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Electronic Cigarettes: Do They Really Help Smokers Quit?

Smokers who wish to quit commonly use electronic cigarettes to help them, despite the lack of evidence that the devices work, a new study finds.

One-third of smokers looking to quit had used e-cigarettes, according to the study. These smokers were also less likely to succeed than those who did not use e-cigarettes: About 21 percent of e-cigarette users were tobacco-free after seven months, compared with 31 percent of those who didn't use e-cigarettes.

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80 Percent of US Adults Have Smoke-Free Rules

According to a news release issued by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, about 80 percent of U.S. Adults have voluntary smoke free rules at home and 75 percent had voluntary smoke-free rules in their vehicles.

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Non-Smoking Hotel Rooms Aren’t a Guarantee of a Smoke-Free Stay | TIME.com

Just because you choose the non-smoking hotel room doesn’t mean you’re completely protecting yourself from exposure.

A new study published in the journal, Tobacco Control, found hotels that only maintain a partial smoking ban still expose their occupants to cigarette smoke, and that compared to hotels with full smoking bans, nicotine levels on hotel room surfaces are two times higher.

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Stopping smoking will slow COPD symptoms : Lifestyles

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, comes in two forms, emphysema and chronic bronchitis. Smoking is by far the most likely cause of these conditions. Persistent cough is the hallmark of chronic bronchitis. Smoking causes a progressive, inexorable destruction of the lungs in susceptible people, and the only way to halt its progress is to quit smoking. Apart from quitting smoking, people with COPD can get help with other therapies.

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Despite federal ban, tobacco ads continue to lure teen smokers | EdSource Today

The dramatic decline in tobacco use among California high school students appears to have flattened, and a new national study provides one possible explanation: Students continue to be saturated with pro-tobacco messages at convenience stores, in magazines and on the Internet.

Despite decades of efforts to keep the tobacco industry away from children, tobacco companies are successfully promoting their products to nine out of 10 middle and high school students in the U.S., according to the study by researchers at the Centers for Disease Control.

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Magnetic Brain Stimulation May Temporarily Dull Nicotine Craving – WebMD

Noninvasive stimulation of an area of the brain linked to addiction seems to temporarily ease smokers' cravings for nicotine, a preliminary study finds.

The technique, called transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS), is already approved in the United States as a treatment for major depression. In the new study, reported in a recent issue of the journal Biological Psychiatry, researchers tested the effects of the treatment on 16 smokers' craving for nicotine.

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The new EU directive: quit smoking or die

In December 2012, the EU’s executive, the European Commission, announced its proposals to revise the Tobacco Products Directive (TPD), originally passed in 2001, to take account of ‘significant scientific, market and international developments’ that have taken place since. But far from improving Europeans’ health, the proposals as they stand could well lead to many thousands, perhaps millions, of unnecessary early deaths.

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