Reuters:

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - The University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) is leading a $2.9 million National Cancer Institute project to increase demand for evidence-based, Internet-based smoking cessation treatment for young adults aged 18 to 24 years.

“Surprisingly, this age group has the highest rate of smoking compared to any other age group,” psychology professor Robin Mermelstein, principal investigator of the 5-year study, noted in a UIC podcast. “In fact, smoking starts to escalate between the ages of 18 and 24, and even though many young adults think about quitting and actually want to stop, they have among the lowest rates of quitting and trying to quit.”

Related Posts:

• E-school news — Grants power research on gaming for education
• Ruth Marcus criticizes Palin: Bailout, Palin-Style
• CDC: 100,000 probably infected with H1N1 swine flu
• Shawnee Rotary welcomes visiting Filipinos
• Rasmussen: 20% Would Buy New Car Online

Tags: University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC)

This entry was posted on Saturday, July 4th, 2009 at 4:23 am and is filed under Technology. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.