http://phys.org/ en-us Phys.org internet news portal provides the latest news on science including: Physics, Nanotechnology, Life Sciences, Space Science, Earth Science, Environment, Health and Medicine. A new UCSF analysis has found that a state ballot initiative to increase the cigarette tax would create about 12,000 jobs and nearly $2 billion in new economic activity in California. http://phys.org/news247769472.html Other Sciences Mon, 06 Feb 2012 16:51:26 EST news247769472 Youths identified as American Indian or Alaska Native (AI/AN) have the greatest lifetime smoking rate of all racial groups, according to the Department of Health and Human Services. Nearly half of the 1.2 million AI/AN youths in the U.S. smoke cigarettes. A University of Missouri study found that public health strategies to combat smoking should teach refusal skills to help youths combat smoking influences, including family members and peers. http://phys.org/news221313167.html Medicine & Health Wed, 06 Apr 2011 12:52:54 EST news221313167 Pregnant non-smokers who breathe in the second-hand smoke of other people are at an increased risk of delivering stillborn babies or babies with defects, a study led by researchers at The University of Nottingham has found. http://phys.org/news218914504.html Medicine & Health Wed, 09 Mar 2011 17:50:01 EST news218914504 China is failing to deliver on pledges to help its 300 million smokers kick the habit, according to health experts who warned of a sharp rise in tobacco-linked deaths if strong steps are not taken. http://phys.org/news213599560.html Medicine & Health Fri, 07 Jan 2011 05:50:01 EST news213599560 (AP) -- China's addiction to huge revenues from its state-owned tobacco monopoly is hindering anti-smoking measures, potentially costing millions of lives in the country with the world's largest number of smokers, experts warned Thursday. http://phys.org/news213511686.html Medicine & Health Thu, 06 Jan 2011 04:48:25 EST news213511686 A study led by the Smoking Control Unit of the Catalan Institute of Oncology (ICO) has confirmed that the anti-tobacco laws in Europe have a direct effect on the reduction in consumption and passive exposure to smoke. This conclusion was reached by relating the Tobacco Eurobarometer and the Tobacco Control Scale (TCS). http://phys.org/news213360647.html Medicine & Health Tue, 04 Jan 2011 10:52:46 EST news213360647 Regulatory authorities should consider banning electronic cigarettes until safety concerns have been addressed, concludes research published online in Tobacco Control. http://phys.org/news210913453.html Medicine & Health Tue, 07 Dec 2010 03:20:02 EST news210913453 Putting tobacco out of sight in shops can change the attitude of young people to smoking, while not hitting retailers in the pocket, researchers at The University of Nottingham have discovered. http://phys.org/news209730839.html Medicine & Health Tue, 23 Nov 2010 10:36:12 EST news209730839 (AP) -- Public health officials from around the world agreed this week on some new anti-smoking rules, but others that could have sharply reduced global tobacco consumption remained out of reach at an international conference Friday. http://phys.org/news209443322.html Medicine & Health Sat, 20 Nov 2010 02:42:14 EST news209443322 Non-smokers who regularly breathe in others' tobacco smoke are at increased risk of some degree of hearing loss, reveals research published online in Tobacco Control. http://phys.org/news209103679.html Medicine & Health Tue, 16 Nov 2010 04:21:40 EST news209103679 October 25, 2010 – (Toronto) –A new study from The Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) found that contraband tobacco accounts for 43% of all cigarettes consumed by Ontario high school daily smokers in grades 9 to 12. http://phys.org/news207197642.html Medicine & Health Mon, 25 Oct 2010 04:20:04 EST news207197642 An independent regulatory agency is needed to cap the excessive profits made by cigarette manufacturers, say researchers from the University of Bath. http://phys.org/news205508597.html Other Sciences Tue, 05 Oct 2010 14:43:30 EST news205508597 A study led by researchers at the University of California, San Diego shows that California's 40 year-long tobacco control program has resulted in lung cancer rates that are nearly 25 percent lower than other states. http://phys.org/news204986314.html Medicine & Health Wed, 29 Sep 2010 13:38:44 EST news204986314 Tobacco companies may be using web 2.0 media, such as YouTube, to market their products to young people, so getting round marketing restrictions for tobacco content in place elsewhere, suggests research published online in Tobacco Control. http://phys.org/news201958377.html Medicine & Health Wed, 25 Aug 2010 19:00:02 EST news201958377 (PhysOrg.com) -- The number of 16- and 17-year-old UK smokers has dropped since it became illegal to sell cigarettes to under-18s according to new UCL research published today in the journal Addiction. http://phys.org/news201340310.html Medicine & Health Wed, 18 Aug 2010 08:52:04 EST news201340310 (PhysOrg.com) -- A recent study has busted the myth Indigenous Australians are heavy smokers and has indicated those living in remote communities consume fewer cigarettes a day than other smokers, even though they continue to suffer from higher rates of smoking-related diseases. http://phys.org/news198487953.html Medicine & Health Fri, 16 Jul 2010 08:50:01 EST news198487953 "While tobacco use has decreased drastically over the last few decades, we still have a long way to go," American College of Physicians (ACP) President, J. Fred Ralston, Jr., MD, FACP, said as a new ACP policy monograph was released today. In Tobacco Control and Prevention, ACP called for a comprehensive federal strategy to control tobacco use, rather than the piecemeal actions being taken by states currently. http://phys.org/news197039396.html Medicine & Health Tue, 29 Jun 2010 14:30:02 EST news197039396 A team of health researchers from The University of Nottingham are spearheading a new project to reduce tobacco use in an area which has one of the highest rates of smoking in the country. http://phys.org/news197030713.html Medicine & Health Tue, 29 Jun 2010 11:45:26 EST news197030713 (PhysOrg.com) -- Pro-smoking videos, and especially those that are sexual in nature, are prominent on the online video site YouTube and very accessible to young people, says a Michigan State University professor whose study of the issue was recently published in the journal Health Communication. http://phys.org/news192897343.html Medicine & Health Wed, 12 May 2010 16:10:02 EST news192897343 There is no evidence to support the fact that smoking in cars is 23 times more toxic than in other indoor environments, states an analysis article in CMAJ (Canadian Medical Association Journal). http://phys.org/news190293741.html Medicine & Health Mon, 12 Apr 2010 14:30:01 EST news190293741 (PhysOrg.com) -- Parents need to be better informed about the risks to their children of passive smoking according to a report from the Royal College of Physicians and backed by the UK Centre for Tobacco Control Studies (UKCTCS). http://phys.org/news188674521.html Medicine & Health Wed, 24 Mar 2010 18:36:13 EST news188674521 Although many smokers try to quit by selecting a 'quit day' and going cold turkey, a new Cochrane review finds that quitting gradually might work just as well. http://phys.org/news188064499.html Medicine & Health Wed, 17 Mar 2010 19:00:01 EST news188064499 Health authorities should emphasize the positive message that the most successful method used by most ex-smokers is unassisted cessation, despite the promotion of cessation drugs by pharmaceutical companies and many tobacco control advocates. http://phys.org/news184921101.html Medicine & Health Tue, 09 Feb 2010 06:58:31 EST news184921101 A new American Cancer Society report outlines 21 challenges and needs for global tobacco control, covering the wide range of issues to be addressed and expertise needed to reduce the rising tide of tobacco use worldwide, particularly in the low- and middle-income nations that are the target of the multinational tobacco industry. The report is published early online and will appear in the January/February issue of CA: A Cancer Journal for Clinicians. http://phys.org/news183381480.html Medicine & Health Fri, 22 Jan 2010 11:18:22 EST news183381480 New research showing that thrill-seeking teenagers are especially susceptible to fruit-flavored cigarettes is in line with the recent ban on the sale of flavored cigarettes by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in September 2009. According to the FDA, the ban, authorized by the new Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act, is part of a national effort by the FDA to reduce smoking, which is the leading preventable cause of death in America. http://phys.org/news180082664.html Medicine & Health Tue, 15 Dec 2009 06:58:17 EST news180082664 (AP) -- Cigarette smoking rose slightly for the first time in almost 15 years, dashing health officials' hopes that the U.S. smoking rate had moved permanently below 20 percent. http://phys.org/news177255483.html Medicine & Health Thu, 12 Nov 2009 14:00:24 EST news177255483 As African nations are poised to undergo the highest increase in the rate of tobacco use among developing countries, nearly 90 percent of people on the continent remain without meaningful protection from secondhand smoke, according to a new report released at a regional cancer conference today. http://phys.org/news177139590.html Medicine & Health Wed, 11 Nov 2009 05:27:21 EST news177139590 While hospital buildings are often smoke-free, a new study finds that by February 2008, 45 percent of US hospitals had adopted "smoke-free campus" policies, meaning that all the property owned or leased by the hospital, both indoors and outdoors, was smoke-free and there were no designated smoking areas on those properties. http://phys.org/news169963614.html Medicine & Health Thu, 20 Aug 2009 05:07:19 EST news169963614 (PhysOrg.com) -- Men and women who are gay or lesbian are more likely than their heterosexual counterparts to smoke, according to findings from a review study carried out by the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. http://phys.org/news167661633.html Medicine & Health Fri, 24 Jul 2009 13:50:02 EST news167661633 President Barack Obama's signature on a bill this week to grant the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) regulatory authority over tobacco was historic, and represents a step in the march to eliminate tobacco use in this country by 2047, two national tobacco experts said today (June 25). http://phys.org/news165168927.html Medicine & Health Thu, 25 Jun 2009 17:16:50 EST news165168927