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"We've seen the prevalence of youth cigarette smoking decrease over the past 20 years, but the rising popularity of these non-cigarette products is a fairly recent development that poses new questions for tobacco control and youth smoking prevention," lead study author Benjamin Chaffee, PhD, of the University of California, San Francisco, told CBS News.

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A year later, the teens were asked once again about their tobacco use. The results showed that teens who used e-cigarettes, hookahs, or non-cigarette tobacco were twice as likely to have smoked cigarettes within the past 30 days at the one-year follow up.

Chaffee said one finding that was particularly striking was that all the different types of non-cigarette tobacco studied were associated with approximately the same increase in risk of future cigarette smoking.

"These products are different in terms of how they are used and marketed, but as risk factors for youth smoking, they appear to be nearly the same," he said.

Teens who used more than one tobacco product were even more likely to start smoking conventional cigarettes.

Previous studies have also found evidence that e-cigarettes and other non-cigarette tobacco products are a gateway to conventional cigarette smoking in teens.

In 2016, the FDA banned the sale of e-cigarettes and other such products to anyone younger than 18.

However, Chaffee believes more can be done. "Regulation of these non-cigarette products should reflect the fact that all of them are associated with greater risk of youth smoking," he said. "Measures that reduce the appeal of these products to adolescents, like banning flavors, increasing the minimum purchase age to 21, and taxation, would help keep youth from starting to use tobacco in any form."

For parents, schools, and health care providers, Chaffee said the message to convey to teens is that there is no safe form of the habit. "The healthiest alternative is always to be tobacco free," he said.

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He's starting to lose his balance and peripheral vision. The 50-year-old has very little short-term memory, and the formerly glib salesman now struggles to remember and pronounce words like "raspberry" in simple conversation. And the headaches are so severe, he doesn't want to get out of bed.

It's because the left side — and only the left side — of his brain is shrinking, and has been for about 10 years.

"Every once in awhile, I realize, 'Gee, I can't do that anymore,"' Mitchell said.

Doctors do not have a clue why this is happening, and say normally suspect causes — like multiple sclerosis or Alzheimer's disease — are not at play here because they would equally shrink both sides of the brain.

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Mitchell is scheduled to have a brain biopsy at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn., later this month, a procedure that could be fatal.

Even though there is no guarantee it will uncover the cause of his shrinking brain, both Mitchell and his wife, Cynthia, said he has to try.

"I just don't want to sit there and not do anything," he says.

Mitchell's rare case has been featured at medical symposiums, but still hasn't produced a diagnosis.

He's seen about 15 neurologists, who have performed a battery of tests but found no answers.

"It was puzzling to the physicians," said Dr. Patrice Duvernay, a neurologist for Intermountain Health Care in Salt Lake City who has treated Mitchell.

Duvernay said the left side of his brain will continue to slowly shrink until doctors find a solution.

The shrinkage is only visible by looking at an MRI or CT scan, but what's going on inside his skull has taken a big toll on Mitchell's quality of life.

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The condition has completely changed Mitchell's personality. He now sleeps 12-14 hours a day, and said before he never slept more than six.

Sleeping and staying in bed about two days a week, he says, is one of the only ways to escape the constant headaches. A cabinet full of pain medication doesn't help.

Cynthia has seen her husband transform from a runner and hiker to a shy shut-in.

"It's hard, because David used to be such a vibrant extrovert," said Cynthia, who knows when her husband is having a bad day because there is a bulging vein in his forehead.

Mitchell also no longer enjoys socializing, because it frustrates him to probe for words while others wait.

"It's too hard to do it," Mitchell says. "I'm a lot quieter with people I don't know that well."

Another problem facing the couple is that they no longer have medical insurance. They say they were dropped after missing a recent payment.

Cynthia Mitchell estimated they will have racked up about $100,000 in bills by the time he has the biopsy. Neither a fund-raiser nor an account set up at a local bank has brought in much relief.

Despite worries over money and health, the Mitchells remain amazingly upbeat.

They have learned to laugh when David Mitchell forgets things, like how to tell the difference between a club and a spade on playing cards (he has to be reminded that spades don't have the "things sticking out").

"We laugh. We have to, or we'd cry," Cynthia Mitchell says.

A new study adds to a growing body of evidence linking the use of electronic cigarettes and other non-cigarette tobacco products to future use of conventional cigarettes in teens.

Adolescents who use these products, such as e-cigarettes, hookahs, non-cigarette combustible tobacco or smokeless tobacco, are more likely to start smoking cigarettes within a year, according to the new research.

"We've seen the prevalence of youth cigarette smoking decrease over the past 20 years, but the rising popularity of these non-cigarette products is a fairly recent development that poses new questions for tobacco control and youth smoking prevention," lead study author Benjamin Chaffee, PhD, of the University of California, San Francisco, told CBS News.

The study, published in JAMA Pediatrics, surveyed more than 10,000 adolescents aged 12 to 17 from across the United States who said they had never smoked cigarettes. Participants were also asked if they had ever used non-cigarette tobacco products.

A year later, the teens were asked once again about their tobacco use. The results showed that teens who used e-cigarettes, hookahs, or non-cigarette tobacco were twice as likely to have smoked cigarettes within the past 30 days at the one-year follow up.

Chaffee said one finding that was particularly striking was that all the different types of non-cigarette tobacco studied were associated with approximately the same increase in risk of future cigarette smoking.

"These products are different in terms of how they are used and marketed, but as risk factors for youth smoking, they appear to be nearly the same," he said.

Teens who used more than one tobacco product were even more likely to start smoking conventional cigarettes.

Previous studies have also found evidence that e-cigarettes and other non-cigarette tobacco products are a gateway to conventional cigarette smoking in teens.

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However, Chaffee believes more can be done. "Regulation of these non-cigarette products should reflect the fact that all of them are associated with greater risk of youth smoking," he said. "Measures that reduce the appeal of these products to adolescents, like banning flavors, increasing the minimum purchase age to 21, and taxation, would help keep youth from starting to use tobacco in any form."

For parents, schools, and health care providers, Chaffee said the message to convey to teens is that there is no safe form of the habit. "The healthiest alternative is always to be tobacco free," he said.

He's starting to lose his balance and peripheral vision. The 50-year-old has very little short-term memory, and the formerly glib salesman now struggles to remember and pronounce words like "raspberry" in simple conversation. And the headaches are so severe, he doesn't want to get out of bed.

It's because the left side — and only the left side — of his brain is shrinking, and has been for about 10 years.

"Every once in awhile, I realize, 'Gee, I can't do that anymore,"' Mitchell said.

Doctors do not have a clue why this is happening, and say normally suspect causes — like multiple sclerosis or Alzheimer's disease — are not at play here because they would equally shrink both sides of the brain.

But in Mitchell's case, the left side of his brain is 10 percent smaller than the right.

"That's very, very uncommon," Dr. Juan Troncoso, associate professor of pathology and neurology at Baltimore's Johns Hopkins University, 카지노사이트 - http://kaizenlogistics.vn/ said of Mitchell's condition. "There are cases described of degenerative diseases that are dominant on one side of the brain. But then, over 10 years of progression, you'd expect the other side to have some kind of abnormality."

Mitchell is scheduled to have a brain biopsy at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn., later this month, a procedure that could be fatal.

Even though there is no guarantee it will uncover the cause of his shrinking brain, both Mitchell and his wife, Cynthia, said he has to try.

"I just don't want to sit there and not do anything," he says.

Mitchell's rare case has been featured at medical symposiums, but still hasn't produced a diagnosis.

He's seen about 15 neurologists, who have performed a battery of tests but found no answers.

"It was puzzling to the physicians," said Dr. Patrice Duvernay, a neurologist for Intermountain Health Care in Salt Lake City who has treated Mitchell.

Duvernay said the left side of his brain will continue to slowly shrink until doctors find a solution.

The shrinkage is only visible by looking at an MRI or CT scan, but what's going on inside his skull has taken a big toll on Mitchell's quality of life.

He can watch a movie a hundred times and still not remember how it ends.

His wife can tell him to be ready in a half an hour to visit a friend's house, and within 15 minutes he will have no idea why she's disappointed that he's not dressed.

The condition has completely changed Mitchell's personality. He now sleeps 12-14 hours a day, and said before he never slept more than six.

Sleeping and staying in bed about two days a week, he says, is one of the only ways to escape the constant headaches. A cabinet full of pain medication doesn't help.

Cynthia has seen her husband transform from a runner and hiker to a shy shut-in.

"It's hard, because David used to be such a vibrant extrovert," said Cynthia, who knows when her husband is having a bad day because there is a bulging vein in his forehead.

Mitchell also no longer enjoys socializing, because it frustrates him to probe for words while others wait.

"It's too hard to do it," Mitchell says. "I'm a lot quieter with people I don't know that well."

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Cynthia Mitchell estimated they will have racked up about $100,000 in bills by the time he has the biopsy. Neither a fund-raiser nor an account set up at a local bank has brought in much relief.

Despite worries over money and health, the Mitchells remain amazingly upbeat.

They have learned to laugh when David Mitchell forgets things, like how to tell the difference between a club and a spade on playing cards (he has to be reminded that spades don't have the "things sticking out").

"We laugh. We have to, or we'd cry," Cynthia Mitchell says.

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"My impression is that we have a political culture right now that falsely pits fetal rights against women's rights, and that you are seeing a kind of snowballing effect," said Lynn Paltrow, of the New York-based group Wilkes-Barre General Hospital wouldn't budge, so Marlowe checked herself out and went looking for a new doctor.

While she was on her search, Wilkes-Barre General's lawyers rushed to court to get legal guardianship of her unborn child, giving the hospital the ability to force Marlowe into surgery if she returned.

Marlowe ended up at another hospital, where she had a quick, natural birth she described as "a piece of cake." She didn't know about the first hospital's action until her husband was told by a reporter.

"They don't know me from anything, and they're making decisions about my body?" she said. "It was terrifying."

Officials with Wilkes-Barre General did not return calls seeking comment.

Some groups representing doctors, including the American College of Obstetrics and Gynecology, have said that physicians should refrain from doing procedures unwanted by pregnant woman, and that use of the courts to resolve conflicts is almost never warranted.

A spokesman for the American Hospital Association wasn't immediately sure whether the organization has ever taken a position on the issue.

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Last month, prosecutors in Pittsburgh charged an unlicensed midwife with involuntary manslaughter for failing to take a woman to the hospital when her baby began to be delivered feet-first. The child died two days later. The midwife said she had been trying to honor the mother's wishes to have the baby at home.

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Legal experts and medical ethicists said attempts to prosecute women for pregnancy choices, or force them to undergo certain procedures for the benefit of their children, may be on shaky ground.

"There are 50 years of case law and bioethical writings that say that competent people can refuse care, and that includes pregnant women as well," said Art Caplan, chairman of medical ethics at the University of Pennsylvania.

In one influential case, a federal appeals court in Washington, D.C., ruled in 1990 that a judge was wrong to have granted a hospital permission to force a pregnant cancer patient to undergo a Caesarean in an attempt to save the life of her child. The mother and baby died within two days of the operation.

Doctors' opinions on forced care for pregnant mothers have changed, too.

A 2002 survey by researchers at the University of Chicago found only 4 percent of directors of maternal-fetal medicine fellowship programs believed pregnant women should be required to undergo potentially lifesaving treatment for the sake of their fetuses, down from 47 percent in 1987.

Dr. Michael Grodin, director of Medical Ethics at the Boston University School of Medicine, said doctors should seek court intervention when a mother refuses care only if the patient is mentally ill.

"Women have a right to refuse treatment. Women have a right to control their bodies. It is a dangerous slope. What's next? If someone doesn't seek prenatal care, what are we going to do, lock them up?"

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But Scientific Intake believes its DDS System is more palatable than a strict diet or surgery. The company expects to begin selling its devices Wednesday for about $400 apiece.

The company's chief executive says he lost 14 pounds simply by wearing it off and on over five months.

"Many people today ... eat so quickly their stomach doesn't have a chance to get a message to the brain" to stop eating, said CEO William Longley. "This helps slow you down, so you feel satisfied on less food."

To get the device, a dentist takes a mold of your mouth and sends it to Scientific Intake, which produces the plastic retainer-like gizmo and ships it back to the dentist for fitting.

With 30 percent of U.S. adults considered to be obese, health officials, nutritionists and even entrepreneurs such as Longley have been searching for answers.

Nutritionists agree that the DDS gadget could help, but some were mystified as to why anyone would spend hundreds of dollars for this approach.

"You don't need a $500 appliance to do this," said Madelyn Fernstrom, director - http://www.britannica.com/search?query=director of the Weight Management Center at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center said. "It's not a system — it's simply a physical barrier to eating."

A baby spoon could accomplish the same thing, she suggested. And for the money, she said, some people might want to get a personal trainer.

Still, the company lists a prominent obesity researcher among its scientific advisers, Kelly Brownell who heads Yale's Center for Eating and Weight Disorders. And at a major gathering of diabetes and obesity doctors, Scientific Intake presented results of a study that showed 24 overweight adults lost an average of nearly six pounds with the device over a month.

"This is a significant attempt to ... help people try and change their behavior, but we need more longer-term proof," said Judith Stern, professor of nutrition and internal medicine at the University of California at Davis, who was not involved in the study. "Losing weight is relatively easy. Keeping it off is really, really hard."

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Peter Wyckoff, executive director of the Minnesota Senior Federation's metropolitan region office, said the lawsuit — which the organization hopes will be awarded class-action status — represents a new phase in the group's efforts to make it easier to import drugs - http://www.cbsnews.com/search/?q=import%20drugs at lower Canadian prices.

"We have three branches of government that can change things," he said. "This is the third."

The lawsuit in U.S. District Court in Minneapolis alleges Pfizer, GlaxoSmithKline, Abbott Laboratories, AstraZeneca, Boehringer Ingelheim, Eli Lilly, Merck, Novartis and Wyeth Pharmaceuticals have acted in concert to block the supply of name-brand drugs to Canadian pharmacists that sell to U.S. citizens.

GlaxoSmithKline spokeswoman Nancy Pekarek said the company acted independently of the other companies, in an effort to preserve supplies of its medicines in Canada for that country.

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"The simple truth is that the importation of pharmaceutical products into the U.S. from Canada is not only illegal, but also dangerous because it increases the opportunity to introduce counterfeit or unapproved pharmaceutical products into the market," said the statement from spokesman Bryant Haskins.

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Merck spokeswoman Anita Larsen declined to comment on the suit, but said Merck "has not announced any plans to restrict or otherwise limit the availability of our medicines in Canada."

It was brought on behalf of the federation, which runs a program that helps its members to import from Canadian pharmacies, as well as three individual members who buy brand name drugs in the U.S. and "all others similarly situated."

"I think they're harmed because they have to pay a higher price here," said attorney Marvin Miller of the Chicago-based firm Miller Faucher and Cafferty, which is handling the case.

The lawsuit seeks attorneys' fees, unspecified damages and a stop to the companies' anti-import efforts. It's premised on federal antitrust laws as well as specific state consumer protection laws.

Last month, the federation held a "Pfix Pfizer" campaign that, besides the lawsuit, included congressional action, resolutions at Pfizer's stockholders meeting, and a boycott of Pfizer's over-the-counter products.

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The first two human embryonic stem cell lines to be deposited in the bank were developed at King's College London and the Center for Life in Newcastle, England.

Regulations on cloning and stem cell research vary across Europe and around the world. The most liberal rules apply in Britain, where scientists can apply for a license to create human embryos by cloning in order to extract stem cells.

Stem cells can potentially grow into any type of human tissue. Scientists believe they could potentially be used to treat a range of diseases. Stem cells can be found in adults, but scientists believe they may not be as versatile as those in embryos.

Extracting cells from embryos created by cloning using a cell from a patient would in theory ensure the cell transplant is a perfect match, averting rejection by the immune system.

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In addition, North Carolina and another dozen states have imposed measures to contain costs that range from capping program enrollment to reducing the number of drugs offered.

The federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates 850,000 to 950,000 Americans have AIDS or HIV, the virus that causes the disease, and some 40,000 more are infected each year.

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Most are poor and minorities. Nearly 80 percent are men and 60 percent are between the ages of 25 and 44, the report said.

Only about three in 10 patients who are being treated for HIV have private insurance. Nearly half of U.S. AIDS patients rely on Medicaid, the health insurance program for the poor. Some have Medicare, and about 20 percent have no health insurance at all.

The Institute of Medicine recently recommended that the federal government pick up more of the medical tab for low-income Americans because shortfalls in state budgets and confusing eligibility standards leave thousands of people with HIV with inadequate treatment.

Jennifer Kates, Kaiser's director for HIV policy, said budget pressures are causing "an upswing in the number of states looking at and instituting cost-containment measures."

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Still, Kates said, the study shows that many states are finding creative ways to provide drugs to HIV/AIDS patients. For example, 24 states are using AIDS drug assistance money to purchase health insurance coverage or carry forward the temporary COBRA insurance people can obtain when they leave a job.

By Mark Sherman