Category: Smoking

E-Cigarettes Not a Smoking Deterrent for Kids

… or abusing marijuana or prescription painkillers. Among the teens in the study who “vaped,” rates of those health risks were not as high as smokers’ were. But they were higher compared with kids who used no tobacco-related products. Last year, the …

Ambition isn’t always blind

On a fairly regular basis back in the day, state Sen. Barack Obama would walk up to the Senate press box and bum cigarettes off me. That was when people could smoke in the Senate chambers and back when both of us smoked.

Smoke-free campus a right or an imposition?

… smoking in private vehicles would no longer be allowed. “It would simplify enforcement … and it would promote the health and well-being of students, faculty, staff and visitors,” said Katie Lugar, president of Tobacco-Free Blue and a doctoral …

WNBA players starting to invest in food industry

With their big three all back in the fold, the La Marque Cougars got off to fast start and never let up in an 84-47 win against the Hitchcock Bulldogs in front of an electric home crowd Friday. A vote this week by a majority of the county commissioners court to hold off on implementing new rules governing game rooms was a wise move.

From spitting and smoking lawmakers to the ‘mess’ voters made of…

Just a year out of college when he arrived at the State House in 1964 as a newly elected lawmaker from far northern Maine, John Martin entered a world quite different from the one newcomers find there today. The chamber still had spittoons and ashtrays on every member’s desk, he said, and from the podium you “couldn’t see legislators in the back row” because of all the smoke in the air.

Vaping no gateway to smoking, UVic report says

… “There’s no evidence that they have a gateway effect,” said Marjorie MacDonald, a professor of nursing and public health at UVic and a co-author of the report. “Vapour devices can be at least as effective as other means of helping people quit …

Cervical Cancer Awareness Month

… to informing the Marco Island community about the American Cancer Society, the nationwide community-based voluntary health organization dedicated to eliminating cancer as a major health concern by preventing cancer, saving lives, and diminishing …

Lawmakers want to ban under 21 smoking

Texas legislators are working to make it illegal for anyone under 21-years-old to buy cigarettes or chewing tobacco. For over a decade, Texas democrats have been looking for ways to raise the minimum legal smoking age, a topic of conversation really personal to Lamar students, and a major issue for those like Jazlyn Potier-Jones.

Texas lawmakers working to make smoking illegal toa

Texas legislators are working to make it illegal for anyone under 21-years-old to buy cigarettes or chewing tobacco. For over a decade, Texas democrats have been looking for ways to raise the minimum legal smoking age, a topic of conversation really personal to Lamar students, and a major issue for those like Jazlyn Potier-Jones.

$29.1M payout set in Marlboro case

Pulaski County Circuit Judge Tim Fox on Tuesday approved paying $29.1 million from a $45 million lawsuit settlement fund to 21,132 Marlboro Lights smokers and their lawyers. The fund was set up to end a 13-year-old class-action lawsuit accusing Philip Morris USA and parent company Altria Group of misleading Arkansas consumers about the safety of Lights and companion brand Marlboro Ultra-Lights.

British American Tobacco agrees on takeover of Reynolds

British American Tobacco Plc has agreed to fully take over Reynolds American Inc. on terms that are improved from an initial bid made last year. The takeover would create the world’s largest publicly traded tobacco company and combine BAT’s presence in developing countries, where anti-smoking campaigns are not as strong as in the U.S. and Europe, with Reynolds’ almost exclusive focus on the U.S. BAT said Tuesday it will buy the 57.8 percent of Reynolds it does not already own.

This week in music: 1974 The Joker

For the 3rd week of January in 1974 The Hot 100 had former Beatle Ringo Starr at number five with You’re Sixteen. The song was a remake of a 1960 hit by Johnny Burnette who took it all the way to number 3. Ringo did a little better taking it all the way to the top of the charts.

Poorer health in smokers of chop chop

People who smoke chop chop – or unbranded loose tobacco – report significantly worse health than legal smokers, according to the Cancer Council Victoria. People who smoke chop chop – or unbranded loose tobacco – report significantly worse health than legal smokers, according to the Cancer Council Victoria.

Time for James Bond films to quit smoking, scientists say

Bond himself stubbed out his last cigarette in 2002, but has continued to be exposed to second-hand smoke, according to New Zealand research published in Tobacco Control . While other literature has delved into the films’ alcohol misuse and violent behaviour, there has been no detailed consideration of smoking content and health themes, said the authors, based at University of Otago’s Department of Public Health in Wellington.

What tobacco control could do to the world

Policies to control tobacco use, including tobacco tax and price increases can generate significant government revenues for health and development work, according to a new landmark global report from World Health Organisation and the National Cancer Institute of the United States of America. Such measures can also greatly reduce tobacco use and protect people’s health from the world’s leading killers, such as cancers and heart disease.

Tobacco kills six million people die annually – WHO report

Currently, around six million people die annually as a result of tobacco use, with most living in developing countries, a joint report by the World Health Organisation and the National Cancer Institute of the United States of America has said. The report made available to the Ghana News Agency on Wednesday by Tarik Jasarevi?, WHO Communications Officer, said policies to control tobacco use, including tobacco tax and price increases, could generate significant government revenues for health and development work.

Things you didna t know were bad*Jan. 11, 2017, 10:11 PM Ast

The majority of women seem to be aware of the usual things that are dangerous to their female parts – like multiple sexual partners, sticking random items “up there,” and not getting regular pap smears. But, as a gynaecologist, I see a spectrum of other conditions and habits that many women have no clue are having a negative effect on their vaginal health.

Trumbull Memorial fire injures patient

… three minutes after they were alerted. Trish Hrina, vice president of marketing and public relations for ValleyCare Health System of Ohio, which operates Trumbull Memorial, confirmed via email that a patient was injured but did not release her name …

Ed Sheeran’s 12 Most Provocative Lyrics

Ed Sheeran is back with two new songs that have been taking the world by storm, topping iTunes and garnering a combined 10 million views less than 24 hours of being released Friday . But while “Shape of You” is making some fans want to hit the dance floor and “Castle on the Hill” has others belting out its passionate chorus, what listeners may not have realized upon the first few listens is just how PG-13 some of the lyrics are.