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Current studies are being done that is showing the important relationship between smoking, drinking and marijuana use and how this can spill over from the teen years into adulthood. The findings show that prevention programs need to focus on all of these aspects instead of focusing on any one drug.

There is a greater risk of teenagers developing psychotic symptoms if their mothers smoked during the pregnancy. There is a direct link between tobacco use by mothers and psychotic symptoms which is being shown by new research published in the October issue of the British Journal of Psychiatry.

Manuela Martins-Green, a professor of cell biology at Riverside was quoted as saying, “our study provides compelling experimental evidence in support of tobacco smoke exposure playing a major role in NAFLD development.”

Researchers in Australia included cannabis in their national study of the impact of risk factors and diseases affecting the population’s health. In estimating the impact of cannabis, the researchers assumed that the evidence was sufficient enough to show a link between cannabis use and psychosis, suicide, and car crashes.

Unfortunately, prescription drug abuse has reached epidemic levels through the United States with nearly 7 million Americans abusing them. This amounts to an increase of 80% in the last six years. The numbers now exceed those that are abusing ‘street drugs’ (i.e., cocaine, heroin, ecstasy and other drugs).

Celebrity Disc Jockey,(Adam Goldstein) AKA "DJ AM" dies from prescription pills found in his stomach and one in his throat.

Approximately 2 million Americans currently use cocaine because of the temporary euphoria effect it provides. Learn what you can do to overcome the drug abuse.

According to a new study published in the September, 2009 issue of the Journal of the American College of Cardiology, the risk of heart attacks was reduced, as a result of smoking bans in public areas. This was noted particularly among younger individuals as well as nonsmokers and is reducing the number of heart attacks by as much as 26% each year.

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has shown new signs of regulating the tobacco industry by placing a federal ban on flavored cigarettes effective September 22, 2009.

By now, the world has read the sad news about Patrick Swayze's death as a result of pancreatic cancer. Perhaps what people don't know about him is that he has struggled over the years with addiction to alcohol and cigarettes.