网站简介:Article on a major study finding that high exposure to secondhand smoke nearly doubles a woman's risk of having a heart attack.
网站简介:Collection of stories on tobacco from the Washington Post.
网站简介:Links and resources on the effects of secondhand smoke or passive smoking.
网站简介:Overview of the health benefits of different varieties of tea, with an emphasis on findings backed by scientific evidence.
网站简介:Article summarizes some of the beneficial effects of moderate wine consumption on cardiovascular disease, cancer, and osteoporosis.
网站简介:California 2005 report on secondhand smoke. Extremely detailed and documented.
网站简介:Jeff Bagwell stops using spit tobacco after pre-cancerous lesions started appearing inside his cheek; story explains.
网站简介:A meta-analysis by K. Chaouachi, concluding that a significant amount of carbon monoxide is produced by the charcoal used to heat and distil the tobacco–molasses mixture.
网站简介:Article by Chris Suellentrop on milk reform, past and present.
网站简介:Official portal to the European Union with news and information about its activities, institutions, policies and programmes. [Multi lingual]
网站简介:An article by Kamal Chaouachi, critiquing the smoking machine a large amount of hookah research is done on.
网站简介:A study by Saafan A. Al-Safi observing a significant elevation of blood pressure and heart rate among shisha smokers. Current cigarette smoking associated with frequent water pipe smoking resulted in greater elevation in blood pressure measurements among both types of tobacco smokers.
网站简介:Information provided by the Mayo Clinic.
网站简介:Resveratrol, a polyphenol found in red wine, has been found to extend the life span of yeast cells by 70 percent on average. Studies involving mice and later, humans, are planned.
网站简介:NOVA episode on nicotine, addiction, and tobacco products.
网站简介:Recent research concludes "it would be difficult to design a better drug to promote addiction" than nicotine.
网站简介:Most reports focus on how many people are killed by tobacco products; this report estimates how much disease cigarettes cause: tobacco products give more than 8.6 million Americans serious diseases every year.
网站简介:Article originally published in 1965 in the Atlantic Monthly looks at the tobacco industry's power in Congress.
网站简介:Monitors trends in tobacco use in Wisconsin, evaluates statewide programs and policies, and assists local communities in program evaluation and communicating findings to state and local leaders.
网站简介:The nicotine in spit tobacco reduces an individual's ability to perform complex tasks that require hand and body movements to adjust to new visual feedback, according to new research.
网站简介:Report by Duke University behavioral pharmacologist Edward Levin that nicotine-like compounds help restore the ability to learn and remember in rats that have brain lesions similar to those found in Alzheimer's disease patients. Reported in Science Daily News.
网站简介:Researchers at the Massachusetts General Hospital and Brigham and Women's Hospital in the US find that moderate alcohol consumption in women was beneficial to blood pressure and at high levels it was harmful.
网站简介:A study by the Institute of Preventive Medicine in Denmark, reported in the scientific journal Neurology, shows that flavonoids in wine may protect against Alzheimer's disease and stroke-caused mental deterioration.
网站简介:A University at Buffalo study has shown that drinking wine -- especially white -- recently and over a lifetime, was associated with better lung function.
网站简介:Scientists have new data that toxic flavoring chemicals put in cigarettes are reaching smokers through cigarette smoke and may pose health hazards of their own.