Cigar warning labels are not equally believable among adolescents
Less than 50 percent of surveyed teens found it ‘very believable’ that cigars are not a safe alternative to cigarettes, according to a first-of-its-kind UNC School of Medicine study.
Category: Families
UNC expert weighs in on e-cigarette debate
Rob Tarran, PhD, says much is unknown about the effects of vaping, but data thus far suggest it is not harmless.
Repeated exposure of children to secondhand smoke is child abuse, G...
Dr. Adam Goldstein, who is director of the tobacco intervention programs in the UNC School of Medicine, argues his point in an opinion piece published in the March/April 2015 issue of Annals of Family Medicine.
Genetically speaking, mammals are more like their fathers
A first of its kind study shows that who we inherit genetic variants from – our mother or father – is crucial for the development of diseases and for research studies aimed at finding causes and potential treatments.