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Y! Health Smoking Cessation News
Y! Health Smoking Cessation News, updated continuously.

• Harsh school atmosphere may foster student smoking (Reuters)

  Posted on 4 Jul 2008 at 10:26 am
  Reuters - Students at high schools that value caring and inclusiveness are significantly less likely to be smokers than their peers at schools placing a heavier emphasis on academics, Scottish researchers report.
  

• Smokeless Tobacco Products Do Raise Cancer Risk (HealthDay)

  Posted on 2 Jul 2008 at 11:47 pm
  HealthDay - WEDNESDAY, July 2 (HealthDay News) -- Smokeless tobacco products (STPs), which include products such as snuff and chew tobacco, do increase the user's risk of cancer -- just not as much as smoking does.
  

• Caregivers often expose asthmatic kids to smoke (Reuters)

  Posted on 2 Jul 2008 at 10:26 am
  Reuters - Secondhand exposure to cigarette smoke is an asthma trigger in children and a new study shows that smoking by the primary caregiver and daycare provider are important sources of smoke exposure in children with asthma.
  

• Health Tip: Stop Smoking, Save Your Bones (HealthDay)

  Posted on 1 Jul 2008 at 11:47 pm
  HealthDay - (HealthDay News) -- Smoking can affect many parts of your body, even your bones and joints.
  

• Smoke-Free Policies Prove Effective (HealthDay)

  Posted on 1 Jul 2008 at 11:47 pm
  HealthDay - TUESDAY, July 1 (HealthDay News) -- Smoke-free policies are extremely effective at reducing smoking rates, exposure to secondhand smoke, and even smoking-related heart disease, new research shows.
  

• Smokeless tobacco linked to cancer risk, but safer than smoking (AFP)

  Posted on 1 Jul 2008 at 7:12 pm
  AFP - Oral and nasal snuff and chewing tobacco increase the risk of certain types of cancer but are probably safer than smoking, according to a review published on Wednesday in the journal Lancet Oncology.
  

• Smokeless tobacco ups oral cancer risk 80 percent: WHO (Reuters)

  Posted on 1 Jul 2008 at 6:39 pm
  Reuters - Chewing tobacco and snuff are less dangerous than cigarettes but the smokeless products still raise the risk of oral cancer by 80 percent, the World Health Organisation's cancer agency said on Tuesday.
  

• Swiss teens take less alcohol, tobacco, but more hard drugs: study (AFP)

  Posted on 1 Jul 2008 at 4:33 pm
  AFP - Teenagers in Switzerland are drinking less alcohol and using less tobacco and cannabis than they did four years ago, but hard drugs are gaining ground, according to a study published on Tuesday.
  

• Dutch smoking ban leaves toking option (AFP)

  Posted on 1 Jul 2008 at 1:41 pm
  AFP - A tobacco smoking ban came into force Tuesday in cafes, bars and restaurants throughout the Netherlands, with a uniquely Dutch exemption for marijuana smokers.
  

• Public smoking becomes illegal throughout Germany (AFP)

  Posted on 1 Jul 2008 at 12:48 pm
  AFP - Lighting up in bars and restaurants become illegal across Germany's 16 states on Tuesday, spelling the end of the country's status as one of Europe's last smokers' havens.