As a major health care provider in the community and in Wyoming, we feel it is our responsibility to create a healthy environment for our patients, visitors, employees, volunteers, and everyone who comes to our campus. In 2009, tobacco use…
Monthly Archives: June 2010
When Parents Smoke, Kids’ Weight
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Two new studies suggest there’s a connection between parents who smoke and kids who are heavier or misbehave more than other children. The researchers haven’t definitively proven that lighting up puts kids at risk for bad behavior and extra pounds.…
New York Cigarette Tax Increase Delivers Victory for Kids and Taxpayers
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Washington, D.C. – Governor David Paterson and the New York Legislature have taken historic action to protect the state’s kids and taxpayers from the devastating toll of tobacco use by increasing the state cigarette tax by $1.60 to $4.35 per…
Smoking cause gene mutations in older women
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Scientists report that smoking may boost the risk of colon cancer in older women by causing certain genetic mutations. The study appears online June 29 in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute.. Previous research has indicated that current and…
Are cells the new cigarettes?
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SAN FRANCISCO: The great cosmic joke would be to find out definitively that the advances we thought were blessings – from the hormones women pump into their bodies all their lives to the fancy phones people wait in line for…
FDA Oversight of Tobacco
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RICHMOND, VA – After one year of overseeing tobacco regulation, one group feels that the FDA is far from taking aggressive steps to reduce smoking, the Associated Press reports. Such had been the goal of anti-tobacco advocates last June when…
Nicotine replacement before quitting cigarettes?
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Normally, nicotine replacement therapy (NRT) — including nicotine patches, gum, lozenges and nasal sprays — is begun once a smoker quits. But some recent studies have looked at whether “pre-quitting” NRT, begun a few weeks before a smokers’ scheduled quit…
Sonia Poulton reveals her dark secret
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A confession. I have a deep, dark secret. One that has haunted me for 13 years. Those who know me are aware of it – and have judged me accordingly – but I will have to live with it for…
Plan to enforce no-smoking law at Kuwait Airport
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KUWAIT CITY, Acting Director-General of the General Airport Security Department Brigadier General Khaled Al-Saqubi has hinted a plan to impose the maximum penalty on anyone who smokes at Kuwait airportKuwait airportLoading…, reports Al-Jarida daily. The penalty, which has rarely been…
Fruits Juice Helps to Quit Smoking
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According to the World Health Organization about 20% of the population uses cigarettes. Smoking causes more than one in five preventable deaths across the United States. Up-to-date medicine proposes pills and patches that will help you stop smoking, but the…
Duty free cigarettes under review
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Duty free cigarettes are also under review as preparations are made to ban smoking in prisons from July next year. Tobacco, lighters and matches will all be banned from prisons after a 12 month campaign to help smokers kick the…
WHO to beef up efforts against cigarette epidemic
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The World Health Organization (WHO) is continuing to intensify efforts against the global tobacco epidemic. Tobacco control initiatives are being imposed around the world, such as smoke-free environments in both public and workplaces, a ban on tobacco advertising and sponsorship…
Plain packs of cigarettes could turn teenagers off smoking
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Wiping virtually all branding off cigarette and tobacco packets could prove crucial in turning teenagers off smoking, a New Zealand study indicates. Australia is the first country to announce a plan to force tobacco into plain packaging with large pictorial…
Filipino Muslims forbidden to smoke
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MANILA, Philippines – A religious ruling or fatwa has been issued by the Supreme Council of Darul Ifta of the Philippines stating that smoking cigarettes is “haram” or forbidden. Muslims are thus not allowed to manufacture, buy, sell, trade or…