Anti-smoking advocates including 17 senior legislators and political consultants are urging that laws be passed to ban donations or sponsorships from tobacco companies for Chinese events, such as expos, festivals and athletic events. The measure is expected to be enacted…
Daily Archives: February 24, 2010
Are non-smokers smarter than smokers?
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Young men who smoked a pack of cigarettes a day or more had IQ scores 7.5 points lower than non-smokers, Dr. Mark Weiser of Sheba Medical Center in Tel Hashomer and his colleagues found. “Adolescents with poorer IQ scores might…
Lebanon may follow anti-smoking trend
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Reporting from Beirut – First it was the bars of New York. Then the bistros of Paris. Now the smoky teahouses and hookah cafes of the Middle East are pushing smokers to the sidelines. Eyebrows were raised last year when…