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

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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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Light Up and Laugh at the Anti-Smoking Policies Posted

Despite four years this month of the smoking ban in England, and a vigorous anti-smoking campaign paid for by the taxpayer, it has not lowered the number of Esse cigarettes smokers. Their number remains at about 20 per cent – the hardcore, of which I am one. It might kill me, although if it doesn’t, something else will.Bohemia has been banned. We might pay a heavy price for that. New York City is a lot duller for its smoking ban than it was in the past. Cole Porter would think the Sunday school teachers had taken over – and they have.I am aware how fanatical anti-smokers can be, as my father was one. My brother has a video of him trying to take...

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Roll-your-own cigarette shops popping up in region

Tom Maier smoked Winston cigarettes for 40 years.Now in his 60s, he has decided to start rolling his own cigarettes at Cheap Smokes in White Center to save money. He said he didn’t think he’d like the taste. But, it “turns out I like these better.”Maier sits on a stool catching his smokes in a plastic tub as they fly out of a slot at the bottom of the 600-pound maroon machine that hums and bangs like a beat-up washing machine.He comes in once a week, adds loose tobacco to the top of the machine, adds 200 empty, filtered tubes and pushes a button. Eight minutes later, he has a carton of cigarettes at about half the cost he used to pay at a gas...

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Julia Gillard Stands on Cigarette Plain Packaging

Prime Minister Julia Gillard says she won’t be intimidated by big tobacco after Philip Morris launched legal action to try to force the government to back down on introducing plain packaging for Salem cigarettes. Ms. Gillard said the government was confident it could deliver its reforms and that they would make a difference to the number of people who smoke. “We’re not going to be intimidated by big tobacco’s tactics, whether they’re political tactics, whether they’re public affairs kind of tactics out in the community or whether they’re legal tactics,” she told ABC radio. “We’re not taking a backward step. We’ve made the right decision...

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Merchants Learn Importance of Checking IDs for Beer, Cigarettes

The first line of defense to keep young people from becoming addicted to alcohol and drugs just might be the local grocery store. A “Merchant’s Roundtable” was held Tuesday at Moundsville’s Grand Vue park, presented by the Marshall County Anti-Drug Coalition and the Ohio County Substance Abuse Coalition. They are explaining how to make it clear to their customers that they won’t sell beer or cheap cigarettes to juveniles. To card every customer or only those whose age is questionable is up to each merchant to make the decision. Merchants know all too well that a 50-year-old buying a pack of cigarettes, who didn’t bring his driver’s license into the store, can become hostile when he’s told, “no ID, no sale.” But that same 50-year-old might be buying those cigarettes or that beer for...

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Reduced smoking saves state money

Ohio once had a model tobacco-prevention and cessation program that helped reduce smoking rates among adults and children in Ohio.Currently, more than one-fifth of Ohio adults smoke. About the same percentage of children smoke and 17 percent use other tobacco products.The new state budget will destroy Ohio’s program, since it does not fund prevention programs, enforcement of the Smoke Free Workplace Act, or Ohio’s successful Quit line.Ohio currently collects more than $800 million in cigarette taxes each year. None of that money is invested in tobacco prevention and cessation or enforcement of the Smoke Free Ohio law.Funding tobacco cessation...

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Barack Obama Smoking a Cigarette

You know that quitting smoking is difficult when even the most powerful man in the world can not stop himself from smoking cigarettes! Barack Obama Smoking a Cigarette To his credit, Mr. Obama has apparently not been seen smoking cigarettes for quite a while now, although he acknowledges that not smoking is a daily struggle. What is certain is that with young children at home and the entire world watching, he sets an example that millions will follow for good or ill. Quit smoking now, Mr. President!...

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Most support smoking ban in youth movies

Three-quarters of Ontarians support a ban on smoking in youth-targeted films, a new survey released Tuesday on World No Tobacco Days shows. “Research shows the more youth see smoking in movies, the more likely they are to start,” said Dr. Rosana Pellizzari, medical officer of health, Peterborough County-City Health Unit, one of the organizations endorsing policy recommendations to remove smoking from youth-rated movies.“The public agrees that smoking in movies is a serious public health issue, especially as it relates to youth. As tobacco use remains the leading cause of preventable disease and death in Ontario, this issue needs to be...

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Tobacco companies violate ad norms

In a clear violation of the Cigarettes and Other Tobacco Products Act 2003, (COPT), a non-governmental organisation, Salaam Bombay has exposed how tobacco brands are indulging in rampant surrogate advertising to promote their product under the guise of selling ‘pan masalas’. A recent survey conducted among 3,000 Mumbaikars revealed that majority of them associated ‘pan masala’ with gutka. The participants of the survey were shown flash cards consisting of pan masala advertisements that are usually seen on billboards and BEST buses across the city.“Gutka companies are promoting their tobacco products by advertising them as pan masalas. The end...

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Smoke free at NIC

Beginning July 1, the use of all tobacco products will be prohibited on the community college campus.Students, employees and visitors will not be allowed to smoke cigarettes, cigars, cigarillos, electronic cigarettes, pipes or hookahs. The use of smokeless tobacco products – dip, chew, snuff, snu – will also be prohibited. Well known cigarettes are Dunhill cigarettes and Gauloises cigarettes.“This is not a policy that’s been adopted by the board (of trustees),” said John Martin, the college’s vice president for community relations.The college’s administration will begin regulating tobacco usage based on a guideline approved this spring by NIC’s...

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Tobacco Trust Fund key to N.C. agriculture’s future

The N.C. House’s version of the state budget proposes to permanently eliminate the Tobacco Trust Fund Commission, putting that money into the General Fund to help cover the budget shortfall. Since 2001, the Tobacco Trust Fund has received an annual appropriation of several million dollars from the General Assembly. These funds were awarded to the state under the 1998 Tobacco Master Settlement Agreement (in the current version of the House budget, these moneys are called Tobacco Master Settlement Agreement Funds). Now that this has become a hot topic in the budget debate, some have been wondering what the Tobacco Trust Fund actually does for small farmers and local, healthy food. The name of the fund doesn’t describe the breadth of work it supports.The Independent Tobacco Trust Fund Commission,...

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Tobacco-Facts ads Philip Morris International: Alternative Annual Report » Combine tobacco tax hike with effort to get rid of low-cost cigarettes

Missouri hospital executives who lost a long-simmering lawsuit against tobacco companies last month shouldn’t fret over the potential loss of more than $455 million in civil damages.A better method exists to collect that revenue, and if the hospitals are smart about it, they’ll make the tobacco companies their partners, not their enemies.It is time for the state of Missouri to get serious about raising its lowest-in-the-nation tobacco tax. The path to victory will require a partnership that might make both sides uncomfortable.As the legislative session winds down this week, there are two proposals unlikely to pass that should be combined into a ballot initiative in the near future to raise needed revenue for the state while cutting down on tobacco use and improving the health of Missourians.Both...

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Smokers are influenced by package color

PACKAGING colour, slim cigarettes, a smooth taste. Many smokers believe these three factors each represent a safer smoke cigarette packageA study published in the journal Addiction reveals that one-in-five smokers believe “some cigarette brands could be less harmful than others”, with many basing their idea of risk on the colour of the packaging.In fact all conventional brands of cigarettes present the same risk to smokers, regardless of whether they are ‘mild’ or ‘low-tar’.The belief may stem from old branding of cigarettes as ‘mild’ or ‘light’.Tobbacco companies are no longer allowed to describe their brand with these terms because they are...

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Electronic cigarettes and vaping

Electronic cigarettes are battery powered drug delivery machines that allow a consumer to breathe in a high dose nicotine aerosol. (See previous article “Electronic cigarettes, nicotine and antifreeze?” with research source citations in the comments section at Examiner.com/Roanoke Longevity Examiner.) No tobacco is used in the plastic machine cartridges, just pure nicotine in an artificially flavored liquid. Many scary questions have arisen about e-cigs:Just how much nicotine gets in your brain when you vape one cartridge? Without extensive animal testing this question is not answerable. Extensive animal testing has not been done on e-cigs. The...

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Smoking ban a limit on freedom but a big step forward for Springfield

As members of civilized society, we all accept limits on our freedom.We know we can’t drive 60 mph in a school zone.We understand we shouldn’t dump raw sewage into a lake.We know it’s wrong to yell “fire” in a crowded theater.On April 5, we strongly urge city voters — smokers and nonsmokers alike — to accept another limit on freedom: Vote “yes” on the proposed ordinance to ban smoking in all indoor places accessible to workers or the public.It is the right thing to do for public health: Despite the protestations of opponents, it is clear that secondhand smoke, as much as smoking, is hazardous to your health, not just a nuisance to be tolerated.The...

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History of menthol cigarettes

Menthol cigarette smokers can exhale in relief: their Kools won’t be losing their cool anytime soon.salem mentholA Food and Drug Administration advisory panel has declined to recommend a ban on menthol cigarettes, even though the study group conceded that a ban would improve public health. The decision follows a 2009 federal ban on candy flavorings in cigarettes because of their potential allure for young smokers.The panel’s decision not to recommend a menthol ban is potentially a big victory for tobacco companies, in particular Lorillard Inc., makers of Newport, the country’s top-selling menthol cigarette. Lorillard’s stock price jumped more...

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