Category: Smoking

Cigarette tax bill clears Indiana House panel

Indiana could bar minors under 21 from buying cigarettes and raise the tax per pack by $1.50 under a measure approved by a House panel. Republican Rep. Cindy Kirchhofer of Beech Grove says the bill will help address the state’s high smoking rates and improve Indiana’s overall health.

Union Budget 2017: Cigarettes, tobacco, mobiles assembled in India to turn dearer

Smokers and tobacco consumers will have to pay more for their indulgence as Finance Minister Arun Jaitley continued with the crackdown on cigarettes, bidis and tobacco products by increasing taxes in the Budget 2017-18. Smokers and tobacco consumers will have to pay more for their indulgence as Finance Minister Arun Jaitley continued with the crackdown on cigarettes, bidis and tobacco products by increasing taxes in the Budget 2017-18.

Smoking costs $1.4 tn in health care, labour loss: study

A new report used data from 152 countries representing 97 percent of the world’s smokers in Africa, the Americas, the Eastern Mediterranean, Europe, Southeast Asia and the Western Pacific. Smoking cost the world economy more than $1.4 trillion in 2012, and sucked up a twentieth of health care spending, a study said Tuesday.

An overview of the effects of tobacco ingredients on smoke chemistry and toxicity.

This paper presents an overview of a series of studies designed to assess the influence of 482 tobacco ingredients on cigarette smoke chemistry and toxicity. The studies are: pyrolysis of the ingredients; influence of the ingredients on smoke constituents believed by regulatory authorities to be relevant to smoking-related diseases ; influence of the ingredients on in vitro genotoxicity and cytotoxicity of smoke partiulate matter; and influence of the ingredients on the inhalation toxicity of smoke.

Letter: Lawmakers should treat Utahns as adults

The ground trembled today: Are we having an earthquake? Was this the march to Utah’s Capitol? Or the trembling of fear once Donald J. Trump became president? No, it was none of these things. It was Utah smokers tramping to Idaho and Wyoming to bring back contraband cigarettes.

PAHO head: Tobacco epidemic in Americas, Ca bean

The director of the Pan American Health Organisation , Dr Carissa Etienne, has warned about what she described as the tobacco epidemic in the Americas, including the Caribbean, saying that though the devastating health effects of tobacco use are well known, tobacco’s negative repercussions extend well beyond the obvious health outcomes. “Tobacco consumption creates a significant economic burden on societies because of both the high costs of health care and the associated lost productivity,” said the Dominican-born Etienne, writing in the Pan American Journal of Public Health.

Smoking ‘creates 760 million annual social care bill’

The All Party Parliamentary Group on Smoking and Health urged the Government to renew its efforts to drive down smoking rates The All Party Parliamentary Group on Smoking and Health urged the Government to renew its efforts to drive down smoking rates and look at ways to force tobacco firms to pay for health campaigns. It added that local authorities in England are struggling to fund stop-smoking services due to financial cuts by central Government.

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A student-led organization at Indiana State University is working to make the university a smoke-free, tobacco-free campus. The Tribune Star reports Tobacco-Free Blue was founded last spring to advocate for more limits at the university’s Terre Haute campus, which is primarily tobacco free but has some outdoor designated smoking areas.

Cigarettes costs the same as a trolley full of groceries

Will this finally convince you to quit? How rolling your own cigarettes costs the same as a trolley full of groceries Looking at a trolley filled to the brim with groceries next to a packet of roll-your-own tobacco, you wouldn’t imagine they would cost the same. But a startling post by Reddit user HeinigerNZ titled ‘What $90 buys you in 2017’ proves that these two very different purchases have one very significant quality in common.

Group Calls on Walgreens to End Sales of Tobacco Products

They want the pharmacy chain to let shareholders vote on whether a study should be conducted on the effects of selling tobacco. “Whenever youth are exposed to the point-of-sale marketing from the tobacco industry, they are more likely to start using tobacco, and tobacco in a pharmacy sends the wrong message as far as what health truly means,” said “Most people who start smoking start smoking as a young a person, so it’s incredibly important that young people have the tools, the skills and the knowledge to reisst this product and ultimately lead tobacco-free lives,” said Access to most of our on-demand video clips is open to all users.

Group Calls on Walgreens to End Sales of Tobacco Products

They want the pharmacy chain to let shareholders vote on whether a study should be conducted on the effects of selling tobacco. “Whenever youth are exposed to the point-of-sale marketing from the tobacco industry, they are more likely to start using tobacco, and tobacco in a pharmacy sends the wrong message as far as what health truly means,” said “Most people who start smoking start smoking as a young a person, so it’s incredibly important that young people have the tools, the skills and the knowledge to reisst this product and ultimately lead tobacco-free lives,” said Access to most of our on-demand video clips is open to all users.

No Changes In Tobacco Grades For Nevada Co

Grades have not changed from a year ago for Nevada County’s efforts to reduce exposure to second-hand smoke. The American Lung Association once again gives Grass Valley and Nevada City F’s for having smoke-free housing, although the county recently announced stepping up a campaign to increase the number of apartment complexes with indoor smoking bans.

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The Finnish government has set an ambitious goal for residents in a bid to benefit their health — and their bank balances. Officials plan to make the country tobacco-free by 2040, meaning they want less than 2% of their adults to consume tobacco — in any form — by that deadline.

The RCPCH formed a snapshot of child health and well-being including obesity and child deaths

An alarming gap between rich and poor is leaving the health and well-being of the UK’s children in jeopardy, according to a major report by child health experts. The Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health urges the Government to introduce a comprehensive national strategy and reverse cuts to public health as well as tighten controls over smoking, the sale of alcohol and advertising of foods high in fat, salt and sugar.

Smoking ban harmed pub trade, says landlord

A LANDLORD has criticised the smoking ban for damaging the pub trade, nearly ten years after the ban came into force. Dave Howells, landlord at the Liden Arms in Barrington Close, slammed the ban, which will ring in its 10th anniversary on July 1 this year, for ‘taking away freedom of choice’ He said: “The ban has affected the pub trade, particular wet pubs, which only serve drinks and not food.

Dog bylaw should focus on bites, not breeds

… entrances, financial incentives to quit, while keeping the cost of cigarettes high and covering the packaging with health warnings and gross pictures of blackened lungs all work together to both deter new smokers and encourage longtime smokers to …