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The Lung Association today commended the Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI) on its newly released report examining health disparity and its relation to low socio-economic status. The report underscores the need for a national action plan on lung health, and the need for increased access to affordable smoking cessation medications and programs.
Researchers study effect of ADHD on smoking cessation (News-Medical-Net)
Tobacco use is more prevalent and smoking cessation less likely among persons with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD).
COPD: Smoking cessation (Journal of Community Nursing)
For many individuals smoking has been regarded as a socially learned habit as a result of experimenting with smoking at a young age. This is usually as a result of peer pressure and wanting to be like the others in the group as well as a way of asserting independence or expressing defiance.
Progress in cancer fight, but Congress, States must step up efforts to reduce smoking, lung cancer (News-Medical-Net)
Delivering good news for our nation's health, a new report released by the nation's leading cancer organizations finds that, for the first time, both the incidence and death rates for all cancers combined are decreasing for both men and women, driven in part by declines in smoking and lung cancer.
Great American Smokeout a great success (The Wahpeton Daily News)
An annual smoking cessation event held in November encourages smokers to stomp out their habit for one day in hopes they quit for good. For one week, fourth and fifth-grade students at Central Elementary in Wahpeton learned about the harmful effects of tobacco use for the "Great American Smokeout."
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