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Do We Get Sick Like Rats? A New Philip Morris Prize Asks the Crowd
In partnership with computational biologists at IBM’s Watson Research Center, Philip Morris’s so-called sbv IMPROVER project creates open challenges to encourage scientists to augment traditional peer reviews of research data. On Monday, Philip Morris la
Apr 30, 2013
Techonomy
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May 2, 2013 06:51
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Why Have Tobacco Control Policies Stalled? Using Genetic Moderation to Examine Policy Impacts
This study provides novel evidence of “gene-policy” interaction and suggests a genetic mechanism for the large differences in response to tobacco policies. The inability for these policies to reduce use for individuals with specific genotypes suggests alt
Dec 6, 2012
Public Library of Science (PLoS)
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Dec 6, 2012 10:35
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It's genetic: Some smokers have biological resistance to anti-tobacco policies
New research from the Yale School of Public Health suggests that individuals’ genetics play an important role in whether they respond to tobacco-control policies. The study appears online in the journal PLOS ONE.
Dec 6, 2012
HealthCanal.com
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Dec 6, 2012 10:27
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[UK, USA] GAGE: (blog) Poorly conducted research is a gift to the opponents of tobacco control
A study implicates genes in the failure of taxation to get heavy smokers to quit, but the findings are far from clearcut . . . Tobacco control research is under huge amounts of scrutiny from those trying to undermine it. Poorly conducted experiments wher
Jan 16, 2013
The Guardian (uk)
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Jan 16, 2013 07:04
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[UK] Passive smoking can damage your child's DNA
The study also found that the greater the number of cigarettes a child was exposed to, the greater the damage to DNA and production of other harmful chemicals. The study involved 54 children, half of whom were exposed to cigarette smoke and half were no
Dec 17, 2012
The Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday (uk)
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Dec 17, 2012 06:29
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Smoking, Taxes, and Genes
The 20 percent of Americans that continue to smoke cigarettes even in the face of taxes that have skyrocketed over the past 50 years can now point their nicotine-stained fingers at their own genes. At least, that's the gist of a new PLOS ONE study that in
Dec 14, 2012
The Scientist
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Dec 14, 2012 18:28
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Grandma’s curse / Some of the effects of smoking may be passed from grandmother to grandchild
Which crucial genes these histones surround remains obscure. Nor have the team yet found out whether the epigenetic effect they have discovered reaches further than grand-offspring. If it does, though, it suggests that epigenetics really might act like
Nov 1, 2012
The Economist
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Nov 1, 2012 19:02
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[Canada] Faster 'nicotine metabolism' may increase cravings, study finds
Researchers at the Montreal Neurological Institute and Hospital -- The Neuro -- have found nicotine cravings are stubbornly locked into our genes.
Sep 12, 2012
Toronto (Ont) Sun (ca)
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Sep 12, 2012 11:55
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[Canada] How genetics shape our addictions
Genes predict the brain’s reaction to smoking
Sep 11, 2012
McGill University (ca)
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Sep 12, 2012 11:52
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[UK] HARRISON: A cigarette with a tumour? If only cancer was that simple …
But all malignant tumours have the potential to spread. The best way to prevent this is to protect your DNA from mutation if you possibly can. It really is better not to smoke.
Jan 11, 2013
Financial Times (uk)
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Jan 11, 2013 15:53