Vital Signs: Adolescence: Studying Compliance Checks in Tobacco Sales to Minors
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Convenience stores with gas pumps are the most likely to violate laws banning the sale of tobacco to minors, a new study suggests.
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Kids who enter puberty early are more likely to use and abuse tobacco, alcohol and marijuana than those who physically mature later, mostly because their window of opportunity for experimentation is wider, researchers have found.
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TORONTO (CP) - Health Canada is proposing substantial changes to current  requirements for the labelling of tobacco products in an effort to reach more smokers, the federal department said Thursday. While current health warnings -in place since 2000 -are "working well," officials say they are not as effective at reaching adults with low literacy skills.
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MONTREAL (CP) - A faulty gene may lead some young teenage smokers to be even more susceptible to years of nicotine dependency, a new study suggests.
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Life & style: Organic or fairtrade? Sustainable or certified? How useful are ethical labels? Lucy Siegle investigates
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Though tobacco use in the nation has recently declined overall, its use is up among college-aged students, according to the National Center for Health Statistics.
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(Washington-AP) Dec. 22, 2004 - A federal report finds slightly fewer teens smoked or used drugs this year than last. The University of Michigan study reports smoking among younger teens is half the level
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Research published in the international medical journal Addiction showed that moderate exercise reduced the intensity of smokers' nicotine withdrawal symptoms
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Kids who enter puberty early are more likely to use and abuse tobacco, alcohol and marijuana than those who physically mature later, mostly because their window of opportunity for experimentation is wider.
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According to the British Medical Journal, a study published in &#39;Tobacco Control&#39; has revealed that smokers aged below 40 are five times more prone to suffering from a heart attack than non smokers of the same age.
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Black children may be far more  susceptible to the ill effects of second-hand tobacco smoke  than their white counterparts, U.S. researchers said on Monday.
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The word "gaming" is making its way onto the whiteboards of advertising conference rooms on a regular basis these days. As a proponent of this industry's viability as a communication platform for brands, I think that's great progress. We've collectively woken up to the fact that pimple-faced teenagers are not the only ones playing games (for those of you not in the know, these guys aren't even the typical game consumers anymore, nor have they been for quite a few years now).
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Four out of five people want the legal age of smoking raised from 16 to 18, to deter youngsters from taking up the habit, a new report has found.
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The government is launching a campaign to highlight the forthcoming rise in the legal minimum age at which tobacco can be bought in England and Wales.
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(WebMD) Pediatricians may be overlooking cases of teen substance abuse by relying on their intuition rather than on standard screening tools.
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The latest US government survey of drug, cigarette and alcohol use among teens, Monitoring the Future (MTF), indicates a significant overall drop in illicit drug use.
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Hundreds of thousands of  U.S. youngsters under the age of 18 start using tobacco each  year as a direct result of it being featured in films, videos,  advertising and give-away samples, a report said on Monday.