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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 [...]
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 [...]
Carreras relaunches Youth Smoking Prevention campaign
CIGARETTE distributor Carreras last week relaunched its Youth Smoking Prevention (YSP) campaign with the support of the Ministry of Education (MOE) and the Child Development Agency (CDA). The programme, which will run through August 2010, will cost the tobacco company $1.5 million to implement, according to Carreras’ Corporate and Regulatory Affairs Manager Christopher Brown. “We [...]
Massachusetts Anti-Smoking Campaign
Massachusetts is upping their game in the move to reduce the number of smokers in the state. A law requiring retailers to post graphic, unflattering pictures related to the effects of smoking is expected to pass in August of this year. The posters will be required to be posted within 2 feet of tobacco displays [...]
Anti-smoking campaign that shock France
The French aren’t exactly squeamish when it comes to sex. Nor do they typically bat an eye when it comes to racy content in advertising. Now, however, a controversy has erupted over an ad that some feel has gone a step too far: it doesn’t just evoke oral sex but actually seems to depict it. [...]
Plan to put tobacco in curriculum
Lessons about tobacco should be in a range of school subjects and take in more than the physical impact of smoking, say public health advisers. The National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (Nice) wants to stop youngsters from starting to smoke. It wants information about tobacco to be taught more broadly and to include [...]
A New Year – A New Quit Smoking Campaign
According to a recent research, almost half of smokers in England have resolved to quit smoking in the New Year. In New York was lunched a new anti-tobacco campaign “Stop Smoking Quit Kit”. The new campaign contains calming audio downloads, a stress toy and a tool for to help smokers work out how much money [...]
Anti-smoking campaign in Africa
In order to stop tobacco use from becoming still more widespread around the world, the World Health Organisation (WHO) has launched a campaign against smoking in Africa. Next year, the WHO plans to set up a regional hub there. Experts at the hub will work with the various governments in Africa and educate them about [...]
Stopping Tobacco Abuse In Africa Before It Is A Problem
Although tobacco use is not as prevalent in Africa as it is in other regions. That will change unless immediate action is taken, the United Nations health agency warned today as it announced a new tobacco control effort for the continent. The World Health Organization (WHO) says the focus will be on strengthening the ability [...]
Vermont smokers seek help quitting
Vermont is likely to fall short of reducing the number of adult smokers to 11 percent of the population — the target set in 2000 for 2010. Still more smokers are seeking help, especially from the state’s online Web site — Vermont Quit Network. The Vermont Department of Health reported Thursday that use of the [...]
Egypt’s anti-smoking efforts prove to be a pyramid-size task
CAIRO – Perhaps not since Egypt built the great pyramids of Giza or tamed the Nile with the Aswan High Dam has the government embarked on as challenging a project as wiping out smoking in public places. Anyone who has ever spent any time in a Cairo taxicab, restaurant, office, lobby or coffeehouse knows how [...]
Second-hand smoke linked to breast cancer
A panel of international medical experts has found a link between exposure to second-hand smoke and breast cancer in pre-menopausal women. Meanwhile, other research presented Wednesday suggests that women could “virtually eradicate” their risk of developing breast cancer by raising the levels of vitamin D they have in their blood. A panel of doctors and [...]
New anti-smoking campaign aimed at children’s health
Anti-smoking advocates in Hall and Buffalo counties are teaming up on their advertising campaign for the first time, aiming to bring attention to the dangers to children of second- and thirdhand smoke. Tobacco Free Hall County and the Buffalo County Tobacco Free Coalition announced on Thursday the launch of their new “You Smoke ” I [...]
Ottawa area teens getting hooked on cigarettes
OTTAWA, – A new study commissioned by the National Coalition Against Contraband Tobacco (NCACT) confirms that teen smokers are getting hooked on contraband cigarettes in significant numbers. These cheap and easy to get illegal cigarettes are being smuggled and sold throughout Canada in record numbers and quietly undermining government anti-smoking programs. “Kids, who shouldn’t be [...]
