For years the tobacco industry has argued that efforts to ban tobacco advertising near schools would constitute a total ban on tobacco advertising in urban areas. But public health researchers at the University at Buffalo and Roswell Park Cancer Institute have presented research that shows this is not the case in Buffalo and Niagara Falls, N.Y…

Joint replacement patients who improve their lifestyle and maintain a positive mindset prior to surgery are more likely to have better functional outcomes than those who do not, according to research presented at the 2011 Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons (AAOS)…

Smokers who continue to smoke while undergoing radiation treatments for head and neck cancer fare significantly worse than those who quit smoking before therapy, according to a study in the February issue of the International Journal of Radiation Oncology, Biology, Physics, an official journal of the American Society for Radiation Oncology (ASTRO)…

Cigarette smoking may be associated with an increased risk of developing the muscle-wasting disease amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), according to a report in the February issue of Archives of Neurology, one of the JAMA/Archives journals…

President Barack Obama has quit smoking this week according to his wife Michelle. Johnny Depp plays Frank, an American tourist visiting Italy to mend a broken heart, meets Elise, an extraordinary woman who deliberately crosses his path. In the new movie The Tourist, Depp “lights up” an electronic cigarette throughout the film and explains all of the benefits to Angelina Jolie on a train…

Nicotine addiction usually begins during the critical teenage years, and pediatric healthcare professionals can play a prominent role in promoting a tobacco-free lifestyle among children and adolescents, as described in an article published online ahead of print in Pediatric Allergy, Immunology, & Pulmonology, a peer-reviewed journal published by Mary Ann Liebert, Inc…

A study led by Boston University School of Public Health (BUSPH) researchers reports that electronic cigarettes are a promising tool to help smokers quit, producing six-month abstinence rates nearly double those for traditional nicotine replacement products…

The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center’s popular web-based teen prevention and smoking-cessation program, ASPIRE (A Smoking Prevention Interactive Experience), now speaks Spanish. The 10-year-old program advances the institution’s national commitment to help prevent teens from smoking or help them quit before it becomes a lifelong addiction…

The availability of nicotine patches on the PBS from today highlights the critical role pharmacists play in preventive health care and in guiding and advising consumers on their health needs…

Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) researchers and colleagues from Research Institute for a Tobacco Free Society have found that a reduction in secondhand smoking in American homes was associated with fewer cases of otitis media, the scientific name for middle ear infection. The study appears as an online first article on the website of the journal Tobacco Control…