Tag: Tobacco

  • Nation & World

    U.S. hurtles toward new record for mass shootings

    Steven Dettelbach cites advances in gun technology, lack of restrictions on access, says change will come when Americans demand it.

    4 minutes
    Steven Dettelbach.
  • Nation & World

    Teen vaping rising fast, research says

    Amid studies showing e-cigarette use rising rapidly among teens, public health officials who recognize the devices’ potential to reduce health hazards discuss the need to tailor their message to keep the devices out of the hands of the young, according to the head of Harvard’s Center for Global Tobacco Control.

    14 minutes
    A vape pen and vape smoke
  • Nation & World

    Creating a smoking machine

    Researchers at Harvard’s Wyss Institute have developed an instrument that smokes cigarettes like a human, and delivers whole smoke to the air space of microfluidic human airway chips. The machine may enable new insights into how nonsmokers and COPD patients respond to smoke.

    5 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Leading role for Murthy

    With Harvard’s Vivek Murthy confirmed as the next surgeon general, health experts shared their views on areas where his focus and influence are most needed.

    6 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Smoke and fire

    Vaughan Rees of the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health shares his thoughts on the intense debate in Westminster over a push to ban tobacco sales. The ban was defeated, but the battle is not yet over.

    7 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Making lung cancer pricey

    Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius talked tobacco taxes and health care reform Monday during an appearance at the Forum at Harvard School of Public Health.

    4 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Worldwide, women’s inequality

    A U.N. official said Thursday that the world has made progress in reducing poverty and in meeting some of its eight Millennium Development Goals, but that entrenched inequality of women will slow efforts to meet equality and maternal mortality targets by 2015.

    4 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Where there’s smoke, there’s ire

    Speakers at a Harvard School of Public Health conference on smoking hailed the late Sen. Edward M. Kennedy’s work to give the Food and Drug Administration new regulatory power over tobacco products and said, if wielded properly, it could prove a key weapon for better health.

    5 minutes
  • Nation & World

    The battle of the butts

    Gregory Connolly and the HSPH Center for Global Tobacco Control conduct research around the world to illuminate ongoing health problems caused by tobacco.

    5 minutes
  • Nation & World

    The rise of chronic disease

    Heart disease, diabetes, and other chronic diseases are becoming enormous problems in the developing world and need more attention even as the challenge of fighting infectious diseases like AIDS shows no sign of abating, according to Institute of Medicine President Harvey Fineberg.

    3 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Be skinny, be strong, be loved — be fooled

    Joshua Sharfstein, the Food and Drug Administration’s principal deputy commissioner, talked about tobacco control and the agency’s role in keeping Americans healthy.

    3 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Doubting Thomas nation

    Why aren’t you listening? Scientists discuss the difficulty of transferring scientific consensus to the public.

    5 minutes
  • Nation & World

    The nicotine-candy connection

    A new nicotine product, apparently designed to tide smokers over in places where they can’t light up, resembles some candy. It leads to fear among researchers that children will eat the pills and suffer poisoning.

    3 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Right this way! See it! Taste it!

    Former FDA commissioner David Kessler says overeating has to be attacked the same way that tobacco was in the past, by making it socially unacceptable.

    3 minutes
  • Nation & World

    A tale of two continents

    English professor Elisa New found her great-grandfather’s cane, and that spawned a twisting journey to find her family history, now relayed in a book.

    2 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Study shows what smokers need to stay clean

    Hospital-sponsored stop-smoking programs for inpatients that include follow-up counseling for longer than one month significantly improve patients’ ability to stay smoke-free. An analysis of clinical trials of programs offered at hospitals around the world finds that efforts featuring long-term support can increase participants’ chances of success by 65 percent.

    3 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Smoking, burning solid fuels in homes in China projected to cause millions of deaths

    If current levels of smoking and of burning biomass and coal fuel in homes continues in China, researchers estimate that between 2003 and 2033, 65 million deaths will be attributed to chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and 18 million deaths to lung cancer, accounting for 19 percent and 5 percent of all deaths in that…

    3 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Global momentum for smoke-free society

    In a perspective article in the April 12 issue of The New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM), researchers from the Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) and the Association of European Cancer Leagues describe the growing momentum for indoor smoking bans in countries across the globe. They identify Ireland’s pioneering 2004 comprehensive indoor smoking ban…

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  • Nation & World

    HSPH releases recommendations on smoking in films

    The Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) recently released materials presented to the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) in a scientific briefing on the impact of youth smoking and the behavioral influence of films that depict tobacco use. The presentations (requested by the MPAA) were held in February in Los Angeles.

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