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Life expectancy to rise if tobacco sales phased out
New Zealanders would live longer if tobacco sales were ended by 2020, according to new research published today in the New Zealand Medical Journal. Maori could expect a five-year gain, while the life expectancy of non-Maori would be three years longer if sales ended by 2020 and the gains projected to 2040, researchers from Otago [...]
RTP to get vaccine-making facility
A Canadian developer of flu inoculations and other vaccines plans to use a $21 million U.S. Defense Department grant to build an 87,000-square-foot production facility in Research Triangle Park. Medicago, based in Quebec, plans to create 85 jobs paying $50,229 on average, not including benefits, over three years. The Medicago jobs would pay less than [...]
Fight vs smoking in Philippines
MANILA, Philippines—The government is fighting an uphill battle against smoking, according to Health Secretary Esperanza Cabral. “We face a long and difficult journey in our quest to reduce the evil effects of tobacco use in the country,” Cabral said at the launch Thursday of the Department of Health’s (DoH’s) “NoSi,” or No to Sigarilyo campaign [...]
Children pay the price of tobacco
Smoking is an expensive habit as a well as a dangerous one. I know; I smoke. At the last count (ie, yesterday evening) a packet of cigarettes cost €8.50. A shocking waste of money. But spare a thought for the children, many younger than nine, featured in Jenny Kleeman’s Unreported World programme. They labour for [...]
Fight for Children get D.C. smoking ban exemption for 2010 events
For decades, Washington power brokers have gathered on Saint Patrick’s Day to toast, and in some cases invent their Irishness with Guinness, Kelly green cummerbunds and cigar smoke. Last year, they survived without the smoke. But not everyone was happy, to the point that one legislator has pushed an emergency bill in the D.C. Council [...]
Tobacco-free group to meet. Stop smoking classes
Tobacco-free group to meet The Grand Forks Tobacco Free Coalition will hold a community forum from 6 to 8 tonight on the sixth floor of the Grand Forks County Office Building, 151 S. Fourth St., to discuss the future of adopting smoke-free workplace rules in Grand Forks. Stop smoking classes set Freedom from Smoking classes [...]
Exposure to secondhand smoke increases risk for Type 2 diabetes
Chronic secondhand smoke exposure significantly increases the risk for Type 2 diabetes, show results from a study of Greek and Cypriot elderly men and women. “While active smoking is strongly related to the development of diabetes mellitus, the role of exposure to secondhand smoke in the development of diabetes mellitus is unclear,” write Demosthenes Panagiotakos [...]
Progress in Stamping Out Smoking Has Stalled
After decades of progress, the number of Americans who smoke hasn’t budged over the last five years and actually rose slightly from 2007 to 2008, according to a new report from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Over the longer term, smoking rates have declined. From 1998 to 2008, the percentage of smokers [...]
Student Health Services strives toward a tobacco free campus
Student Health Services is making plans to turn UW-River Falls into a tobacco free campus within two years, with the help of its students, staff and faculty. The results of the 2008 Tobacco Free Survey suggest that students are now ready for a change of scenery on their campus by changing the rules on tobacco [...]
Funding cut for Franklin County stop-smoking program
When Stacy McCole gets a phone call from someone looking for help with quitting smoking, the resources she now has available are limited. The recent passage of the state budget has left some programs with less funding than they’ve had in previous years or no funding at all. The Healthy Communities Partnership of Greater Franklin [...]
Statewide Teen Smoking-Cessation Trial is the First to Achieve Significant Increase in Prolonged Quit Rates
SEATTLE, Oct. 12 /PRNewswire/ — For the first time, researchers at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center have demonstrated that it is possible to successfully recruit and retain a large number of adolescent smokers from the general population into a smoking intervention study and, through personalized, proactive telephone counseling, significantly impact rates of six-month continuous quitting. [...]
Anti-Smoking Drive Fails to Curb Male Tobacco Abuse
HANOI, – At a ‘tra da’ (iced tea) stand in Hanoi’s Truc Bach area, men in baggy white singlets sit on low plastic stools drinking strong green tea poured from a chipped porcelain tea pot. A hissing squeal cuts over the revving of a motorbike one street down as one of the men pulls smoke [...]
Stringent anti-smoking measures needed
DAMMAM – Convincing teenagers to stop smoking is a tough issue for both parents and authorities at their educational institutions. Most of the teens who smoke don’t show the habit while in educational institutions or at home; a majority of them smoke in public places where there are no restrictions. “I have a right to [...]
Why Quitting Smoking is So Hard
Smoking causes cancer, emphysema and heart disease. It’s no secret that smoking deteriorates one’s health, yet kicking the bad habit remains a difficult task. New research reveals how your own memories may make quitting even harder. Researchers explain why many smokers urge to light up after meals, while drinking alcohol, or driving home from work. [...]
