Most Smokers Want to Quit Few Succeed

Most smokers want to quit and a majority have tried, according to a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention report released on Thursday. The CDC numbers show that most tobacco users know that they should stop— but still struggle to kick the habit.In 2010, 68.8 percent of American adult smokers said they wanted to quit and 52 percent said they have tried to within the past year, according to the CDC report. Nearly 32 percent had used counseling or medications in their efforts, and 48 percent got advice from a health care provider in the past year.Yet only 6 percent had recently managed to quit smoking altogether.“More than two-thirds of smokers...

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Students Call For a Smoke-Free Campus

Undergraduate Student Government weighed in on the debate over creating a smoke-free campus Tuesday night by passing a senate resolution calling for the enforcement of designated smoking areas and a clarification of current smoking policy.The administration will take an official position on changing smoking policy on the University Park Campus once it has heard from the different constituencies for faculty, staff, undergraduate students and graduate students, according to USG Director of Campus Affairs Jared Ginsburg. The other three constituencies’ representatives have passed resolutions, which are used to formally communicate interests to administration.Residential...

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Passive Smoking Hurts Kids

Children exposed to passive smoking are at risk of developing hearing deficiencies during their adolescence. Hearing deficiencies among adolescents occur mostly in the low frequencies.The reason for this surprising discovery lies in the repeated ear infections caused by tobacco smoke during the early years of life.Researchers in New York monitored adolescents between the ages of 12 and 19, all of whom answered a series of questions relating to their state of health and family history.They also underwent hearing tests and a number of blood tests to determine their level of cotinine, a metabolite of nicotine.The purpose of these blood tests was...

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Utah gives hookah the hook

Starting in mid-September, Utah bars and clubs cannot allow patrons to smoke most hookah products indoors.“The purpose of the clarification is to protect people from exposure to second hand smoke. Even minimal amounts of exposure is considered harmful,” said Steve Hadden, a health program specialist in the department’s Tobacco Prevention and Control Program.Utah banned hookah use in bars and clubsNathan Porter, owner of the Murray-based Huka Bar & Grill and Huka Lounge, sought such an exception from the health department, since his businesses opened in 2005. On Monday, he said he plans to sue the state and the health department, saying the...

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Best Tips to Stop Smoking | Tips For Stop Smoking

Though tobacco has a well know repute about the outcome on physical condition, smoking remains a vice that each person discovers tough to break. Individual who smoke may feel the require to end that practice, however can’t indeed start doing it since they’re tied to it since a long time. Most liable, persons who wish to quit however discover it tough to do, they search further than help for advises that will make them simpler the objective to quit smoking, these advises might originate from family members, some specialists, and so on. A incomparable tip could break off the chain to that dangerous inclination.Discover diverse ways to quit smokingThough...

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Higher Prices Best Way to Beat Smoking Habit

It is rare for much time to pass without a new front being opened by anti-smoking crusaders. This month has seen a particularly high level of activity. Legislation dictating that tobacco products, Lucky Strike cigarettes and advertisements will have to be kept out of sight in shops from next July was passed with the support of all but three Act MPs.Not to be outdone, George Wood, the chairman of the Auckland Council’s community safety forum, proposed a ban on smoking in inner-city streets. Then, most astonishingly, the Auckland District Health Board said it was looking at refusing to hire smokers.All these initiatives highlight the pressure on...

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Altria Launches New Products

Recently Altria declared that it will launch its new products -Skoal Sticks and Marlboro Sticks. In such a case, Altria continues to do whatever Reynolds does even if it doesn’t know why.Earlier, David Howard of RJ Reynolds spoke in an interview about the Camel smoke-free products such as: Camel Orbs, Camel Strips, and Camel Sticks, which are dissolvable tobacco products. In the course of interview, Howard became quite excited over the continued use by the anti-tobacco extremists of descriptors like Candy, Chewing Gum and Mint when criticizing the dissolvable tobacco products. “Camel Dissolvables are only for and promoted to adults cigarette...

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