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Advocates Lament Non-Health Uses of Tobacco Settlement Money
Despite the notion that the landmark settlement between state governments and tobacco companies a decade ago would be a boon for public health initiatives to curb smoking, few states have made tobacco prevention enough of a priority target for the funding.
British Authorities Credit Health Messages for Drop in Youth Drug Use Rates
Department of Health leaders in England are attributing decreases in drug experimentation rates among the nation's young teenagers to a well-financed campaign on drugs' dangers.
AA Members Remain Highly Reliant on Coffee, Cigarettes
The coffee pot and the cigarette remain prevalent symbols in the 12-Step recovery moment, although some theorize that use of cigarettes may pose a risk to recovery outcomes for members of Alcoholics Anonymous.
Young Smokers Underestimate Power of Nicotine Addiction
A new Canadian study finds that teen smokers often underestimate the addictive power of smoking and only realize they are hooked on nicotine after the fact.
Smoking May Cut Risk of Uterine Cancer for Some
Smoking causes many types of deadly cancers, but postmenopausal women who smoke seem to gain some protection from cancer of the endometrium -- the inner lining of the uterus.
Tobacco Companies Manipulated Menthol, Researchers Say
Tobacco companies adjusted the menthol levels in cigarettes in order to make them more appealing to young smokers, according to researchers from the Harvard School of Public Health.
Researchers Say Nicotine May Slow Dementia
Nicotine is addictive and toxic but also can improve memory, learning and attention, according to researchers who say that nicotine-based drugs could be developed to slow the progress of dementia.
S.F. Mayor Wants to Ban Pharmacies from Selling Cigarettes
Pharmacies would be banned from selling tobacco products under a new smoking-prevention plan submitted to the San Francisco Board of Supervisors by Mayor Gavin Newsom.
Preventing Youth Access to Tobacco Calls for Multipronged Approach
No single tactic can solve the problem of youth access to tobacco, and the most effective campaigns include retailer education, visits from law enforcement, and public information, according to researchers at the University of Oxford.
Smoking Cessation Drugs Outperform Placebos, Study Finds
Canadian researchers say that six smoking-cessation treatments all outperformed placebos, but that none achieved particularly impressive results in helping smokers achieve long-term abstinence.
Two Questions Can ID Youth At Risk of Smoking
Researchers say youth at risk of becoming smokers can be identified by asking two simple questions: "Would it be easy for you to get a cigarette?" and "Do you have friends who smoke?"
Smoking Shouldn't Be Banned from Movies, Schwarzenegger Says
Calif. Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger supports a plan to place antismoking ads on DVDs of movies depicting smoking but doesn't want to see smoking excised completely from Hollywood films.
Genetic Predisposition to Nicotine Addiction Uncovered
Americans of European descent who possess a certain gene variant are at increased risk of becoming addicted to nicotine.
Movie DVDs to Include Smoking Warnings
All new movies released on DVD that include smoking scenes and are rated G, PG or PG-13 will now include antismoking ads that will appear before the movie begins.
Secondhand Smoke Exposure Plummets, CDC Study Finds
Far fewer Americans are exposed to secondhand smoke than a decade ago, a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention study finds, and health advocates say that the findings show the need for more states to ban indoor smoking.
Snapshots UK Cigarettes 2008: An Instant Overview of the UK Cigarette Market ...
Snapdatas Snapshots UK Cigarettes 2008 provides 2007 year-end market size data, with 2008 estimates, 5 years of historical data and five-year forecasts. The Snapshots report gives an instant overview of the UK cigarette market and covers premium, middle range and value cigarettes. Market value is based on sales. Market volume is based on consumption. The data is supplied in both graphical and tabular format for ease of interpretation and analysis. The Snapshots UK Cigarettes 2008 forms part of Snapdatas Home & Leisure industry coverage.
Grant will help patients with schizophrenia who smoke
A ?200,000 grant has been awarded to researchers at Queen's to help establish why people with schizophrenia are three times more likely to smoke than the general population.
It is hoped the Medical Research Council award will help the scientists discover improved treatments for nicotine dependence - which can result in increased rates of illness and death from smoking-related diseases - as well as treatments for the symptoms of schizophrenia.
The funding will provide a three-year fellowship for Dr Ruth Barr, a psychiatrist in the School of Medicine and Dentistry.
Tobacco 'could help treat cancer'
The tobacco plant - responsible for millions of cancer cases - may actually offer the means to treat one form of the disease, a study suggests.
US scientists used the plant to "grow" key components of a cancer vaccine.
The National Academy of Sciences study suggests they could be used to tackle a form of lymphoma.
UK specialists said while "potentially exciting", more research would be needed to test how well the vaccine actually worked. . . .
The ironic new role for tobacco is the work of researchers from Stanford University in California. . . .
They are using the plants as factories for an antibody chemical specific to the cells which cause follicular B-cell lymphoma, a type of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma.
Nurses Can Help Patients By Taking A Stand Against Smoking
In the June 2008 issue of MEDSURG Nursing, Paul C. Lewis describes the prevalence of tobacco use and the challenges associated with smoking cessation. . . .
One method that has consistently helped people stop smoking is talking, and Lewis says this is an area where nurses can help. Medical-surgical nurses can play a significant role in getting patients to quit just by educating them about the dangers of tobacco use and offering assistance to quit. By following up and encouraging patients, nurses can take a stand against this significant national health threat.
"Tobacco: What Is It and Why Do People Continue to Use It?" Paul C. Lewis, PhD, FNP-C, RN MEDSURG Nursing; June 2008; www.medsurgnurse.org
Young child starts house fire with cigarette lighter
THE dangers of leaving cigarette lighters in reach of children was demonstrated last night when firefighters were called to a house fire in Holford Road, Taunton.
The alarm was raised at just after 7pm and two fire engines from Taunton dashed to the scene and on arrival they found the first floor of the property to be well-alight.
Menthol cigarettes 'target young'
Menthol has been used to make some US cigarette brands more appealing to the young, say researchers.
A Harvard University team said menthol masks the harshness of cigarette smoke, meaning new smokers get more nicotine.
They said industry documents showed US firms tested menthol levels for their appeal to different ages.
A leading tobacco company denied such product targeting, while anti-smoking groups said the strategy had not yet been tried in the UK.
More young people are saying no to drugs, says NHS survey
Twenty-five per cent of the 8,000 youngsters aged 11 to 15 questioned by the NHS Information Centre last year had tried drugs, compared with 29 per cent in 2001. . . .
The number of teenagers who had tried smoking also dropped, from
53 per cent in 1982 to 33 per cent in 2007. About 6 per cent of pupils smoke at least once a week - the lowest figure since pupils' smoking was first measured in
NHS: Thousands of schoolchildren drink six pints a week
One in five 11 to 15-year-olds in England - 640,000 school pupils - had drunk alcohol in the past week, figures published by the NHS Information Centre show.
The study found that the average amount consumed by teenagers who had drunk recently was 12.7 units a week, equivalent to six pints of beer or almost a bottle and a half of wine.
It also disclosed that a quarter of children have taken drugs at least once, and that one in three have smoked cigarettes. . . .
The study linked drinking with other "risky behaviours", finding that those who smoke or take drugs are more likely to drink alcohol as well. . . .
However the number of children who smoke has fallen to its lowest ever level, with 6 per cent saying they had smoked a cigarette in the past week compared with 9 per cent the previous year.
A Department of Health spokesman said: "The number of pupils who smoke is at its lowest level since records began in 1982.
KEEP BRITAIN TIDY SLAMS "THE YEAR OF THE CIG"
We are never more than three feet away from a discarded cigarette butt.
That is the damning verdict of Keep Britain Tidy on the first anniversary of the smoking ban.
The number of fag ends on our streets has doubled in the last 12 months.
Cigarette stubs and fag packets have now overtaken fast food as the country's worst litter problem.
Smokers have not taken responsibility for their actions . . .
Three months ago Keep Britain Tidy highlighted the cig litter epidemic by dumping a giant cigarette stub in Trafalgar Square. Ten thousand posters and banners went up across the country warning "Dirty Chuckers" of ?80 fines.
Teen drink and drug use falling
Rates of drug taking, smoking and drinking are falling among young teenagers, a national survey shows.
In 2007, 25% of the 8,000 11 to 15-year-olds surveyed by the NHS Information Centre had tried drugs at least once compared with 29% in 2001. . . .
The number of teenagers who have tried smoking has also dropped from 53% in 1982 to 33% in 2007, the figures showed.
Around 6% of pupils smoke at least once a week, which is lower than at any time since pupils' smoking was first measured.
Drinks suppliers on the smoking ban
Adam Withrington finds out what they make of its impact on trade
It is not an exaggeration to call the smoking ban the biggest and most significant piece of legislation to hit the pub trade since the Beer Orders.
Yet ask suppliers across the industry their views on how it has impacted on trade and the response is really quite inexact. .. .
Let's hope if we ask the same people in another 12 months, responses are more revealing.
However, what we have gives a fascinating insight into drinking trends in the on-trade. Unquestionably lager has suffered - something backed by research undertaken by Pernod Ricard.
The research suggests opportunities exist in other sectors of the drinks market. But the performance of cask ale proves that all is not lost for beer.
Smoke and mirror-images : Chantal Akerman's atmospheric films are wreathed in...
There are people who have a fetish for watching women smoking. I can see why. Just watching this is addictive, and I have the uncomfortable feeling that it is a kind of pornography. I quit only a couple of years ago, so watching Akerman's film remains difficult. Neither an aversion-therapy film nor a pious warning to the arty crowd, Women from Antwerp in November is a full-on, love-it-to-death smoke-fest. Gissadrag.
The footage was originally produced for a multimedia performance by Antwerp artist and fellow smoker Jan Fabre, and Akerman has reused it for this 20-minute long installation, with its 20 little stories - each as incomplete and unsatisfying as a single cigarette.The camera has always loved a smoke, and the prop of the cigarette. . . .
But Women from Antwerp is more than a record of a dying habit. It celebrates smoking's conviviality and the splendid isolation of the smoker, the smoker's exhibitionism and her pensive introversion. Meanings curl and writhe and disappear into the night. After a while, the idea seems stale and repetitive; it leaves you empty but hungry for more. That's smoking for you.
Smoking: how to kick the habit: A year into the smoking ban, Lucy Atkins clea...
Even if you have been a smoker for 30 years, your risk of heart disease halves within a year of quitting. Ten years on, the risk of lung cancer is cut in two.
Those who have tried and failed to stop smoking should take heart from the fact that on average it takes 12 or more attempts to kick the habit. Here are some ideas:
GROUP THERAPY
Smoking has been called a "communicable disease"
Psychiatric patients less violent when smoking restricted ($$)
Violence and aggressive incidents were cut by almost half when a smoking ban was introduced at one English acute psychiatric hospital.
In data yet to be published, but seen by the BMJ, investigators at Harplands Hospital in North Staffordshire examined all recorded episodes of violence and aggression that staff experienced. They compared all incidents a year before the introduction of a smoke-free hospital policy in April 2006 with those in the year after. Harplands, like other hospitals, introduced a partial ban so that staff and patients could still smoke in designated areas outside the hospital.
JIST To Launch With Series Of Indoor Smoking Devices
JIST will feature a line of branded smoking devices, in a host of styles and features.
JIST uses advanced microelectronic technology to turn liquid into smoke-like vapor. Because it employs a harmless and odorless vapor, this lifestyle breakthrough gives you the freedom to enjoy JIST wherever and whenever you like. It is a safe, nontoxic, and non-flammable high tech device that won't impose on the environment or others around you. JIST cutting-edge technology includes a high-capacity rechargeable lithium battery that provides a full day of use on a single charge
JIST is a green product. It produces no second-hand smoke and contains none of the tar or pollutants found in traditional smoking products.
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