The ban highlights the serious problem of second hand smoking. It’s a issue that is particularly affecting young women.
Are you OK with people smoking around you?
“No, but my husband is really addicted to smoking, so what can I do?”
“Absolutely not! I will stop them if I see somebody smoking while I am waiting for the bus.”
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As African-American smokers are probably less likely to receive quitting advice from their doctors or use quit aids, here is a novel method to help them avoid smoking. A groundbreaking study now suggests that media campaigns proffering positive encouragement have a significant impact on getting African-American smokers to quit. It was mentioned that a campaign resonating with lower education and lower income smokers seems to be extremely vital in the health world.
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On April 12, the state House voted to advance Senate Bill 120, which will disassemble the state’s comprehensive tobacco control program. Currently, SB 120 proposes to take $42 million by diverting the tobacco company payments to, and raiding the assets of the Tobacco Prevention and Control Trust Fund over the next three fiscal years to balance the state’s budget deficit.
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High school students collected 1,087 cigarette butts in 45 minutes at Hunt Club Park Community Center, according to Vidal Anguiano, 18, a Zion-Benton High School student.
Anguiano is one of 26 members of REALITY Illinois, a Lake County chapter of a statewide teen prevention program. Anguiano and his fellow club members met with Gurnee Park District commissioners Monday to try to persuade the board to institute a tobacco-free policy.
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Voluntary smokefree units have been established at prisons throughout the country in the lead up to the implementation of smokefree prisons from 1 July.
Six completely voluntary smokefree units are currently in operation, (one at Otago Corrections Facility, one at Manawatu Prison, one at Rimutaka Prison, one at Invercargill Prison and two at Auckland Region Women’s Corrections Facility), Ream more »
I am writing to ask my elected officials to support a state-wide smoke-free workplace law for Alabama.
I have been around second-hand smoke for a long time. Several people in my extended family smoke, and any time we have a family get-together, they sit on the front porch and smoke. Even when I am outside on the porch with them, the smoke really gets to me. Ream more »
Flowood is about to join the list of about three dozen Mississippi cities that are smoke-free in public places.
Starting May 4, the Jackson suburb will ban smoking in all businesses and work places. Smoking will also be prohibited within 20 feet of business entrances in Flowood.
The Clarion-Ledger reports that Flowood aldermen adopted the no-smoking ordinance April 4, and it takes effect May 4. Ream more »
The coalition government’s new tobacco control plan is a victory for the nation’s health – and a defeat for the tobacco industry. Displays of tobacco in shops will go and the government will consider whether cigarettes should be sold in plain packs. Taking action against tobacco marketing is always welcome: smoking causes one-in-four deaths from cancer, and half of long-term smokers will die from an addiction formed, in most cases, in their teens. Ream more »
Pregnant women who don’t smoke but breathe the secondhand smoke of others have an increased risk for delivering stillborn babies or babies with birth defects, according to a new research review.
Children born to women who smoke during pregnancy have an increased risk for fetal death, premature birth, low birth weight, and birth defects.
Secondhand smoke exposure has been linked to lower birth weight, but it has not been clear if exposure during pregnancy influences other birth outcomes in nonsmoking women.
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National No Smoking Day is taking place this Wednesday (March 9th) and smokers living in flats to rent in the London borough of Brent are being urged to kick the habit.
The annual health awareness campaign aims to help smokers quit their habit, ensuring they have a fresh start without tobacco.
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