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South Dakota smoking rates decline
The smoke is clearing in South Dakota. The state officially has fewer cigarette smokers than any of its bordering states, resulting in lower medical bills, healthier residents and safer children. According to the South Dakota Department of Health, only 17.5 percent of people ages 18 and up smoked — about 106,000 people — in 2008. [...]
St. Louis County gets large federal anti-smoking grant
CLAYTON — St. Louis County has received a $7.6 million federal grant to fight smoking and now has to figure out how to spend it. The county was the only entity in Missouri to get one of the 44 grants from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. In Illinois, Chicago got grants totalling about [...]
13 China colleges to offer anti-smoking courses
Thirteen Chinese medical colleges will introduce smoking control courses into their curriculum amid efforts to help raise public awareness about the dangers of smoking. It will be the first time that Chinese universities have offered such courses, Shen Huahao, vice dean of the School of Medicine, Zhejiang University, said Tuesday. The school is among the [...]
Grant to fight Big Tobacco’s new dissolvable tobacco products
APPLETON — City officials could know this week whether Appleton will receive $3 million in federal stimulus money to fight a new form of tobacco product seen as threatening children with nicotine addiction. Accepting the grant would mean creating four full-time jobs, including a police officer and a school health and tobacco educator, and filling [...]
Ban on tobacco sponsorships coming to legislature by 2011
Anti-smoking advocates including 17 senior legislators and political consultants are urging that laws be passed to ban donations or sponsorships from tobacco companies for Chinese events, such as expos, festivals and athletic events. The measure is expected to be enacted by the top legislature within a year. “The message will be conveyed to the coming [...]
National Non-Smoking Week Kicks Off
McGuinty Government And Partners Urge Ontarians To Quit Smoking Tobacco use kills 36 people every day in Ontario. It is the leading cause of preventable disease and death in Ontario – and one of the most difficult addictions to break. That is why Ontario is teaming up with the Heart and Stroke Foundation of Ontario, [...]
CN cancer program presents tobacco dangers to students
KANSAS, Okla. – In December, Cherokee Nation Comprehensive Cancer Program officials finished touring area schools in which they told students the dangers of commercial tobacco use. The tour, which began in November, reached nine schools for a total of 10 presentations and about 1,700 students. Stops included schools in Kansas, Jay, Dahlonegah, Bell, Zion, Rocky [...]
Will health care reform help keep people healthy?
St. Paul, Minn. — The U.S. Senate begins debating its version of health reform next week. One issue sure to get attention is curbing the nation’s soaring health care costs. Public health experts argue that one of the best ways to lower America’s health care bills is to keep is people from getting sick in [...]
University promotes healthy lifestyles
For American Indians wanting to quit smoking, the demonizing of tobacco can come at a cultural and spiritual cost. Tobacco has been regarded as sacred by American Indians for thousands of years and, in most instances, it was rarely inhaled. But as of 2007, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported that American Indians [...]
Allegheny County forced to cut no-smoking programs
PITTSBURGH – A lack of state funding is forcing a halt to most of Allegheny County’s smoking cessation programs. Tobacco Free Allegheny says it’s facing a 50 percent cut in state funds, so it plans to dismantle nine of its 12 contracted programs after Wednesday. Executive director Cindy Thomas said that tobacco prevention and cessation [...]
The anti-smoking program is feeling the pain of a dramatic cut in funding
Washington state’s anti-smoking campaign could be going, well, up in smoke. Tobacco Prevention and Control Program has been devastated by budget cuts this year, according to prevention advocates who fear the lapse in funding could trigger an uptick in smoking rates. The budget has essentially been cut in half from $28.5 million a year to [...]
Cancer society cuts Oneida ties over cigarettes
SYRACUSE, N.Y. — The American Cancer Society says it’s severing ties with the Oneida Indian Nation, jeopardizing the organization’s annual Coaches vs. Cancer fundraiser at the tribe’s Turning Stone Resort and Casino. The announcement came after the Oneidas said they’ve bought a cigarette manufacturing plant and will make their own cigarettes to sell. The Cancer [...]
RiverView to host tobacco treatment program open house
RiverView Rehab Services in Crookston will host an open house for the new tobacco treatment program on Tuesday, September 15th from 3:00 – 5:00 pm in the Cardiac/Pulmonary Rehab Department. Carbon monoxide lung screens will be available for no charge and refreshments will be served. Tobacco Treatment Specialist Stacey Grunewald will also be on hand [...]
EHS students push for no smoking policy
Eudora High School sophomore Madeline Dickerson remembers leaving the soccer field gasping for air only to get an unpleasant surprise. “We’ve had games we’ve gone to and as you’re coming off the sideline, you walk into a cloud of smoke,” she said. Dickerson said it was one of the reasons she and fellow EHS students [...]
