All kids have the same foe, and this is smoking. Adults and even children know the health risks of tobacco, yet the rates of smoking and using chewing tobacco continue to grow. Many smokers started smoking when they were minors.…
Monthly Archives: June 2009
Saudi anti-smoking campaign targets young grooms
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The catchy slogan, “Kicking the habit is on you, and marriage is on us,” is meant to entice young grooms to give up smoking by offering an attractive incentive. And, indeed, hundreds have expressed interest in the first anti-smoking drive…
Quitting smoking is winning
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Quitting smoking is tough. Even President Barack Obama admits he’s spent his adult life trying to kick the habit. He’s not alone. About 46 million adults in the United States smoke, according to the American Heart Association. The unsteady economy…
Hospital counseling helps heart patients quit smoking
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Smokers who suffer a heart attack may have better odds of kicking the habit if they get intensive counseling starting in the hospital, new research suggests. In a study of smokers who were hospitalized for a heart attack or heart…
How do cigarettes affect my body?
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Cigarette smoking is extremely harmful for your body. Not only do cigarettes lead to many forms of cancer, but there are bodily functions that are damaged from constantly smoking cigarettes as well. Killing more people than car accidents, alcohol, AIDS,…
Asia’s one-woman anti-tobacco campaign still going strong
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For most of the past 25 years, Hong Kong-based, British-born doctor Judith Mackay has been the tobacco control movement in Asia. She has pushed for tougher laws and higher tobacco taxes, lobbied for bans on advertising, and advised and cajoled…
Soy products Linked To Reduction In Smoker’s Lung disease
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People who eat lots of soy products have better lung function and are less likely to develop the smoking-associated lung disease COPD. A new study has shown that consumption of a wide variety of soy products can be associated with…
Anti-smoking campaign targets young grooms
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The catchy slogan, “Kicking the habit is on you, and marriage is on us,” is meant to entice young grooms to give up smoking by offering an attractive incentive. And, indeed, hundreds have expressed interest in the first anti-smoking drive…
More to do on tobacco control
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The American Medical Association reaffirmed its commitment to tobacco control at its Annual Meeting in the wake of recently passed legislation supporting the organization’s long-held position that the Food and Drug Administration should regulate cigarettes and other nicotine products. But…
Prescription eliminates urge to smoke
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Dr. Frances Bollinger, an internist with Hudson Headwaters Health Network, sees a familiar trend: When the price of a pack of cigarettes tracks upward, more of her patients decide they want to quit smoking. Earlier this year, the federal excise…
Danger in all forms of tobacco
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Cigarettes aren’t the only killers; pipes and cigars kill, too. Pipe smoking accelerated a family predisposition and killed my husband — a pioneer physicist on the cutting edge of quarks — at the age of 46. Cigars can do the…
Cigarette ads and smoking are insidious
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President Barack Obama has signed tough legislation against the cigarette makers, including how their advertising hits minors. He still smokes, but is trying to quit. The first lady probably will win that one, but, for now, he is vulnerable. I…
Titusville Area Hospital going totally tobacco-free
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Beginning Wednesday, Titusville Area Hospital becomes tobacco-free across the entire campus. Merrilynn Cushman, co-chairman of the hospital’s Tobacco-free Campus Committee, explains that “over a year ago, the hospital announced plans to become tobacco-free both inside and outside the hospital effective…
VELVET GLOVE, IRON FIST: A HISTORY OF ANTI-SMOKING
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“Don’t forget the cigarettes for Tommy,” ran one patriotic British ditty during World War I. American generals told their government they needed “tobacco as much as bullets;” charities sent cigarettes to the front line. After the war, nonsmokers seemed odd.…