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Harvard to help in smoking ban
Greece is gearing up for a blanket ban on smoking in public places by enlisting the help of Harvard University, with which it signed an agreement yesterday to provide help developing the government’s anti-tobacco policies and mounting publicity campaigns. The Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) will also help Greece conduct research, organize conferences and [...]
18 certificate: Children could be banned from watching films featuring smoking
Children could be banned from watching films in which characters are seen smoking, it emerged today. An 18 certificate – usually reserved for movies with violent and sexual content – would be attached to any film release which features the unhealthy habit, in attempt to prevent it from appearing glamorous. If the plan goes ahead, [...]
FDA Bans Light Cigarettes Brands
It was just a little over a year ago when Congress passed a landmark piece of legislation that allowed the Food and Drug Administration to regulate tobacco products. But in just a few days, its first new rule goes into effect and it’s already affecting local businesses in Eugene. Lighting up and taking a drag [...]
How Tobacco and Nicotine Affect Your Dental Health
Smoking has already been a bad habit of people around the world, not minding the bad effects of nicotine. Nicotine is a chemical present in tobacco plants and is considered by chemists as poison. By simply chewing or smoking tobacco, one can expose himself to the harmful effects of nicotine in the body. Nicotine does [...]
England smoking ban cut heart attacks
A ban on smoking in public places in England led to a swift and significant drop in the number of heart attacks, saving the health service 8.4 million pounds ($13 million) in the first year, scientists said on Wednesday. The findings of a large British study suggest that anti-smoking legislation has the potential to save [...]
Health Sciences bans tobacco use
West Virginia University Health Sciences Campus is now tobacco free, marking the first of WVU’s campuses to join tobacco-free efforts. The decision came after the University’s Board of Governors approved a policy banning smoking on the Health Science Center Campus Friday at its meeting in Charleston. The approval came because of “widespread” support from employees [...]
Spain says smoking ban to be in place in 2011
The government had hoped to tighten the rules on smoking in public places this year, but Health Minister Trinidad Jimenez said on Tuesday that tougher restrictions are unlikely to be in place before the beginning of 2011. She said reforms of a 2006 law that banned smoking in the workplace and Spain’s metro, among other [...]
Six years after the ban, plenty are still lighting up
Time was we used to mark the anniversary of the smoking ban in Ireland. Now March 29 passes without remark and we take for granted that historic day in 2004 when lighting up was outlawed in all public places. Recently Irish researchers, led by Prof Cecily Kelleher of UCD, linked the ban in Ireland, and [...]
State ban on smoking in public places upheld
A state district court has upheld the constitutionality of Iowa’s Smokefree Air Act, which bans smoking in most public places. Judge Mary Ann Brown, in a 32-page decision made public Thursday, affirmed the findings of state alcoholic beverage regulators who revoked the liquor license of Otis Campbell’s, a bar in West Burlington. Quantcast “There is [...]
A Total Smoking Ban is Necessary
Doctors have forewarned that anything else than a total prohibition on smoking especially in public places is inadmissible if the country wish to fight the bad effects of cigarettes smoke. A lot of young people are being cured for smoking-related lung diseases. However this disease can’t be stopped, because people continue to smoke more and [...]
Smoking lowers your IQ
Smoking has long been known to damage lungs and cause heart disease. But it could also lower your IQ, research has found. Young people who smoke regularly are likely to have markedly lower intelligence levels than those who do not smoke, and, according to the study of 20,000 young adults, the heavier the smoker, the [...]
Ban the e-cigarettes Before they Become a Trend Among Teenagers
The concept of e-cigarettes was initiated to help people who intend to quit smoking. For this purpose, the e-cigarettes have been made readily available on internet with tobacco, strawberry, chocolate, and vanilla flavors and are made accessibly legal for the minors as well. But teenagers of New Hampshire are opposing the technological cigarette smoking as [...]
Expert calls for total smoking ban
Anindo Banerjee, 41, respiratory specialist at Southampton General Hospital, said even though there is a ban on lighting up in public, cigarettes continue to be a major health problem and not just for older generations. He called for a total ban on cigarettes on the eve of No Smoking Day. Mr Banerjee said he is [...]
Spain postpones anti-smoking ban in search of consensus
Madrid – The Spanish government has postponed a parliamentary debate on tougher anti-smoking legislation in the hope of mustering more support for the controversial plan, sources of the Health Ministry said Monday. The government had intended to present the law during the Spanish European Union presidency in the first half of this year, but may [...]
