Category: Smoking
January 6, 2017 – Brains on Nicotine
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Anchor lead: Why are e-cigarettes so dangerous for young people? Elizabeth Tracey reports E-cigarettes are the most commonly used tobacco product among American teenagers, and their use is growing enormously, the US Surgeon General reported recently. Yet vaping must be …
PodMed – Week of October 31, 2016
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This week’s topics include state reckoning of smoking and cancer, promoting breastfeeding, testing for familial hypercholesterolemia, and supplemental oxygen in moderate COPD. Program notes: 0:40 State of the Union with regard to smoking 1:40 40% in Arkansas 2:40 Ban smoking …
July 13, 2016 – Scary Packaging
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Anchor lead: Graphic pictures may help people stop smoking, Elizabeth Tracey reports Pictures of diseased lungs, holes in the throat to help people breath and other images on cigarette packs do have an impact when it comes to smoking cessation, …
June 8, 2016 – Scope of Authority
June 7, 2016 – Deeming Rule
June 6, 2016 – E-cigs and Stopping Smoking
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Anchor lead: Do e-cigarettes help people stop smoking? Elizabeth Tracey reports The British Royal College of Physicians has recently come out in favor of the use of e-cigarettes to assist smoking cessation efforts, to the confusion and consternation of many. …