In Adolescents, Addiction to Tobacco Comes Easy
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Teenagers can get hooked on one cigarette, a doctor warns.
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About one-third of attention deficit cases among U.S. children may be linked with tobacco smoke before birth or to lead exposure afterward, according to provocative new research.
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A single molecule may be partly to blame for nicotine&#39;s addictive allure, a finding that researchers say could lead to potential therapies to help millions of smokers quit a life-threatening habit.
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A snapshot of an average day in the lives of U.S. teens shows hundreds of thousands are smoking, drinking and ingesting illegal drugs, according to a report from the federal government.
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The percentage of teenage girls who drink alcoholic beverages is rising faster than that of boys, and on average, the girls take their first drink at age 13, the American Medical Association
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NEW YORK  - Teenage girls who start dieting are nearly two times more likely to also take up smoking regularly, compared with teenage girls who are not dieting. Among teenage boys, it is the inactive dieters -- those that tried dieting but didn't stick to it -- that are at risk for taking up smoking.
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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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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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NEW YORK  - When it comes to alcohol, many teenagers may take a cue from their parents, new research suggests.
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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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A GENETIC defect which slows down the liver&#39;s capacity to clear nicotine from the body increases the chances of tobacco addiction, research revealed today.
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The level of nicotine found in U.S. cigarettes has risen about 10 percent in the past six years, making it harder to quit and easier to get hooked, according to a new report released Tuesday by the Massachusetts Department of Health.
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Teenagers and young adults who gamble are more likely to have substance use disorders and psychiatric problems, according to researchers from Yale University.
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White U.S. teenagers who watch a lot of R-rated movies or have unsupervised access to TV shows appear more likely than similar black youths to start smoking cigarettes, a study found on Monday.
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An intensive stop-smoking program with at least three months of counseling and free drugs can help smokers kick the habit, U.S. researchers reported on Monday.
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The telltale signs are ominous: teens holing up in their rooms, ignoring friends, family, even food and a shower, while grades plummet and belligerence soars. The culprit isn't alcohol or drugs. It's video games, which for certain kids can be as powerfully addictive as heroin, some doctors contend.
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NEW YORK  - Sudden heart attack or "acute myocardial infarction" is quite rare among adolescents, but when it does occur it is often associated with drug abuse and tobacco use, and males are at much greater risk than are females, according to researchers.