Recent Posts

Addiction Inbox

Return To Blog Listing

A review of news about addiction, alcoholism, drugs of abuse, and new scientific and medical treatment options.

Recent Posts Tagged With 'smoking'

• Pulmonary Deaths Triple For Women

  Posted on Tuesday December 4th, 2007 at 15:37 in copd, lung disease, nicotine addiction, smoking, women smokers

  Female smokers achieve grisly parityThanks to several decades of smoking by women, many of whom began back in the “Virginia Slims” era, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, or COPD, is now a maj...

• Smokers Underestimate Health Risk

  Posted on Thursday November 22nd, 2007 at 06:05 in cigarettes, nicotine addiction, nicotine gum, nicotine patch, smoking

  Most believe nicotine is the culprit; “will power” the answerTwo-thirds of adult smokers in a recent national survey incorrectly believed that nicotine causes cancer and heart disease, a finding w...

• Can Obama Quit Smoking?

  Posted on Saturday November 3rd, 2007 at 13:45 in nicotine addiction, nicotine gum, smoking

  Does nicotine addiction matter in a president?Presidents Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, Ford, and Clinton all enjoyed their occasional cigarettes and cigars. Laura Bush as been accused of bumming a cig...

• Smoking in New York City

  Posted on Monday August 27th, 2007 at 13:00 in chantix, cigarettes, nicotine addiction, quitting, smoking

  A Borough-By-Borough Survey New York City has 240,000 fewer smokers than it did in 2002, according to a recent report released by the city’s Department of Health and Mental Hygiene. City health offi...

• Book Review (Part 1): "Women Under the Influence"

  Posted on Saturday August 11th, 2007 at 23:33 in addiction, cigarettes, nicotine addiction, smoking

  Women and Cigarettes: “The Virginia Slims Woman is Catching up to the Marlboro Man.”“Compared to boys and men, girls and women become addicted to alcohol, nicotine, and illegal and prescription ...