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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 involved with [...]
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 federations.
Critics [...]
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,” is the [...]
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 and [...]
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 feelings that [...]
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 is [...]
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, at [...]
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 multiple [...]
Tobacco prevention for next year
WASHINGTON – Tobacco use will kill 6 million people next year from cancer, heart disease, emphysema and a range of other ills, the American Cancer Society said in a report issued on Tuesday.
The society’s new Tobacco Atlas estimates that tobacco use costs the global economy $500 billion a year in direct medical expenses, lost [...]
Use of smokeless tobacco and risk of myocardial infarction and stroke
Oral and nasal smokeless tobacco products have been used in many countries for centuries. During most of the 20th century, use of these products declined in Europe and North America, but a reverse trend in prevalence of use has been reported in the past few decades, particularly among people younger than 40.
These products have been [...]
Detroit 101: where to find non-smoking restaurants
Despite the ongoing push for legislation throughout Michigan to ban smoking in restaurants as well as most workplaces, the dust hasn’t settled yet (nor have the ashes). It can only be hoped, for those with asthma, tobacco allergy, and any other respiratory problems, that this issue will soon be resolved once and for all. Despite [...]
No Cigarette Smoke No Pollution
Smoking cigarettes was prohibited almost in all states. For example at Danville businesses employees and customers are breathing much easier because smoking was banned in public places.
A recent study by the Boyle County Health Department and the Kentucky Center for Smoke Free Policy tested the usual quantity of particle pollution in the air at 13 [...]
Charlotte County’s Edison State College goes tobacco free
The Charlotte Campus of Edison State College on Wednesday became the first Florida public college or university 100 percent tobacco free.
Charlotte Campus President Patricia Land made it official during a press conference this morning. “Edison State College has always been committed to providing a healthy working and learning environment and transitioning to a 100 percent [...]
