# e-cigarettes, fashionable among teens, are nicotine delivery tubes that financially chain teens to Big Tobacco A new fad among American teens is the “smokeless” electronic cigarette, or e-cigarette. A tube made to look like a rather large cigarette, an e-cigarette contains no tobacco, delivering to the smoker a measured dose of nicotine within water… Read More »
As someone whos life has been touched by the tragic effects of cigarette smoking, I was saddened last week when the Supreme Court barred the FDA from regulating cigarettes. About 48 million adult Americans smoked cigarettes last year, according to the CDC. Thats one in four people, a fact that astonishes and alarms me. Why?… Read More »
Kids get addicted to cigarettes a lot quicker than we thought. Mayo Clinic researchers report this month that children who have smoked only a few cigarettes experience the same symptoms of nicotine addiction as adults who smoke heavily. The researchers followed more than 600 12- and 13-year-olds from seven schools in central Massachusetts for a… Read More »
This year an estimated 178,000 people will be diagnosed with lung cancer in the United States, and 90% of them will die within three years. 96% of these cancer victims are cigarette smokers. Is there a cause-and-effect connection between smoking cigarettes and lung cancer? For fifty years scientists have argued that there is, and tobacco… Read More »
50 million Americans smoke cigarettes. In the face of clear evidence that cigarettes cause lung cancer, outlined in a previous article in this series, why dont smokers quit? Many of these individuals say they would like to, but cant; they simply find it too difficult to overcome the habit. Anyone who has ever smoked cigarettes… Read More »
We have come a long way in understanding cancer. After decades of intensive research, we have learned that cancer is caused by damaged DNA — genes that normally regulate cell division stop doing so. Smoking causes lung cancer because chemicals in the cigarette smoke mutate (read blast away) the genes in lung cells that stop… Read More »
120 miles west of here, in a little brown house in Columbia a few blocks from the University of Missouri where he has taught economics for 30 years, my brother Walter is getting sicker. Feisty and sparkly-eyed, Walter’s still charming, still very much in-your-face, but he’s rail-thin now, and coughs a lot. He has been… Read More »
50 million Americans smoke cigarettes. Although smoking has decreased in recent years, 24% of Missourians still light up. I learned to smoke from a schoolyard friend, Anton Schuszler, who died 21 years ago of lung cancer. All through high school (running on the track team!), college, and graduate school I smoked, never able to kick… Read More »
