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The new discrimination --
Port of Spain :: Trinidad and Tobago | 9 days ago
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The Act, I expect, will join those preventing littering and mandating the use of seatbelts (among many other bits of legislation relating to motoring behaviour) that, on paper, make the country appear awfully progressive but which in reality are seldom...
Tags: Tobacco Control Bill, Tobacco Control Act, legal product, hand smoke, Trinidad and Tobago, Port of Spain, Smoking, Tobacco smoking, Passive smoking, Cigarette, Tobacco, Smoking ban, Tobacco politics, Tobacco control movement
Becks' football academy closing in January
London :: United Kingdom | 9 days ago
Credibility David Beckham's flagship football academy in Greenwich is closing in January, it has emerged. According to reports, the multi-million pound centre's five-year lease on its site is not being renewed. In fact, owners AEG are planning an Olympic training...
Tags: United Kingdom, London, David Beckham, Smoking, Business Finance, FIFA 100, Tobacco, Cohiba, Cigar
Italy proposes banning smoking in cars
Rome :: Italy | 10 days ago
Credibility Italy could soon take smoking bans to a new level by barring drivers from lighting up behind the wheel...Italy already bans smoking in most indoor public places and has become one of the most aggressive European countries in the fight against cigarettes.
Tags: Italy, Rome, Environment, Smoking, Passive smoking, Cigarette, Tobacco, Smoking ban, Disaster Accident, Cigar
St. Louis mayor wants airport smoke-free
Kansas City :: KS :: USA | 10 days ago
Credibility But the outgoing airport director says that would drive smokers outside and increase security concerns.The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported Friday that Slay wants Lambert smoke-free on Jan. 2, 2011...The airport sits in the county but is owned by the...
Tags: St. Louis Post-Dispatch, St. Louis County, Kansas City, Smoking, Habits, Lambert, Lambert-St. Louis International Airport, Tobacco, Smoking ban, St. Louis Missouri, Public health
In tobacco-loving Va., bars to quit cold-turkey
Richmond :: VA :: USA | 10 days ago
Credibility Va. — The bluish haze that has hung over the Third Street Diner's bar and booths for decades finally lifts next month as a new anti-smoking law takes hold in Virginia, a huge shift for a state whose tobacco habit dates to the Jamestown settlement some...
Tags: Virginia, Richmond, Habits, Smoking, Tobacco, Smoking ban, Public health, Tobacco control, Tobacco smoking, Pipe smoking, Ban, Smoke-free restaurant, Hookah lounge
Bacteria in cigarettes may harm health
College Park :: MD :: USA | 11 days ago
Credibility Cigarettes are widely contaminated with bacteria, including some known to harm health, French and U.S. researchers said. Researchers at the University of Maryland in College Park and Ecole Centrale de Lyon in France found cigarettes could be the direct...
Tags: College Park, Robotics, Dede Wilsey, Metagenomics, Robot, Cigarette, Hemicorporectomy, Automation, Manufacturing, Yaskawa Electric Corporation, Health Medical Pharma, Habits, Smoking, Passive smoking, Motoman, Microbiology, Tobacco, Genomics
Move to snuff out illegal cigarettes
Kuala Lumpur :: Malaysia | 11 days ago
Credibility Efforts are under way to identify and stop those importing cigarettes illegally and selling them at cheap prices as it is encouraging more people to pick up the habit. Domestic Trade, Co-operative and Consumerism Minis�try�s deputy director-general (enforce�ment)...
Tags: illegal cigarettes, Iskandar Halim Sulaiman, Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur, Smoking, Electronic cigarette, Cigarettes, Cigarette, Tobacco, Law Crime, Kepong
Traffic stop turns up drugs and imitation guns (NZPA)
Wellington :: New Zealand | 11 days ago
Credibility A routine drink-drive traffic stop last night uncovered drugs and imitation firearms in the possession of a Porirua man. Wellington traffic alcohol group stopped the 44-year-old driver in Melling, Lower Hutt, about 10.30pm. It seized methamphetamine,...
Tags: New Zealand, Wellington, Smoking, Porirua, Methamphetamine, Lower Hutt, Wellington Region, War Conflict
Women who smoke risk having seizures: study
London :: United Kingdom | 11 days ago
Credibility Women who smoke may have a higher risk of developing seizures than non-smokers do, a new study suggests. Researchers found that among more than 100,000 U.S. women in a long-running health study, current smokers were between two and three times more likely...
Tags: Dr. Barbara Dworetzky, risk factors, higher risk, United Kingdom, London, Health Medical Pharma, Neurological disorders, Seizure, Smoking, Symptoms, Epilepsy, Post-traumatic epilepsy, Nicotine, Neurology
Stem cells could help lung development in premature babies
Edmonton :: Canada | 11 days ago
Credibility Dr. Bernard Thebaud dreads the awful moments when he has to approach new parents in the neonatal intensive care unit and tell them their premature baby may not live because of weak, undeveloped lungs. But Thebaud, a researcher with the University of...
Tags: stem cells, premature baby, Canada, Edmonton, Intensive care medicine, Health Medical Pharma, Pediatrics, Lung, Respiratory system, Pulmonology, Emphysema, Neonatal intensive-care unit, Stem cell treatments, Preterm birth, Organs, Childbirth, Smoking, Infant respiratory distress syndrome, Biotechnology
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