Daily Archives: March 23, 2009

Tobacco dependence treatment

Tobacco consumption remains the largest single preventable cause of death in the world. There are now more than 1.3 billion smokers world-wide, forecasted to rise to about 1.6 billion by 2025. The World Bank projection is that on current trends…

Anti-smoking advocates in Halifax

Anti-smoking advocates in Halifax are concerned over what they say is the increasing frequency of cigarette advertisements that have appeared in the city’s free alternative weekly paper, The Coast. The Coast ran full-page ads by tobacco company DuMaurier in two…