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A CHARITY will today call on people to pledge their support for a smoking ban in all private cars carrying children. The British Lung Foundation Wales has promised to redouble its efforts to campaign for an extension to the current smoking ban in a bid to protect children’s lungs. The campaign follows Wales’ chief medical officer Dr Tony Jewell’s support for further restrictions on smoking – he is the first CMO in the UK to call for such a ban. Ream more »
Farmington city councilors are to vote Tuesday whether to ban synthetic marijuana.
Officials in the northwestern New Mexico city say it’s marketed as incense but when burned and inhaled can be more potent than THC, the active ingredient in marijuana.
Synthetic marijuana, also known as salvia divinorum, is sold under names such as K-2, Spice, Genie, Zohai, Sage and Yucatan Fire. Ream more »
White House press secretary Robert Gibbs went on CNN Sunday, and once again the subject of President Obama’s smoking habit came up.
“I can report that it’s been probably about nine months since he last smoked a cigarette,” Gibbs said on Candy Crowley’s “State of the Union” show. “He has done enormously well in quitting. It was a commitment that I think he made to himself at the end of (the) health care (debate) and with his two daughters in mind.”
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Despite heated arguments leading up to a proposal to prohibit smoking in bars and restaurants, officials said the state’s indoor smoking ban took effect with few problems this year.
On Jan. 2, customers could no longer light up over dinner or drinks when the Tobacco Road state joined a growing number of states implementing restrictions about smoking in workplaces.
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The governor wants it. The Chamber of Commerce wants it. The medical community is clamoring for it and most states already have it.
So maybe, just maybe, 2011 will be the year the Indiana General Assembly crushes out the influence of the tobacco lobby and other special interests and strikes a sweeping blow for Hoosier health.
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If you’re making a commitment to a fresh start free of cigarette smoke, now may be the ideal time, with the Guelph Family Health Team by your side. The largest team of physicians in Guelph is collaborating on a cost-free smoking cessation program covering the education and medications needed to get you into a healthier smoke-free future with support from the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health and the provincial Ministry of Health Promotion.
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Farmers have also been spurred on by Zimbabwe’s adoption of the US dollar following the collapse of its own currency, with 99 per cent of all tobacco grown in the country now exported. Operators of a farm outside Zimbabwe’s capital Harare are harvesting a fine crop of lush 16 leaf plants to be smoked dry – the Virginia method of flavouring tobacco.
Last year the tobacco sold by growers was worth about $US274 million – this year that figure has reached almost $US500 million. Ream more »
The number of smokers in St. Lawrence County has dropped eight percent in recent years, but experts are concerned that a 10-year decline among youth might have halted. Local experts say their goal is to stop people from smoking before they start, so they are focusing on keeping young people from lighting a first cigarette. “Ninety percent of current adult smokers started at or before the age of 18,” said St. Lawrence County Tobacco Program Coordinator Ben Todd. Ream more »
It continues to get harder for minors to purchase tobacco products in Winnebago County. Ninety-four businesses licensed to sell tobacco products were checked in 2010 to see if they would sell products to people under the age of 18. Only five of the businesses sold tobacco to minors, for a non-compliance rate of 5.3 percent — a 20 percent drop from the 25.2 percent countywide non-compliance rate in 2009.
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