Objective: The approach and credibility of future physicians and nurses as treatment providers for smoking-and tobacco-related diseases may be influenced by their smoking habits. We compared smoking ...

WORCESTER - Smoking will no longer be allowed in nursing homes and other similar facilities as of Jan. 1. The Board of Health Monday night unanimously voted to add those facilities to the list of ...

Raleigh | Smoking will be prohibited inside North Carolina's nursing homes and assisted living facilities beginning Oct. 1, but some professionals say the ban may harm the people it's supposed to ...

Tobacco is the second major cause of death and the fourth most common risk factor for disease in the world. It is currently responsible for about 5 million deaths each year. Smoking is a heavy burden ...

LOUISVILLE, KY. — Samantha McCandless began smoking when she was 9 after her teenage baby sitter hooked her on cigarettes. More than a quarter-century later, despite being a nursing supervisor at a ...

Longtime smoker Sherwin Williams wants to keep his cigarettes in his Auburn nursing-home room and light up anytime in a place that’s safe and poses no danger to other residents. “I think it’s my First ...

Nursing students are more likely to smoke cigarettes and to be more severely nicotine-dependent than medical students, says a study published in the October issue of CHEST, the peer-reviewed journal ...

With the opening of a hookah bar in the area and recent the rise in interest in hookah-smoking, we as Villanova University nursing students feel it is important to share with the community our ...

Researchers in the School of Nursing have received two grants totaling more than $260,000 to develop interventions that help young adults quit smoking and improve sleep among people with multiple ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. – Newborn sleep, insomnia and nutrition interventions are under the microscope as eight undergraduate students conduct summer research in the University at Buffalo School of Nursing. The ...

The smoking habit of a senator's mother inspired the Legislature to exempt nursing homes from the statewide workplace smoking ban that went into effect last week. But don't expect elders at area ...

The low rate and severity of smoking among medical students may have an impact on public health, since the health practices of physicians have been found to influence patient behaviors and are also ...