disease from smoking

How Acute and Reversible are the Cardiovascular Risks of Secondhand Smoke?

Raising the price of cigarettes by 10 percent worldwide would prevent between 5 million and 16 million deaths, they found ...
While the substantial cardiovascular risks posed by active smoking are now almost universally accepted, the tobacco industry and some other observers continue to question the idea that secondhand smoke can cause cardiovascular disease and death ...
And in many countries they are using slick and deceptive advertising and marketing techniques that target children, especially girls, in ways that would never be tolerated in the United States ...

CONTEST: Kids and Teens - Visit MTV and More

Having a separate non smoking section does not eliminate your exposure to secondhand smoke ...
And there are no warning signs on the lounges for heart patients or pregnant women ...
The women's appeals of the dismissals led to Tuesday's order referring the issue to the state Supreme Court ...
We suspect that while some children buy their cigarettes, we also suspect that friends, siblings and parents also provide them ...
In addition, the researchers found that the first exposure to nicotine during adolescence changes subsequent behavioral responses to ...

Canada: 100 Babies Die Each Year due to Maternal Smoking

an Okemos-based health benefits administrator, deems tobacco use a firing offense ...
He was 55 when he died, leaving behind three daughters, an ex-wife and a second wife ...
Among the dead were 55 boys and 41 girls under the age of 1 who died of sudden infant death syndrome, low birth weight and respiratory conditions caused principally by maternal smoking ...
In addition, the data is expected to show an increase in hospitality employment ...
CTR and the industry have publicly and frequently denied what others find as `truth ...

Herbal Cigarettes No Safe Alternative; Targeting Kids?

This session, however, could be the most important one of the Conference since it is designed to influence President Clinton's decision regarding the proposed US tobacco deal, and ultimately the deal itself ...
Its advertising restrictions will have to fit within the parameters of the free-speech protections offered by the First Amendment, and its rules for responsible manufacturing practices contain special provisions to ensure that companies needing extra time ...
It touches the rich and poor, young and old, men, women and children ...
They are billed as healthier alternatives to tobacco or an aid to quit smoking ...
Bidi sellers, aware of the misconceptions of their customers regarding the health risks of bidis, have made no attempt to correct the deceptive impressions in callous disregard for the bidi smokers health ...

Smoking Ban in Play Grounds

Contrary to studies by tobacco interests, the data is expected to show healthy results for New York's hospitality industry ...
A smoking ban that went into effect last Tuesday will mean that Petalumans will not longer be able to light up on playgrounds ...
Quest Research Group of East Falmouth, Massachusetts, is reviving research done in 1969 by the Council for Tobacco Research, an organisation funded by ...

Spotlight on the Kids for National 'Kick Butts' Day

Nando Times News and World Health Organization [10/21/98] http://www ...
WHO will continue to work with its cancer research agency, International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), to strengthen research into cancer, as well ...
Many groups, including the Chamber of Commerce and the National Association of Manufacturers, have submitted written arguments opposing the trial ...
In Akron, Ohio, kids will hear from Vice President Al Gore, who will release important new research findings on kids and tobacco on Kick Butts Day ...

Mistaken Beliefs About Smoking Moms Can Influence Minorities

What really matters is what daughters think is happening, not so much what mothers actually do, The illusion of smoking can be just as deadly as the real thing for minority inner-city girls who believe their mothers have the habit, a new University of Florida study finds ...
In recent years the idea of a 'testing kit' which would allow smokers to work out whether they had 'bad genes' has captured the attention of politicians and the public ...
ASH's petition requests that the Federal Trade Commission immediately initiate a rulemaking proceeding to insure that health warnings regularly appear on all bidi packages, that an additional health warning be mandated on all bidi labels/packages namely campaign should now be applied to end the unfair and deceptive practice of bidi sales under circumstances that imply health claims ...

First Exposure to Nicotine May Change Adolescents' Brain And Behavior

succeeded in whittling the claim down to just one defendant, and pushed Haines' first attorney off the case and ...
While there are multiple reasons why teens try smoking , this study supports earlier findings identifying biological reasons for cigarette addiction ...
In April 1982, he checked himself into a hospital complaining of recurring neck pain ...

Study: Passive Smoking Sickens Students

Anti- smoking groups reacted angrily to the publication of the BMJ study - partly funded by the tobacco industry - which suggested the link with heart disease and lung cancer was considerably weaker than thought ...
At issue is whether the sensitive documents were protected under the attorney-client privilege ...
This contribution would not preclude non-American demands for compensation for injuries caused by tobacco ...
But times have changed, and it's time to do something that is good for the community to make it healthier and to improve the quality of life ...

WHO Report: Smoke Endangers 1/2 World's Kids

Passive smoking is damaging the health of almost half the world's children, the World Health Organisation warned Wednesday as it pushes support for a global treaty on tobacco control ...
Those interviews were done as part of the Physician Asthma Care Education (PACE) project, which is designed to improve asthma education for physicians, and consequently the health of their young patients who have asthma ...
But it said more study is needed to determine if there is the direct cause-and-effect relationship found with other cancers and leukemia ...
In contrast, rats tested during the earliest adolescent stage showed a significant preference following one brief exposure to nicotine ...