The American Lung Association recently announced its support of the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) strategic plan for new nationwide tobacco prevention efforts. The plan includes major tobacco control activities for which the American Lung Association has…
Daily Archives: November 23, 2010
Tobacco Giants Push to Increase Cigarette Sales to Africans
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As anti-smoking campaigns backed by higher taxes take hold in U.S. cities and around the world, “big tobacco” has turned its eye toward Africa. Tobacco consumption will double in the next 12 to 13 years in sub-Saharan Africa, predicts Evan…
40% of United Arab Emirates school students are smokers
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Forty per cent of UAE school students in their early teens are in the country’s ever-growing list of smokers, a senior health official has said. In a presentation made at the the 20th session of the Gulf Committee of Tobacco…
Preventing lung cancer is cheaper than CT scans
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In a slightly morbid tribute to National Lung Cancer Awareness Month, a large government-funded study released earlier this month showed that CT scans of smokers will reduce their risk of dying from lung cancer by 20 percent. Because every year…