A high-profile lawyer representing the three tobacco companies urged the Florida Supreme Court on Thursday to make it harder for thousands of sick smokers or their families to win lawsuits arising from the landmark decision of the judge six years…
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Tobacco use is on pace to kill 1 billion this century
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The World Health Organization warns that tobacco could kill one billion people around the world in this century. Global Adult Tobacco Survey noted that nearly half of all men and more than one out of 10 women use tobacco in…
Seniors find hard to resist without cigarette
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A vast majority of older people do not take a healthy lifestyle even after the diagnosis of chronic disease, a recent study showed. Only 19 percent of those diagnosed with lung disease to quit smoking within two years, depending on…
Indian anti-smoking lobby
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London, England failed to do that in Beijing, conducted with such success four years ago – make it smoke free. Despite the presence of large prevalence of tobacco use in the world, China has set an unprecedented standard for declaring…
Prohibitions on smoking
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Many U.S. college campuses are becoming tobacco-free as the U.S. schools institute a complete ban, indoors and outdoors, on cigarettes and related products. Some smokers say the bans violate their choice. At a larger number of campuses across the country,…
Plain packages will save lives
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She saw her mother and grandmother died of lung cancer and her father died of lung disease – but Gail Allsop has not yet quit smoking. This is because the 39-year-old has already convinced herself that she was going to…
One of the best anti-smoking ads ever created: Video
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Smoke gets in your eyes
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In addition to its other deficiencies, smoking significantly increases the risk of blindness. If it were not already enough make-ling reasons to quit smoking, think about the risk to your vision. While it is well known that smoking can cause…
Health experts outside insufficient awareness about tobacco risks
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In a message to quit smoking, health care professionals in the region is not vouched for tobacco measures to prolong life and maintain good health at the World No Tobacco Day (WNTD) on Thursday. Nevertheless, ignorance and lack of awareness…
Ban the sale of tobacco and alcohol
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Noted cardiologist G.K. Sinha on Sunday said it was time to introduce a ban on tobacco and alcohol, to prevent life-threatening disease claiming a heavy burden. He said after release of the book “Your heart is a cardiologist and you are…
South Korean smokers finally beginning to feel the heat
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After decades of indifference, big business and the government picking up the heat on smokers in South Korea, a country with one of the highest in the developed world in the men’s smoking. Some firms are pressing workers to quit…
Australia Confronts tobacco companies
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The Australian government said on Thursday that the release is available cigarette brands on the market was an act of desperation coming from the British American Tobacco Australia (BATA), which recently launched a new brand, which sells for only $…
Tobacco Jury awards $ 20 million in fines
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Jackson County jury awarded $ 20 million penalty to the local environment of lung cancer victims Emmon Smith, who began his lawsuit against RJ Reynolds Tobacco Company for about four years ago. This is the largest award in the history…
The project adds an anti-smoking measures
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Beijing is considering banning the sale of cigarettes on World No Tobacco Day every year, and he proposes to add to the list of non-smoking, under the draft decree will be published in this month to seek public opinion. Cigarette…