Tobacco, alcohol, cannabis, other drug use before, during early phase of pandemic
About The Study: In this nationally representative survey study of 19,000 youths, young adults, and adults, substance use decreased between ...
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Tobacco use, incidence of adverse oral health outcomes
About The Study: This nationally representative cohort study found associations of current combustible tobacco use with the incidence of adverse ...
Many genes linked to alcohol and tobacco use are shared among diverse ancestries
HERSHEY, Pa. — Penn State researchers co-led a large genetic study that identified more than 2,300 genes predicting alcohol and ...
Positive reinforcement can spur physicians and health practitioners to promote tobacco cessation
University of Maryland Medical System researchers studied the effects of positive reinforcement to encourage physicians and health practitioners to promote ...
Forecasting the health returns of tobacco tax proposals
Scientists with Virginia Tech’s Fralin Biomedical Research Institute at VTC are leading a five-year, $3.5 million study to predict the ...
Many New Jersey Merchants Will Sell Tobacco Products to Underage Buyers
Although New Jersey and federal law both prohibit merchants from selling tobacco to customers under the age of 21, a ...
Mutational signature linking bladder cancer and tobacco smoking found with new AI tool
Researchers at the University of California San Diego have for the first time discovered a pattern of DNA mutations that ...
Public call for tougher restrictions on buying tobacco in Britain
People in Britain strongly support restricting the sale of tobacco near schools and raising the legal age of sale to ...
Secret behind ‘nic-sickness’ could help break tobacco addiction
If you remember your first hit on a cigarette, you know how sickening nicotine can be. Yet, for many people, ...
Daily cannabis users less likely to consider heavy tobacco use dangerous
A growing number of Americans are using cannabis as it becomes legalized for recreational use in a rapidly increasing number ...
Switching from tobacco to e-cigarettes does not reverse respiratory epithelium damage
RIVERSIDE, Calif. -- Some studies have suggested electronic cigarette, or EC, use may be a healthier alternative to cigarette smoking. ...
Evaluating restrictions on tobacco sales to youth younger than age 21
About The Study: In this survey study including over 12,000 high school students from Cleveland and its suburbs, there was a ...
Largest ever study of tobacco content on social media links exposure to tobacco use
People who have viewed tobacco content on social media are more than twice as likely than non-viewers to report using ...
Study of pre-teens yields surprises about alcohol, tobacco and marijuana
They may only be in 4th or 5th grade, but 1 in 10 pre-teen children already say they’re curious about ...
Polluted land can be planted with flowers and tobacco
Zinnia (popular ornamental flowers) and tobacco adapt to copper in the soil. They accumulate heavy metal in the roots and ...
Tobacco hawkmoths always find the right odor
Nocturnal moths, such as tobacco hawkmoths (Manduca sexta), rely primarily on their sense of smell when foraging for flowers that ...
1 million youth became daily tobacco users, most used juul e-cigarettes
More than 1 million United States youth aged 14 to 17 years old in 2017 became new daily tobacco users ...
Alcohol, tobacco, and junk food common on reality TV shows
A new paper in the Journal of Public Health, published by Oxford University Press, indicates that alcohol and tobacco products, ...
Study casts doubt on impact of menthol-flavored tobacco ban
A ban on the sale of menthol-flavored cigarettes that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is on track to ...
Secret pacts between tobacco companies and retailers are a bad bargain for public health
(CHAPEL HILL, N.C.) Tobacco companies handsomely incentivize retailers around the world to follow harsh requirements related to selling and marketing ...