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Coming @11:30 a.m.: Chat with experts about quitting smoking
Fort Myers :: FL :: USA | 20 days ago
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30 a.m., local health experts discuss and answer questions about how to quit smoking as part of the national Great American Smoke-Out campaign, which starts Thursday, Nov. 19. Local hospitals that day are banning smoking from their campuses. On the panel:...
Tags: Lee County Health Department, Fort Myers, Addiction, Tobacco, Smoking, Habits, Social Issues
Lighting up
Dar es Salaam :: Tanzania | 20 days ago
Credibility Africa is in the area of the pre-epidemic and so we should prevent the epidemic," he told the BBC World Service. "We should not wait until there is an epidemic and then work on it...Tobacco-related cancer was one of the key topics discussed at a recent...
Tags: Tanzania, Kenya Wildlife Service, Dar es Salaam, Elephant, Elephants, Poaching, Kenya, Animal rights, Animal welfare, Ivory, Environment, Cigar, World Health Organization Framework Convention on Tobacco Control, Tobacco advertising, Tobacco smoking, Tobacco, Smoking, Cigarette
County fires up anti-smoking efforts
Greensboro :: NC :: USA | 20 days ago
Credibility As the county asks smokers to quit for a day this week, bars and restaurants are learning how they’ll be forced to ban it in 2010. “And for those who will be talking about quitting and look at it, this is your chance to say 'I’m just going to do it,’”...
Tags: Mary Gillett, Guilford County, health department, private clubs, Greensboro, Great American Smokeout, Cigarette, Tobacco control movement, Cigar, Tobacco smoking, Smoking, Tobacco, Smoking ban
AP IMPACT: Tobacco execs quickly find tax loophole
Washington :: DC :: USA | 20 days ago
Credibility With a simple marketing twist, tobacco companies are avoiding hundreds of millions of dollars a year in taxes by exploiting a loophole in President Barack Obama's child health law. Obama and Congress increased taxes on tobacco products earlier this year...
Tags: pipes tobacco, cigarette tobacco, Kevin Altman, tax increase, Daniel Morris, tobacco companies, tobacco production, Washington, Smoking, Cigar, Tobacco advertising, Tobacco smoking, Tobacco, Cigarette, Tobacco industry, Other
SCF campus may move to go tobacco-free
Bradenton :: FL :: USA | 20 days ago
Credibility Lars Hafner, president of State College of Florida, told board members Monday that students had been talking to him about the possibility of a tobacco-free campus. At SCF’s Venice campus, students recently held a forum about the matter, he told the board....
Tags: Dr. Hafner, SCF, Lars Hafner, Venice, Bradenton, Public health, Tobacco smoking, Smoking ban, Tobacco, Smoking, Habits, Education
...Senate to resume Bill debate today --
Madrid :: Spain | 20 days ago
Credibility Senate to resume Bill debate today Tuesday, November 17th 2009 The Senate meets today at 1.30 p.m. at the Red House to continue debate on the Tobacco Amendment Bill. The bill which has been described by some senators as draconian, has raised a number...
Tags: Port of Spain, Senate, Spain, Madrid, Habits, Passive smoking, Tobacco products, Tobacco industry, Cigar, Tobacco, Smoking, Cigarettes, flu pandemic, Influenza vaccine, Influenza A virus subtype H1N1, Pan American Health Organization, Swine influenza, Pandemics, Vaccines, Influenza, Health Medical Pharma
Rehabilitation Services Around NZ Patchy, Unfair
Invercargill :: New Zealand | 20 days ago
Credibility This will avoid unnecessary hospital admissions. ‘A lot of human misery can be avoided and we can reduce pressure on our struggling hospitals.’ Notes to editors: 1...These people may have been exposed to industrial dusts in their work or they may have...
Tags: COPD, New Zealand, Invercargill, Alpha 1-antitrypsin, Asthma, Obstructive lung disease, Respiratory diseases, Smoking, Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
Poll: Most in world favor work smoking ban
Rti :: Serbia | 20 days ago
Credibility A majority of smokers worldwide support smoking bans in the workplace, a survey conducted by U.S. researchers indicates. The survey by RTI International and Harris Interactive surveyed more than 3,500 employees who smoke and more than 1,400 employers,...
Tags: smoke ban, Serbia, Rti, Tobacco smoking, Cigarette, Cigar, Passive smoking, Break, Environment, Tobacco, Smoking, Smoking ban, Labor, Habits, Public health, Social Issues
Traditional Grimsby Smoked Fish is granted European PGI status
Brussels :: Belgium | 20 days ago
Credibility Traditional Grimsby Smoked Fish is defined as fillets of cod or haddock smoked in the East Coast port in accordance with 150-year-old methods. The process involves leaving fish fillets for 16 hours overnight in smokehouse chimneys rather than three hours...
Tags: smoked fish, grimsby smoked, traditional grimsby, Belgium, Brussels, Gadidae, Haddock, Smoking, Grimsby, Food preservation, Smoke, Seafood
Smokers urged to have lung test
Glasgow :: United Kingdom | 20 days ago
Credibility A survey of more than 400 people for the British Lung Foundation found 73 per cent had not had a lung-function test despite having symptoms of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, which can cause breathlessness and recurrent chest infections.
Tags: lung test, United Kingdom, Glasgow, Lung cancer, Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, Cough, Obstructive lung disease, Pulmonology, Respiratory diseases, Smoking, Health Medical Pharma, Environment
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