benefits of tobacco

Systematic review suggests smoking increases HIV infection risk

However, studies published before and since this review took place strongly suggest that smoking has both a direct and indirect impact on the life expectancy of HIV-positive individuals ...
Six studies assessed whether smoking was associated with an increased risk of acquiring HIV infection ...
In particular, a large prospective observational study of HIV-positive women from the United States published in June 2006 found that cigarette smokers receiving antiretroviral therapy were significantly more likely to be diagnosed with an AIDS-defining condition or to die, negating some of the benefits of potent antiretroviral therapy ...

Smoking: Did you know...

Tobacco smoke contains thousands of chemical agents, including over 60 substances that are known to cause cancer ...
Second-hand smoke contains more than 50 cancer-causing chemicals, and is itself a known human carcinogen ...
It also causes chronic lung disease (emphysema and chronic bronchitis), cardiovascular disease, stroke, cancer and cataracts ...

City ward has worst smoking habit

Deborah Arnott, director of ASH, said: "This important new project shows the iron chain that links smoking and deprivation ...
In Bransholme East, 53% of people smoke, more than twice the national average of 26%, said anti-smoking group Action on Smoking and Health (ASH ...
For example, a household with two parents and two adult children who all smoke and are claiming benefits will see a disproportionately high percentage of income going on cigarettes ...

Casinos' fear may be so much smoke

Studies funded by the tobacco industry or other business groups suggest the opposite, by downplaying the potential increase in business over time from nonsmoking customers ...
Most casino executives realize that the horse has left the barn and they're going to have to consider (a smoking ban) now or later," he said ...
Casino executives have not needed to weigh in on the issue so far, because of successful efforts over the years to fend off smoking restrictions ...

Cancer summit focuses on smoking

A standing room only crowd of about 200 came to the University of Kentucky for the daylong event, which features several discussions before the ...
He and other speakers talked Monday morning about the dangers of smoking and the need to reduce the barriers to quitting, as well as the benefits of comprehensive smoking bans like the one in Lexington ...
We just need to do it,” said Gary Giovino, professor at the School of Public Health and Health Professions at the State University of New York at Buffalo ...

Prop. 86 Sparks Interest From Smokers, Non-Smokers

survey released on Monday, it drew 52 percent in favor with 41 percent opposed ...
James Knight said the measure is similar to a huge tobacco tax Canada imposed during the '90s ...
A California Field Poll taken in early August showed Proposition 86 with a 2 to 1 lead, 63 to 32 percent, but the gap may be closing because in a Datamar Inc ...
For every pro-Proposition 86 ad that claims the measure will reduce smoking and save lives, there's an anti-ad ...
Knight admitted that if Proposition 86 passes, some people will still stop smoking but said the New York City Health Department discovered that half of all smokers go ...

NAACP Supports California Proposition 86 to Fund Universal Health Care for Children

From our earliest days, the health status of African- Americans has been a major NAACP concern ...
It's a scientific fact that avoiding tobacco products results in health benefits for both smokers and non- smokers ...
Proposition 86 will be a great step toward that goal," said Julian Bond, Chairman, NAACP Board of Directors ...
60 a pack, making the California cigarette tax the highest in the nation ...

How would the tax boost affect the state’s overall budget picture?

Amendment supporters concede that the prohibition is not legally binding, and that lawmakers could reduce Medicaid spending ...
Supporters say those numbers are based on exaggerated predictions of increased Internet and cross-border tobacco sales ...
But the prohibition appears to conflict with the state constitution, which bars ballot initiatives from dictating how lawmakers can spend existing funds ...
The amendment contains language that says the state could not reduce current Medicaid spending and supplant it with new revenue from ...

A darker cloud over smokers

One of the first studies to examine the effect of smoking cessation programs on mortality, published in the Annals of Internal Medicine on Feb ...
Through the Copenhagen City Heart Study, which began in 1976 and is ongoing, researchers have been studying more than 8,000 men and women ...

Cigarette sales up 5% despite smoking ban

The evidence is accruing to support the fact that smoking at home damages the health of others in the home ...
However in Ireland cigarette sales are now higher than before the ban, which was introduced in March 2004 ...
However, if people are smoking more at home since the ban, children who live with smokers may be suffering instead ...
SALES of cigarettes in Scotland have increased since the ban on smoking in public places was introduced earlier this year, confounding predictions by politicians and health experts ...
This month a study by Dundee University said that bar workers had experienced health benefits ...