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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 [...]
Imprisoned by cigarette addiction?
Smokers often start young, many times when they are not yet out of their teens. What begins as a peer group pastime develops into a chemical dependence that can eventually come to dominate their lives. “I was 15 when I started smoking. I smoked because I thought it would make me more manly and because [...]
Are You Ready to Say Goodbye to Smoking?
Kansas is kicking the habit by becoming the latest state to outlaw smoking in bars, restaurants and workplaces. Because of anti-smoking legislations, bars, restaurants and workplaces in Kansas remained without smoking sections. The Kansas Government called the new legislation a triumph for workers, families, businesses and future generations. Once it will be signed, the ban [...]
Hawaii residents back anti-smoking efforts
More than nine of 10 Hawaii residents consider it important to continue using the state’s tobacco settlement money for smoking-cessation programs and to reduce smoking among minors, according to a new survey. Tobacco companies pay settlement monies to Hawaii to compensate taxpayers for smoking-related health-care costs, and much of it goes to fund tobacco-prevention and [...]
Obama got wife’s backing by agreeing to quit smoking
London: America’s first black president Barack Obama’s triumph was not inevitable. In fact, he might never have run for the presidency had he not secured his wife Michelle’s backing by agreeing to quit smoking and spend Sundays with family, a new book has revealed. According to the book, ‘The Race of a Lifetime’, it was [...]
Funding anti-tobacco programs saves us in the long run
The 2008 Independent Evaluation report of the New York State Tobacco Control Program was recently released, and the news is good. Our tobacco control program in New York is working, and working well. Both youth and adult smoking rates are declining significantly faster than the rates for the U.S. as a whole. The smoking rates [...]
ICS seeks €1 hike for cigarettes
The Irish Cancer Society is urging the Government to increase the tax on cigarettes by €1 in the forthcoming budget in order to fund the fight against tobacco smuggling. The organisation denies that an increase in the price of cigarettes would increase the sale of cheap smuggled tobacco. “High price is not the problem. The [...]
Tobacco smoke linked with respiratory diseases
Tobacco smoke is involved in uncontrolled asthma, a diminished response to anti-asthma drugs, rhinitis, nasal obstruction, and deregulation of the immune system according to an international expert at the annual meeting of the American College of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology (ACAAI) in Miami Beach, Fla. Tobacco smoking has been mainly associated with chronic obstructive pulmonary [...]
The Best Chance for Smoking Cessation
A smoker who is trying to kick the habit has the best odds for triumph over cravings by utilizing a nicotine patch in combination with a nicotine lozenge. This is the key finding of a first ever study that compared the effectiveness of several popular smoking cessation products used alone or in various combinations. The [...]
Canadian Lung Association Host Youth Roundtable
OTTAWA, ONTARIO– The Lung Association today hosted a roundtable meeting with Prime Minister Stephen Harper and youth from St. Joseph High School in Barrhaven to talk about the impact of tobacco use among teenagers and young adults. The event was an opportunity for the Prime Minister to discuss with students leaders ways to move the [...]
Strict new anti-tobacco policy for Norton employees
LOUISVILLE, – Smoker or non-smoker? It can be a divisive issue and now comes the question, just how much should your employer be able to regulate when and how you smoke? Norton Healthcare is tightening up its anti-tobacco policy and it’s burning some smokers up. Try to find a smoker to talk to you about [...]
Tobacco is a preventable cause of heart disease
Chandigarh NGO Burning Brain Society, in association with Tobacco Free World Foundation, launched a five-year project for phasing out tobacco on the occasion of World Heart Day on Sunday. The project aims to create public awareness and motivate legal and legislative initiations to chalk out a methodology to end tobacco use. Hemant Goswami, chairperson of [...]
Children are against smoke
A generation of children are growing up thinking smoking is ‘uncool’ and are putting pressure on their parents to quit, ministers said. A poll of 1,000 children aged between eight and 13 found of those with a parent who smokes, 96 per cent wanted them to stop and almost two thirds would give up the [...]
Don’t think failure when quitting smoking
Many times we hold ourselves back from what we really want in life because we’re afraid we won’t be able to attain it. Fear of failure often causes us to shy away from setting goals that we deeply desire to reach and that would improve our quality of life. Failure, however, is fiction. There’s no [...]
