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Analysis Confirms Link Between Smoking and Prostate Cancer
A meta-analysis of 24 previous studies concluded that there is "good evidence that prostate cancer is likely a smoking-related tumor," according to researcher Michael Huncharek.
Marlboro Snus to Be Marketed Nationally
Marlboro Snus, a version of smokeless tobacco developed by Philip Morris USA parent Altria Group, Inc., will soon be sold nationally.
$1 Per Pack Tobacco Tax Hike Approved by Utah House
The Utah House of Representatives has voted 39-35 in favor of a measure that would raise the state tax on cigarettes by $1 per pack, from the current 69.5 cents to about $1.70.
Secondhand Smoke Can Damage Teens' Arteries, Study Finds
Teens exposed to secondhand smoke have measurably thicker arteries than adolescents who are not exposed, suggesting that for children "even a little exposure to tobacco smoke may be harmful for blood vessels," according to researcher Katariina Kallio of the University of Turku in Finland.
'Hackademy Awards' Announced: 'Nine' Called Smokiest Movie of Year
The star-powered (but ill-fated) musical 'Nine' got a thumbs-down as the year's smokiest movie as part of the annual Hackademy Awards.
Ohio Judge Says Smokers, Not Bars, Responsible for Smoking-Ban Violations
Ohio's smokefree law calls for fines of up to $1,000 on businesses that violate the statute, but a state judge recently ruled that patrons should be penalized for lighting up, not property owners.
Study: Snuff Causes Nicotine Dependence Like Smoking
Tobacco companies are promoting use of snuff and other smokeless tobacco products as an alternative to smoking, but new research shows that snuff users are just as addicted to nicotine as smokers.
Big Tobacco Remains a Threat to Global Health, WHO Says
"If Big Tobacco is in retreat in some parts of the world, it is on the march in others," says Margaret Chan, director general of the World Health Organization (WHO).
Sexually Suggestive French Antismoking Ads Protested
A French youth antismoking campaign that equates smoking to submissively giving oral sex is being criticized for its explicit theme and questionable effectiveness.
Docs: Obama Should Quit Smoking, Moderate Drinking OK
President Obama should continue to use alcohol in moderation but should keep trying to quit smoking, according to doctors who conducted his routine medical exam.
Fla. Judge Cuts Jury Award to Former Smoker
Philip Morris will have to pay $38.9 million to a former smoker with emphysema instead of the $300 million ordered by a jury, a Florida judge has ruled.
Ban on Tobacco Lozenges Killed in Idaho
A flip-flop by an Idaho state lawmaker who is married to a tobacco-industry lobbyist is being blamed for the defeat of a bill that would have banned the sale of dissolvable tobacco products.
Ohio Weighs Cost Benefit of Smoking Ban
Ohio's 2007 law that bans indoor smoking has cost the state a net of about $2 million to enforce.
PLoS Journal to Reject Research Funded by Tobacco Industry
Researchers who accept money from the tobacco industry will no longer be able to get their work published in PLoS Medicine, a journal produced by the Public Library of Science (PLoS).
FDA Blessing Sought for 'Modified Risk' Tobacco Product
Niche tobacco company Star Scientific is seeking the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's (FDA) approval to sell its wintergreen-flavored, dissolvable tobacco lozenges as 'modified risk' products.
Smoking ban sees thousands quit across Portsmouth
Health leaders have hailed the smoking ban a success in the city as thousands of smokers have kicked the habit.
About 56,000 adults were smokers in Portsmouth before the ban on smoking in offices and enclosed public places was introduced in July 2007.
And now on national No Smoking Day, health officials have announced that since the ban that number has dropped to 45,000.
It means instead of 33 out of every 100 adults being a smoker, the number is now about 27 in every 100.
Katie Hovenden, NHS Portsmouth's public health smoking lead, said: 'The smoking ban has had a positive impact on the number of smokers in the city. . . .
Now NHS Portsmouth is using national No Smoking Day to try to get thousands more people to quit.
PompeyQuit teams will be out and about in the city today encouraging people to sign up to the stop smoking programme to get free advice and support.
The Electronic Cigarette Company Challenges the Rt Hon Andy Burnham MP Ban al...
Will The Rt Hon Andy Burnham MP Ban all Tobacco products on 21st June 2010?
The MHRA, the nation's Health regulators, have created for Mr Burnham a golden opportunity to ban ALL tobacco products in the UK for good on the 21st June.
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There is no Tobacco law that states a cigarette or cigar cannot be classed as a Nicotine Containing Product. It is, and it can. So why is smoking tobacco being favoured over less harmful nicotine products?
Jason Cropper, Managing Director of ?The Electronic Cigarette Company? challenges the nation?s Health Minister and heath regulators to explain to the public why they want to ban Electronic Cigarettes that harm no-one, yet sanction and protect in the same policy document Killer Tobacco Cigarettes. . . .
Electronic Cigarettes aren't the enemy - real cigarettes are..
Andy Burnham: you should STEP UP TO THE PLATE AND GET A BACKBONE by throwing MLX364 in the bin and saving smokers from being given only one deadly way of getting their recreational nicotine."
Up in Smoke - Smokers urged to 'Put it Out, Right Out' on No Smoking Day 10 M...
Smokers are today (10 March) being urged to quit their habit or realise its danger, as statistics reveal that a third of those who die in accidental house fires, die in fires started by cigarettes.1
Despite this shocking wake-up call, less than half (40%) of smokers are aware that smoking is the biggest cause of deaths in accidental house fires.2
Smokers who are unable to give up should at least cut out dangerous habits such as smoking in bed. The Fire Kills campaign is encouraging people to install smoke alarms on every level of the home and test them weekly.
Facebook application to help users quit smoking
A Facebook application to help people quit smoking was launched today by a charity.
* Click here to become a fan of the YEP on Facebook.
WeQuit will help people and their friends challenge each other to give up nicotine as well as create rewards for success and forfeits for failure.
* Click here to follow the YEP on Twitter.
Quitters will also be able to raise money for charity and track each other's progress by accessing www.WeQuit.co.uk/facebook and adding the application to the social networking site.
Duncan Bannatyne: How my father's death made me stop smoking
Duncan Bannatyne, 61, is one of the entrepreneurs on BBC1's hit investment show Dragons' Den. He initially became a successful businessman with his chain of nursing homes and nursery schools. Now worth about £320million, he is also president of No Smoking Day today.
Why are you supporting No Smoking Day?
It makes my throat itch, I cough when I walk through the smell of smoke and my dad died from emphysema caused by smoking. I don't see the need for it in our society. Projections from tobacco companies show they can only survive by recruiting new smokers. We need to prevent young people from starting to smoke. . . .
You protested at British American Tobacco's AGM a couple of years ago. What was that about?
It was part of a documentary about how the companies market cigarettes to some countries in Africa where people are so poor they can't afford to buy food. I went to Malawi and saw hospitals having to deal with smoking-related illnesses when they couldn't afford to do so.
What would you like to see happen in Britain?
I want children to stop being abused by smokers.
Expert calls for total smoking ban
More young people are being treated for smoking-related lung diseases, an expert has claimed.
Anindo Banerjee, 41, respiratory specialist at Southampton General Hospital, said even though there is a ban on lighting up in public, cigarettes continue to be a major health problem and not just for older generations. He called for a total ban on cigarettes on the eve of No Smoking Day.
Mr Banerjee said he is even treating a 19-year-old for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), which can cause sufferers to slowly suffocate. "Year on year we are seeing increasing numbers of patients with severe chest diseases due to smoking in which the lungs are damaged, such as COPD," he said.
"This is not just death, but a slow suffocation in which patients progressively lose the ability to work, go out, or even walk around the shops because they are out of breath. Eventually they become chair or bed-bound, dependent on oxygen to keep them going."
Mr Banerjee went on: "It is an old myth that COPD is a disease of old men. Depressingly, large numbers of young people smoke, and they often believe that the warnings do not apply to them. . . .
The 19-year-old COPD patient is female and has been smoking since the age of 10, according to a spokesman for the hospital.
Facebook helps users quit smoking
A Facebook application to help people quit smoking has been launched by a charity.
WeQuit will help people and their friends challenge each other to give up nicotine as well as create rewards for success and forfeits for failure.
Quitters will also be able to raise money for charity and track each other's progress by accessing www.WeQuit.co.uk/facebook and adding the application to the social networking site.
Embargoed press release: White van man struggles to quit: No Smoking Day
Research to mark No Smoking Day tomorrow (10 March) shows smoking is increasingly the preserve of routine and manual groups in Britain. Van drivers, builders and secretaries are now twice as likely to smoke as people in managerial and professional occupations, including doctors and teachers.
The research, conducted by the Office for National Statistics (ONS), highlights a rapid fall in smoking prevalence amongst professional groups in recent years, with much slower reductions amongst routine and manual groups.
Of the nine million UK smokers, almost a third now live in routine and manual households.
BBC Dragon?s Den star and No Smoking Day president Duncan Bannatyne says, ?These findings show that whilst we are succeeding in controlling the smoking epidemic amongst the better off, cigarettes are now the primary cause of health inequalities in the UK.?
Lympstone Royal Marines fight urge to smoke
ROYAL Marines at Lympstone are joining forces with NHS Devon to highlight annual No Smoking Day, March 10, to encourage people to quit smoking.
Neilson McCready, chief petty officer and pharmacy manager for the Royal Marines, said: "It is great to be working with NHS Devon on No Smoking Day, we are keen to encourage current and future marines to quit smoking.
"Marines who smoke have reduced fitness levels and take longer to heal from injuries.
"We follow the same techniques and treatments as the NHS and have a team of six medics who run clinics and individual sessions at Lympstone.
"The work of a marine is demanding and they must be at their best physical fitness, smoking greatly reduces this."
Smokers in Cirencester Industrial Estate to be given 'lung age' test
SMOKERS in Cirencester will be given the chance to find out the ?age? of their lungs tomorrow to mark National No Smoking Day.
NHS Gloucestershire?s The Quit Stop Bus will be in town as part of a hard-hitting campaign to shock smokers into giving up the habit.
The lung-age test will be administered by a team which will be in Cirencester Industrial Estate throughout the day.
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Lemar becomes Ambassador for No Smoking Day
Soul star Lemar has become an Ambassador for the charity No Smoking Day.
Thanks to his mother's strongly held opposition to smoking Lemar has never taken up the habit, and is all too aware of the damage that smoking causes to people's lives. That is why he has welcomed the opportunity to support one of the UK's leading health campaign for smokers who want to quit - No Smoking Day. . . .
1 in 12 Women Quit on No Smoking Day
No Smoking Day takes place on Wednesday 10th March 2010 and the charity is encouraging women who smoke to break free from the chains of their addiction and take control of their health and looks.
No Smoking Day - Break free: No Smoking Day - Wednesday 10 March 2010
No Smoking Day is the UK's leading health campaign for smokers who want to stop. This website has all the information and resources you need to quit smoking or organise an event on No Smoking Day, Wednesday 10 March 2010.
How tobacco shoppers think
With the shadow of tobacco 'going dark' looming over the grocery sector we know that there are a lot of questions retailers will have about the impact on their sales. But the following information will demonstrate how important the tobacco shopper is to a convenience retailer.
It probably comes as no surprise that the tobacco shopper spends more per trip than the average shopper in c-stores as cigarettes are a high ticket item. However, the difference in spend may shock. HIM's 2009 Convenience Tracking Programme research shows that the average non-tobacco shopper spends nearly £5 a trip but the average tobacco shopper spends more than double that.
CTP 2009 research also reveals that cigarette shoppers spend almost the same on other purchased items as part of the same trip as non-tobacco shoppers spend per trip in total. Not only that, tobacco drives footfall. The average shopper visits their c-store 3.5 times per week on average, but the tobacco shopper visits 4.1 times.
It is also worth remembering that about 20% of c-store shoppers buy tobacco, making it one of the top penetration categories, and that while tobacco is often referred to as a low-margin category in percentage terms, the cash margins earned on it make the category one of the most profitable to the retailer.
Lily Doesn't Care, She'll Illegally Smoke With A Chest Infection!
What sort of stupid point was Silly Allen trying to prove?
The hard-pAArtying singer gave the middle finger to the UK smoking ban and lit up a cig during her performance at Manchester's MEN Arena on Friday!
Even though Allen has bronchitis!
Real smart.
'Scared' Ashley Cole 'resorts to smoking over Cheryl's tell-all interview'
Troubled Ashley Cole was recently spotted enjoying a secret fag in his sports injury clinic amid fears estranged wife Cheryl is set to tell all in a TV interview.
The Chelsea and England star was spotted clutching a cigarette on the third-floor balcony of his room at the CERS medical centre in France where he is being treated for a broken ankle.
Smoking is banned at the clinic, which specialises in curing crocked athletes.
However, it looked as if Cole, 29, did not want to play any heed to the rules after discovering that his long-suffering wife was thinking of going public with her heartache over his randy antics.
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