disease from smoking

1. How would the money be used to curb smoking and treat those with smoking-related diseases?

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention for an effective anti-tobacco program ...
At least 15 percent for public-information campaigns, and another 15 percent for local programs to reduce tobacco use ...
Here is a plain-language interpretation of how the proceeds would be spent ...

Missouri smokers peeved by proposed tobacco tax increase

Following the formula embraced by researchers, that would mean more than 100,000 of Missouri's roughly 1 million smokers would give up the habit if the tax increase is approved ...
7 ballot measure that would more than quintuple Missouri's cigarette tax – taking it from the nation's second-lowest rate of 17 cents a pack to a 97-cent tax nearer the national average ...
When you're hooked on something, regardless of the price, you'll keep buying it," he said ...
We have respect for nonsmokers," Fields said, "but don't take the self-righteous attitude and beat me over the head with it ...
Jim Blaine, a family practitioner in Springfield who cut his workload in half for the final month before the election so he could volunteer as a spokesman ...

Tobacco heir praises tax plan

I’ve seen the wealth tobacco can bring,” said Reynolds, who lives in California ...
Ron Leone, executive director of the Missouri Petroleum Marketers and Convenience Store Association, which opposes the amendment, called ...
By 1986, he had quit smoking and begun speaking publicly about the evils of tobacco ...

WHO ponders the who question, not what and why

The agency was instrumental in eradicating smallpox and is close to doing the same with polio ...
The final task is for the WHO to offer more objective and co-ordinated advice ...
Driven in part by the awareness the organisation helped create that a pandemic could spread faster and with more severe consequences than ever before, the power of the WHO has grown from that of a technical United Nations agency, little heeded beyond a narrow circle of health experts, to an institution that wields considerable power ...
Eyebrows have been raised by the recent publication of a glossy book on the WHO’s fight against severe acute respiratory syndrome (Sars) in 2003 co-ordinated by Shigeru Omi of Japan, the agency’s regional head for the western Pacific, who declared himself a candidate even before Lee died ...

NZ could be tobacco free say campaigners

The controversial scheme would see the government taking total control of the tobacco industry ...
She says with that goal in mind it would not be a case of banning cigarettes and creating a black market, but a situation where tobacco use would be completely phased out ...
She reckons huge progress will be made if the companies are taken out of the equation ...
She says it is a battle every time she puts forward a tobacco control solution, because the tobacco industry is working behind closed doors to make deals and prevent anything being done ...
Ms Freeman says tobacco companies are profiting from addiction and disease , and the country has to find some way to put an end to that ...

Anti-smoking expert will try to persuade Israelis to quit

There have been studies of genes that give certain people a greater predisposition to getting addicted to nicotine, but I have found that psychological and environmental influences - such as friends', spouses' and parents' behavior - are much more likely to determine whether people start or stop smoking ...
Israel has no graphics and fairly low-key warnings that do not cover as much space as in Canada ...
When it became clear that the industry was behind it, we were able to raise taxes ...

Cancer diagnoses rise but deaths decline in EP

Everybody knows somebody in their family with cancer," Keller said ...
A lot of tumors used to grow to large sizes without being detected ...
Prostate and breast cancers strike hundreds of El Pasoans each year, but lung cancer claims more lives, according to data from the Cancer Epidemiology and Surveillance Branch of the Texas Department of State Health Services ...

Hattiesburg ponders smoke-free law

The current ordinance, he said, would eliminate smoking in all bars as well as restaurants although businesses with outdoor seating could allow smoking outside ...
I'm happy we're just about at the pearly gates," said Ward 2 City Councilwoman Deborah Denard Delgado ...
The next three months will largely be geared toward educating the public, Mayor Johnny DuPree said ...
Clint Taylor, managing partner with New South Restaurant Group who was instrumental in working with the proposed ordinance, would not comment on the proposal until he sees a final version ...

Hospitals to banish smoking

On Tuesday, the Triangle's three major health systems teamed up to announce one of the biggest tobacco ...
I'm pretty sure a lot of people will say they need someplace where they can go to smoke ...
For years, medical staff, patients and visitors have clustered around hospital entryways, dragging on cigarettes before returning to the clean air inside ...
But Pickens doubts the new policies will induce employees to quit smoking ...
She would be OK without her cigarettes, but she predicted other visitors would find it difficult ...

Secondhand data on secondhand smoke

These methods are not adequate to test the hypotheses required by the scientific method, so epidemiology can never prove or disprove anything ...
The 2006 surgeon general's 709-page report "The Health Consequences of Involuntary Exposure to Tobacco Smoke" further promotes this sham ...
Epidemiologists collect data using poorly controlled observational studies and evaluate it by using statistical methods ...
Whereas the association of cigarette smoking with heart disease and lung cancer in epidemiologic studies is strong--an increase of 100 to 300 percent and 900 percent respectively--the association found between secondhand-smoke exposure and heart disease and lung cancer in the studies cited by the surgeon general is very weak, an increase of about 30 percent for each ...
Finally, a basic principle of toxicology is that "the dose makes the poison ...