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Thursday, February 28th, 2008
The World Heart Federation is urging Geneva to vote on February 24th to ban smoking in bars and restaurants. Following recent smoking bans in France, Spain, Italy and the United Kingdom, it is hoped Geneva will follow the example set by fellow Swiss cantons Ticino and Soleure and put an ...
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Thursday, February 28th, 2008
Smoking by a non-biological parent is as influential as smoking by biological parents in determining whether their teenager smokes, reveal the results of a Cancer Research UK study published in the journal Addiction*.
Researchers based at Cancer Research UK's Health Behaviour Research Centre at University College London, interviewed 650 teenagers from ...
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Thursday, February 21st, 2008
The Pfizer Foundation, a charitable organisation established by Pfizer Inc, a research-based pharmaceutical company, declared a $33m USD multi-year programme to support public health programmes to address the emerging global challenges in cancer and tobacco control.
Pfizer said it has entered into partnerships with 15 non-governmental organisations (NGOs) in 26 countries, ...
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Thursday, February 21st, 2008
Stop smoking clinics will be run in schools as part of a new drive to help city pupils give up smoking.
Under plans being proposed by NHS Lothian, hour-long sessions will become a regular part of many teenagers' school week.
The health board plans to employ a second stop smoking adviser to ...
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Thursday, February 21st, 2008
An insidious new generation of tobacco products is threatening efforts to reduce tobacco use in the United States. A new report issued by a coalition of public health organizations describes how tobacco manufacturers take advantage of the lack of government regulation to design and market products that recruit new youth ...
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Wednesday, February 20th, 2008
Starwood Hotels & Resorts has announced its Sheraton and Four Points by Sheraton Hotels will make its 8,000 smoking guest rooms in 300 hotels and resorts smoke-free by December 31, 2008. Sheraton follows its sister brand, Westin, which was the first hotel chain to become smoke-free in January 2006.
Following is ...
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Friday, February 8th, 2008
The World Health Organization (WHO) released a report yesterday, Thursday 7th February, covering global tobacco use that reveals the world is making progress, but not a single country has brought in all the key measures necessary to implement full tobacco control.
The WHO Report of the Global Tobacco Epidemic which is ...
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Wednesday, February 6th, 2008
A new study by researchers in the US has found that cigarette smokers don't sleep as well as non smokers: they are four times more likely to report feeling unrested after a night's sleep than non smokers.
The study is published in the February printed issue of the journal Chest and ...
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Monday, December 3rd, 2007
Poorer people are quitting smoking in larger numbers than their better off neighbours, according to a new study.
Of the 1.5 million smokers supported by NHS stop smoking services between 2003 and 2006, researchers found that smokers from poorer areas were using these services - and successfully quitting - more often ...
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