Thomas Jefferson University researchers investigating cigarette smoking effects on tumor progression evidences a dangerous condition where smoking actually reprograms the cells surrounding the cancer cells and triggers HNSCC aggressiveness. Published recently in...
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UCSF Study Reveals Medicaid Could Save $2.6 Billion if 1% of Beneficiaries Would Quit Smoking
University of California, San Francisco news reports a recent research team studied the actual costs if Medicaid recipients would simply stop smoking. The team found that if 1% of Medicaid recipients would quit smoking the result would be $2.6 billion in total...
UCSF Receives $20 Million to Study New Tobacco Products
UC San Francisco has been awarded a five-year, $20 million grant from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and the National Institutes of Health to study the impacts of new and emerging tobacco products, including e-cigarettes and heated tobacco products (HTPs),...
UCLA Study: As Little as Half-Hour of Hookah Smoking Possibly Bad for Your Heart
Cigarette smoking is on the decline in many areas throughout the world. With its decline has come the introduction of many alternative nicotine products—touted as “safe alternatives.” One such alternative is the hookah. In this study published in the American...
E-cigarettes and Cigarettes Worsen Blood Flow in Organs as Well as Arterial Stiffness
Reported in Sage Journals, lead investigators Klaas Frederik Franzen and Moritz Meusel funded by the Medizinische Klinik III of the Universitaetsklinikum Schleswig-Holstein (UKSH). As noted ”This is the first trial to evaluate the acute changes in peripheral and...
Qingdao University Study: Second Hand Smoke May Lead to Child Snoring
DailyMail online reports that Qingdao researchers concluded the correlation after reviewing 24 existing studies covering 88,000 children are 87% more likely to become snorers if exposed to second-hand smoke. And the odds increase by 2% for every cigarette smoked...