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Former NM Inmate Sues Prison Operators

Roberts, who filed the suit last week in Santa Fe District Court, claims that because of ...
Santa Fe County Attorney Stephen Ross said Monday that it is his understanding that the county is considering making the jail a smoke- free facility ...
Greg Parrish, correctional services manager for the county, said Monday that an advisory committee is studying the issue of banning smoking at the jail but is not expected to make a recommendation to the County Commission on the issue until September ...
The county jail's former manager, Cornell Corrections, is named as a defendant in the suit ...

Smoking, Even More Lethal for Women

The county jail's former manager, Cornell Corrections, is named as a defendant in the suit ...
One reason (for this) is that smoking affects the oestrogen balance, and oestrogen is a hormone that can protect against heart disease ...
The study followed 12,000 individuals in this country for up to 22 years ...
The wealth of cumulative information in the study strongly indicated a much higher vulnerability in women to health problems correlated with tobacco use ...

Med Students Are Not Taught to Counsel Tobacco Using Patients

8 percent of the schools include recommended topics such as the cancer risk of tobacco and the effects of passive smoking ...
A former inmate at the Santa Fe County jail has filed a lawsuit claiming he was subjected to "cruel and unusual punishment" when he was forced to breathe the secondhand smoke of other prisoners' cigarettes ...
Roberts, who filed the suit last week in Santa Fe District Court, claims that because of ...

Smoking Among Kids Keeps Rising

The county jail's former manager, Cornell Corrections, is named as a defendant in the suit ...
Some young smokers say they have no intention of quit ting, but the new Proposition 10 tax, which raised the price of cigarettes by 50 cents a pack, may make them cut back on the amount they smoke ...
Have something they can go to right after school--at their school, not at another site ...
Eva Prescott of the Institute for Illness Prevention, in an interview with daily newspaper Politiken ...
Young people ages 16 to 24 interviewed across Southern California say it was often someone in their family who led them down that road, usually a relative they wanted to emulate, or a friend ...

Tobacco Therapies Doubtful [02/22-4]

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Anti- smoking therapies and modified tobacco products have the potential to reduce the danger of smoking , but not enough is known about their use to be certain, a research panel said Thursday ...
According to Politiken, authorities in this country are already aware of several of the factors examined in the study ...
Maybe Joe Camel was not the pied piper after all--the one who started young people down the path to nicotine addiction ...

Why Teenagers Smoke, and Quit

According to Politiken, authorities in this country are already aware of several of the factors examined in the study ...
These range from nicotine replacement gum, patches, inhalers and nasal spray to cigarette-like products that produce less smoke and even modified tobacco with fewer toxic chemicals ...
How can a teen be convinced to stop smoking --or persuaded never to take up the habit at all? Those questions became even more crucial last week, when the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported that tobacco use among teenagers increased by nearly one-third in the last six years ...

EXPERTS BAFFLED BY RISE IN TEEN SMOKING

The three girls are 14 years old -- they look not a day older -- and have been smoking cigarettes since they were 10 ...
What works for adult smokers--and researchers are still trying to figure out that problem too--may backfire for adolescents ...
The study followed 12,000 individuals in this country for up to 22 years ...

Many Former Smokers Become Hooked on Smoking Cessation Products

The medical field has accepted that fact since the mid-80's, when the Food and Drug Administration approved, by prescription, products like gum to give would-be quit ters a substitute comparable to cigarettes in price and nicotine content, but without other cigarette toxins ...
Maybe Joe Camel was not the pied piper after all--the one who started young people down the path to nicotine addiction ...
The wealth of cumulative information in the study strongly indicated a much higher vulnerability in women to health problems correlated with tobacco use ...
The research team discovered that men double their risk for coronary bloodclots compared to non-smokers, even for those smoke just six to nine cigarettes daily ...

New Survey: Amercians Want U.S. to Sign the FCTC

Roberts, who filed the suit last week in Santa Fe District Court, claims that because of ...
2) 500 million people alive today in the world are projected to die of tobacco-related disease unless strong action is taken soon ...
The treaty -- the World Health Organization's Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC) -- would save millions of lives worldwide by promoting effective policies to help children reject tobacco use and to help adults quit smoking ...
So far, more than 100 nations have signed the treaty, which will go into effect when 40 nations have ratified it ...

Children with Asthma Twice as Likely to Face Year-Round Attacks if Parents Smoke

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 ...
Santa Fe County Attorney Stephen Ross said Monday that it is his understanding that the county is considering making the jail a smoke- free facility ...
to sign by June 29 would be widely interpreted to mean that the U ...
On top of that, she said, doctors have become discouraged at the success rate of nonprescription nicotine-replacement chewing gums, patches and sprays ...
Those findings, made by University of Michigan researchers and scheduled to be presented here on May 4 at the Pediatric Academic Societies Annual Meeting, reinforce the importance of educating parents about how their own smoking can affect their children with asthma ...