Smoking

Cigarette Smoking Prevention
by National Cancer Institute
Tobacco is the leading avoidable cause of cancer and has been estimated to account for about 30% of cancer deaths in the United States. Smoking increases the risk of many types of cancer including cancers of the lung, throat, mouth, pancreas, kidney

Smoking : Breaking the Addiction, Secondhand Smoke
by National Institute on Aging
Smoking is a strong addiction for both your body and mind. That is why it is so hard to stop. But, people do succeed. Since 1965 over 40 million Americans who used to smoke have quit. There is help.

Alcohol and Tobacco Use Prevention: Life Skills Training
by National Institute of Health
Rates of drinking and smoking increase among high school students as they age. Therefore, prevention programs that target youth either before or during junior high school may help prevent alcohol, tobacco, and other drug (ATOD) use during high school.

Chantix: New Drug to Help Quit Smoking
by Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
The drug received a priority review because of its significant potential benefit to public health. Chantix was reviewed in six months rather than the regular review time of 10 months, says Curt Rosebraugh, M.D., M.P.H., deputy director of the FDA's Office

Smoking and Drinking Link: Behavioral Mechanisms
by National Institute of Health
Many people use both alcohol and nicotine (cigarettes and other tobacco products). The behavioral effects of these two drugs differ, and they do not act on the same target sites in the brain, although they may share, or partly share, certain properties.

Smoking and the Genetic Contribution to Alcohol-Dependence
by National Institute of Health
Genes influence a person's risk of becoming a smoker as well as the risk of alcohol dependence. Because substantially higher rates of smoking are observed in alcoholics than in control groups, uncovering the mechanisms underlying this association

Alcohol Dependence and Habitual Smoking : Risks
by National Institute of Health
Smoking and alcohol dependence frequently occur together, and both behaviors are determined in part by genetic influences. The Collaborative Study on the Genetics of Alcoholism (COGA), which is investigating the genetic factors contributing to alcohol

Smoking Cessation and Continued Risk in Cancer Patients
by National Cancer Institute
It has been known for almost 50 years that tobacco use can be linked to cancers of the lung and head and neck. Eighty-five percent of the cases of head and neck cancer found each year are associated with tobacco use.

Alcohol and Tobacco Use: Patterns of Co-Occurring Consumption and Dependence
by National Institute of Health
Epidemiologists have conducted nationwide surveys, such as the National Household Survey on Drug Abuse (NHSDA) and the National Comorbidity Survey (NCS), to estimate the prevalence of either the individual or the concurrent consumption of and dependence

Preventing Tobacco Use Around the World
by SAMHSA
Tobacco is the second leading cause of death around the world. Today, tobacco use results in the death of one in ten adults worldwide. In fact, half of the people who smoke today will eventually be killed by tobacco.

Saving Children from Tobacco
by Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
Every day, almost 3,000 young people start smoking. Nearly 1,000 of them will have their lives cut short due to smoking-related illness. To protect America's children from this number one cause of preventable death and illness, FDA has issued a landmark