Low screening rates for smokeless tobacco use in pregnant women
1. Nearly half of surveyed obstetrician-gynecologists reported not asking pregnant patients about smokeless tobacco use at the first visit. 2. ...
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Reduction of key risk factors could prevent 37 million deaths by 2025
Image PD 1. If target levels for 6 key risk factors (salt intake, tobacco, alcohol, obesity, high blood pressure and glucose) ...
Smoking may not affect short-term outcomes in cranial surgery
Image: PD 1. Current or prior history of smoking was not linked to worse 30-day operative morbidity and mortality. 2. ...
Number of lives saved due to tobacco control continues to rise
Image: PD/ Stanford. Vintage Smoking ad, 1949 1. Since 1964, tobacco control methods have resulted in 8.0 million premature smoking ...
Varenicline and buproprion more effective than varenicline alone for tobacco abstinence
Image: PD 1. The combination of varenicline and buproprion for 12 weeks was more effective than varenicline alone at achieving ...
Racial backgrounds key to shaping the face of smoking-related mortality in South Africa
Image: PD 1. Smoking prevalence among colored (mixed black and white ancestry) individuals in South Africa is substantially higher than ...
USPTF recommends tobacco counseling for adolescents by primary care physicians
Image: PD 1. Based on a review of recent evidence, the U.S. Preventative Service Task Force (USPSTF) has released a ...
Many smokeless tobacco users also smoke
Image: PD 1. 5.6% of adolescents in this study used smokeless tobacco with 72.1% of smokeless tobacco users concurrently smoking ...
Parental smoking cessation intervention effective in pediatric practices
Image: PD 1. A 12-fold higher rate of delivering tobacco cessation programs to parents in child healthcare settings was seen ...
Smokeless tobacco use in children has not changed
Image: CC 1. Between 2000-2011, there was no significant variation in smokeless tobacco use among US middle and high school ...