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Lessons Learned From Tobacco Control Should be Applied to Climate Policy
The approach the world has taken to tobacco control holds many lessons for the COP-15 Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen. A newly-published article in The Lancet (available with free registration) summarizes the many similarities between tobacco control and climate policy, and how the lessons learned from tobacco control can be applied to the way countries [...]
Increase efforts to tighten tobacco control
According to the data of the Chinese Ministry of Health, there are 350 million smokers on the Chinese mainland (an average of one in three individuals). The population of passive smokers is more than 540 million. What is worrying is that the number of young smokers has reached 200 million.
One million people die from tobacco-related [...]
Teenagers serve on the Tobacco Control Youth Board
Two Newton County teenagers now serve on the Tobacco Control Youth Board (TCYB), the statewide Youth Leadership Initiative of Arkansas’ Tobacco Prevention Cessation Program.
Lauren Hardaway was elected Sept. 5 and joins Mirah Davis who was elected to the board earlier this year.
“This is a picture of two of my NCTEG Students Working Against Tobacco (SWAT) [...]
Vietnam’s efforts in tobacco control praised
Co-President of the Global Smoke-free Partnership, E. Ulysses Dorotheo, praised Vietnam’s efforts in tobacco control at a seminar held in Hanoi on September 15- 16.
The seminar, entitled “For a Tobacco-free Vietnam”, was co-organised by the Health Ministry and the American Cancer Society for the media to exchange experiences in communications works on smoking.
Dorotheo [...]
Tobacco control successes in recent years
DC has had a few notable tobacco control successes in recent years. In January 2007, comprehensive smoke-free legislation went into effect, and in October 2008, the cigarette tax was doubled from $1 to $2 per pack. These policy changes, in combination with DCTFF’s tobacco prevention and cessation programs, have contributed to an environment where tobacco [...]
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 [...]
The Problem With Prevention
When politicians talk about prevention and health care, they are prone to sweeping statements about how preventive services not only keep people healthy but also save money. Just last Sunday, President Obama wrote in The Times:
Most importantly, we will require insurance companies to cover routine checkups and preventive care, like mammograms and colonoscopies. There’s no [...]
Tobacco control act
Empirical evidence does not generally support the cdc claim that states that spend more on tobacco control deter more tobacco use than states that spend less. Contemporaneous spending on tobacco control is never found to exert an inverse effect on sales, and at times is found to exert a significant and positive effect on sales, [...]
Health grant pays for tobacco prevention education in county
The Quit Doc Research and Education Foundation has been awarded a state health grant to provide free tobacco awareness and prevention programs in Martin County.
The focus is to reduce the number of teenagers who start smoking each year, to decrease the number of tobacco related deaths and to provide information on appropriate methods to quit [...]
Smoke-free air celebration
The Metro Omaha Tobacco Action Coalition (MOTAC) will celebrate at its annual Recognition Luncheon the statewide smoke-free air law from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. May 29 at the Thompson Alumni Center, 6705 Dodge St., on the University of Nebraska at Omaha campus.
The coalition will recognize five businesses or individuals for their commitment to tobacco [...]
