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Wayland Housing Authority units to become smoke-free
WAYLAND — By the spring of 2011, smoking will be history throughout Cochituate Village Apartments, Bent Park, and all the single and multi-family homes operated under the auspices of the Wayland Housing Authority. After two public hearings in June, the five-member Housing Authority voted unanimously on July 15 to institute a blanket prohibition on smoking [...]
Crowne Plaza Washington DC – 100% Non Smoking
The Crowne Plaza Washington DC – Silver Spring has taken one more step to “going green”, effective June 14 the Hotel will be 100% non-smoking. Located one mile north of Washington, DC in Silver Spring MD, the Crowne Plaza Washington-DC Silver Spring has implemented a 100% non-smoking environment in all 231 guest rooms and 17,000 [...]
Smoke-free air laws effective at protecting children from secondhand smoke
The children living in non-smoking homes in U.S. counties with smoke-free laws had 39% lower prevalence of cotinine in their blood, an indicator of tobacco smoke exposure, compared to those living in counties with no smoke-free laws. Children living in homes with smokers exhibited little or no benefit from the smoke-free laws. The study appears [...]
Smoke-free era begins in Michigan
At the Garden Bowl, bowlers have smoked since the first gutter ball in 1913. Bowling and smoking are so intertwined that a player is as likely to be clutching a cigarette in one hand as a bowling ball in the other. Until Saturday. For the first time in 97 years, the Detroit bowling alley will [...]
Canada’s largest mental-health hospital to go smoke-free
TORONTO — Canada’s largest mental-health hospital is planning to be smoke-free by July — but one patient-advocacy group cautioned Tuesday that a total ban will only succeed if supports are in place to help mentally ill patients deal with nicotine-withdrawal symptoms. “If you’re going to have no smoking anywhere, you have to help people with [...]
Push for tobacco-free campus gains ground
What started as one student’s effort to create a tobacco-free campus has grown into a University-wide discussion that could generate a smoking ban as early as April. Philosophy senior Chad Williams began formulating plans for ASU to go tobacco free after joining the University’s Health and Counseling Student Action Committee last year. “When I became [...]
Olympic smoking zones slammed
Special smoke pits will be set up at the rear of Olympic venues to ensure coaches and officials have a place to puff without having to leave the security perimeter. Vanoc’s chief medical officer said designated outdoor smoking areas will be set up in strategic positions away from crowds after requests from some international sport [...]
Children with asthma found to suffer from secondhand exposure
More secondhand smoke exposure means less sleep for children with asthma, according to new research from Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center. Sleep problems ranged from difficulty falling asleep, sleep-disordered breathing, nightmares, sleepwalking and increased daytime sleepiness, researchers led by environmental health expert Kimberly Yolton found. The study, which appears in today’s online edition of “Pediatrics,” [...]
UAE Yet to Create Complete Smoke-free Environment
DUBAI — Despite key strides in implementing tobacco control policies sans legislation, the UAE is yet to take effective measures to create a smoke-free public environment as per the World Health Organisation’s requirements. The second Global Tobacco Epidemic 2009 report released by the world health body on Wednesday urged all countries to implement stricter checks [...]
Apartment building going smoke-free
Russell Chandler has smoked for more than 50 years, but he is willing to curb his habit to be more neighbourly. He is one of approximately 90 tenants of the South Chatham Village Apartments who will have to adapt to a smoking ban coming effect at the apartment complex, Jan 1, 2010. “There’s no hard [...]
Gemmayzeh to go smoke-free for one night
BEIRUT: There are now smoking bans in place in over 70 countries across the world, but in Lebanon, where smokers seem to vastly outnumber nonsmokers, there have been no such efforts to curb tobacco use. In fact, Lebanon seems to be something of a smoker’s safe haven. Gemmayzeh, arguably Beirut’s most popular bar and restaurant [...]
MHCC’s switch to tobacco-free
Signs announcing that MHCC will become a tobacco-free campus on Jan. 2 should be posted around campus within the next few weeks, according to June Jacobs, assistant to the president for strategic initiatives and board relations. There have been a variety of advancements toward the change, said Jacobs, who also runs the MHCC committee that [...]
Coffee going smoke-free
ELIZA COFFEE MEMORIAL HOSPITAL – Smokers in the Shoals will have one less place to light up Monday. Officials at Coffee Health Group decided each of its hospital campuses as well as its two medical office buildings will be smoke-free starting Monday. Employees at the facilities will have a designated smoking area until Jan. 1, [...]
Cigarettes boost multiple sclerosis risk
Smoking cigarettes increases the risk of multiple sclerosis (MS), and the substance that makes cigarettes addictive, nicotine, doesn’t seem to be at fault. Past studies have confirmed the risk of developing multiple sclerosis among smokers. But to look at the dose – how much and how long people smoked, researchers studied 902 people suffering with [...]
