figures were made available in the run up to the World Health Organization's World No Tobacco Day; on May 31st. This years theme will revolve around the topic, ''tobacco: deadly in an...

WHO Calls For More Regulation On Tobacco Products

Concerned over the rapid spread and growing variety of unregulated tobacco products, the World Health Organisation (WHO) has called for urgent and broader regulation // to prevent more than five million deaths each year attributed to nicotine use. The agency also called for anti-tobacco programmes, especially aimed at adolescent girls, among whom the rate of smoking was apparently increa...

Tobacco Consumption By Youths Will Hamper India’s Economic Growt

Consumption of tobacco by youngsters will cost their dear lives and India by the year 2025 may lose about 2.5 million people a year, which will greatly affect the country’s economic growth//, warns experts. India is home to over 250 million tobacco users and more than 900,000 people succumb to tobacco-related diseases every year. But the most ominous sign is the number of youths fallin...

Tobacco Deadly In Any Form

According to the survey conducted by World Health Organization (WHO) it was found that tobacco usage is on the rise and it affects public health in various ways.// It said that the industry is luring people and the government is not excising any check on the tobacco industry. The theme of the World No Tobacco Day states that tobacco is harmful in all its forms. Tobacco products are addictive, har...

Ohio Tobacco Research and Evaluation Center To Be Developed By Case

The Case Western Reserve University's Center for Health Promotion Research, which is a research and evaluation centre at the School of Medicine's Department// of Epidemiology and Bio statistics, had recently been awarded a $450,000 contract from the Ohio Tobacco Use Prevention and Control Foundation (TUPCF) to develop the Ohio Tobacco Research and Evaluation Center (OTREC). It was explained that...

Indian Health Ministry Bags US Award for Health Promotion and Tobacco Control

The American Cancer Society has selected Indian ministry of health and family welfare for the coveted Luther L. Terry Awards for its "unrelenting stance on health promotion and tobacco control"//. Minister of Health and Family Welfare Anbumani Ramadoss will receive the award at a ceremony during the World Conference on Tobacco in Washington DC Friday, a ministry statement said. <br...

Tobacco Epidemic On The Rise

Health officials have warned that going by the current trends tobacco will probably kill a billion people this century, which would be almost 10 times the toll// it took in the 20th century. John Seffrin, chief executive officer of the American Cancer Society said, "In all of world history, this is the largest train wreck not waiting to happen." According to two new reference guides t...

'Smoking Kills' Warning Soon on Tobacco Products

"Tobacco Kills/Smoking Kills" -- such health warnings would be mandatory on all tobacco products soon failing which the sellers would attract stringent penalty including imprisonment. // Other health warnings that could appear on tobacco packages include "Skull and Bones Sign" or a pictorial representation of ill-effects of tobacco use and a health message. The Health and F...

Tobacco in all forms harmful for heart

Tobacco in all forms - whether smoked or chewed first hand or second hand - may damage the heart, says a new study.// Koon K. Teo and colleagues at the University of Hamilton, Canada, studied data on more than 27,000 people in 52 countries for evidence that tobacco use affects heart attack risk, reported the online edition of the health magazine WebMD. Previous medical resea...

Tobacco Increases The Risk Of Heart Attack

A new study carried out by a team lead by Salim Yusuf and Koon Teo at the University of Hamilton, Canada found that all forms of tobacco use increases the risk of heart attack.// The study published in the Lancet Medical journal found that Tobacco use in all forms, whether smoked or chewed first hand or second hand, increases the risk of heart attack. The study was conducted among 2...

Tobacco Advertising Through Movies Luring Kids

A study in the September issue of Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine, one of the JAMA/Archives journals says that kids aged 12 to 17 in the US may have been exposed to tobacco advertising// in some form or the other despite a ban on tobacco advertising in 2001 to 2002. In 1971 tobacco advertising was banned, but it is still prevalent in movie trailers. "Trailers pair tobacco...

Georgetown University Heads Alternative Tobacco Project

The National Cancer Institute (NCI) has announced a grant of $17 million to a consortium of research centers led by Georgetown University Medical Center.// The aim of the grant is to fund a project to determine if alternative tobacco products reduce health risks of tobacco itself. The sweeping grant, the first of its kind, will examine all aspects of the increasing number of "safer" to...

Vaccines, tobacco taxes and condoms in disease control

Information on the Disease Control Priorities project that plans the top health investments for disease control in developing countries // was given to health ministers from the Americas at the Pan American Health Organization Directing Council. According to the Pan American Health Organization, vaccines, taxes on tobacco and condom distribution are some of the "best buys" in health i...

Mizoram Women Under the Grip of Tobacco

Although women in Mizoram are literate enough to understand the ill effects of tobacco, a staggering 60 percent of them consume it in various forms making them the most cancer// prone in the country. Recent figures of the National Family Health Survey (NFHS) shows more than 22 percent Mizo women smoked against a national average of only 2.5 percent, said Jane R. Ralte, principal inves...

WHO Urges Shah Rukh Khan to Stop Endorsing Tobacco Products

A senior official of the World Health Organisation (WHO) Wednesday termed as "horrible" endorsement of tobacco products by Shah Rukh Khan and motor racing// legend Michael Schumacher and urged them to stop promoting what was a "social malice". "We know that celebrities in both Hollywood and Bollywood are endorsing tobacco in a huge way and we denounce it vehemently. It's really horribl...

Tobacco Smugglers are Helping Terrorists: WHO

Following a trend set by drug traffickers, a new breed of tobacco smugglers is aiding terrorist outfits and India too could be affected soon, a top official //of the World Health Organisation (WHO) has said. "We know that international drug cartels have some links with terrorists but now proofs are emerging of illegal tobacco smugglers' links with terrorist outfits. Security agencies i...

Tobacco Companies Admit Their Products Cause Cancer but Not in Those Who Sue Them

Despite publicly admitting, to varying degrees, that cigarette smoking causes cancer, the industry has consistently dismissed these claims for people who have// sued them, reveals an analysis of recent lawsuits, published in a supplement to Tobacco Control. The authors looked at the opening and closing statements of the defence, witness statements, and depositions for 34 personal inju...