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Cancer survivor tells his experience with smokeless tobacco
Source: Lifestyles Author: Nicole Printz Just like the trucks on every corner in Abilene, rings on back jean pockets are a common sight. Gruen Von Behrens, who visited Abilene High School on Wednesday, knows all about smokeless tobacco. He began with snuff at 13 years old. He asked the packed high school auditorium if the students knew someone who [...]
Continue reading...Both sides take tobacco fight to Supreme Court
Saturday, February 20, 2010
Source: www.thesunnews.com Author: Mark Sherman The Obama administration asked the Supreme Court Friday to allow the government to seek nearly $300 billion from the tobacco industry for a half-century of deception that “has cost the lives and damaged the health of untold millions of Americans.” Both sides in a landmark, decade-long legal fight over smoking took their case [...]
Continue reading...Mitchell teens give ‘Unfiltered Reality’ check
Thursday, December 17, 2009
Source: www.keloland.com Author: Katie Janssen They look just like candy and gum; pop them in your mouth and they melt like mints. It may sound innocent enough, but they’re just as addictive as cigarettes. Tobacco companies are adding new products, and experts say they’re getting better at targeting them to kids. But a group of Mitchell [...]
Continue reading...Maker of Camels buys cigarette replacement seller
Friday, December 4, 2009
Source: townhall.com Author: staff Cigarette maker Reynolds American Inc. has reached a deal to acquire a Swedish company whose nicotine gum, pouches and spray help people stop smoking, the second-largest U.S. tobacco company said Wednesday. The acquisition will let Reynolds offer products that can “reduce the risks of diseases and death caused by tobacco use,” CEO Susan M. [...]
Continue reading...Swedish snuff more addicting?
Monday, October 26, 2009
Source: www.upi.com Author: staff A Swedish tobacco company adds a substance to snuff products to heighten dependency, an investigative report concluded. The usual level for snuff or ’snus’ is eight milligrams per gram but double that amount was found in one product produced by Swedish Match, the news program Kalla Fakta reported. The report alleges that Swedish Match [...]
Continue reading...Doctor’s word–tips to escape the smoking trap
Tuesday, October 20, 2009
Source: news.ncmonline.com Author: Erin Marcus, M.D. Editor’s Note: In the debut of A Doctor’s Word, Dr. Erin Marcus wrote about an African-American man’s effort to quit smoking cigarettes. This week, she offers practical advice for all who would like to kick the habit. Dr. Marcus is associate professor of clinical medicine at the University of Miami Miller [...]
Continue reading...Today’s smokeless tobacco is just as addictive and marketed to the young
Tuesday, October 13, 2009
Source: www.timesleader.com Author: Geri Anne Kaikowski It’s a misconception that just because you don’t smoke nicotine, it is less addictive and less dangerous than a cigarette. That’s the fallacy and danger behind a marketing ploy for a new take on a centuries old product, snuff. Whereas the old snuff, popular in the 1970s and 1980s in round paper [...]
Continue reading...Big Tobacco still targets teenagers
Tuesday, October 6, 2009
Source: www.postbulletin.com Author: staff A couple of months ago I ran into a friend I hadn’t seen in years. I didn’t recognize him. A once solid and athletic guy, now in his late 40s, he’d lost more than 50 pounds and his skin was the color of fireplace ash. A long, thin scar ran from his jaw [...]
Continue reading...Curcumin may inhibit nicotine-induced activation of head and neck cancers
Monday, October 5, 2009
Source: www.sciencedaily.com Author: staff Curcumin, the compound that gives curry powder its yellow/orange color, may inhibit the adverse effects of nicotine in patients with head and neck cancer who continue to smoke. In a paper presented at the 2009 American Academy of Otolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery Foundation (AAO-HNSF) Annual Meeting & OTO EXPO in San Diego, [...]
Continue reading...New tobacco product prompts concerns… No it’s not Marlboro…
Monday, October 5, 2009
Source: www.us-marlboro.com Author: staff Sweden brought us meatballs, the Nobel prize, Ikea, the Saab and the Volvo. But the country’s latest mark on the U.S. is not so benign: an oral tobacco product known as snus. The moist tobacco, which comes in a tea-bag-style pouch that goes under the upper lip, has public health experts divided. Some say [...]
Continue reading...- Samuel Broder: Why Isn't There a Gardasil for Men?
- Snus news & other tobacco products
- High dosage brachytherapy obtains excellent results in head and neck tumors
- A vaccine debate once focused on sex shifts as boys join the target market
- Consistent evidence to support the use of xylitol- and sorbitol-containing chewing gum to prevent dental caries
- Bill would bar sales of dissolvable tobacco
- R. J. Reynolds introducing 'dissolvable' tobacco
- Smoking debate has become nicotine-delivery debate
- Israeli study sees link between oral cancer, cell phones
- Periodontitis associated with fourfold increased risk for squamous cell carcinoma of the head and neck
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- Office-Based Ultrasound-Guided FNA Found To Be Superior In Diagnosing Head And Neck Lesions
- Why men’s health is a feminist issue
- BT Pharma secures EUR 13.1million (USD 17.7 million) in capital funding and changes its name to Genticel
- Cancer survivor tells his experience with smokeless tobacco
- Mayo oral cancer study shows full tumor genome
- Viagra, Cialis do more than arouse
- Avoid incense
- Transoral robotic surgery showed good oncologic, functional outcomes
- Prolonged treatment delay did not affect outcomes in SCCHN
- Instant screening device is the best defense for detecting deadly oral cancer
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