Tag: asthma
US Study: Smoke-Exposed Children Have Higher Rates of Hospital Admissions
The children exposed to tobacco smoke were 24 times more likely to be admitted to hospital than non-exposed children.Besides having higher rates of hospital...
Smoke Exposure During Pregnancy Can Have Damaging Effects Lasting Generations
It is already widely known that exposure to tobacco smoke during development harms children, with non-coding ‘epigenetic’ changes to DNA reported repeatedly as a...
NIH Awards $2.3 Million Grant to Study the Impact of Vaping...
Scientific research has consistently indicated that pregnant women who smoke, are likely to increase the risk of their children having asthma. Moreover these offspring...
Higher Asthma Risk in Babies with Smoking Fathers
A new study of Taiwanese families looked at paternal smoking during the mother’s pregnancy and its effects on immune system genes. The researchers looked...
Progress in New York, but anti-vaping studies continue to appear
New York state budget deletes controversial vape laws
Vapers in New York state have been braced for the worst over the last few weeks as...
Short-term effects on lung functions of nicotine- and flavoring-free e-vapor
A research team of the Quebec Heart and Lung Institute at the Université Laval designed a study to investigate the impact of a 1 hour...
US politicians continue to disappoint, but French doctors investigate e-cigs for...
Tennessee cranks up scaremongering with new vape warnings
In a long-awaited update to its 2013 advisory on electronic cigarettes, the Tennessee Department of Health has...
Smokers with COPD benefit from using Ecigs, an Italian study says
Regular ECs use may help smokers with COPD attenuate conventional cigarette consumption or remain abstinent, as well as improve subjective and objective COPD outcomesItalian...
