August 8, 2024 by Steinar Brandslet, Norwegian University of Science and Technology Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public DomainData from nearly 6,000 smokers with cancer show that it may be easier to predict who will stop smoking than was previously thought. It is often important to get cancer patients to quit smoking, but it is not always that...
Peer-Reviewed PublicationAMERICAN THORACIC SOCIETY FORMER CIGARETTE SMOKERS WHO USE E-CIGARETTES OR VAPING DEVICES MAY BE AT HIGHER RISK FOR LUNG CANCER THAN THOSE WHO DON’T VAPE. EMBARGOED UNTIL: 9:15 a.m. PT, May 20, 2024 Session: B20 – Lung Screening: One Size Does Not Fit All Association of Electronic Cigarette Use After Conventional Smoking Cessation with...
by Keck School of Medicine of USC Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain E-cigarettes—used regularly by more than 10% of U.S. teens and more than 3% of adults—were once pitched as a healthy alternative to tobacco cigarettes. But research increasingly links the use of e-cigarettes, or vaping, to many of the same life-threatening diseases that plague smokers. In a breakthrough...
Reviewed by Emily Henderson, B.Sc. Apr 28 2022 A new study projects that a U.S. ban on menthol cigarettes, proposed by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, will lead more than 1.3 million smokers to quit. Among them, Black smokers will see the greatest impact. Researchers from the University of Waterloo led the study, in...
EUROPEAN SOCIETY OF CARDIOLOGY Sophia Antipolis – 7 April 2022: Smoking cessation adds the same number of heart disease-free years to life as three preventive medications combined, according to research presented at ESC Preventive Cardiology 2022, a scientific congress of the European Society of Cardiology (ESC).1 “The benefits of smoking cessation are even greater than we realised,”...
Explaining how M. abscessus was ready once CF patients started living longer. Smoking can really clog up the lungs, even for people who’ve never been near a cigarette. Turns out that smoking habits from the early 1900s are still inflicting damage—not on tobacco users or their families, but on people with cystic fibrosis. Cystic fibrosis...
AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION DALLAS, Nov. 17, 2021 — Death from a heart attack or stroke may be the first cardiovascular disease (CVD) event in some people who smoke cigarettes and CVD is the leading adverse health effect among smokers, according to new research published today in the Journal of the American Heart Association, an open...
Despite smoking’s well-known role in causing lung cancer, a significant number of patients who develop lung tumors have never smoked. While scientists are still working to understand what spurs cancer in so-called “never-smokers,” a study led by scientists at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis demonstrates new possibilities for treating these baffling tumors....
by Mark Shrime, The Conversation Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Early in the coronavirus pandemic, researchers stumbled on an unexpected finding: smokers seemed to be protected from COVID’s worst effects. Initially discovered on a review of hospitalized patients in China, this “smoker’s paradox” was later reported in studies from Italy and France. But it turns out that...
MICHIGAN MEDICINE – UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN Smokers needed their blocked arteries fixed nearly a decade earlier than non-smokers, and patients with obesity underwent these procedures four years earlier than non-obese patients, according to a new statewide study. The research included patients without a history of heart attack who were treated at hospitals across Michigan participating in BMC2, the...
