August 4, 2021
A Herbert Wertheim School of Public Health and Human Longevity Science at University of California San Diego clinical trial showed that graphic warning labels on cigarette packaging changes perceptions of smokers to recognize the negative consequences of tobacco and consider quitting.
December 20, 2017
Pharmaceutical interventions are routinely prescribed to help people quit smoking. However, a new study by University of California San Diego School of Medicine researchers suggests that, despite promising results in clinical trials, smoking cessation drugs alone may not be improving the chances of successful quitting among smokers in general.
April 16, 2015
…California, San Diego School of Medicine researchers found that smokers who used e-cigarettes were 49 percent less likely to decrease cigarette use and 59 percent less likely to quit smoking compared to smokers who never used e-cigarettes.
May 13, 2014
Researchers at University of California, San Diego School of Medicine report that people living with depression, anxiety or other mental health conditions are twice as likely to have tried e-cigarettes and three times as likely to be current users of the controversial battery-powered nicotine-delivery devices, as people without mental health…
May 30, 2022
More than 1 million United States youth became new daily tobacco users within two years, most were vaping e-cigarettes daily, report UC San Diego Herbert Wertheim School of Public Health and Human Longevity Science researchers.
November 14, 2019
…by manufacturers, as a smoking cessation aid, it is increasingly used by young people, according to the latest 2017-18 FDA data. Some children as young as middle school are attracted by e-cigarette flavorings, like watermelon, strawberry shortcake ice cream and sour candy. “Vaping rates have increased 48 percent in middle-schoolers…
December 18, 2017
…San Diego School of Medicine and published in BMJ Tobacco Control.
September 2, 2020
Two UC San Diego School of Medicine-led analyses report that e-cigarettes are not effective in helping adults to quit smoking.
April 22, 2014
Elizabeth Kim, Joshua Young Yang and Maarouf Saad are the University of California, San Diego’s latest undergraduate students to be acknowledged with the national Barry Goldwater Scholarship and Excellence in Education Program Award for their research in the sciences. Kim and Yang were selected to receive the scholarship—regarded as the…
November 15, 2011
…past half-century – DDT, tobacco smoke, acid rain, the ozone hole, and global warming – Oreskes and Conway reveal a historical pattern in which a small group of science advisors undermine scientific findings and raise doubt about the work of scientific experts.” Ed Larson, chair of the Davis Prize committee,…
