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Richmond gest kudos on anti-smoking effort
Richmond, not usually associated with stellar air quality, won praise Tuesday for protecting its residents’ lungs by enacting some of the toughest anti-smoking laws in the country.
“We have lots of challenges in this city, but we can also be at the forefront of change,” said Mayor Gayle McLaughlin. “We managed to pass some groundbreaking legislation [...]
Tobacco prevention costs money, but saves lives
There is nothing more important to better health than quitting smoking, although dropping those extra pounds comes in a close second.
Reducing the numbers of smokers in America isn’t just about helping people live longer — it has a direct effect on health care costs, which you might have noticed, have been getting a lot of [...]
Law banning smoking in closed public areas will improve health and business
Restaurant workers and patrons in Lebanon are being exposed to hazardous levels of tobacco smoke, thus prompting researchers and business owners at an AUB conference to call for complete smoking bans in closed public areas.
Organized by the AUB Tobacco Control Research Group, the conference, which was recently held in Gefinor-Rotana Hotel, assessed smoke-free policies in [...]
New York budget cuts target anti-smoking programs
Albany, NY — New York’s fiscal crisis is now expected to have to take another $10 million from the anti-tobacco program to help balance the state budget. Anti-smoking forces believe the proposal would end a TV ad campaign and eventually cost more in health care costs.
“That means a tremendous fall off of service,” said Russ [...]
Anti-smoking Vaccine Get’s $10 Million Booster Shot
Development of a long-sought vaccine capable of preventing addiction to tobacco just got a big booster shot thanks to a $10 million grant from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.
According to the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the $10 million will be used to fund phase III testing of NicVAX, an injectable drug already shown [...]
WHO praised UAE’s anti-smoking, cancer awareness efforts
WAM CAIRO, – Regional Office of the World Health Organization for the Eastern Mediterranean honored the UAE’s Health Ministry for its efforts to combat smoking.
This came at a cancer control event held in Cairo in celebration of the Breast Cancer Awareness Month in presence of the WHO Goodwill Ambassador for Cancer Control, Nancy Brinker.
The UAE [...]
Don’t let up on tobacco
Hawaii has been winning on every front of the war against smoking, most recently cutting nearly in half the illegal sales of cigarettes to minors in the past year. But the effort is now limited because of diversions of money from a tobacco fund set up to combat the deadly addiction. Legislators should restore the [...]
Tobacco warning from 17th Century
Doctors in the 17th Century were worried about the dangers of young people smoking, a recently unearthed letter has revealed.
The letter, written in 1606 by Dr Eleazar Duncon, said tobacco was “hurtful” to the nation’s youth.
It was found by library staff at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh (RCPE).
The Scottish Parliament will this week [...]
Smoking pregnant increases baby’s asthma risk
The study by Professeur Anders Bjerg of the Sunderby central hospital in Norrbotten and his specialists showed that smoking leads to babies being born underweight, a fact that has an impact on the development of asthma.
The Swedish doctors studied asthma in about 3,400 children between 1996 and 2008.
The study found that babies of smoking mothers [...]
Laos launches smoke-free city
Laos government officials have launched a smoke-free Vientiane to help address health and environmental concerns in the lead-up to the 25th Southeast Asian (SEA) Games in December.
Vientiane Vice-Mayor Somvandy Nathavong said the new initiative will target local businesses and people, in particular students and teenagers.
“If someone has smoked for a long time it’s hard to [...]
SRJC smoking ban to reach beyond campus
It is about get a lot harder to get a nicotine fix at Santa Rosa Junior College.
Long a smoke-free campus, the school is poised to ink a deal with the city of Santa Rosa to extend the reach of its no-smoking policy and lay substantial fines on scofflaws.
School trustees earlier this month approved a deal [...]
Increased Risk Of Heart Attack With The Use Of Smokeless Tobacco Products
Research just published on bmj.com reports that people who use smokeless tobacco products like snus (a moist powder tobacco product) have a slightly higher risk of having a fatal heart attack or stroke.
Over the last couple of decades, there has been an increase in the number of people in Europe and North America using smokeless [...]
Turkish ministry to pay people over quitting smoking methods
Chief of Fight Against Cancer Office of Turkish Health Ministry said that the ministry help people who want to sue the cigaret firms over getting cancer.
Chief of Fight Against Cancer Office of Turkish Health Ministry, Murat Tuncer said on Monday that the ministry help people who want to sue the cigaret firms over getting cancer, [...]
Anti-Tobacco Programs – an Ordinary Drop in Cigarette Sales
Today, the main occupation of Government is to control tobacco products and their companies, only because it considers that smoking tobacco is an unhealthy habit. In general, Government should fond programs that reduce smoking and its impact on public health makes it easy to persuade people that government should fund programs that reduce smoking.
The [...]
