Vitamin A and beta - carotene deficits increase the incidence of lung and mouth cancer, especially
among cigarette smokers, and are also implicated in cancers of the skin, throat, prostate, bladder, cervix, colon, esophagus, and stomach.
However, marijuana use was nearly four times more common
among cigarette smokers versus nonsmokers, the findings showed.
Among cigarette smokers not willing or able to quit smoking in the next month but willing to reduce with the goal of quitting in the next 3 months, use of the nicotine addiction medication varenicline for 24 weeks compared with placebo produced greater reductions in smoking prior to quitting and increased smoking cessation rates at the end of treatment and at 1 year, according to a study in the February 17 issue of JAMA.
Among cigarette smokers, combining the smoking cessation medications varenicline and bupropion, compared with varenicline alone, resulted in higher smoking abstinence rates for one outcome but not the other at three and six months; rates were similar at one year, according to a Mayo Clinic study published this month in JAMA.
Not exact matches
Daily cannabis use increased most rapidly
among former
cigarette smokers (2.80 percent in 2014 versus 0.98 percent in 2002).
The increase in daily cannabis use was faster
among non-daily
cigarette smokers relative to daily
cigarette smokers.
Marijuana use occurred nearly exclusively
among current
cigarette smokers — daily or non-daily
smokers — compared with former
smokers and those who have never smoked.
«It is conceivable that this stunted decline in
cigarette use is owing, in part, to the substantial increase in daily cannabis use
among smokers,» observed Goodwin.
Among female
cigarette smokers, 4 percent used cannabis daily.
Among their concerns: e-cigs might lure former
smokers back to conventional
cigarettes, expose users and bystanders alike to unidentified dangers, or become a gateway for teens who might subsequently experiment with tobacco products and other drugs.
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Cigarette smokers are 10 times more likely to be daily marijuana users: Strongest relationship between cigarette smoking and daily cannabis use is among 12 to 17 year olds, who are 50 times more likely to be daily cannabis users than non-smoker
Cigarette smokers are 10 times more likely to be daily marijuana users: Strongest relationship between
cigarette smoking and daily cannabis use is among 12 to 17 year olds, who are 50 times more likely to be daily cannabis users than non-smoker
cigarette smoking and daily cannabis use is
among 12 to 17 year olds, who are 50 times more likely to be daily cannabis users than non-
smokers.»
Health warnings cover about 10 percent of a
cigarette pack's exterior surface in the United States, but there is broad support, even
among smokers, for making them significantly larger, a University of North Carolina Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center study has found.
While observational analyses
among current
smokers showed a body weight increase of 0.5 kg per 10
cigarettes smoked daily, genetic analysis in contrast showed that double carriers of the high smoking genotype had a 1.2 kg lower body weight.
«Higher
cigarette prices also increase the likelihood of smoking cessation
among adult
smokers: every 10 - percent increase in
cigarette prices leads to a two - percent reduction in the number of people who smoke.
In their analysis, the UCSF team reviewed 38 studies assessing the association between e-
cigarette use and
cigarette cessation
among adult
smokers.
The research informs an ongoing debate as to whether e-
cigarettes are effective aids for smoking cessation, promote uptake by non-tobacco users, discourage cessation via dual use of
cigarettes and e-
cigarettes, or encourage relapse to
cigarette use
among former
smokers.
But the perception that e-
cigarettes are actually less harmful than tobacco
cigarettes among current
smokers decreased slightly, from 84 to 65 percent, indicating perhaps that skepticism and / or concerns are starting to develop.
Utilizing census counts, national health and tobacco use surveys, and published literature, Soneji's team calculated the expected years of life gained or lost from the impact of e-
cigarette use on smoking cessation
among current
smokers, and transition to long - term
cigarette smoking
among never -
smokers.
A new study by researchers at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health and the City University of New York reports that cannabis use was associated with an increased initiation of
cigarette smoking
among non-
cigarette smokers.
«To describe electronic
cigarette use as «a new drug use option» and part of «at - risk teenagers» substance using repertoires» is unnecessarily alarmist, given the evidence that regular use
among never
smokers is negligible, the lack of evidence that electronic
cigarette use acts as a gateway to tobacco use, and the likely low level of harm associated with electronic
cigarette use.»
Although the Greenland Inuit are the world's heaviest
cigarette smokers and although their consumption of fruits and vegetables has been virtually zero until recently and although they add lots of salt when they eat their fish, seal meat / blubber, and whale meat / blubber, the Greenland Inuit have only half the age - adjusted total cancer death rate of Americans and cardiovascular disease is virtually nonexistent
among the Greenland Inuit: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9447397
First, given the higher rate of refusal to participate in the study
among women who smoked
cigarettes, this trial has limited generalizability to the entire population of
smokers and probably users of other substances.