Historically, the tobacco companies' so-called new and "safer" products, such as "low tar and nicotine" and filtered cigarettes, have done little to protect the consumer ...
Methamphetamine use has become a major health care problem in the US, with Hawaii leading the nation in methamphetamine use. Crystal methamphetamine is a freebase ...
A common myth is that cocaine is not addictive because it lacks the physical withdrawal symptoms seen in alcohol or heroin addiction. Cocaine has powerful ...
About 25% of all American adults (46.3 million people) smoke. This number has remained constant for several years despite government efforts through Healthy People 2000 ...
Cigarette smoking remains the leading cause of death and illness among Americans. Every year, roughly 430,000 Americans die from illnesses caused by tobacco use, accounting ...
Substance use disorders are the major public health problem facing many countries. In the United States today, more than 15 million Americans are estimated to ...
About 59 percent of American children ages 4–11 are exposed to secondhand smoke at home. Studies have shown that children (especially infants) of parents who ...
Even as measures to discourage smoking grew more stringent in recent years, the nicotine content of cigarettes rose, according to a new report, making it ...
