Cigarette-pack warnings work better with photos

FOR ORIGINAL ARTICLE from Fox News CLICK HERE Gruesome pictures on cigarette packages may convince more smokers to quit, a U.S. study suggests. In a four-week experiment, researchers randomly assigned about 2,150 adult smokers to receive either text-only or photo-enhanced warnings on their cigarette packs. With pictures, smokers were 29 percent more likely to try […]

New Survey Finds 50 Percent of People Living with HIV in Michigan Smoke Cigarettes

FOR ORIGINAL ARTICLE FROM MDHHS by Jennifer Eisner CLICK HERE For Immediate Release: June 3, 2016 LANSING, Mich. – In Michigan, 50 percent of people living with HIV and in HIV treatment are smokers, according to a new survey administered through the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services (MDHHS) Tobacco Control Program (TCP). In […]

Detroit Ranks No. 21 for Average Fitbit Daily Steps

FOR ORIGINAL ARTICLE by Stephanie Steinberg of The Detroit News CLICK HERE DETROIT, Mich. — Marcia Varner’s bright yellow sneakers were laced up.  They didn’t exactly go with her black pencil skirt, but she wasn’t trying to make a fashion statement. About to pound the Detroit RiverWalk during a sunny lunch break, the Blue Cross […]

Throop to consider banning tobacco from parks and playgrounds

ORIGINAL ARTICLE HERE by Jeff Harvath from The Times-Tribune Smoking in borough parks, playgrounds and recreational areas soon may be banned. Council will consider adopting a new ordinance prohibiting the use of tobacco products at those locations during its June 13 meeting.  If passed, the ordinance would expand Throop’s existing ban on tobacco use in […]
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Chris Cooper Blog on Cancer Screening

SACRAMENTO, Calif. – Cancer comes in all shapes and sizes.  It does not discriminate, and effects people from all walks of life.  I am only in my 40’s and have already been screened for various cancers due to illness.  Each time, I breathed a sigh of relief when the doctor told me that I did […]

Use of neighborhood environment can help overweight adolescents increase physical activity

ORIGINAL ARTICLE HERE from Medical Xpress A program encouraging overweight or obese adolescents to increase their physical activity through use of their everyday environment, rather than organized classes or sports programs, produced significant increases in participants’ daily physical activity that were sustained for at least three to four months.  A report on a pilot study […]

Researchers suggest whole-person perspective is needed to assess obesity

ORIGINAL ARTICLE HERE from EurekAlert! Authors from the Cleveland Clinic’s Bariatric and Metabolic Institute recommend physicians use obesity staging models to recognize and manage weight-related health issues that may not be captured by traditional diagnosis criteria.  The review article was published in the Journal of the American Osteopathic Association. The authors urge physicians to take […]

Effects of maternal smoking continue long after birth

ORIGINAL ARTICLE HERE from Science Daily Early exposure to nicotine can trigger widespread genetic changes that affect formation of connections between brain cells long after birth, a new Yale-led study has found.  The finding helps explain why maternal smoking has been linked to behavioral changes such as attention deficit and hyperactivity disorder, addiction, and conduct […]

No smoking or vaping at California beaches or parks under this bill

ORIGINAL ARTICLE HERE by Patrick McGreevy with Los Angeles Times Smoking would be banned at California parks and beaches as a health and wildfire risk under legislation approved Tuesday by the state Senate. Sen. Marty Block (D-San Diego) introduced SB 1333, which would make smoking and disposing of tobacco waste an infraction subject to a […]

Eugene’s parks go smoke-free on June 1, but city will be soft on enforcement for three months

ORIGINAL ARTICLE HERE from The Register-Guard Eugene’s city-owned parks and natural areas will go smoke-free starting ­Wednesday. But violators will receive the white-glove treatment for the first three months of the smoking ban. June 1 kicks off the three-month “education period” ­before officials begin enforcing the smoking ban with ­citations. The education effort will include […]
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75 Years Later:  The Impact of the 1950 Papers on Smoking and Lung Cancer | This symposium will celebrate the achievements that have occurred over the past 75 years in the fields of tobacco control, lung cancer epidemiology and causal inference.  Two seminal papers on lung cancer and smoking initiated these three areas of scholarship in 1950.  Since then, significant public health, policy, and research contributions have been made by scholars around the world.  In this symposium, speakers will highlight such accomplishments and present their current research in these fields. | DOWNLOAD FLIER | REGISTER HERE

Association of American Indian Physicians 53rd Annual Meeting | Hyatt Regency Seattle in Seattle, Washington | LEARN MORE AND REGISTER

National Lung Cancer Screening Day | Now in its fourth year, this initiative is kpowered by a dynamic collaboration among the American Cancer Society's National Lung Cancer Roundtable, GO2 for Lung Cancer, the Radiology Health Equity Coalition, and the American College of Radiology. | LEARN MORE