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Smoking There's no way around it. Smoking is bad for your health. Smoking harms nearly every organ of the body. Cigarette smoking causes 87 percent of lung cancer deaths. It is also responsible for many other cancers and health problems. These include lung disease, heart and blood vessel disease, stroke and cataracts. Women who smoke have a greater chance of certain pregnancy problems or having a baby die from sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS). Your smoke is also bad for other people - they breathe in your smoke secondhand and can get many of the same problems as smokers do.Quitting smoking can reduce your risk of these problems. The earlier you quit, the greater the health benefit. NIH: National Cancer Institute |
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Provides a science program for students in grades 2–3 to educate them about their brains, why they should protect them, and how drugs such as nicotine and inhalants can hurt their brains. Includes six modules, a teacher’s guide, a parent’s guide, and a DVD.
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Powerful imagery shows teens and young adults how drugs of abuse damage major organs. A provocative and engaging educational tool. Back: Four critical-thinking activity worksheets and lesson plans on drugs of abuse: a basic neuroscience lesson on how the brain governs the body; an in-depth look at how different drugs damage various vital organs; an activity using a diagram to explore how abusing drugs can damage relationships; and an exercise on how to read a statistical graph on emergency room visits to show the impact of drugs on society.
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CDC released the Tobacco Control State Highlights 2012 report which provides an overview of the implementation of strategies that reduce tobacco use in each of the 50 states and the District of Columbia. While states have made progress, the reduction of tobacco use nationwide has slowed. The report shows that more work needs to be done to end the epidemic of tobacco-related death and disease.
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Monitors six types of health-risk behaviors that contribute to the leading causes of death and disability among youth and adults, including—Behaviors that contribute to unintentional injuries and violence; Sexual behaviors that contribute to unintended pregnancy and STDs; Alcohol and other drug use; Tobacco use; Unhealthy dietary behaviors; physical activity; prevalence of obesity and asthma among youth and young adults.
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PRAMS collects state-specific, population-based data on maternal attitudes and experiences before, during, and shortly after pregnancy. Includes indicators for Alcohol Use by Pregnant Women during Last 3 Months of Pregnancy
and Smoking by Pregnant Women during Last 3 Months of Pregnancy.
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Everyone knows cigarette smoking is bad for you. Most people in the United States assume that smoking is on its way out. But the grim reality is that smoking still exerts an enormous toll on the health of Americans, as documented in two articles in this issue of the Journal. Both articles review mortality trends over time for men and women according to smoking status, and both confirm that smoking remains a huge threat to the public's health.
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MMWR November 11, 2011 / Vol. 60 / No. 44
From 1965 to 2010, the prevalence of cigarette smoking among adults in the United States decreased from 42.4% to 19.3%, and since 2002, the number of former smokers has exceeded the number of current smokers. To determine the prevalence of 1) current interest in quitting smoking, 2) successful recent smoking cessation, 3) recent use of cessation treatments, and 4) trends in quit attempts over a 10-year period, CDC analyzed data from the 2001–2010 National Health Interview Surveys. This report summarizes the results of that analysis.
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Everyone knows cigarette smoking is bad for you. Most people in the United States assume that smoking is on its way out. But the grim reality is that smoking still exerts an enormous toll on the health of Americans, as documented in two articles in this issue of the Journal. Both articles review mortality trends over time for men and women according to smoking status, and both confirm that smoking remains a huge threat to the public's health.
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NIH-funded research shows genetics can predict success of smoking cessation and need for medications
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CDC released the Tobacco Control State Highlights 2012 report which provides an overview of the implementation of strategies that reduce tobacco use in each of the 50 states and the District of Columbia. While states have made progress, the reduction of tobacco use nationwide has slowed. The report shows that more work needs to be done to end the epidemic of tobacco-related death and disease.
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The 2011 European School Survey Project on Alcohol and Other Drugs report has 36 participant countries and almost 105,000 students answering the questionnaire. This makes it to the worlds most comprehensive school survey on alcohol and drug use. Many tables have comparisons with the USA.
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MMWR November 11, 2011 / Vol. 60 / No. 44
From 1965 to 2010, the prevalence of cigarette smoking among adults in the United States decreased from 42.4% to 19.3%, and since 2002, the number of former smokers has exceeded the number of current smokers. To determine the prevalence of 1) current interest in quitting smoking, 2) successful recent smoking cessation, 3) recent use of cessation treatments, and 4) trends in quit attempts over a 10-year period, CDC analyzed data from the 2001–2010 National Health Interview Surveys. This report summarizes the results of that analysis.
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Provides a science program for students in grades 2–3 to educate them about their brains, why they should protect them, and how drugs such as nicotine and inhalants can hurt their brains. Includes six modules, a teacher’s guide, a parent’s guide, and a DVD.
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Powerful imagery shows teens and young adults how drugs of abuse damage major organs. A provocative and engaging educational tool. Back: Four critical-thinking activity worksheets and lesson plans on drugs of abuse: a basic neuroscience lesson on how the brain governs the body; an in-depth look at how different drugs damage various vital organs; an activity using a diagram to explore how abusing drugs can damage relationships; and an exercise on how to read a statistical graph on emergency room visits to show the impact of drugs on society.
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Proporciona información sobre cómo la nicotina afecta al corazón, alterando la frecuencia cardiaca y la presión arterial. También habla sobre la dependencia, el tratamiento y los efectos a largo plazo debido al uso de la nicotina.
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| Office on Smoking and Health (OSH) |
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Description:Includes a Publications Catalog of free resources, and “Educational Materials” with information for parents, educators, professionals, youth leaders and employers. Topics:Resource Types: |
| Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment (CDPHE) Online Resource Center |
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Description:The materials on this web site are provided to you by the CDPHE's Prevention Services Division. You can access numerous products and the latest campaign support materials that focus on healthy living choices, including promoting chronic disease prevention and management. Topics:Resource Types: |
| Mind Over Matter: The Brain's Response to Nicotine |
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Description:Describes how nicotine acts on the heart to change heart rate and blood pressure, and discusses dependency, treatment, and effects of long-term nicotine use. Resource Types: |

