Medical / Health

• MSNBC - Parents’ smoking killing their children (MS-NBC)
  Parents’ smoking killing their children More children die than from all unintentional injuries combined ASSOCIATED PRESS  .         “More young children are killed by parental smoking than by all unintentional injuries combined,” the researchers said in the July issue of the Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine.
  First found: 17 Jul 1997, 11:53 Universal Time
• Delinquency Linked to Smoking During Pregnancy (7/15)* (Your Health Daily)
  In a study of 177 boys ages 7 to 12 who were followed for six years, those whose mothers smoked a half a pack of cigarettes a day or more during pregnancy were more than four times as likely to suffer from severe behavioral problems than boys whose mothers either did not smoke during pregnancy or smoked less than 10 cigarettes a day. ``Interventions designed to reduce maternal smoking during...
  First found: 15 Jul 1997, 22:36 Universal Time
• Mom's Cigarettes and Bad Boys (Pathfinder)
  NEW YORK (Reuters) -- Women who smoke during pregnancy are increasing their chances of giving birth to a future juvenile delinquent, a new study suggests. The researchers looked at 177 boys aged 7 to 12 referred to a psychiatric clinic, and examined their behavior, family characteristics, and mother's smoking habits.
  First found: 15 Jul 1997, 22:36 Universal Time
• Study blames parental smoking (Philadelphia Inquirer)
  ``More young children are killed by parental smoking than by all unintentional injuries combined,'' researchers from the University of Wisconsin Medical School in Madison say in the July issue of the Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine. About 250 children die of burns from fires caused by cigarettes, matches or lighters, and 14 die of asthma, the study says.
  First found: 15 Jul 1997, 16:58 Universal Time
• Smoking is Bad for Your Back, Too (7/8)* (Your Health Daily)
  Smoking reduces bone density along the spine, making smokers more susceptible to the brittle-bone disease osteoporosis, fractures and other back injuries, according to a new report that summarizes the evidence published to date on the effects of smoking on the back. Numerous studies also have suggested that smokers are more likely to have back pain and sciatica - inflammation of the sciatic...
  First found: 8 Jul 1997, 23:57 Universal Tim
• Back Problems Linked to Smoking (Pathfinder)
  NEW YORK (Reuters) -- In addition to lung disease, cancer and heart disease, cigarette smoking may also increase the risk of serious back problems. A review of the data available on smokers found that they are more likely than nonsmokers to have back problems such as pain, sciatica and degenerative disease of the spine.
  First found: 8 Jul 1997, 23:57 Universal Time
• MSNBC - Smoking hurts your back, study says (MS-NBC)
  Even when fusion does occur, the bone seems weaker than in nonsmokers, the Alabama surgeon wrote in the July issue of the journal Neurosurgery.         “To date, more than 3,000 breakdown products of cigarette incineration have been identified, either in the gaseous phase (smoke) or the particulate, tar phase (ash) of a burning cigarette,” Hadley said.
  First found: 8 Jul 1997, 11:46 Universal Time
• Smokers with Heart Disease Can Use Patch (Pathfinder)
  What's more, patch-users rapidly show an improvement in the heart's function -- despite the fact that the amount of nicotine is greater in the blood with the patch than with cigarettes. ``We would have to conclude that even for patients with heart disease, receiving nicotine from patches is safer than receiving nicotine from cigarettes,'' reported Dr.
  First found: 1 Jul 1997, 23:31 Universal Time
• Pipes and Cigars Cut Smoking Risks (Pathfinder)
  Investigators have long questioned if various methods of tobacco ingestion result in different health risks. Cigarette smoking generally involves deeper inhalation of toxin-bearing smoke than the short puffs preferred by cigar or pipe smokers.
  First found: 27 Jun 1997, 22:39 Universal Time
• Carcinogen Found in Smoker's Cervix (Pathfinder)
  In the new study of 15 female smokers, the women had an average of 47 nanograms (ng) of NNK per gram (g) of cervical mucus, with a range from 12 ng to 115 ng/g. ``One cannot be certain whether one or another of the 'nonsmokers' with a relatively high level of NNK in the cervical mucus (more than 20 ng/g) was not actually a cigarette smoker,'' they wrote.
  First found: 18 Jun 1997, 11:12 Universal Time
• National Experts Debate Options in 'Exposure Reduction' as New Public Health Strategy for Smoking; Studies Show Reduction May Lead to Cessation (PR Newswire)
  "Medical and public health experts are considering reducing smoking as a goal of intervention for those smokers who are presently unable or unwilling to completely quit smoking." Public health experts have suggested that anti-smoking efforts have failed to get through to hard-core adult smokers who have been unable to quit.
  First found: 18 Jun 1997, 11:12 Universal Time
• Researchers Debate Best Way To Quit Smoking (6/17)* (Your Health Daily)
  He noted that doctors have criticized the approach of simultaneously using nicotine replacement while smoking, arguing that patients will get nicotine poisoning and that such an approach will ``strip people of a motive to quit.'' Every year, 16 million smokers in America try to quit, though only 1.2 million succeed, according to the society.
  First found: 17 Jun 1997, 21:43 Universal Time
• Smoker? Vitamin C Might Help (Pathfinder)
  ``Cigarette smoke induced these aggregates of white blood cells and platelets, which are both involved in inflammation and thrombosis (clot formation),'' he said. When the hamsters were pretreated with vitamin C, ``these aggregates were significantly reduced or abolished,'' Weyrich said.
  First found: 10 Jun 1997, 21:29 Universal Time
• Study, Nicotine Patches Safe For Pregnant Women (5/30)* (Your Health Daily)
  If further studies confirm their safety, the benefits of nicotine patches may ``outweigh the known risks of cigarette smoking in pregnancy,'' the researchers wrote in the study, published in the May issue of the American Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology. The study participants, who were in the 28th to 37th week of pregnancy, had been unable or unwilling to quit smoking, and smoked at least a...
  First found: 31 May 1997, 11:17 Universal Time
• Precautions for Cigar Smokers Who Won't Quit (5/28)* (Your Health Daily)
  hile cigarettes are increasingly losing their once highly fashionable status, cigars are rapidly becoming the new symbol of the hip and glamorous crowd. But for people who nonetheless insist on smoking cigars, the AAOMS offers the following advice for minimizing the health hazards of cigars: - Limit smoking to special occasions.
  First found: 28 May 1997, 21:14 Universal Time
• New Treatments for Lung Cancer Show Promise (5/23) (Your Health Daily)
  The survival rate is still so dismal because 80 percent of those who have lung cancer are not diagnosed until the disease is advanced, and then it is often undertreated with little hope for success. ``The nonsmall-cell lung cancer is where we have improved the one-year survival rate in advanced disease -- from 10 percent to 40 to 50 percent with combination chemotherapy and radiation therapy,''...
  First found: 24 May 1997, 11:19 Universal Time
• Smoking Halts Gain in Male Life-Span (Pathfinder)
  Therefore, noncommunicable disorders, such as heart disease, cancer and stroke will become more common causes of death, increasing from 28.1 million deaths annually to 49.7 million. In the best case scenario, HIV will peak in 2006 with 1.7 million deaths per year, while the more pessimistic view is that the epidemic will peak in 2012 at 1.9 million deaths.
  First found: 23 May 1997, 21:09 Universal Time
• Smoking Moms, Asthma-Prone Babies (Pathfinder)
  NEW YORK (Reuters) -- The newborns of smoking mothers carry a marker in their blood which may indicate heightened vulnerability to asthma and other allergic disease, researchers say. Fernando Machado of Federal University in Santa Catarina, Brazil, ``the habit of smoking during pregnancy can increase the level of IgE in the blood of (newborn) babies, and, in such circumstances, newborns are at...
  First found: 22 May 1997, 22:51 Universal Time
• Smoking Riskier for Women Than Men (Pathfinder)
  She compared the death rates of female 'never-smokers' to female smokers in an attempt to analyze the relative risk of smoking to a woman's health. The Danish researchers also discovered a higher relative risk of death from vascular diseases (which often lead to heart attack or stroke) in female smokers, compared with that of male smokers.
  First found: 22 May 1997, 22:51 Universal Time
• Despite it all, smokers persevere (Philadelphia Inquirer)
  ATLANTA -- Despite public-service campaigns and the proliferation of no-smoking rules, the percentage of adults who smoke held steady in the first half of the 1990s. Between 1985 and 1990, the percentage of smokers age 35 and older dropped from 28.4 percent to 24.1 percent.
  First found: 23 May 1997, 11:38 Universal Time
• Even Secondhand Smoke Endangers the Heart (5/20) (Your Health Daily)
  In a 10-year study of 32,046 non-smoking women, researchers found that those regularly exposed to passive smoking had a 91 percent higher risk of a heart attack or death than women not subjected to secondhand smoke. The women in the study were part of the Nurses' Health Study, a long-term study of 121,700 female registered nurses ages 30 to 55 who have provided researchers with information on...
  First found: 20 May 1997, 21:12 Universal Time
• Passive Smoke Hikes Heart Risk (Pathfinder)
  NEW YORK (Reuters) -- Constant exposure to second-hand (''passive'') cigarette smoke in the workplace or at home almost doubles the risk of fatal and nonfatal heart attacks among nonsmoking women, a new study shows. And by the end of the 10-year follow-up, researchers determined that those exposed regularly to passive smoke had a 91% higher risk of a heart attack or death, compared with nurses...
  First found: 21 May 1997, 11:53 Universal Time
• DANGER: SECOND-HAND SMOKE (PBS Online Newshour)
  And after taking account of all of these differences and comparing like woman with like, the only difference being that one group was exposed to passive smoking while the other was not, we still found that women exposed to passive smoking were at about twice the risk of heart attack. And these other researchers, Kyle Steinland and A.J. Wellslyn among them, have estimated that if the association...
  First found: 21 May 1997, 11:53 Universal Time
• Children's Hospital and Medical Center: A Little Effort Goes A Long Way to Keep Asthma Patients Healthy at Home (PR Newswire)
  Children's Hospital and Medical Center: A Little Effort Goes A Long Way to Keep Asthma Patients Healthy at Home SEATTLE, May 20 /PRNewswire/ -- Children treated for acute asthma attacks who went home to parents who smoke stayed healthier if care givers made regular follow up calls to check on measures to reduce the children's exposure to environmental tobacco smoke (ETS), according to a study by...
  First found: 20 May 1997, 21:12 Universal Time
• High-Dose Patch Helps Smokers Quit (5/20)* (Your Health Daily)
  In a four-year study of 724 smokers, more than 26 percent of those using the highest-dose nicotine patch (21 milligrams of nicotine) were still smoke-free after one year, compared with only 9 percent of those who used a placebo patch. Four years later, more people who used the nicotine patch were still not smoking compared with those who used a placebo, David M. Daughton, a smoking cessation...
  First found: 21 May 1997, 11:53 Universal Time
• Nicotine Patch Success Lasts (Pathfinder)
  Daughton contacted the study participants three to four years later, seeking to discover if they remained smoke-free at the 4- and 5-year period. For example, over 28% of smokers who had used the 21 milligram (nicotine) patch were ex-smokers one year later, with 20.2% remaining ex-smokers at the 4- to 5-year follow-up.
  First found: 21 May 1997, 11:53 Universal Time
• Passive smoke raises heart attack risk (MS-NBC)
          Data on heart disease was then correlated with information on smoke exposure to calculate the extra risk of heart disease conferred by exposure to smoke, taking into account other heart disease risk factors including high blood cholesterol, high blood pressure, diet, exercise and diabetes.  Not at all Highly  . © 1997 MSNBC MSNBC is optimized for...
  First found: 20 May 1997, 11:57 Universal Time
• Secondhand Smoke Linked To Increased Heart Attack Rate (Washington Post)
  News From the 50 States Find news, reference materials and Internet resources for every state. But because there are so many millions of people exposed to large amounts of secondhand smoke, even relatively small increases in risk translate into large amounts of illness and death.
  First found: 20 May 1997, 11:57 Universal Time
• Secondhand smoke's effect shown (Philadelphia Inquirer)
  In a major study published last August, nonsmoking spouses of smokers had about a 20 percent higher rate of heart disease deaths than nonsmokers whose spouses did not smoke. Kawachi said he and his colleagues had expected to find a 30 percent to 50 percent higher risk of heart disease among nonsmoking nurses exposed to smoke at work or home than among nonsmoking nurses who were not exposed.
  First found: 20 May 1997, 11:57 Universal Time
• Heart risk is found from secondhand smoke: Risk of an attack in women doubles, new study asserts (Boston Globe)
  By Richard a. Knox, Globe Staff, 05/20/97 Regular exposure to others' cigarette smoke, in the home or the workplace, nearly doubles women's risk of heart attack, according to a new study with implications that go beyond the known risk of lung cancer from "passive smoking. Because heart disease is much more common than lung cancer, the number of heart deaths attributable to passive smoking...
  First found: 20 May 1997, 11:57 Universal Time
• `Anti-Smoking' Pill Is Hailed (5/19) (Your Health Daily)
  It found a 17 percent quit rate in those who took an empty placebo, 22 percent in those who got a 100-milligram dose of Zyban, 28 percent with a 150-mg dose, and 36 percent with a 300-mg dose. The second study, following 893 smokers over nine weeks, found that Zyban was effective for 49 percent of smokers, 26 percent better than the placebo's performance and 13 percent better than a nicotine...
  First found: 20 May 1997, 11:57 Universal Time
• FDA Approves Antidepressant as Anti-Smoking Drug (Washington Post)
  And for hard-core smokers, doctors can try dealing the addiction a one-two punch by combining Zyban with nicotine patches, said manufacturer Glaxo Wellcome Inc. Would-be quitters can try nicotine patches or nicotine gum products, which are both sold without a prescription, or get a doctor's prescription for a nicotine nasal spray or inhaler.
  First found: 20 May 1997, 11:57 Universal Time
• Drug Is Approved By FDA for Smoking Cessation (5/16) (Your Health Daily)
  ASHINGTON -- Glaxo Wellcome has won U.S. Food and Drug Administration approval to market its anti-depression drug Zyban as the first nicotine-free prescription pill to help smokers kick the habit. The approval gives Glaxo access to the $500 million U.S. stop-smoking market, currently dominated by nicotine patches and gum from SmithKline Beecham and Johnson & Johnson.
  First found: 17 May 1997, 11:25 Universal Time
• Anti-smoking pill coming to stores in 2 months (Philadelphia Daily News)
  WASHINGTON -- Smokers trying to kick the habit now can pop a pill to help: The government approved the first nicotine-free anti-smoking drug yesterday, one that works in the brain at the source of addiction. And for hard-core smokers, doctors can try dealing the addiction a one-two punch by combining Zyban with nicotine patches, said manufacturer Glaxo Wellcome Inc.
  First found: 16 May 1997, 15:15 Universal Time
• Smoking Can Slow Healing of Dental Procedures (5/14)* (Your Health Daily)
  Researchers at the State University of New York at Buffalo studied how smoking affected healing after dental surgery in 77 men and 66 women ranging in age from 35 to 65. But former smokers healed as well as nonsmokers, suggesting that the negative effects of smoking on healing can be reversed if people kick the habit, the researchers said.
  First found: 14 May 1997, 21:13 Universal Time
• Kids' talk (Philadelphia Inquirer)
  In cigarette and cigar smoke, though, the particles have more than 40 chemicals that can help cause cancer, and some of the gases are poisonous. Philadelphia Online -- The Philadelphia Inquirer, Health & Science -- Copyright Monday, May 12, 1997
  First found: 12 May 1997, 11:43 Universal Time
• Nicotine Patch Dangers for Children (Pathfinder)
  NEW YORK (Reuters) -- Nicotine patches, used by adults to help quit smoking, are potentially dangerous in the hands of young children, a new study shows. The exposures involved children younger than 16 years old (average age 3 years) and involved either new or used patches, including some that were discarded.
  First found: 6 May 1997, 21:22 Universal Time
• Nicotine Inhaler Provides the Chemical Without the Smoke (Fox News)
  The Nicotrol Inhaler, to be sold by prescription only, allows smokers to suck nicotine through a plastic tube, letting the chemical be absorbed into the body through membranes in the mouth. The inhaler also provides a sensation in the back of the throat similar to the feeling of inhaling a cigarette, and the ritual of bringing hand-to-mouth that many smokers report they miss when trying to quit,...
  First found: 5 May 1997, 21:38 Universal Time
• Cholesterol and Smoking Tied to Sudden Death (Pathfinder)
  ``Men with this (cause of sudden death) had an average cholesterol of over 260 mg/dl (milligrams per deciliter of blood), compared to an average cholesterol of 220 in the men without this type of plaque,'' Burke says. The ratio was ``markedly elevated in the men who died of acute thrombosis with plaque rupture, but only mildly elevated in the men without acute thrombosis,'' write the researchers.
  First found: 1 May 1997, 22:56 Universal Time
• Mom's Smoking Ups Baby's HIV Risk (Pathfinder)
  NEW YORK (Reuters) -- Smoking during pregnancy increases the chance that a woman infected with HIV will pass the virus onto her unborn child, new research shows. ``Our study shows that smoking may be especially dangerous for HIV-positive pregnant women because its effects may increase the baby's exposure to blood and other maternal secretions that contain the virus during delivery,'' the lead...
  First found: 30 Apr 1997, 22:20 Universal Time
• Tobacco Foes Focus on `Safer' Cigarette (4/30) (Your Health Daily)
  In part for that reason, anti-tobacco lawyers at the ongoing settlement talks would like to secure broad authority for the FDA over tobacco as part of any deal -- but avoid requiring specific language over such regulatory methods as nicotine reduction. Another idea is to require a gradual reduction in nicotine only if smoking rates among youngsters don't go down as a result of bans on advertising...
  First found: 30 Apr 1997, 22:20 Universal Time
• Still Smoking? Exercise May Help (Pathfinder)
  ``Our results indicate that middle-aged male smokers who regularly engage in vigorous leisure time physical activity have lower cardiovascular mortality rates than smokers who are sedentary or only slightly active,'' wrote Hedblad, of the Community Health Medicine Department at Malmo University Hospital in Sweden. Smokers who exercised had 3.4 times the risk of dying of any cause compared to...
  First found: 29 Apr 1997, 21:32 Universal Time
• Dental Group Seeks to Extinguish Cigar Trend (4/23)* (Your Health Daily)
  ``There is nothing glamorous or sexy about bad breath, stained teeth or oral cancer, all of which may result from smoking cigars,'' said dentist Greg Connolly, a spokesperson for the Chicago-based organization. Many people mistakenly assume that cigars are a healthier alternative to cigarettes because most cigar smokers do not inhale the smoke, but, he said, ``even if inhalation doesn't occur,...
  First found: 24 Apr 1997, 11:32 Universal Time
• Tobacco Industry Shifts on Addiction (4/15) (Your Health Daily)
  But on a spectrum of addictive behavior, smoking is closer to coffee, watching TV and sex than to cocaine or heroin. Doctors say there is conclusive evidence based on extensive research that nicotine in tobacco is powerfully addictive.
  First found: 16 Apr 1997, 11:57 Universal Time
• Study suggests nicotine helps fuel dementia (Philadelphia Inquirer)
  A study from the Netherlands yesterday cast doubt on that theory, finding that smokers in fact suffered higher rates of Alzheimer's disease than nonsmokers. The Netherlands researchers say their data are convincing: Between 1990 and 1995, Ott and his colleagues asked 8,000 people over 55 in a Rotterdam suburb whether they smoke or whether they had ever smoked.
  First found: 16 Apr 1997, 11:57 Universal Time
• Substance in Tomatoes May Help Curb Lung Cancer (4/14)* (Your Health Daily)
  AN DIEGO -- People who consume the lowest levels of lycopene, a substance found mainly in tomatoes, appear to be at increased risk for lung cancer, researchers reported here Sunday at the annual meeting of the American Association for Cancer Research. After accounting for age, gender, race, smoking, alcohol consumption and other potential influences of cancer risk, the researchers found that...
  First found: 15 Apr 1997, 11:29 Universal Time
• More Teens Lighting Up, March 1997, American Demographics (American Demographics)
  As many as 5.3 million Americans aged 17 and younger in 1995 could die prematurely from smoking-related diseases, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). That year, 28 percent of high school students smoked at least one cigarette in the month preceding the survey, according to the CDC's Youth Risk Behavior Survey.
  First found: 9 Apr 1997, 11:27 Universal Time
• Effect of Smoking Status on the Long-Term Outcome after Successful Percutaneous Coronary Revascularization (The New England Journal of Medicine)
  In analyses adjusted for confounding base-line characteristics, the persistent smokers had a greater relative risk of death (1.76 [95 percent confidence interval, 1.37 to 2.26]) and of Q-wave infarction (2.08 [95 percent confidence interval, 1.16 to 3.72]) than the nonsmokers. The quitters and persistent smokers were less likely than the nonsmokers to undergo additional percutaneous coronary...
  First found: 9 Apr 1997, 11:27 Universal Time
• Maternal Smoking Found to Increase HIV Risk in Fetus (Fox News)
  The study, by researchers at Thomas Jefferson University and the New York state health department, found that one-third of the women in the study who smoked and did not take virus-fighting drugs passed the HIV virus on to their child. "Our study shows that smoking may be especially dangerous for HIV-positive pregnant women, because its effects may increase the baby's exposure to blood and other...
  First found: 1 Apr 1997, 23:14 Universal Time
• More Californians Are Lighting Up / Addicted kids up, new study finds (San Francisco Chronicle)
  In a separate, annual survey, the Health Department said the percentage of Californians smoking in 1996 rose to 18.6 percent from 16.7 percent the prior year -- an 11 percent increase. John Pierce and Gilpin also said the proportion of California adolescents already addicted to tobacco rose from 9.9 percent in 1993 to 12.1 percent three years later.
  First found: 27 Mar 1997, 12:46 Universal Time
• Documents Reveal Efforts to Boost Nicotine (3/26) (Your Health Daily)
  Researchers for the tobacco industry agonized over whether to pursue a safer ciarette and thusmit the harmful effects of smoking, while at the same time worked to increase the nicotine kick in tobacco products to keep smokers coming back for more, according to internal documents from the Liggett Group. In one 1973 memo from the Liggett files, chemical consultants reported on work to alter the...
  First found: 27 Mar 1997, 12:46 Universal Time
• MSNBC - Smoking increases breast cancer risk (MS-NBC)
  Gene causes one third of breast cancers MSNBC quiz to help estimate your risk for breast cancer Yearly mammograms recommended Protecting against gene discrimination Homing in on colon cancer genes         The results are the first to show an interaction between genes and environment in causing breast cancer, Shields said, though he cautioned that more study is needed to...
  First found: 26 Mar 1997, 00:05 Universal Time
• Babies born to smoking mothers should be considered ex-smokers, study (Fox News)
  (AP) -- Newborns whose mothers smoke during pregnancy have the same nicotine level as grown-up smokers and almost certainly spend their first days of life going through withdrawal, a new study finds. Laurence M. Galanti of Mont-Godinne University Hospital in Namur, Belgium, was presented Wednesday at a meeting of the American College of Cardiology.
  First found: 19 Mar 1997, 22:22 Universal Time
• Smoking and drinking affect fetus (Philadelphia Inquirer)
  Your granddaughter's infant will be a unique individual, different from the babies of her friends, so there is no way for her to know whether her child will be unaffected by her smoking. Drinking alcohol can be dangerous, and in many cases it causes fetal alcohol syndrome, one of the leading causes of mental retardation and birth defects.
  First found: 19 Mar 1997, 14:55 Universal Time
• Effect of Smoking Status on the Long-Term Outcome after Successful Percutaneous Coronary Revascularization (The New England Journal of Medicine)
  In analyses adjusted for confounding base-line characteristics, the persistent smokers had a greater relative risk of death (1.76 [95 percent confidence interval, 1.37 to 2.26]) and of Q-wave infarction (2.08 [95 percent confidence interval, 1.16 to 3.72]) than the nonsmokers. The quitters and persistent smokers were less likely than the nonsmokers to undergo additional percutaneous coronary...
  First found: 14 Mar 1997, 08:58 Universal Time
• Expert: Tobacco Companies Hide Low-Tar Vents (Fox News)
  LONDON -- Many smokers who buy low-tar and low-nicotine cigarettes are unwittingly ruining the effect by blocking tiny holes in the filter with their fingers, U.S. researchers said on Wednesday. Behavior expert Dr Lynn Kozlowski and colleagues at Penn State University found up to 40 percent of smokers surveyed did not know the holes, called filter vents, were what made the cigarettes "light."
  First found: 12 Mar 1997, 22:43 Universal Time
• More Teens Lighting Up, March 1997, American Demographics (American Demographics)
  As many as 5.3 million Americans aged 17 and younger in 1995 could die prematurely from smoking-related diseases, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). That year, 28 percent of high school students smoked at least one cigarette in the month preceding the survey, according to the CDC's Youth Risk Behavior Survey.
  First found: 12 Mar 1997, 22:43 Universal Time
• Passive Smoke May Delay Tooth Development (Your Health Daily)
  xposure to secondhand tobacco smoke can delay the development of permanent teeth in children, according to the Academy of General Dentistry (AGD). The current issue of the AGD newsletter reports a study showing that children who were exposed to cigarette smoke from their parents developed permanent teeth an average of four to six months later than children whose parents did not smoke.
  First found: 6 Mar 1997, 15:03 Universal Time
• For Low-Tar Smokers, a Different Cancer Risk (Your Health Daily)
  It is these cells that are attacked when smokers of so-called ``light'' cigarettes take deep breaths, pulling tiny particles far into the lung tissue. In contrast, the kind of cancer long linked with smoking, called squamous cell carcinoma, has declined in the San Francisco area from 13.91 to 11.35 cases per 100,000 persons during the same years.
  First found: 5 Mar 1997, 12:51 Universal Time
• ACS Says Low-Tar Cigarettes Linked to Deeper-Reaching Lung Cancer (Fox News) 
  ATLANTA (AP) -- Low-tar, filtered cigarettes have not reduced the danger of cancer and are responsible for a different type of the disease that reaches deeper into the lung, according to a study published by the American Cancer Society (ACS). Squamous cell carcinoma and small-cell carcinoma, which attack the main trunks of the lungs, are the two types of lung cancer most strongly linked to... 
  First found: 28 Feb 1997, 23:37 Universal Time 
• Study ties different cancer to low-tar cigarettes (Boston Globe) 
  Associated Press, 02/28/97 ATLANTA - Smokers who switch to low-tar cigarettes are increasingly victims of a different type of cancer - one that reaches deeper into the lungs - according to a study published by the American Cancer Society. Squamous cell carcinoma and small cell carcinoma, which attack the main trunks of the lungs, are the two types of lung cancer most strongly linked to cigarette... 
  First found: 28 Feb 1997, 23:37 Universal Time 
• Calif. Study Assesses Toll Of Second-Hand Smoke (2/25) (Your Health Daily) 
  Pete Wilson's administration, the report is being hailed by opponents of smoking as the most extensive compilation of evidence of the health effects of secondhand smoke since the surgeon general issued a study in 1986. Studies showing that nonsmokers are harmed by tobacco smoke are used by public health advocates to argue in favor of legislation that bans smoking from the workplace and areas... 
  First found: 28 Feb 1997, 21:32 Universal Time 
• Secondhand Smoke's Toll in California / Report says it kills 4,700 annually, sickens thousands of kids (San Francisco Chronicle)
  The California report concludes that there is sufficient evidence from the body of existing research to conclude that secondhand smoke is responsible for a wide variety of health problems, including premature births, sudden infant death syndrome, lung cancer and heart disease. Although cigarette smoking by parents is believed to have health effects on developing fetuses, the new report does not... 
  First found: 26 Feb 1997, 00:49 Universal Time 
• Study Links Blood Clots to Weight, Smoking (Fox News)
  CHICAGO - Obese women, those with high blood pressure or women who smoke more than a pack of cigarettes a day run an increased risk of developing a blood clot in the lungs, researchers said Tuesday. Those who smoked 25 to 34 cigarettes a day were 1.8 times more likely to suffer a blood clot in the lung than non-smokers, and high blood pressure was associated with nearly twice the risk for blood... 
  First found: 26 Feb 1997, 12:51 Universal Time 
• U.S. Warns Cigarette Butts a Danger to Infants(Fox News)
  The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reviewed 90 cases in Rhode Island where children between six months and two years swallowed cigarettes or cigarette butts. "Children in households where cigarettes were smoked in their presence were four times as likely to ingest cigarettes or cigarette butts as children in households where smoking does not occur around children," the CDC... 
  First found: 15 Feb 1997, 22:37 Universal Time 
• Flavorings Unsafe to Smoke (Fox News)
  BOSTON -- Licorice, honey and cocoa, all common foodstuffs, are also common cigarette flavorings and anti-smoking advocates say that while those things are safe to eat, they are toxic when burned and inhaled. During the hearing, several witnesses testified that flavorings used in foods, as well as, sweetners that are usually consumed on their own including licorice, honey and cocoa are... 
  First found: 1 Feb 1997, 22:49 Universal Time