Smoking policy

Israel should completely bar smoking in public

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One of the world’s leading anti-tobacco fighters, Prof. Gregory Connolly of the Harvard School of Public Health, advises Israel to abandon its policy of optional “smoking rooms” in public places and to completely bar lighting up in such locations instead.
In an exclusive interview with The Jerusalem Post on Monday during his second visit to the [...]

Watching TV As Bad For Heart As Smoking

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A study from the American Heart Association says watching television is as bad for your heart as smoking or high cholesterol. The researchers took a hard look at how much television patients watched, tracking more 8,000 healthy people and the ones who sat on the couch watching TV had a higher risk of dying.
The researchers [...]

Exemptions to smoking ban put health at risk

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Tennessee, if you haven’t already heard, has the fourth-highest rate of lung cancer in the nation, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and almost 10,000 people in Tennessee die from smoking-related causes each year.
That’s way too many, and that is exactly why state lawmakers should extend a ban on smoking to places [...]

Studies Quantify Cancer Risks From CT Scans

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Commonly performed CT scans are exposing patients to far more radiation than previously thought and in doses that could cause tens of thousands of cancers a year, two new studies claim.
Based on the findings, reported in the Dec. 14/28 issue of the Archives of Internal Medicine, the study authors, joined by Archives editor Dr. Rita [...]

Smokers Double Their Risk for Heart Disease

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A new study offers yet more proof that smoking is a major risk factor for death from heart disease and cancer.
Researchers followed 12,152 American and European male and female smokers, formers smokers and nonsmokers for three years. During that time, current smokers were 4.16 times more likely to die of cancer, 2.26 times more likely [...]

Heath Ministry Urges NGOs To Educate Youth On Hazards Of Tobacco

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The Ministry of Health (MoH) has urged the Vision for Alternative Development (VALD), Coalition of NGOs in Tobacco Control (CNTC), and the Media Alliance in Tobacco Control (MATCO), to educate the youth on the hazardous effects of tobacco use and exposure, to sensitise the public and other stakeholders on the previsions of the Tobacco Control [...]

UW Center for Tobacco Research and Intervention receives $9 million grant

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University of Wisconsin Center for Tobacco Research and Intervention has received a grant for more than $9 million for research to help people quit smoking.
UW-CTRI will receive the money over a five-year period from the National Cancer Institute, which is part of the National Institutes of Health, said UW-CTRI Director Michael Fiore. UW-CTRI had to [...]

New Web Site Provides Info On Upcoming Smoking Ban

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A new government Web site has been launched to ease the transition with a new law that requires restaurants, bars and lodging establishments that serve food and drink to go smoke-free as of January 2, 2010.
The Web site, www.SmokeFree.NC.gov, provides business owners and customers information on the new law, on the health hazards of secondhand [...]

E-Cigarettes Battle Continues

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PHOENIX – Despite concerns by public health officials as to their safety, electronic cigarettes are gaining ground in the United States, USA Today reports. The battery-powered device uses nicotine, flavoring and chemicals in a cartridge, which turns the nicotine into a vapor to be inhaled by the user.
State and local lawmakers are considering ways to [...]

Snuffing out tobacco use: AAP statements guide pediatricians

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A severely asthmatic boy visited the pediatrician countless times for his asthma. While his father was told that secondhand smoke, even on clothing, can trigger asthma, the father was never successful at quitting. After the father was killed in a car accident, the boy never wheezed again.
This tragic story demonstrates the negative effect tobacco can [...]

Pender Co. health officials push for stricter smoking regulations

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PENDER COUNTY, NC – Pender County health officials are pushing for more restrictions on where people can smoke.
Right now smoking isn’t allowed inside county buildings, but members of the health department want to expand that regulation to all county property, inside and out.
The commissioners said they wanted to get more information on how employees and [...]

Health experts issue warning about tobacco product

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SALT LAKE CITY — Health departments in Utah are issuing a warning about an alternative to common tobacco products. Officials say tobacco companies are beginning to market nicotine candy and fear people don’t understand what they are using.
Though the products look like gum or candy, they carry a punch of nicotine. And don’t be confused: [...]

Importance of Smoke-Free Policies to Reduce Risk of Heart Disease

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WASHINGTON, – The American Heart Association
supports a new national study which found that smoking bans are effective at
reducing the risk of acute cardiac events such as heart attacks associated
with exposure to secondhand smoke.
“This report makes it increasingly clear that smoke-free policies are having a
positive impact in reducing the heart attack rate in many [...]

New Policy to decrease Smoking Rate

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The Korean government has set a goal of reducing the nation’s smoking rate by 10 percent over the coming five years, health officials said.
The World Health Organization has helped its member states fighting against the smoking problem by offering five-year plans since 1990. For example the latest pact updated version of a package of six [...]

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Famous quotes

The only ’safer’ cigarette is your last one.
Duane Alan Hahn .................................
You own yourself, so if you want to do something that destroys yourself, go ahead. Just don’t harm others when you do.
Jim Goebel .................................
To see what is right, and not do it, is want of courage, or of principle.
Confucius .................................
If you resolve to give up smoking, drinking and loving, you don’t actually live longer; it just seems longer.
Clement Freud .................................
Smoking is a custom loathsome to the eye, hateful to the nose, harmful to the brain, dangerous to the lungs, and in the black, stinking fume thereof nearest resembling the horrible Stygian smoke of the pit that is bottomless.
King James I of England .................................
Smoking kills. If you’re killed, you’ve lost a very important part of your life.
Brooke Shields .................................
I’ll tell you why I like the cigarette business. It cost a penny to make. Sell it for a dollar. It’s addictive. And there’s a fantastic brand loyalty.
Warren Buffett .................................
If you resolve to give up smoking, drinking and loving, you don’t actually live longer; it just seems longer.
Clement Freud .................................
Giving up smoking is the easiest thing in the world. I know because I’ve done it thousands of times.
Mark Twain
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