The new cigarette paternalism: there are better ways to address smoking...

Regulation;  December 22, 2002 ;     700+ words ...SMOKING IS BY FAR THE LARGEST SINGLE risk that most people take. Perhaps in part because of that prominence, smoking has been the target of a wide variety of regulations and...impetus for broadly based government efforts to discourage smoking. The risks of smoking are largely borne by the consumers...

How many more reasons do you need to stop smoking?(News)

The Birmingham Post (England);  February 12, 2004 ;     377 words ...Smoking has a damaging effect on almost all aspects of sexual, reproductive and child health, doctors...of Science and Tobacco Control Resource Centre details shocking statistics about the impact of smoking on factors other than cancer. The study -Smoking and Reproductive Life -estimates about 120,000 men ...

Clip n' post: eight ways to help you quit smoking. Butt-out.

American Fitness;  November 1, 2002 ;     700+ words ...Smoking is believed to cause one-third of cancer deaths and one-fourth of fatal heart attacks in the United States. The American Lung Association estimates 350,000 Americans die each year from smoking-related diseases. As a result, experts say not smoking or quitting, if you smoke, is the healthiest thing ...

Teen Smoking: Understanding the Risk.(Review)

Science Activities;  September 22, 1998 ;     619 words ...Teen Smoking: Understanding the Risk. Daniel McMillan. Springfield...18.95 (hardcover). ISBN: 0-89490-722-0. Teen Smoking: Understanding the Risk is a textbook that covers the history of smoking, the reasons people smoke, the health risks of...

Can art make you quit smoking? Tobacco has thrived on the use of glamorous...

The Independent - London;  October 22, 2000 ;     700+ words ...SMOKING, the tobacco giants would have us believe, remains fashionable...limited edition design for Camel cigarettes. Now, the anti-smoking lobby, having seen the wonders a little artistic street-cr...Organisation, which will use the images to launch a new anti-smoking campaign. The artists were chosen ...

Study of smoking in film clouds issue of artistic freedom: Researchers say...

Charleston Daily Mail;  August 23, 2005 ;     594 words ...Smoking might be less common in movies than has been perceived...class bad guys, not glamorized heroes. By tracking the smoking habits of lead characters in 477 popular American films released from 1990 through 1998, researchers found that the smoking rate was similar to the smoking rate in the ...

101; HEALTH MYTHS; From smoking to dieting, myths abound about our health....

The People (London, England);  July 6, 1997 ;     700+ words ...SMOKING Smoking is fine in moderation Even the occasional cigarette is damaging. Initial low levels of smoking can easily increase. There's no evidence that smoking is really dangerous...

Smoking's Contribution to U.S. Deaths;Cigarettes' Effects Are Cause in 16%...

The Washington Post;  October 30, 1987 ;     700+ words ...Cigarette smoking, by contributing to heart and lung diseases...to an analysis by the federal Office on Smoking and Health to be published today. The...scientific data on the contribution of smoking to various diseases, concluded that more...

Smoking in the office to be banned

The Independent - London;  November 15, 1998 ;     364 words ...SMOKING will be banned in the workplace under a radical package...But prisons, psychiatric hospitals, pubs and clubs, where smoking is regarded as part of the culture, will be exempt, under the Government's White Paper on Smoking and Health, to be published next month. The proposals also...

The glamour of smoking that turned to ashes

Yorkshire Post;  May 22, 2007 ;     700+ words ...A smoking ban is fast approaching, campaigners want...safety campaigners calling for a ban on smoking while driving, it must feel like tin hat...of film ratings recently announced that smoking will be considered alongside sex, violence...

Tell patients the eye risks of smoking, physicians urge

Ophthalmology Times;  December 15, 1998 ;     700+ words ...Smoking is one of the leading risk factors for the most common...to cataract. Since 1982, when the relationship between smoking and increased risk of developing cataract was first reported...dose-response relationship between cumulative amount of smoking and risk of developing cataract.3 A prospective study ...

Smoking's hidden death toll revealed

Scotland on Sunday;  June 22, 2008 ;     700+ words ...SMOKING causes hundreds of thousands more deaths each year than...worldwide each year, in addition to more than five million smoking-related deaths estimated by the World Health Organisation...diseases such as lung cancer, which have long been linked to smoking. Scotland's health minister and ...

Smoking wreaks havoc on skin

Dermatology Times;  November 1, 2004 ;     700+ words ...Cigarette smoking is the most preventable cause of morbidity...cardiovascular and pulmonary diseases and cancers, smoking also leads to a variety of cutaneous manifestations...another comprehensive tool to promote smoking cessation: it has many deleterious effects...

Smoking's toll: 5160 annually

The Press;  June 15, 2004 ;     522 words ...Smoking is killing nearly three adults a day in Canterbury and...wasted lives and dollars totals 5160 deaths a year from smoking-related illnesses -- more than 10 times the number killed...over the age of 35 are admitted to hospital each year with smoking-related illnesses such as lung cancer and chronic ...

WE CAN BEAT CANCER WITH PUBLIC BAN ON SMOKING; MEDICAL CHIEF SUPPORTS...

Daily Record (Glasgow, Scotland);  August 25, 1999 ;     693 words ...SMOKING must be banned in public places if Scotland is to win the...yesterday. Sir David Carter backed calls for a total ban on smoking in pubs and restaurants as he revealed that cancer had...annual report on Scots health, he said: If we are serious on smoking I personally would like to see a ban on ...