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New Tobacco Control Action Grants
The African Tobacco Control Consortium (ATCC), an alliance of about five regional public health institutions involved in the campaign against increasing use of tobacco announced it had launched a call for concept notes for Tobacco Control Action Grants. Aimed at NGOs and Academic Institutions, the grant, according to a press statement from the Communications office [...]
European Commission launches £13.5m anti-smoking bid
The European Commission has launched a £13.5 million anti-tobacco campaign targeting the young after a survey showed that 35% of 15 to 24-year-olds are smokers. The UK figure is even higher at 40% – exceeded only by France and Spain (48%), Belgium (44%) and Bulgaria (42%), with 39% of the 15-24 category in Ireland admitting [...]
Anti-smoking campaign to offer free counselling
Dubai: The UAE is making an all out effort to make itself a tobacco-free nation and over the next three months will run an initiative to provide free counselling to smokers, organisers said. Those who wish to give up smoking will be offered subsidised rates at the smoke-cessation clinics around the country. The first phase [...]
Mixed Smoke Signals in San Francisco
Last weekend, San Francisco’s new antismoking ordinance—which bans smoking in public places like bus stop shelters, outdoor dining areas and A.T.M. lines — went into effect. But while San Francisco city government is willing to restrict the use of the product, a committee of the the Board of Supervisors drew the line Monday at setting further [...]
Casteen’s decision to join Altria reinforces typical stereotypes in Virginia
Almost everyone at the University knows this is John T. Casteen III’s last year as president. What some might not know is that he plans on joining the Board of Directors of Altria as its 10th member. Altria Group, Inc. owns tobacco and wine companies, most notably Phillip Morris, the maker of Marlboro and Virginia [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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. [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
