Abstract Background and aims Gene variants in CHRNA5-A3-B4, which encode for the 5, 3 and β4 nicotinic receptor subunits, are associated with altered smoking behaviors in European-Americans.
Filed in Evidence Base, tobacco
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Also tagged 30kb-haplotype, alter-nicotine, cross-sectional, european, high-prevalence, increased-body, nicotine-intake, plasma-cotinine, such-as-plasma, total-nicotine
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“You all make a lawful product,” Mitch Zeller, director of the FDA’s Center for Tobacco Products, told those attending the Tobacco Merchants Association’s annual meeting in Williamsburg.
Filed in Harm Reduction, tobacco
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Also tagged alternate/reduced risk, business (general), business (tobacco), fda, harm-reduction, lawful-product, manufacture, mitch-zeller, tobacco-merchants, virginia
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Attorneys gave their final summaries and appeals to jurors Monday in a trial that seeks to determine the responsibility of the major tobacco companies in hundreds of cigarette-linked illnesses and deaths in West Virginia.
Filed in Harm Reduction, tobacco
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Also tagged addiction, alternate/reduced risk, blankenship, final, final-summaries, harm-reduction, history, lawsuits, major, monday, responsibility, the-major, tobacco-companies, west virginia
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In December 2012, the EU’s executive, the European Commission, announced its proposals to revise the Tobacco Products Directive (TPD), originally passed in 2001, to take account of ’significant scientific, market and international developments’ that have
Filed in Harm Reduction, tobacco
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Also tagged alternate/reduced risk, announced-its, directive, europe, european-commission, ingredients/menthol, op-ed, originally-passed, revise-the-tobacco, take-account, tobacco-products, tpd
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Abstract Aims and design The historical and economic involvement of Brazil with tobacco, as a major producer and exporter, was considered an insurmountable obstacle to controlling the consumption of this product. Nevertheless, the country was able to achieve significant progress in implementing public policies and to take an international leadership position, meeting its constitutional commitment to protect public health. In this paper we provide a brief historical overview of tobacco control (TC) in Brazil, and analyse the factors that contributed to the major decline in tobacco consumption in the country over the last 20 years, as well as identify the challenges that had to be overcome and those still at play.
Filed in Evidence Base, tobacco
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Also tagged brazil, challenges, consumption, country, development, legislative, respective, still-at-play, the-consumption, the-country, tobacco-control
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Abstract Aims To prospectively investigate the relation between cannabis use expectancies and cannabis use prior to and during a self-initiated cannabis cessation attempt. Design Cohort design that followed participants for four weeks following a self-initiated cessation attempt. Setting United States Department of Veterans Affairs medical center.
Early, substantive dialogue between parents and their grade-school age children about the ills of tobacco and alcohol use can be more powerful in shaping teen behavior than advertising, marketing or peer pressure, a University of Texas at Arlington marketing researcher has shown…
Filed in Uncategorized, tobacco
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Also tagged age-children, alcohol-use, arlington, dialogue-between, grade, ills, marketing-or-peer, marketing-researcher, more-powerful, peer-pressure, shaping-teen, texas, university
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When Tech-Cigarette.com support team interviewed Jack Reacher … “As a teenager, I smoked over three packs of cigarettes daily, owing to which I suffered from lung cancer. ..
Abstract Aims To use tobacco industry documents on cigarette pack shape, size and openings to identify industry findings on associations with brand imagery, product attributes, consumer perceptions and behaviour. Methods Internal tobacco industry research and marketing documents obtained through court disclosure contained in the Legacy Tobacco Documents Library were searched using keywords related to pack shapes, sizes and opening methods
Filed in Evidence Base, tobacco
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Also tagged effective-means, legacy, legacy-tobacco, opening-method, pack-shape, plans-on-pack, premium-quality, the-traditional, traditional, using-keywords
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