benefits of tobacco

Maoris Have a Disproportionately High Rate of Smoking Related Diseases.

Within 10 to 14 years of stopping smoking, the risk of death from cancer becomes comparable to ...
When I smell smoke on patients as they come in for their appointments, I'm sure their children's little noses can smell it and ...

DOJ Charges 'Flat-Out Lies' Opening Statements in Suit Against Tobacco Industry

The rate of smoking in Britain, to cite one example, is still close to that in the U ...
Tobacco lawyers, in a preview of their opening statements Wednesday, said the government's case was simply a rehash of decades-old evidence that doesn't take into account changes the industry has made in the past five years, changes the Justice Department countered are "too little, too late ...
Developing Patient Partnerships is offering smokers and their loved ones practical advice on how to quit ...
I'D LIKE TO SEE WHAT SIX MONTHS IN A NON-SMOKING FOSTER HOME WOULD DO FOR THE BREATHING OF SOME ...
Millions of people buy Marlboro Light cigarettes every day, many knowing that smoking causes cancer, but they thought this light cigarette would be healthier and safer ...

Asthmatic Children Hurt by Smokers

I've had patients leave my practice because we've told them that they were harming their children's health and their own by smoking ...
Health officials fear that the habit, which had been on the rise in the military before the war began, is spiking now that more than 140,000 U ...
Cushman, the City of Ottawa's medical officer of health, says that evidence came from a security guard ...
Public health advocates are clamoring for federal regulation of the new products ...

Kids Viewing 2 or More Hours of TV Daily More Likely to Become Overweight Smokers

And if cigarette sales continue to drop at the almost 2% annual rate they have over the past two decades, all States will ...
They just don't seem to see that their children's problems are inflicted by second-hand smoke exposure ...
Two-thirds of smokers (67 percent) believe that they are likely to die of a smoking-related disease if they do not quit ...
It is in effect a concession of something the industry has already lost ...

Smoking ordinance benefits everyone

and don't start if you aren't a smoker, suggests Action on Smoking and Health (ASH), a national antismoking group ...
The survey, Attitudes and Behaviors Related to Smoking Cessation: A Survey of Current and Former Smokers, was sponsored by SmithKline Beecham Consumer Healthcare, marketers of the NicoDerm(R) CQ(R) nicotine patch and Nicorette(R) nicotine gum ...
According to the Surgeon General's report, "The Health Consequences of Involuntary Exposure to Tobacco Smoke," exposure can inflame allergies or asthma and lead to other respiratory problems ...

City looks to clear air on smoke-free guidelines

A good amount of people came in and were really supporting the health benefits of not smoking in public areas ...
Emmanuel Carreras, 34, recalls being given the option of a smoking break or mopping the barracks at the end of a grueling day of Marine Corps basic training ...
Researchers say that finding Smokers who trade in their regular cigarettes for low-tar cigarettes may be kidding themselves if they think it will help them kick the habit or reduce their risks ...
Previous findings from COMMIT show that 30% of the participants cited switching to low-tar cigarettes as a strategy ...
Todd Rutherford brought a statewide public smoking ban to the floor ...

Private clubs oppose smoking ban

Priscilla Collins, who said she was a member of several clubs and frequently was involved in fund-raising activities for town events and activities, said she would no longer do those benefits if the city proceeded with the ban ...
But the most recent scientific evidence suggests that such a switch has no or very little impact on disease risk ...
Additionally, several federal lawsuits now challenge the MSA, and experts anticipate far more litigation in the future, some of which ultimately may unravel the MSA ...

Countywide plan to ban smoking debated

Government policies on smoking have changed enormously over the past 50 years ...
And what was once a socially accepted behavior, freely enjoyed in public by close to half of Americans, is now ...
Joy Burkner, who works in a South Side restaurant, told council members to vote for the legislation because she comes home from work reeking of smoke and can't bear to pick up her 2-year-old daughter because of the stench of tobacco ...

Porter backs cigarette tax boost

The tobacco tax resolution came at the same time Porter passed a sweeping 20 percent break on hospital bills for all uninsured patients, whose numbers at Porter have leaped nearly 3 percent since last year ...
Mitch Daniels last session pushed for a quarter-a-pack increase in the state's current 55-cent cigarette tax, but it was defeated by opponents who called it a regressive new tax that unfairly burdens the poor ...
More than 18,000 infants born to smoking mothers cost more than $20 million to treat, according to statistics in the hospital resolution ...
5 cents per pack cigarette duty puts it in the cellar among states that tax cigarettes ...
The tax money could be used to provide access to health care for more Indiana natives ...

Federal Judge Questions Data Used by Smokers to Define Class

The defendants asked the court to grant their motion for summary judgment ...
District Court for the District of Columbia -- may also play a role in the case ...
Weinstein wondered how the plaintiffs could define a viable class -- and accurately assess damages -- when the tens of millions of people who have smoked light cigarettes might have chosen to do so for any number of reasons ...
Reynolds Tobacco Company, called the 90 percent figure a "nonsense statistic" and said the plaintiffs had "no clue what the numbers are" in terms of how many people relied on the word "light" when choosing their brand of cigarettes ...
About 40 attorneys took seats in the well and jury box Wednesday, and the judge's bench was piled high with boxes and ...