All Posts: smoking cessation
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Georgetown Lombardi Faculty Members Aim To Improve Lung Cancer Screening and Smoking Cessation Rates by Focusing on Equity in Care
Kathryn Taylor, PhD, professor of oncology, believes she can have no greater impact on reducing the burden of cancer than by focusing on the harms of tobacco use. The work she co…
January 12, 2024
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Tobacco Regulations Center Receives $20 Million for Tobacco Use Research
The Center for the Assessment of Tobacco Regulations (CAsToR) — a collaboration among Georgetown University, the University of Michigan, and the British Columbia (BC) Cancer…
November 1, 2023
- News Release
Intensive Telephone-Based Cessation Counseling Results in Improved Smoking Quit Rates
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July 12, 2022
- News Release
Smoking, Tobacco Use Among Teens Continues to Drop Even as Use of E-cigs Grows
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December 2, 2020
- News Release
Menthol Cigarette Ban in the U.S. May Lower Number of Smokers
WASHINGTON (July 8, 2020) — Extending the United States cigarette flavor ban to include menthol products could encourage existing smokers to quit and lower the rates of people…
July 8, 2020
- News Release
Adding Smoking Cessation to Lung Cancer Screening Can Reduce Mortality by 14%
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March 9, 2020
