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- Nicotine Metabolite Shows Promise for Improving Memory, Protecting Brain Cells
- Report that a nicotine metabolite may improve memory and protect brain cells from diseases such as Alzheimer's and Parkinson's. The researcher is Dr. Jerry J. Buccafusco, director of the Alzheimer's Research Center at the Medical College of Georgia. (November 11, 2003)
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- Nicotine-Like Drugs Can Enhance Learning and Memory
- Report by Duke University behavioral pharmacologist Edward Levin that nicotine-like compounds help restore the ability to learn and remember in rats that have brain lesions similar to those found in Alzheimer's disease patients. Reported in Science Daily News. (November 10, 1998)
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- Paternal Smoking and Cancer among Children of Nonsmoking Mothers
- Scientific paper finds paternal smoking before conception increases risk of the children getting cancer, particularly acute leukemia and lymphoma.
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- Tobacco, Colorectal Cancer, and Adenomas: A Review of the evidence.
- Another cancer now known to be caused by smoking.
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- Six-month Public Smoking Ban Slashes Heart Attack Rate in Community
- Report on study in which the number of heart attack victims admitted to a regional hospital was found to have dropped by nearly 60 percent during the first six months that a smoke-free ordinance was in effect in the community. (April 03, 2003)
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- Cigar and Pipe Smoking are as Dangerous as Cigarettes to Periodontal Health
- "Pierce Brosnan and Demi Moore have appeared on covers of cigar magazines...What the covers don't show is models with missing teeth." Yet recent research shows that cigars, pipes, and cigarettes all damage periodontal health and cause tooth loss.
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- Fetal Nicotine or Cocaine Exposure: Which one is Worse?
- Although public and medical attention focuses on fetal cocaine exposure, the epidemiological evidence suggests fetal nicotine exposure does more damage.
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- Specimen 156.9: Lung: Emphysema
- From a library of medical images, a lung with emphysema ("smoker's lung").
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- Cancer Control and Population Sciences: Funding Opportunities
- Tobacco control research branch has funding for research including social and cultural dimensions of health, review and analysis of tobacco industry documents, and behavioral research in cancer control.
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- NIH: International Tobacco and Health Research and Capacity Building Program
- Request for Applications (RFA) solicits research and capacity building projects that address the burden of tobacco consumption in low- and middle-income nations. Looking to fund projects that pursue observational, intervention and policy research of local relevance and that build capacity in these regions in epidemiological and behavioral research, prevention, treatment, communications, health services and policy research.
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- Health Effects of Secondhand Smoke: Breast Cancer
- Characterizes the risk and provides a bibliography of research establishing the risk.
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- Is There An Association Between Passive Smoking and Breast Cancer?
- Scientific article; meta-analysis of 11 studies estimates a 40% higher risk of breast cancer as a result of exposure to secondhand smoke.
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- Larynx Cancer and Smoking
- Doctor explains how his patients who smoke get invasive cancer of the voice box (larynx); images and video of a biopsy.
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- Health Effects of Secondhand Smoke: Heart Disease
- Describes the effect of secondhand smoke on circulation and the heart, and provides a bibliography of relevant research.
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- Passive Smoking and Heart disease: Epidemiology, Physiology, and Biochemistry
- Review of the scientific literature outlines the mechanisms and documents the risk (the third leading preventable cause of death in America).