There is NO Safe Amount of Exposure to Cigarette Smoke - New Study Finds

The study, published in the Aug. 20 issue of American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, found even "casual" smokers and those exposed to second-hand smoke suffer intial damage to the genes in their cells that line their airway.

"The bottom line: 'There is no level of cigarette smoking or exposure to cigarette smoke that does not make the cells in your lungs sick,' said study author Dr. Ronald Crystal, chief of the division of pulmonary and critical care medicine at New York-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell, in New York City."



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New Study Shows MN Smoke-Free Law Improves Health Without a Loss of Business

A new study published this month in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine found Minnesota's smoke-free law, which took effect in October of 2007, has not adversely affected bar and restaurant employment in the state.

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Entertainment Industry Has Public Health Responsibility Say Authors of New Study

As a result of a recent study, The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) has issued a statement calling for a ban on tobacco advertising in all media.

Therefore, the authors of the study are recommending pediatricians "encourage the entertainment industry to have greater sensitivity about the effects of television and movies on children

Read AAP's report here.

View the full article from Medscape Medical News here.

Third-hand Smoke Puts Your Baby at Risk

Jonathan Winickoff, a pediatrician at the Dana-Farber/Harvard Cancer Center in Boston was quoted in the Scientific American defining third-hand smoke as, "tobacco smoke contamination that remains after the cigarette has been extinguished."

When that article was written in January of 2009, Winickoff discussed his research into the danger of third-hand smoke and the levels of toxins left behind after a smoker puts their cigarette out. But at that time, he knew of no research done that linked this recent discovery to disease.

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Smoke Free Ordinances Do Not Hurt Business - New Study

Smoke Free Ordinances Do Not Hurt Business -

A new study by the University of Wisconsin Carbone Cancer Center saw no negative impacts on their level of business as a result of smoke -free ordinances in the years following the implementation of the smoke free ordinances

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