Amid Smoking Decline, Look Who's Still Lighting Up. Hide captionTobacco giant Reynolds American is buying Lorillard and acquiring Newport, a popular menthol cigarette.
In a shrinking market, Newport is one of the few U.S. brands gaining market share. It is particularly popular among African-American smokers. Justin Sullivan/Getty Images. Getting Science Right In The Media : 13.7: Cosmos And Culture. Hide captionPeople smoke marijuana, presumably, because it affects their brains, not despite that fact.
Above, people in Sao Paulo, Brazil, campaign for the legalization of marijuana. Nelson Almeida/AFP/Getty Images People smoke marijuana, presumably, because it affects their brains, not despite that fact. Above, people in Sao Paulo, Brazil, campaign for the legalization of marijuana. Young Doesn't Mean Invincible When It Comes To Strokes : Shots - Health News. Hide captionA third of adults who have had a stroke before age 50 have a hard time caring for themselves or living independently. iStockphoto Strokes sounds like an old folks' problem, but they hit young people, too.
And they don't all shake it off. One-third of people who had a stroke before age 50 are struggling with disability and loss of function nine years later. Many of those people aren't able to live independently or need help with everyday tasks, such as managing their finances or personal care, a study of young stroke survivors finds.
Dutch researchers looked at how 722 people were doing after having a stroke between the ages of 18 and 50. Doctors often predict full recovery for younger stroke patients, the study authors note, just because they're young. Roll your own cigarettes are not the safer option. Roll Up, Roll Up Many smokers believe that roll-your-own or RYO cigarettes are not as harmful as manufactured cigarettes.
Many RYO smokers change to smoking roll-ups rather than stop smoking in the mistaken belief that they will smoke less tobacco and inhale fewer toxic chemicals. But hand-rolling tobacco is as just as harmful as the tobacco in manufactured cigarettes. Research using roll-up cigarettes made by smokers, shows that the levels of nicotine and cancer-causing chemicals inhaled are often higher than those from bought cigarettes.
RYO cigarettes are more likely to cause mouth, throat and lung cancer as well as lung diseases such as emphysema and heart disease. More information on the dangers of smoking roll-ups: Help to stop smoking: www.smokefree.nhs.uk; Smoke yields from RYO cigarettes Manufactured cigarettes undergo tests to show their ‘smoke yields’ . · Amount of tobacco used · Number of puffs taken · Porosity of the rolling paper. Public Health England anti-smoking campaign – video. Why cannabis is a greater cancer risk than tobacco. By JENNY HOPE, Daily Mail Smoking cannabis is more harmful than cigarettes and more likely to trigger cancer, according to a report.
Just three cannabis 'joints' a day can cause the same amount of damage to the lungs as an entire packet of 20 cigarettes. The British Lung Foundation says that when cannabis and tobacco are smoked together, the harmful effects are significantly worse. Its research suggests young cannabis smokers may also be at greater risk of throat and gullet cancers. The foundation found that tar from cannabis joints contains 50 per cent more cancer-causing toxins than cigarettes made from tobacco alone. Eight million Britons are thought to smoke cannabis, which some experts believe is a 'gateway' to harder drugs such as heroin and cocaine.
Earlier this year, researchers found that 79 per cent of children thought cannabis was safe while only 2 per cent recognised there are health risks from smoking the drug. 'People are under the illusion it is safe to smoke cannabis. Working to Reform Marijuana Laws. By Paul ArmentanoSenior Policy AnalystNORML | NORML Foundation Presumptions regarding cannabis use as a risk factor for the development of certain types of cancer, particularly lung cancer, warrant critical examination.
Epidemiologic studies over the past several decades have established causation between alcohol consumption and cancers of the oral cavity, pharynx, larynx, esophagus, liver, colon and rectum, among others. Tobacco use, particularly cigarette smoking, has also been determined to cause similar upper aerodigestive tract (UAT) cancers, as well as cancers of the pancreas, kidneys and bladder, and is implicated with cancers of the stomach and liver, among others.
To date, similar epidemiologic and/or clinical studies on the use of cannabis and cancer are few and not definitive. (References: Alcohol and cancer. Wanna Smoke? It Could Cost You A Tooth, FDA Warns Teens : Shots - Health News. When it comes to persuading teenagers not to smoke, you have to think short-term, the Food and Drug Administration says.
"While most teens understand the serious health risks associated with tobacco use, they often don't believe the long-term consequences will ever apply to them," FDA Commissioner Margaret Hamburg told reporters Monday before unveiling the agency's first-ever anti-smoking campaign. Instead, the ads focus on how smoking affects teenagers' appearance by ruining their skin and messing up their teeth. One graphic TV ad shows a teenager buying a pack of cigarettes at a convenience store and literally pulling out a tooth with a set of pliers to pay for them.