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- Study Finds That Teens Who Use E-cigarettes Are More Than Twice As Likely As Non-using Teens To Start Smoking Tobacco Products
image: usnews.comTeens who use electronic cigarettes may be more than twice as likely to start smoking tobacco than those who have never used the devices, according to a study at the University of Southern California. ?Recreational e-cigarette use is...
- Cdc Says State Spends Less Than 8% Of What It Should On Preventing Use Of Tobacco; Companies Spend 13 Times As Much
Kentucky spends only 7.6 percent of what it should spend on preventing the use of tobacco, the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says in its latest annual report on the subject. The state spent $4.33 million on tobacco-control programs...
- Study Finds Electronic Cigarettes Help People Stop Smoking
A study has found that electronic cigarettes help people cut back on their use of tobacco, Christopher Ingraham reports for The Washington Post. The finding was part of a study published in the International Journal of Environmental...
- Study: Raising Cigarette Taxes Does Curb Even Heavy Smoking
The more you raise cigarette taxes, the less people smoke. That presumption was confirmed this week in a study by the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis. This has some resonance in Kentucky, where just last week the state?s Blue Ribbon...
- Women Who Smoke Triple Their Risk Of Dying Early, But Quitting Early Enough Might Just Wipe Out That Risk
A new study of more than a million women found that smokers have more than triple the risk of early death than nonsmokers, and that quitting can virtually eliminate the increased risk. Smoking is still the most preventable cause of death in the United...
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Heavy smoking less common than 40 years ago
The percentage of people who smoked 20 or more cigarettes a day decreased significantly from 1965 to 2007 in the United States, according to a study in the March 16 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association.
There was also a decline in the number of people who smoked 10 or more cigarettes a day. The declines were more significant in California than the rest of the country, in part due to the state's tough tobacco control programs, researchers concluded.
Before 1964, when the surgeon general first linked smoking and disease, Americans smoked an average of 1 pack ? or 20 cigarettes ? per day, the study shows. Researchers found that in 1965 "the prevalence of high intensity (20 or more cigarettes per day) of smoking among California adults did not differ from the remaining United States; prevalence of high-intensity smoking in California was 23.2 percent compared to 22.9 in the remaining United States, and these smokers represented 56 percent of all smokers," reports Newswise, a research-reporting service. By 2007, this prevalence was 2.6 percent in California and 7.2 percent in the rest of the country. As smoking rates have declined, so, too, have lung cancer death rates. (Read more)
- Study Finds That Teens Who Use E-cigarettes Are More Than Twice As Likely As Non-using Teens To Start Smoking Tobacco Products
image: usnews.comTeens who use electronic cigarettes may be more than twice as likely to start smoking tobacco than those who have never used the devices, according to a study at the University of Southern California. ?Recreational e-cigarette use is...
- Cdc Says State Spends Less Than 8% Of What It Should On Preventing Use Of Tobacco; Companies Spend 13 Times As Much
Kentucky spends only 7.6 percent of what it should spend on preventing the use of tobacco, the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says in its latest annual report on the subject. The state spent $4.33 million on tobacco-control programs...
- Study Finds Electronic Cigarettes Help People Stop Smoking
A study has found that electronic cigarettes help people cut back on their use of tobacco, Christopher Ingraham reports for The Washington Post. The finding was part of a study published in the International Journal of Environmental...
- Study: Raising Cigarette Taxes Does Curb Even Heavy Smoking
The more you raise cigarette taxes, the less people smoke. That presumption was confirmed this week in a study by the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis. This has some resonance in Kentucky, where just last week the state?s Blue Ribbon...
- Women Who Smoke Triple Their Risk Of Dying Early, But Quitting Early Enough Might Just Wipe Out That Risk
A new study of more than a million women found that smokers have more than triple the risk of early death than nonsmokers, and that quitting can virtually eliminate the increased risk. Smoking is still the most preventable cause of death in the United...