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However, there are a number of potential problems with the smoking vaccine approach, according to Action on Smoking and Health .

Smokers have tried a long list of ways to quit: cold turkey, counseling, gum, patches.

When, more than a decade ago now, smoking bans began to take effect around the world, researchers and public health officials feverishly collected data demonstrating the health benefits: lower levels of respiratory illness were reported among bar workers from Dublin to San Francisco after indoor smoking bans took effect, saliva tests revealed lower ...

The South Padre Island Board of Aldermen convened in a room crowded with interested spectators Wednesday evening.

If you look around at people in Society, the appearance of smokers could not be far from the truth.

Thank you to Gail Kerr for sharing her story about her battle to quit smoking cigarettes.

Many women don't quit smoking because they are afraid of gaining weight. That's because nicotine suppresses the appetite and boosts a smoker's metabolism.

Philip Morris has been ordered to pay $US300 million in damages to a former smoker in Florida, the largest award to date among thousands of lawsuits filed in the state against tobacco companies.

The Prevention Resource Center set up a display in front of Jason's Deli on Thursday evening for the Great American Smokeout to demonstrate the damage smoking can do to the lungs.

Although a majority of smokers want to quit smoking, many delay making a plan to quit until the last minute, according to a recent American Cancer Society online survey of people who say they want to.

Starting Thursday, Kentucky's two largest universities are declaring themselves smoke-free, drastically restricting cigarette smoking to create healthier campuses.

Indoor smoking bans have forced smokers at bars and restaurants onto outdoor patios, but a new University of Georgia study in collaboration with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention suggests that these outdoor smoking areas might be creating a new health hazard.

Main Category: Smoking / Quit Smoking Also Included In: Pharma Industry / Biotech Industry An experimental vaccine called NicVAX, designed to treat nicotine addiction that works by stopping the drug from reaching the brain, moved a step closer to the market when the vaccine developer Nabi Biopharmaceuticals , based in Rockville, Maryland, US agreed ...

London, Nov 18 : Good news for smokers struggling to quit: an injectable vaccine has been developed that may help them kick the habit.

Smokers could soon break their habit with a jab that stops nicotine from being addictive by preventing it from entering the brain, scientists claimed.

Dear Joe, I smoke cigarettes. This is my 49th or 50th year -- don't know which. When this war on smokers really heated up, in the late 90's, I wrote to a friend in San Francisco, and asked her what was going on.

Risk of bladder cancer for smokers has increased since the mid-1990s, with a risk progressively increasing to a level five times higher among current smokers in New Hampshire than that among nonsmokers in 2001-2004, according to a new study published online November 16 in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute .

Nabi is developing a vaccine called NicVAX, which is intended to train the immune system to make antibodies that will attach themselves to nicotine.

Steve Ballou, an ex-smoker for more than a decade, started slipping back into his old ways with cigars.

The 53-year-old Boston real estate lawyer spent nearly half her life smoking, and nothing - not patches, gum, gurus or drugs - loosened the grip of nicotine.