ARLINGTON — The University of Texas at Arlington goes tobacco-free starting Monday — banning cigarettes, cigars, pipes and smokeless tobacco at all times. Faculty, students, staff and visitors will not be allowed to use any tobacco products on campus, and…
Monthly Archives: July 2011
Smokeless Tobacco Isn’t a Safe Alternative
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Some people may think smokeless tobacco is a safer alternative to cigarettes, but experts at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention want to nip that idea in the bud. The CDC mentions these health issues that can stem…
Effects of chewing wild tobacco during pregnancy: study
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A University of Queensland PhD scholar is examining the health effects of chewing wild tobacco plants by Central Australian Aboriginal women during pregnancy. According to Angela Ratsch, over 30 percent of Aboriginal women who give birth at Alice Springs Hospital…
Huge market potential in smoking cessation
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BEIJING – Beijing resident Li Xinhua recently walked into a smoking cessation clinic in the city’s Chaoyang Hospital. Compared to other outpatient clinics, which often have long lines waiting outside, the smoking cessation clinic was not very busy at all.…
Middle-age health differences responsible for life-expectancy gap
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Forty years ago, Americans could expect to live slightly longer than Europeans. This has since reversed: in spite of similar levels of economic development, Americans now live about a year-and-a-half less, on average, than their Western European counterparts, and also…
Children imitate smoking parents
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Parents who smoke in front of their children have a negative influence on them, contributing indirectly to the growing number of child smokers. Some smoke in front of their children at home; others even send their kids to nearby shops…
Hot dogs as dangerous as cigarettes
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INDIANAPOLIS — Instead of grouping hot dogs with Mom and apple pie, a national medical group wants you to consider them as bad for your health as cigarettes. The Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine, a Washington, D.C., group that promotes…
Ontario government will fund the smoking cessation drugs
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Butting out becomes a little easier next week. Beginning Aug. 4, the Ontario government will fund the smoking cessation drugs Champix and Zyban, the Star has learned. Adding the two drugs to the Ontario Drug Benefit Plan — the list…
Heart Disease Prevention May Save Billions Annually in U.S.
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Prevention is the key to stemming the soaring cost of heart disease in the United States, which reached $450 billion last year, according to a new policy statement from the American Heart Association (AHA). Programs to better manage cholesterol, blood…
Is Internet As Addictive As Drugs, Alcohol & Smoking?
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How long do you think you could last without checking your Facebook page, sending out a tweet, or Googling something? An hour? Two hours? A day? A couple of days? A week? A month? If you really sit down and…
Oregon colleges and universities plan to go smoke-free
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On a sunny morning last week, a handful of students smoke cigarettes as they stand on a small patch of gravel on the edge of Portland Community College’s Sylvania campus. More come, smoke and then return to class through the…
Russia Pledges to Cut Number of Smokers by 2050
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Russian President Dmitry Medvedev wants to cut the number of smokers by 10 to 15 percent by 2050. Those are huge ambitions considering 40 percent of Russians light up. So why is it still so popular to smoke in the…
Shanghai sets to control public smoking at year end
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SHANGHAI – Controlling smoking in public venues, especially places dedicated to culture and entertainment, will be a goal of the Shanghai government’s in the next half of 2011. That’s according to the results, released on Thursday, of an anti-smoking inspection…
Websites offer help for teens efforts to stop smoking
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According to the Center for Young Women’s Health, (www.youngwomenshealth.org/smokeinfo.html) cigarettes contain about 4,000 chemicals, including some that are downright poisonous: • Nicotine: declared a deadly poison. • Arsenic: found in rat poison. • Methane: found in rocket fuel. • Ammonia:…