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Do light cigarettes deliver less nicotine to the brain than regular cigarettes?
sea-maid submitted, created time 1 month 3 weeks (esciencenews.com)
For decades now, cigarette makers have marketed so-called light cigarettes — which contain less nicotine than regular smokes — with the implication that they are less harmful to smokers' health. A new UCLA study shows, however, that they deliver nearly as much nicotine to the brain despite having a lower overall nicotine content. 


Combined impact of lifestyle factors on mortality: prospective cohort study in U.S. women
sea-maid submitted, created time 2 months 3 days (www.bmj.com)
Objective: To evaluate the impact of combinations of lifestyle factors on mortality in middle aged women.
Design Prospective: cohort study.
Setting: Nurses’ health study, United States.
Participants: 77,782 women aged thirty-four to fifty-nine years and free from cardiovascular disease and cancer in 1980 


sea-maid submitted, created time 3 months 1 week (www.womenshealthmag.com)
Come clean to your doc, or you could risk more than a red face. Many patients see no harm in fibbing about whether or not they smoke, take vitamins or how much they drink. But this information should not be left out. In particular, women who do not tell their doctors that they smoke rob themselves of an accurate determination of their risk of blood clots. Doctors who know that their female patients smoke tend to recommend lower-risk methods of contraception, such as diaphragms and IUDs. 


Happy thoughts may dampen cravings
sea-maid submitted, created time 4 months 2 weeks (www.newscientist.com)
Want to quit smoking? Next time the urge to light up strikes, think of snow-capped peaks instead of the fleeting pleasure of a white cigarette. That's the conclusion of a new brain study which shows that thinking happy thoughts could help dampen cravings.
Mauricio Delgado, a cognitive neuroscientist at Rutgers University in Newark, New Jersey, and his colleague Elizabeth Phelps of New York University measured the brain activity of 15 volunteers as they played a simple game.
The researchers told their subjects to associate blue cards with a real $4 payoff, and yellow cards with nothing 


kavin submitted, created time 6 months 1 day (www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
Most head and neck cancers are squamous cell carcinomas that develop in the upper aerodigestive epithelium after exposure to carcinogens such as tobacco and alcohol. The authors review the epidemiology, molecular pathogenesis, diagnosis and staging, and the latest multimodal management of squamous cell carcinoma of the head and neck. 
Why Some Smokers Get Lung Cancer--And Others Are Spared
sumsung submitted, created time 7 months 1 week (www.sciam.com)
Smoking is the most potent known cause of lung cancer. The question is: Why do some longtime smokers come down with the deadly disease whereas others escape it? New research points to a genetic culprit that also was fingered as upping a person's likelihood of becoming hooked on cigarettes. 
First Common Genetic Clue to Lung Cancer
sumsung submitted, created time 7 months 2 weeks (sciencenow.sciencemag.org)
It's well known that cigarettes can cause lung cancer. A nd yet, some people smoke like a chimney their entire lives and never get the disease. Now a sweeping search for an explanation has yielded a clue: Three studies have found a marker in the same region of DNA that appears to raise the risk of lung cancer. But the researchers disagree on whether the gene involved directly causes lung cancer or does so by influencing how easily people get hooked on tobacco. 
jane2007 submitted, created time 7 months 2 weeks (www.nature.com)
There are many smokers thought out the world, so why do some of them delevop lung cancer? Why not others? A new study suggests that, amongst smokers, some people may be as much as 80% more at risk than others thanks to their genes. 
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