Youth Smoking Decreasing
The CDC reports that smoking rates among high school and middle school students has decreased over the last 15 years. This is very good news, except that tobacco use is still very high in this age...
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For teenagers, parents, and grandparents who smoke and are thus addicted to nicotine, a public service from the American Medical Association: If you smoke, you have a 50% chance of dying from a...
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New evidence supports an old conclusion: If you’ve never smoked, don’t start. If you do smoke, stop. Two articles published in this week’s New England Journal of Medicine point to the fact that...
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Smokers Need Not Apply
A growing number of health care systems are denying employment to smokers. David A. Asch, M.D. and colleagues explain why in the New England Journal of Medicine: Tobacco use is responsible for...
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Smoking Bans
There are only seven states – Arkansas, California, Illinois, Louisiana, Maine, Oregon and Utah — that ban smoking in vehicles carrying children. Yet, a new poll conducted by the University of...
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The E-Cig
Nothing looks more uncool than a teenager holding a cigarette. Unless he is holding an e-cigarette: “E-cigarette experimentation and recent use doubled among U.S. middle and high school students during...
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Don’t Be A “Downer”
“When will they ever learn!” If you wonder why all your pleadings and warnings and worst-case scenarios don’t seem to have an influence on your child’s behavior, it may be time to lose the negativity:...
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