Wednesday, September 29, 2010
based on the report “Harm Reduction in Nicotine Addiction” by the Royal College of Physicians, smokeless tobacco products — like Star Scientific’s nicotine-delivery lozenges — are about 90 percent less harmful than cigarettes.
Wednesday, September 29, 2010
Most of us have heard the axiom “if it sounds too good to be true, it probably is.” This certainly is the case with the smokeless tobacco product manufacturers that are trying to expand their customer base in a big way — many of them by presenting themselves as a safer alternative to conventional cigarettes. The claims have spurred the Food and Drug Administration to send out warning letters to five makers of “electronic cigarettes” that they must conduct animal and human studies of their products and apply for FDA clearance. . .
Filed in tobacco
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Tagged customer, customer-base, heard-the-axiom, human-studies, kids-or-adults, products, products-should, the-illusion, their-products, tobacco, user
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Tuesday, September 28, 2010
The Home Office led 2010 drug strategy consultation closes this week on Thursday 30th September 2010.
Tuesday, September 28, 2010
People go to emergency departments when they’ve broken a leg, been stabbed or otherwise need urgent care.
Filed in Uncategorized
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Tagged been-stabbed, emergency-departments, from-the-stanford, high-prevalence, medicine, new-study, preventive medicine, school, stabbed-or-otherwise, stanford, stanford-university
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Tuesday, September 28, 2010
Despite ongoing efforts by parents, teachers and the federal government to urge adolescents to “just say no” to tobacco, alcohol and drugs, more than $25 billion worth of advertising for these products is working to get them to “say yes…
Tuesday, September 28, 2010
Tobacco maker Star Scientific Inc. hopes there’s fire where there’s no smoke. The small Virginia company has made itself the test case for a big issue: whether the Food and Drug Administration will allow certain tobacco products — particularly the company’s tobacco lozenges that dissolve in the user’s mouth — to be marketed as less harmful than cigarettes.
Filed in tobacco
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Tagged certain-tobacco, food, health-concerns, itself-the-test, like-smokeless, public-health, scientific, spent-the-money, took-the-risk, user, virginia
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Tuesday, September 28, 2010
Star Scientific has made itself the test case for whether the Food and Drug Administration will allow certain tobacco products — particularly its dissolvable smokeless tobacco — to be marketed as less harmful than cigarettes.
Tuesday, September 28, 2010
Background: There has been a considerable amount of debate among the research community whether cannabis use may cause schizophrenia and whether cannabis use of patients with schizophrenia is associated with earlier and more frequent relapses. Considering that studies exploring patients’ view on controversial topics have contributed to our understanding of important clinical issues, it is surprising how little these views have been explored to add to our understanding of the link between cannabis and psychosis.
Filed in Harm Reduction, cannabis
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Tagged additional-harm, between-the-use, grounded-theory, models-included, patients, psychiatric, research, schizophrenia, understanding, work
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Monday, September 27, 2010
The monumental task of persuading children and adolescents to say “No” to drugs, alcohol and tobacco is being constantly undermined by the $25 billions’ worth of advertising and marketing each year, which has precisely the opposite effect, says the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP). The AAP adds that children should not be exposed to erectile dysfunction ads before ten at night…
Filed in Uncategorized, tobacco
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Tagged aap, ads-before, children-should, constantly-undermined, each-year, monumental-task, opposite, opposite-effect, pediatrics, persuading-children, precisely-the-opposite, tobacco
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