Jan 26, 2012 Issues: Smoking Drug type: Tobacco New research finds that quitting smoking is doubly hard if you are poor and uneducated. Pyschcentral.com featured an article on its website this week that highlighted the work of researchers from The City College of New York who followed smokers from different socioeconomic backgrounds after they had [...]
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration will this week evaluate the health safety and risks of candy-like tobacco products such as lozenges and strips, HealthDay’s Denise Mann reports. Public health advocates are concerned about the dissolvable, smokeless tobacco products putting children at risk for nicotine addiction and poisoning. “Dissolvables” are flavored mints, strips and sticks [...]
This week, The Fix, a website about addiction, recovery and the drug war, published Former Obama Administration drug policy advisor Kevin A. Sabet’s commentary discussing a study in the Journal of the American Medical Association that claims occasional marijuana use doesn’t harm the lungs. Dr. Sabet recommends a longitudinal study that looks at current trends [...]
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