disease from smoking

Boca Raton City Government Considers Smokefree Hiring Policy

2 percent) who light up regularly, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention ...
Last year, according to the American Lung Association, 38 percent of movies included a cigar scene ...
3 percent of lung cancers in men, followed by adenocarcinomas, diagnosed in 33 ...
And the Cigar Association announced it will halt product placement ...

Bidis Draw Scrutiny of Lawmakers Nationwide

The survey, the first in the nation to estimate the prevalence of bidis smoking among 7th through 12th graders, reported that almost one-quarter of students smoked bidis instead of cigarettes because they taste better ...
The surveys, to be released today, show that after holding steady for a decade, the number of regular smokers dropped more than 100,000 in a little more than a year, to 19 ...
courts relating to the tobacco companies' exports or activities and investments abroad ...
The West Virginia Supreme Court upheld yesterday a jury's decision that the tobacco industry should not have ...

ASH Testifies at Geneva Hearings on FCTC

Heads are spinning in the City Council and mayor's offices, where hundreds of e-mails and phone calls have arrived in the past three weeks ...
For more than 30 years, I have also served as Executive Director and Chief Counsel of Action on Smoking and Health (ASH), our nation's oldest, largest, and possibly most successful US anti smoking organization ...
And as cigarettes have become more affordable over the last decade, the number of young smokers has climbed, surveys show ...

Sacramento Crafts Ordinance to Ban Cigarette Sales by Mobile Vendors

Ninety percent of the people who start smoking are teenagers, Tina Childs heard the melody of the ice cream truck, marched to the rim of her south Sacramento cul de sac and glared at the driver who sold cigarettes to kids for a quarter ...
It is already the number one cause of death in the United States, claiming over 440,000 lives per year ...
Ferguson and other members of the coalition pleaded their case to city advisory boards earlier this month, hoping to gain backing ...
What has the cigar manufacturers upset is that the new Massachusetts law requires a conspicuous black-and-white health warning label on the top 25 percent of any package of cigars or in ads for them ...

Poll Shows Smokers Want to Quit

Our elected officials can't continue to ignore the mounds of research indicating the dangers of secondhand smoke ...
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 ...
neighborhood stores, after-school programs, and bus and subway stations ...

WHO Report: Smoking Pandemic

Why do children smoke? Well, that's the million-dollar question, isn't it? Peer pressure? Bad role models? A belief that it is cool? Mixed messages? A feeling that they are bullet-proof? An inability ...
Dubbed the poor man's cigarette in India, bidis are unfiltered smokes packed with tobacco flakes and hand-rolled in tendu or temburni or other leaves that are secured with a string at one end ...
One year after giving up smoking , the risk of coronary heart disease decreases by 50 percent, and within 15 years the risk of coronary heart disease is similar to that of a lifelong non-smoker ...
Those are the arguments fueling a state and national assault on bidis -- or "beedies" -- hand-rolled, often-filterless cigarettes ...
In addition, the researchers found that the first exposure to nicotine during adolescence changes subsequent behavioral responses to ...

TI Faces Civil Rights Suit

tobacco company practices, and the practices of their subsidiaries and those firms over which they exercise ...
Temporal changes were analyzed by using logistic regression analyses that assessed linear and quadratic time effects simultaneously and controlled for sex, race/ethnicity, and grade ...

Low-Tar Cigarettes May Not Help Smokers Quit

When ASH learned that President Clinton would not announce his decision regarding the proposed deal until September (rather than in August as initially expected), ASH Executive Director John Banzhaf ...
Liggett was one of seven lawsuits filed in the early 1980s as companion cases to one by survivors of Rose Cipollone, the ...
Prior studies have shown that many smokers believe that switching to low-tar cigarettes will reduce their risk of tobacco-related disease s, such as lung cancer ...

IL Restaurant and Bar Owners Say Business Increased After Going Smoke-free

When you've already been called a liar, a death merchant, a corrupter of children, and a manipulator of science, it's hard to imagine that your public image could get much worse ...
For example, he said other states use a system in which a colored ball is posted outside each restaurant: green means smoking is allowed anywhere, yellow means smoking is allowed in designated areas and red means it's smoke-free ...
Like the others, Cipollone's case eventually crumbled in the face of endless appeals that have become the hallmark of tobacco lawsuits ...

ASH's International Director Receives C. Everett Koop Unsung Hero Award

It's like having four witnesses to an armed robbery instead of just two," said John Coale, a plaintiffs' lawyer specializing in tobacco litigation ...
An estimated 42% of people under the age of 65 are exposed to tobacco smoke at home and 11% at work ...
Hundreds of advocates from the Africa to South America have benefited from Laurent's leadership ...