News tagged with 'Lung Cancer'

An advisory panel of the Food and Drug Administration will meet at the end of March to consider the safety of menthol flavoring in cigarettes under the new FDA authority over tobacco, ingredients and marketing.

A number of bans are going into effect with the new year that determine where you smoke and what you eat.

The new head of the newly created Center for Tobacco Products, under FDA authority, has been named. The center will be able to regulate ingredients in tobacco products for the first time. Big Tobacco is already planning a lawsuit challenging restrictions on advertising.

A new bill giving the federal government sweeping new powers to regulate tobacco passed the Senate. The measure is "a historic victory" and "the strongest action Congress has ever taken to reduce tobacco use, said Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids, organization president.

The FDA is considering regulating e-cigarettes, that is electronic cigarettes that deliver a jolt of nicotine as an alternative to smoking tobacco.   Health organizations say they may encourage kids to smoke and they are concerned about inhaling a vaporized form of the drug.   

Hormone Replacement Therapy or HRT is still used by women with a reported 30 million prescriptions written each year. Now, findings from the Women's Health Initiative indicate that combining estrogen and progestin can lead to a 59 percent increase in the risk of death from a non-small cell lung cancer.

Even though tar has been reduced in cigarettes over the years, there’s been an increase in a lung tumor called adenocarcinoma. It makes up 65 to 70 percent of newly diagnosed U.S. lung cancers, leading researchers to question why U.S. companies cure tobacco using propane generated heat and nitogen fertilizers. 

What if, a urine test could detect smokers at highest risk for developing lung cancer? While it may be years before such a test is made available, if it works, urine-screening may give added motivation to some smokers that have not been able to kick the habit.

Lawmakers are planning again to try to pass legislation that would require government regulation of cigarettes and other tobacco products.

For nearly 100 years, tobacco companies have tried to associate smoking with slimness and glamour. Now, Silk Cut is launching a new line of super-slim cigarettes in packaging that resembles a perfume box in an attempt to attract women smokers.

The first of 8,000 lawsuits to be filed against Big Tobacco in Florida will be appealed by Philip Morris USA after a jury awarded the widow of a smoker $8 million.   

How hard is it to quit the most highly addictive drug nicotine?  The Today Show is partnering with the American Legacy Foundation to produce a series on quitting smoking. Joe and Maurice are hooked up in a lab to see exactly what they inhale when they smoke.

Implementing smoke free laws in public places in Pueblo, Colorado, appeared to cut down on the number of hospitalizations for everyone by 41 percent, according to a study by the CDC. The findings echo similar results in other cities.

California’s Air Resources Board will convene this week to review study findings that suggest workers continuously exposed to diesel exhaust from vehicles on the highway, loading docks and city streets have an elevated risk of developing lung cancer compared to other workers.

The World Health Organization in its 2008 World Cancer Report shows that developing countries that adopt increasingly Westernized lifestyles and tobacco use are catching up to developed nations in the number of cancer deaths annually.