#Eggs Don't Deserve Their Bad Reputation, Studies Show (Op-Ed) Katherine Tallmadge M. A r. D. is registered a dietitian author of Diet Simple:
and before that by Big Tobacco to disseminate disinformation about the health effects of smoking.
Syngenta's disinformation campaign about the safety of atrazine didn't just draw directly from the playbook used by Big Carbon and Big Tobacco however.
For decades the tobacco industry kept regulation at bay by claiming that not all facts were in absolutely linking tobacco use to cancer.
Because of litigation around tobacco the public has access to an entire library of incriminating documents including strategy memos that make clear that casting doubt on science has long been a technique of corporate interests.
when a colonist named John Rolfe began experimenting with tobacco that such a commodity was found.
when John Rolfe experimenting with tobacco seeds that may have been developed from Trinidad a marketable crop that could be exported to England.
The english king James I would give the Virginia Company a monopoly on tobacco making the trade even more profitable.
With the development of tobacco and the need for labor to grow the crop and food supplies several thousand more colonists were sent in the late 1610s and early 1620s.
and other tobacco products may vanish from view in retail stores in New york city if health officials in the city have their way.
A bill unveiled today (March 18) by the city's Mayormichel Bloomberg  would require tobacco products to be kept out of sight from customers in cabinets drawers under the counter behind a curtain
or discount prices for tobacco products in order to address the availability of discounted and smuggled cigarettes.
Eliminating enticing tobacco displays and low-cost cigarettes from unscrupulous vendors will yield tremendous health dividends that will compound in the future.
A bill in New york city proposes to keep tobacco products out of sight from customers except during purchases
and blow tobacco smoke over stones to communicate with otherworldly spirits or diagnose illnesses she wrote.
When German vineyards wanted an automatic process for sorting their grapes Fraunhofer IOSB presented an obvious choice owing to its experience developing machines that sort tobacco minerals foods and more.
The researchers found a gene in hornworm caterpillars that allows them to puff nicotine out through their spiracles (tiny holes in their sides) from the tobacco they consume as a warning to their would-be predators.
when trying to find out how hornworm caterpillars could consume tobacco plants despite the toxic nicotine within the plant's tissues.
By feeding hornworm caterpillars tobacco plants with and without nicotine researchers identified the gene that was activated
when the caterpillars consumed nicotine-containing tobacco plants. The scientists then placed so-called interference RNA matching that gene in tobacco plants grown in the lab. The interference RNA targeted that gene preventing the caterpillars from using their defense.
When caterpillars consumed the gene-altered tobacco they lost their ability to produce the tobacco halitosis
and thus their ability to ward off the spiders. As a result they were consumed at a higher rate by wolf spiders a rate similar to that found for caterpillars consuming nicotine-depleted tobacco plants.
 This RNA-interference technique might someday be used in genetically modified crops produced with specific nutritional goals in mind as interference RNA targets a specific gene.
#Scientists Create Giant Tobacco Plants That Remain Young Researchers at the Fraunhofer Institute for Molecular biology
and Applied Ecology IME in Munster Germany have created tobacco plants that grow to over six meters tall with healthy and green leaves.
Normal tobacco plants grow for only about four months then flower and die. The researchers discovered a genetic switch
and then inserted the gene back into the tobacco plant using a bacterium. The first tobacco plant this experiment was performed on has been growing for eight years.
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Tobacco clearly takes a significant toll on the lives of Americans causing 450000 premature deaths each year
I think it s a great thing said Dr. Bradley Flansbaum a hospitalist at Lenox Hill Hospital in N y. Knowing that tobacco is public enemy No. 1 in preventive illness...
Barriers to passing such a ban include the power of big tobacco companies the cost of enforcing such a law
Once you have a substance out there like tobacco in wide use it's hard to turn around
I think there is a strong argument for never allowing another child to becomeâ addicted to tobacco Katz said.
It doesn't burn tobacco it doesn't emit smoke and it lasts a lot longer than a traditional cigarette.
because they don't technically contain tobacco --even though the nicotine in them is derived from tobacco--something that has angered e-cigarette opponents.
 A lot of people feel like the e-cigarette manufacturers are exploiting a loophole said the director of Smoking Cessation Services at Columbia University Medical center Daniel Seidman.
 Despite this uncertainty the FDA recently decided to tweak their definition of a tobacco product to bring e-cigarettes under their jurisdiction.
 The FDA intends to propose a regulation that would extend the agency's'tobacco product'authorities
which currently only apply to cigarettes cigarette tobacco roll-your-own tobacco and smokeless tobacco FDA spokesperson Jennifer Haliski wrote in an email.
Dr. Michael Siegel from Boston University's School of Public health is a firm believer in the power of e-cigarettes to help smokers quit
because there's no tobacco in the product there's also no burning it's just heated up.
When you take away the tobacco and combustion then you're taking away the bulk of the problem said Siegel.
 Seidman suggested that there isn't any proof of e-cigarettes successfully weaning smokers off tobacco.
Siegel said that the way FDA personnel speak of a risk continuum of different tobacco products leads him to be cautiously optimistic that they won't lump the same regulations on e-cigarettes.
and their strategy is to add e-cigarettes to the equation rather than subtract traditional tobacco.
Find a fast-growing plant with a lot of aboveground leafy mass such as mustard sunflowers or tobacco. Plant the crop on soil that contains gold.
And it's been known long that Seventh-Day Adventists with their healthy lifestyle that shuns tobacco
The Israeli hummus company Sabra now partnering with tortilla-chip brand Tostitos has marketed the snack to American consumers by developing America-centric flavors like Buffalo Style and convincing some Virginia tobacco
#CVS to Become 1st National Pharmacy Chain to Stop Selling Tobacco The drugstore chain CVS/Caremark will stop selling tobacco products making it the first national chain to do so the company
) The sale of cigarettes and other tobacco products is at odds with the company's goal of promoting health according to a statement from CVS.
Tobacco sales are set to stop at all CVS stores by Oct 1. Ending the sale of cigarettes
and tobacco products at CVS/pharmacy is the right thing for us to do for our customers
Sales of tobacco at pharmacies can send the wrong message said Dr. Troyen Brennan of CVS
These dramatic declines in the number of young adults with lung cancer show that tobacco prevention control programs work
Implementation of tobacco control strategies is needed to reduce smoking prevalence and the lung cancer it causes among men and women.
Tobacco prevention and control strategies include increasing tobacco prices enacting smoke-free laws and restricting tobacco advertising and promotion.
A new study finds that a more exotic form of tobacco use hookah smoking is on the rise among U s. teens.
A hookah is a water pipe that uses charcoal to heat up a wet tobacco product called shisha.
while the overall use of tobacco products in the United states decreased between 2000 and 2011 there was an increase in the use of noncigarette tobacco products including hookah tobacco.
while the use of alternative tobacco products such as hookahs has increased by an alarming 123 percent said Dr. Michael Weitzman a professor of pediatrics
and lounges where smokers can order their preferred flavor of tobacco along with their favorite cocktail or juice.
Being able to smoke tobacco without being labeled as a smoker is something that worries researchers.
#Tobacco Plants May Contain Cure for Cancer, a New Twist in Protein Lipid Interactions This article was published originally at The Conversation.
Scientists at La Trobe University published a study this week about a protein found in the flowers of ornamental tobacco plant that targets human cancer cells
tobacco grown to produce drugs used to treat cancers caused by tobacco. Mark Hulett Marc Kvansakul and others from the Biochemistry Department used a range of techniques to examine the structure and function of a protein called Nad1.
Imagine fields of tobacco grown for their flowers instead of their leaves leading to an outburst of health conscious tobacco farming.
On the other hand I am beginning to feel kindly towards the Genus nicotiana (the tobacco plants) which seems to contain a molecule that bursts cancer cells.
Vitamin b12 supplements are said also to protect against the poisons in tobacco smoke. Some people use Vitamin b12 supplements to help treat male infertility sleep disorders depression inflammatory bowel disease asthma multiple sclerosis allergies and the skin condition vitiligo.
#Tanned Girls, Tobacco-Chewing Dudes: Gender Norms Affect Teen Cancer Risk Teenage girls who see themselves as the most feminine and teenage boys who perceive themselves as the most masculine may be more likely to behave in ways that increase their risk of cancer
And adolescent boys who most strongly stick to popular norms of masculinity were 80 percent more likely to chew tobacco
or chewing tobacco are effective ways to appear more feminine or masculine Roberts said. These industries try to recruit people to use their products
and other serious health issues such as indoor tanning cigar smoking tobacco-chewing cigarette smoking and lack of physical activity.
or tobacco-chewing because of the advertisements Roberts said. And indoor tanning is marketed specifically to women by associating tanned skin with ideas of beauty
But traces of tobacco carcinogens have been found in other organs as well. For example pieces of DNA bound to carcinogens have been found in breast tissue
They are carried through the blood to many organs said Stanton Glantz director of the Center for Tobacco Control Research
Carcinogens in tobacco smoke can reach the large bowel through the blood supply and disrupt regular functioning of the cells.
Heart and metabolic diseases attributed to smoking accounted for 40 percent of tobacco-related deaths the report revealed.
Tobacco advertising has been banned from TV and 26 U s. states and the District of columbia have enacted laws prohibiting smoking in all indoor public areas.
and the cholera epidemic in the 19th century the long-lasting denial of the harm of tobacco smoking in the 20th century global warming and climate change in the 21st century) when the translation of science into practice clashes with vested interests.
A randomised clinical trial of tobacco smoking and lung cancer was carried never out in humans to prove#that smoking causes lung cancer
and that we should eventually ban tobacco. And an assessment of the bulk of evidence underlying population action of salt reduction dwarfs the evidence that supports today accepted policies on weight reduction increase in physical exercise intake of fibre fruit and vegetable
Additionally smoking and chewing tobacco are well-known culprits behind extrinsic stains as is poor dental hygiene
Things like diet tobacco and alcohol; infections and chronic inflammation; but also environmental pollutants; and genetics.
and human pappiloma virus. Plain and simple tobacco is bad. Causing 22%of all cancer deaths worldwide the good fight against tobacco tobacco advertising
and the big corporations that make this carcinogen continues. Some good news many cancers can be prevented. 30%of cancers are preventable through not using tobacco having a healthy diet being physically active limiting alcohol use
and being vaccinated for the most common cancer-causing infections. These are largely the focuses of public health policies for cancer for
Baler said it's unclear why marijuana smoke does not have the same result as tobacco smoke on the lungs
but don t also smoke tobacco cigarettes. And the illegality of marijuana has limited also research in this field.
#If Aired, Tobacco Truths Would Help Smokers Quit, Study Finds Truthful statements about the health effects of cigarette smoking may come as a surprise to many smokers a new study suggests.
The statements include information such as how the tobacco industry deliberately pumps in more nicotine to make tobacco more addictive.
What big tobacco doesn't want you reading The federally mandated corrective statements include the following:*
and selecting cigarette paper to maximize the ingestion of nicotine adding ammonia to make the cigarette taste less harsh and controlling the physical and chemical make-up of the tobacco blend.*'
& Tobacco Research found that the graphic warnings in Canada led to a significant increase in smokers quitting
. But for decades he's been Big Tobacco's biggest nightmare. In 1994 Glantz received a treasure trove of secret documents from the tobacco industry from an anonymous whistleblower.
He published the documents on the Internet proving that cigarette companies had been fully aware of the health harms of tobacco for decades.
Fighting tobacco has been a lifelong effort for Glantz a professor of medicine at the University of California San francisco He has done research on both the health effects of tobacco and the efficacy of smoking-cessation programs.
His official title is American Legacy Foundation Distinguished Professor in Tobacco Control at the Center for Tobacco Control Research and Education.
And this time his fight affects not only how the U s. government protects us and our children from tobacco but also fast food alcohol and even gambling.
when figuring out the benefits of restricting tobacco use federal agencies must consider the high value a smoker places on the pleasure of smoking.
In 2009 Congress gave the FDA the power to regulate tobacco. The FDA then proposed labeling rules that would include strong warnings on packages of cigarettes warnings that Congress actually put in the text of the law The Family Smoking and Tobacco Control Act.
The FDA also proposed making those labels big and prominent. When the FDA conducted a cost-benefit analysis of the benefits of those warning labels it did unprecedented something:
Tobacco companies sued the FDA over those rules claiming it violated the tobacco industry's First amendment rights to promote their product
Currently the FDA is proposing rules that would give it the power to regulate e-cigarettes pipe tobacco and cigars.
when considering behavior by consumers who likely got hooked on tobacco when they were kids
Extensive and careful scientific analysis has documented the health risks from tobacco alcohol and junk food particularly to those who are addicted to those products.
OB/GYN's are very good at talking about tobacco and cigarette exposure but less commonly discussed are chemicals found in plastic household cleaning products
The detection of this virus (the Tobacco Ringspot Virus or TRSV) could help explain the decline of honeybees
'Voytas's group has engineered herbicide-resistant tobacco by inserting specific mutations into a gene called Sur.
Tobacco regulation: Lawrence Deyton (pictured) was appointed to direct the new Center for Tobacco Products in Silver Spring, Maryland, part of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA.
Deyton, who will start his new job on 14 september, is a physician at George washington University's School of medicine and Health Sciences in WASHINGTON DC,
The FDA won powers to regulate tobacco for the first time in its 103-year history under legislation passed by Congress in June (see Nature 459,901;
The week ahead 26 february The World health organization reviews its Framework Convention on Tobacco Control, on the fifth anniversary of the treaty's entry into force. go. nature. com/RMWXIO 1-5 march The 41st Lunar and Planetary Science Conference takes place at the Woodlands,
Tobacco advertising was outlawed completely in Australia by 1992, after bans on radio and television in 1976.
This means that cigarette packets are one of very few ways that tobacco companies can use to entice potential customers.
In its Report on the Global Tobacco Epidemic, 20111, the World health organization provides statistics from multiple countries showing that packet warnings,
and a 2009 report3 by the Western Australian Cancer Council estimated that tobacco use cost Australia more than $31 billion in 2004-05.
or so the country receives in annual tax revenue from tobacco sales. The predicted health and economic benefits of plain packaging have garnered all-party support for the plan in the Australian parliament,
although this took more than two years of debate in the face of strong resistance from tobacco companies and retail associations.
safflower and tobacco have progressed as far as clinical trials. However, making proteins with certain sugar patterns using these systems is still difficult or impossible.
US research boost The US government has allocated US$53 million to create 14 Tobacco Centers of Regulatory Science in the next year,
and evaluate regulations for tobacco products. The NIH last week also announced some $45 Â million in awards to study early interventions for Alzheimer s disease.
The European union is also overhauling its regulation of tobacco with a massive piece of legislation that,
says Peter Hajek, director of the Tobacco Dependence Research Unit at Barts and the London School of medicine and Dentistry."
"That s the biggest hope we have of ending the tobacco epidemic. But as big tobacco companies have piled into a market worth more than US$2 billion worldwide,
regulators have failed to keep up, in part because the chemicals in e-cigarettes vary so widely.
a tobacco-control researcher at the University of California, San francisco, who thinks that the products should be regulated.
He believes that the cost of complying with rules for medical devices would allow big tobacco companies to dominate the nascent e-cigarette industry,
) Vaughan Rees, a tobacco researcher at Harvard School of Public health in Boston, Massachusetts, thinks that e-cigarettes need to improve before they can replace cigarettes and that, for now,
they should be regulated as tobacco products. Although they do present an opportunity to improve public health,
Anti-tobacco efforts have saved millions of lives around the globehalf a century after the US government sounded an influential alarm about the health dangers of smoking,
"Tobacco control has been an extremely successful public health achievement, says biostatistican Theodore Holford of Yale university in New haven, Connecticut,
"With millions of deaths every year attributable to tobacco, we can and should do better, adds global-health researcher Christopher Murray of the University of Washington in Seattle,
Since then, the movement towards stricter regulation for tobacco has gained steadily momentum. In 2003, the World health organization Framework Convention on Tobacco Control recommended that countries should take measures to regulate the tobacco industry by, for example,
banning tobacco advertising and smoking in public places, and imposing steep taxes on tobacco products. These and other tobacco-control efforts, such as education campaigns, lawsuits against cigarette makers and smoking-cessation programmes, have averted 8 million premature deaths in the United states alone
estimates Holford's study, which was led by David Levy of Georgetown University in WASHINGTON DC. They study compared how US life expectancy has changed
since 1964 with how it would have looked had tobacco control measures not been adopted1. Physician Michele Bloch, chief of the Tobacco Control Research Branch at the US National Cancer Institute (NCI) in Bethesda, Maryland, calls the study by Levy and colleagues"powerful
and exciting because no study has estimated previously the sum total of all US smoking-related deaths averted over such a long period of time.
The study found that those whose lives were saved by tobacco control efforts gained an average of 20 years of life
and that most of the deaths averted would have claimed people when they were middle-aged.""That means that people might die at 70 instead of 50,
Bloch says. That's a big deal. Worldwide, estimates Murray's study, the percentage of adult men who smoke in 187 countries has declined from 41%in 1980 to 31%in 2012,
notes that the use in the United states of e-cigarettes, smokeless tobacco, cigars and hookahs is increasing
if these forms of tobacco are used alongside cigarettes. Murray s study also points out that because of population growth,
New zealand was one of the first countries to ratify the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control,
The country enacted anti-tobacco laws only last year. Murray says that more must be done to further cut global smoking rates."
"It s particularly urgent that tobacco control efforts intensify in countries where the number of smokers is increasing,
Bloch hopes that Murray's study will help to bolster global tobacco control efforts because it shows that smoking is not more intractable than other public-health priorities, such as infectious disease."
"There is sometimes the sense that global tobacco use is such a difficult and entrenched problem that efforts to solve it are futile,
The London Company was a joint stock enterprise that established the Jamestown Settlement in 1607providing transportation to pioneers in return for seven years of labor in America where they cultivated tobacco and other crops for the company's profit.
The whole thing brings to mind big tobacco during the 50s and 60s; everyone knew that smoking was bad for you
but the tobacco companies kept on saying that there weren't any studies to support those claims...
For example fish genes have been placed in tomatoes human genes in tobacco bacteria in corn and viruses in squash and fruit.
Maybe you should list Tobacco at the top...Tobacco kills more Americans than all of these drugs+pharma=COMBINED!*
*400000 Americans killed by Tobacco each year. Learn the truth people! Drug laws are divorced from reality.
They only serve to support the drug trade. We cannot continue to lie to drug users
the cigarettes rather than tobacco cigarettes heat up liquid nicotine hat neurotoxin the Times wrote about nd let users fill their lungs with the resulting vapor.
Each puff still has abot 90 percent of the nicotine you'd get from a tobacco cigarette.
whether or not you get it from tobacco is enough to cause developmental and mood problems.
We've got decades of slowly accreting research showing the damaging health effects of tobacco monitored in smokers over the course of lifetimes.
and pipe tobacco to minors although e-cigarettes are grabbing the headlines. Not for no reason:
They'd also be forbidden from saying their products are safer than tobacco cigarettes unless they can show the FDA some science that proves it
Last year a study from an international group of scientists showed that the toxins in e-cigarette vapor are 9 to 450 times lower than in tobacco smoke.
When the e-cigarette is active an indicator light glows like a tobacco ember. Some versions have a pressure sensor that detects the airflow of an inhalation.
Each hit has roughly 90 percent of the nicotine found in a tobacco-cigarette puff.
or a mixture of both contains about 1 percent nicotine and flavoring such as menthol fruit or classic tobacco.
For example the story notes that the surgeon general's report was released on a Saturday (It was a Saturday then too) to minimize its impact on tobacco company stocks.
the number of Americans who died from tobacco-related causes between 1964 and 2012. A chain-smoking doctor among Terry's expert report authors was diagnosed with lung cancer within a year of the surgeon general's announcement NPR reports.
the estimated number of tobacco-related deaths in the U s. that anti-smoking initiatives have prevented since 196419.6:
the average number of years people add to their lifespans by not smoking regularlypopular Science has reported on tobacco smoking throughout its history.
There are some fun anachronisms like a 1910 declaration that there is no scientific evidence that the moderate use of tobacco by healthy mature men produces any beneficial
and that tobacco was bad for adolescents. As surprising as the 1964 declaration might have been for some the writing was on the wall for those who followed the science.
In that 1910 article by a Dr. George L. Meylan of Columbia University you can see some of the early science of tobacco's health effects.
but also points out All scientists agreed that the use of tobacco by adolescents is injurious;
After a 20 percent plunge immediately following the lung cancer warning tobacco sales were back to normal it reported.
#Growers the big winners in Malawis tobacco industrytobacco growers are the big winners while the environment and people who have lost land to tobacco estates are the major losers in Malawi's expanding tobacco industry.
This is according to Alois Mandondo of the Centre for Agrarian and Environmental Studies in Zimbabwe. Mandondo as leader of a study published in Springer's journal Human ecology believes that concerted and coordinated efforts are needed to solve the related dilemmas faced by this African country.
Malawi has been the leader in tobacco production in southern Africa dating back to the 1890s
and trade-offs of investing in Malawi's tobacco industry Mandondo and his team focused on two prime tobacco growing districts in the Miombo woodlands.
The socioeconomic impacts of the expansion of tobacco growing in Malawi are highly variable depending on the stakeholder group or business model in question.
Tobacco growers benefit most from the industry's expansion with those losing land to large-scale tobacco estates on the losing end of the equation.
The high rate of tobacco-induced deforestation is also a major environmental concern. Deforestation is caused by continued plantation expansion
and cure tobacco. While estates are mandated by law to maintain tree plantations on at least 10 percent of their own land this law is enforced rarely justified by the national strategic importance of the tobacco industry.
The subsequent depletion of natural forests by smallholder wood suppliers and others combined with the increased global demand for tobacco have caused tobacco farming to spill over into neighboring Zambia and Mozambique.
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