Anti smoking
Mad Men Can Be Dangerous To Your Health
Desperate Housewives star Kathryn Joosten would like a word with the folks behind Mad Men. No, she’s not looking for a job on the hit AMC drama, but… Joosten, who plays Karen McCluskey on Housewives, thinks there should be a warning at the beginning of Mad Men episodes because of all the smoking the characters [...]
Headaches in teens tied to overweight, smoking and lack of exercise
ST. PAUL, Minn. – Teens who are overweight, get little exercise or who smoke may be more likely to have frequent headaches and migraines than teens with none of these factors, according to a study published in the August 18, 2010, online issue of Neurology®, the medical journal of the American Academy of Neurology. Teens [...]
Vancouver man walking to support abolition of tobacco industry
While most people are currently hiding in their air-conditioned homes, Errol Povah is running across the country to support his goal of a tobacco-free world. Povah, 57, left Victoria May 31, which was the World Health Organization’s 23rd annual World No Tobacco Day and is walking toward Montreal and, if he has time and the [...]
New Tobacco Control Action Grants
The African Tobacco Control Consortium (ATCC), an alliance of about five regional public health institutions involved in the campaign against increasing use of tobacco announced it had launched a call for concept notes for Tobacco Control Action Grants. Aimed at NGOs and Academic Institutions, the grant, according to a press statement from the Communications office [...]
New state law aims at keeping tobacco beyond kids’ reach
The next generation of tobacco products — from battery-powered e-cigarettes to strawberry-scented little cigars — will be harder for young Minnesotans to buy starting Sunday. A new state law is requiring convenience stores and other retailers to keep tobacco products behind the counter, rather than in appealing displays within easy reach of young customers. It [...]
One million signatures for no-smoking campaign
More than 1.2 million signatures have been collected during a one-month No Smoking House campaign in Vietnam. The figure was released by the Vietnam Women’s Union (VWU) Central Committee and the Office of the World Health Organisation (WHO) in Vietnam at a meeting to sum up the campaign in Hanoi on July 22. The No [...]
FDA Oversight of Tobacco
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 President Obama signed a law delegating the oversight responsibility to the agency. However, to date, [...]
WHO to beef up efforts against cigarette epidemic
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 and mandating pictorial warnings on cigarette packs. However, it seems that people are still lighting [...]
Filipino Muslims forbidden to smoke
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 promote tobacco since doing so is “aiding someone in committing a sin.” The Supreme Council, [...]
Big tobacco still targeting kids
OTTAWA – Tobacco companies are squeezing through loopholes in a new federal law banning candy-flavoured cigarillos so they can continue to sell smokes that appeal to kids, QMI Agency has learned. The Tories pledged to get rid of the cigarette-size cigars – in flavours like grape, tangerine and vanilla – because they target children. But [...]
A colorful death by tobacco
I once knew a man who would order multiple meals and a diet soda. He was morbidly obese, a man of robust appetites and grand gestures (he often simply said, “I’ll have the left-hand side of the menu”) who died around his 50th birthday. But as tragic as he was, there was always something mildly [...]
FDA Tobacco War Continues
A week before the new ban on marketing cigarettes with “light,” “mild,” or “low-tar” labels took effect Tuesday, Philip Morris USA was already dealing with demands by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) that the tobacco company provide all documents related to their recent marketing campaign. The FDA is concerned that Philip Morris USA [...]
18 certificate: Children could be banned from watching films featuring smoking
Children could be banned from watching films in which characters are seen smoking, it emerged today. An 18 certificate – usually reserved for movies with violent and sexual content – would be attached to any film release which features the unhealthy habit, in attempt to prevent it from appearing glamorous. If the plan goes ahead, [...]
