disease from smoking

Daughters of smokers pay heavily for their mothers' habit

These body shapes and period problems might in turn affect the growth of the younger women's own children, said Dr Davies, who has sought a grant to study grand-daughters of the original group, He also wants to study siblings of the women ...
They are entering their reproductive careers at a very different starting point from their mothers ...
The smokers' daughters had a similar rate of overweight and menstrual irregularity - defined as periods that occurred more than four days outside the woman's usual cycle - regardless of whether they themselves ...

A darker cloud over smokers

15, 2005, followed 5,887 middle-aged people for more than 14 years ...
Researchers in Denmark have found that the lifetime risk of developing a chronic obstructive pulmonary disease , such as bronchitis or emphysema, is significantly higher than was previously thought ...
If the lung function is reduced at the time of quitting, it will not return to normal," Lange says ...

Research Topics: Environmental Tobacco Smoke

Environmental Tobacco Smoke (ETS), also known as secondhand smoke, passive smoking , and involuntary tobacco smoke, is an important preventable cause of illness and death ...
After careful consideration, the NCI Executive Committee has decided that, effective January 1, 2007, NCI shall convene ...
While the nation has made tremendous progress in reducing ETS exposure, many adults and children remain at risk ...
Smoke-free laws benefit nonsmokers by eliminating exposure to ETS, and smokers by providing an environment that encourages and facilitates quitting ...

More cities may copy Dublin rule

Sullum also regards the increasingly tight noose around an individual's freedom to smoke as a thinly-veiled attempt to coerce people to simply quit ...
The first city nationwide to do so independently was Calabasas in Southern California, which passed its public nuisance law in February, while also banning smoking anywhere outdoors that's accessible to the public ...
The law, passed in August, makes it easier for fellow citizens to sue one another for harm ...

Against Restaurant Smoking Bans

The owner has every incentive to select the level of air quality that maximizes the welfare of his patrons and employees -- many of whom may desire smoking -permitted space ...
Such externalities often give rise to injustices (third-parties are victimized by the conduct at issue) and inefficiencies (there's an excessive level of the activity at issue, because the party doing ...
Scientific evidence on the risk of ETS may be overstated and never addresses the important point that some people are willing to take ...
Motivated by the pursuit of profits, the owners would have the proper incentive to maximize social welfare ...

'25% of smokers' get lung disease

It's also a wake-up call to the UK - COPD is our fifth biggest killer, yet it's a hidden disease ...
In an editorial in the journal, Dr Nick Anthonisen of the University of Manitoba in Canada, said: "The message is that many smokers ...
A spokesman for the British Lung Foundation said the study should act as a "wake-up call" to UK smokers ...

Anti-smoking funds frozen

Legislators, not the courts, should decide how public money is spent, he said ...
Then-Attorney General Mike Moore, who filed the tobacco lawsuit and negotiated the settlement, obtained the court order in December 2000 from Bradley ...
House Public Health Committee Chairman Steve Holland of Plantersville criticized Barbour, a Republican, who lobbied for tobacco companies in Washington before becoming governor ...
Partnership spokeswoman Sharon Garrison said the group "is deeply disappointed by the ruling ...

High Court Orders Partnership To Quit Spending During Appeal

The Mississippi Supreme Court on Thursday ordered the Partnership for a Healthy Mississippi to stop spending money until justices decide the ...
Without a stay, contested funds could be spent while a final decision is pending, Barbour had argued ...
Mississippi in 1997 settled its massive lawsuit against the tobacco industry, which was filed to recover public costs of treating sick smokers ...
While the court's order does allow the Partnership to keep and use fund from sources other than the state's annual tobacco settlement payments, that amount of money is only enough to fund a fraction of the Partnership's programs ...
Barbour, Medicaid and the Mississippi Health Care Trust Fund are appealing a September ruling by Jackson County Chancellor Jaye Bradley ...

Mississippi High Court Orders Partnership to Quit Spending During Appeal

When the money for the pilot program ran out, then-Attorney General Mike Moore -- a Democrat who had filed the tobacco lawsuit -- obtained a December 2000 court order from Bradley that directed part of Mississippi's annual settlement payments to the Partnership ...
It is important that we not allow the school nurse program to be interrupted," the Republican governor said ...
Before becoming governor, Barbour was a high-powered Washington lobbyist whose client list included cigarette makers ...
Haley Barbour and others to who have challenged the allocation of money to the Partnership ...
I am confident we will find the necessary money to keep schools nurses on the job until the Legislature can appropriate funding for this purpose in the 2007 regular session ...

NZMA supports banning tobacco investments

The NZMA welcomes Labour MP Maryan Street’s Member’s Bill, Ethical Investment (Crown Financial Institutions) Bill, which would require the New Zealand Superannuation Fund, the Government Superannuation Fund and the Accident Compensation Corporation ...
We call on all parties to support this Bill, and for it to be adopted as Government policy ...
The Government is actively working to reduce the harm caused by tobacco, and has been a world leader in many initiatives ...
SUBJECT: NZMA supports banning tobacco investments Government-owned entities in New Zealand have no business investing in the tobacco industry, says the New Zealand Medical Association ...
Smoking is a major cause of death and disease in our society, which costs our health system millions and millions of dollars,“ said NZMA Deputy Chair Dr Don Simmers ...