Smoking Cessation News

Reuters - The U.S. Food and Drug Administration issued an early warning on Tuesday about Pfizer Inc's anti-smoking drug, Chantix, amid reports of suicidal thoughts and behavior, and at least one death potentially linked to the medication.

AFP - A new law took effect in Naples on Monday prohibiting smoking near pregnant women and children in the southern Italian city's public parks.

American Cancer Society - The number of adult smokers in the United States has remained constant since 2004, according to a report published this week by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

AP - A new report says the rate of substance abuse among Montana youth is much higher than the national average. The state is using that information to target federal money to change attitudes about drinking and driving and binge drinking.

AFP - Americans spoke out strongly against bosses who fire workers who are obese or smoke, a poll showed Thursday.

Reuters - Women who develop breast cancer are no more likely to have aggressive or advanced tumors if they are cigarette smokers than if they do not smoke, researchers said on Sunday.

Reuters - Women who develop breast cancer are no more likely to have aggressive or advanced tumors if they are cigarette smokers than if they do not smoke, researchers said on Sunday.

HealthDay - MONDAY, Oct. 29 (HealthDay News) -- It may be unhealthy in many other ways, but smoking does not appear to raise the odds that a woman with breast cancer will have more aggressive or later-stage malignancy at the time of diagnosis, researchers report.

Reuters - Women who develop breast cancer are no more likely to have aggressive or advanced tumors if they are cigarette smokers than if they do not smoke, researchers said on Sunday.

AFP - Children whose mothers smoked even in the early stages of pregnancy are nearly three times more likely to struggle with obesity later in life, according to a Japanese study.

Reuters - Women who develop breast cancer are no more likely to have aggressive or advanced tumors if they are cigarette smokers than if they do not smoke, researchers said on Sunday.

Airway bypass to treat emphysema patients shows promise, researchers say.

When it comes to your lungs, a couple of drinks a day may help keep the doctor away, researchers report.

Cigarette smoking and a family history of alcoholism can both affect how a person perceives sweet-tasting foods, U.S. researchers say.

The addition of the chemotherapy drug, docetaxel, to the standard two-drug regimen used for head and neck cancers improved the efficacy of the treatment while reducing the toxicity, two new studies report.

Reuters - Nicotine may help ease some of the debilitating and uncontrollable tremors and twitches caused by Parkinson's disease and its treatment, researchers said on Wednesday.

Although it can cost more than $1 million to give a lung cancer patient an added year of life, overall survival from the disease hasn't increased significantly, a new study finds.

If you're sneaking smokes when no one's looking, beware: One lung doctor says a common device can determine whether someone is a smoker.

Not only is secondhand smoke a threat to teen health, it can also affect their school test scores, a new study finds.

A new gene associated with human lung cancer has been identified. The finding about the Dmp1 gene may help improve understanding of what goes wrong at the cellular level to cause lung cancer.