
School Pupil Survey: Smoking Drinking And Drugs At Decade Low In England
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New figures for 2013 show the prevalence of smoking, drinking or drug use among school pupils(2) is considerably lower than ten years ago.
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Only 1 In 10 Smokers Who Visited A Dentist Received Advice To Quit
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Not all smokers receive tobacco cessation advice from health care providers (HCPs), according to a study from Ohio State University.
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Prison Tobacco Control Policies And Deaths From Smoking In United States Prisons: Population Based Retrospective Analysis
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Prison smoking bans are associated with a substantial reduction in deaths from smoking related causes, such as heart disease and cancer, finds a US study published on thebmj.com today.
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EU Policy Shift On Tobacco Control After Massive Industry Lobbying
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A study has tracked how the dominance of language that first appeared in tobacco industry's submissions gradually crept into the final drafts of the European tobacco directive passed by the European...
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Uruguays Tobacco Control Policies Reducing Smoking Rates Encouraging Quitting Finds Six-year Survey
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The International Tobacco Control Policy Evaluation Project (the ITC Project) has launched a new report on the effectiveness of tobacco control policies in Uruguay, a country currently the target...
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Smoking Cessation Vital To Improved Aboriginal Birth Outcomes
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Not smoking during pregnancy is as important for Indigenous women as it is for non-Aboriginal women, but with smoking rates in Aboriginal people three times those of the non-Aboriginal community...
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Number Of Smoke-free Homes Has Doubled In 20 Years
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Comparing data from the 2010-11 and 1992-93 Current Population Surveys, a new CDC report finds that twice as many homes in the US are smoke-free now compared with 20 years ago.
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Response To Reward Measured In Nicotine Withdrawal
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A new, 'first of its kind' study on nicotine addiction claims to have measured similarly quantified reward-response behaviors across humans and rats.
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