Smoking News

Category News Published: Wed, 21 Sep 2005 23:06:39 GMT Description: Smokers who believe a few cigarettes a day don?t do any harm will need to think again.

PEOPLE who smoke only one to four cigarettes a day are still three times more likely to die of heart disease or lung cancer, a study shows.

Fatal fires blamed on smoking have dropped markedly since New York State began requiring cigarettes to be self-extinguishing, officials said yesterday.

Stern warnings fell on deaf ears. Threats of detention and suspension didn't work.2.7

The Madison City Council heard testimonies of up to 80 concerned community members - with hundreds more attending the meeting - to speak in regard to the smoking ban during the year's longest council meeting ...

Smoking rates in Saratoga County have dropped since 2003, while support for smoke-free entryways has risen, according to a survey commissioned by the Southern Adirondack Tobacco-Free Coalition The smoking rate ...2.7

Our Towns Members of the Winneshiek County Board of Health went back to the drawing board after meeting earlier with county supervisors to draft a "no smoking" policy for county use.2.7

Reynolds considering smokeless Growing $3.5 billion market 'within our scope,' company official says BLOOMBERG NEWS >> a d v e r t i s e m e n t > w e b t o o l s << News Tip? Reynolds American Inc., the ...2.7

NEWARK, Sept. 20 - With its smoky casinos where cigarettes are more common than jackpots, New Jersey has found tobacco a difficult habit to kick.2.7

Publisher: The Heartland Institute At the National Conference on Tobacco or Health, held in Chicago in May and attended by more than 5,000 tobacco control advocates and health education officials, an important ...2.7

Smoking will be banned on all school property and in almost all other enclosed public places when the Montana Clean Indoor Air Act goes into effect Oct.2.7

When NBC launched America's first regular television news programme in 1949, it was called the ... Alleged placement deals involving BBC programmes include beer on the comedy series Coupling, cameras and cars on the police series Murphy's Law and jackets and torches on the spy drama Spooks.2.7

To smoke or not to smoke: that's the question Huntsville restaurants will soon decide.2.7

The City of East Lansing is changing its rules on smoking. A proposed smoking ordinance would require bars and restaurants to have a smoke free section available from open to close.2.7

Fewer people have died in smoking-related fires since New York last year became the first state to require that tobacco companies sell self-extinguishing cigarettes, according to records released Tuesday.3.9

SCOTT CARNEY For the State Journal Drink to the Ban wasn't thought up in the back rooms of smoky bars; how could it? With the onset of the city's smoking ban, cigarettes are becoming a thing of the past and ...2.7

Physicians for a Smoke-Free Canada announced "with great sadness" last week that anti-smoking advocate Heather Crowe's cancer "is no longer in remission." Heather Crowe has been admitted to the ...2.7

HUNTINGTON, W.Va. - Tobacco companies, including two based in North Carolina, want to run a few "bellwether" cases of individual smokers before addressing the more than 1,000 complaints brought against the ...3.4

WAVE 3 Medical Reporter Lori Lyle explains. Nicotine patches, gum, or cold turkey.2.7

A company says they can help you become a non-smoker in just 30-minutes. The treatment involves a laser.2.9

Nonsmokers would not normally be found anywhere in the vicinity of a hookah lounge, but I was a nonsmoker in a smoker's world as I made my way to the Meridian Hookah Lounge on Sunday night.

Ryan Williams My senses have been assaulted. Picture this: I'm sitting in SUB, next to two people.2.7

An anti-smoking campaign in Japan features a series of posters which, humorously illustrate the perils of smoking and tossing your butt where it shouldn't be tossed.

The city council heard from a group Monday that wants to ban smoking in bars, restaurants and other public places, and next month the council is expected to hear from an opposing group that wants to preserve ...3.1

L ike a weed that sneaks up in an untended garden, youth smoking has been slowly on the rise in the absence of anti-tobacco messages.

DOCTOR IS IN Aired 9/20/2005 @ 12:00 AM All Future Broadcast Times for this Series Length : 28 Minutes Episode : 905 SMOKING CESSATION Program Genre : Health/Safety/Welfare Closed Captioned : No Series Website ...2.7

THIS smoking shelter outside the main entrance to Glasgow Royal Infirmary was introduced two years ago HEALTH bosses in Glasgow were today considering watering down a smoking ban in hospital grounds after ...2.7

Also on this page: TAXING THE HABIT TAXING THE HABIT HERE ARE THE STATES with the highest excise ... It hasn't affected me really at all," said Steve Discatio, a co-owner of Joe's Smoke Shop in Portland.2.7

THE JOURNAL NEWS Will teens still find a way to score cigarettes if the age for tobacco sales is raised from 18 to 19? Or will the change cut down on the amount of tobacco being brought into Rockland County ...2.7

FOR THE EIGHTH year in a row, the township has achieved the top compliance rate in a state campaign to prevent the sale of tobacco products to underage persons, Mayor Frank G. Pelzman recently announced.2.7

Most of the pollution stems from the personnel. Smoking consultant Susanne Ollendorf said the problem was a growing one in nursing homes and senior citizens' activity centers.2.7

Photo: Stefan Hard/Times Argus Youth from the Central Vermont New Directions Coalition chalk symbols declaring Smoke-Free Zones on the sidewalk Monday on State Street in Montpelier.2.7

SEOUL, Sept 20 Asia Pulse - The smoking rate among South Korean men in the lowest-income bracket dropped more than 20 percentage points over the past year after a hike in cigarette prices, the health ministry ...2.7

Column by Jeff Edelstein - When the calendar strikes October 21, I will have been an ex-cigarette smoker for three years.2.7

Attorneys for eleven-hundred smokers suing tobacco companies are asking the state Supreme Court to restore a consolidated, two-phase trial plan that was dropped by a judge in Ohio County.2.7