Tobacco control programs and policies prevented more than 795,000 lung cancer deaths in the United States from 1975 through 2000, according to an analysis funded by the National Cancer Institute (NCI), part of the National Institutes of Health.
Obesity adds more to health care costs than smoking does, according to a study in the March Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, official publication of the American College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine (ACOEM).
Report finds obesity, diabetes undermining country’s overall health
December 8, 2011
Obesity, diabetes and childhood poverty are offsetting improvements in smoking cessation, preventable hospitalizations and cardiovascular deaths, according to the United Health Foundation’s 2011 America’s Heath Rankings®.
Most American adults who smoke wish they could quit and more than half have tried within the past year -- but most still don't use available treatments that could help them, says a new report by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
Public health researchers have known that tobacco and alcohol use are strongly associated. Also, bars are key public venues where both substances are frequently used.
The number of new lung cancer cases in the U.S. dropped among men in 35 states and among women in 6 states between 1999 and 2008, according to a new report by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The decrease in women came after a decades-long upward trend.
The decline in smoking over the past five years is “encouraging news,” but more decisive action is needed to protect Americans from the health effects of tobacco, according to the American Heart Association (AHA).
Here’s another example of people willingly taking risks they know to be potentially harmful: Two in three U.S. smokers now agree that smoking is "very harmful" to adults who smoke, tying the most who have ever said so, but still trailing the more than 8 in 10 Americans and nonsmokers who say the same.