Smoking News
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Every minute, smokers get through nearly 11 million cigarettes and 10 die from the habit, experts say, in an industry that generates billions of dollars.Here are some facts and figures ahead of the UN's World No Tobacco Day Thursday.
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By AFP
Vienna -
Austrian government MPs presented a bill on Wednesday which would continue to allow smoking in bars and restaurants, despite a huge groundswell of opposition.
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By AFP
Den Haag -
A Dutch court on Tuesday upheld an appeal by anti-cigarette campaigners and barred the use of public spaces in cafes and bars reserved for smokers.
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By AFP
Paris -
A proposal to ban smoking in French films has been met with splutters of indignation in a land raised on images of puffing, pouting silver-screen stars.
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New research concludes that online social networks, specificlaly designed to help smokers kick the tobacco habit, can be effective. Success rises provided users are active participants.
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Copenhagen -
A new Danish study has found that a car driver often breathes in a higher level of pollution compared with a cyclist, when traversing the same road. This raises a new concern about air quality and public health.
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By AFP
Bejing -
Smoking-related diseases will claim 200 million lives in China this century and plunge tens of millions into poverty, a report said Friday.
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Nottingham -
It has been an on-going debate since the first home computer consuls: do video games affect behavior, especially in impressionable adolescents? For things like alcohol and smoking the answer seems to be a ‘yes’.
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By AFP
Shanghai widened its ban on public smoking Wednesday as China's biggest city steps up efforts to stub out the massive health threat despite conflicts of interest with the state-owned tobacco industry.
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By AFP
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The first solid evidence that smoking causes cancer came in the 1950s, followed decades later by revelations that "second-hand" smoke also harms health.
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Toronto -
Although smoking tobacco products is in decline in many countries, a sizable minority continue to smoke. To remind smokers about the process of quitting, the Canadian Cancer Society has provided Digital Journal with a nine step plan.
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Montreal -
Quebec's Tobacco Control Act came into full effect on Saturday, November 26, after being enacted one year ago. Under the new rules, it will be illegal to smoke within a nine-meter radius of a door or window that opens to the outside.
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For tobacco smokers, and those who favor e-cigarettes, nicotine not only enters the body via the lungs but also through the skin, according to new research.
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By AFP
Den Haag -
A Dutch court Wednesday threw out a case brought by anti-cigarette campaigners seeking to force the government to close down public spaces reserved for smokers in some cafes and bars.
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Toronto -
Should children and young people be allowed to watch movies where people smoke and should movies suitable for young people have all references to smoking removed? As the Toronto Film Festival kicks off this has become a hot topic for discussion.
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Washington -
San Francisco, the gleaming city by the bay and financial center of the West, now has another title to add to its allure: marijuana capital.
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Washington -
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) have published data about the role low nicotine cigarettes can play in helping people give up smoking.
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By AFP
Bejing -
Wielding an "inspector" badge, volunteer Liu Li follows his nose as he sniffs out violators of China's toughest-ever tobacco control law, enacted a year ago on Wednesday, as Beijing fights to keep its air smoke free.
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Toronto -
World No Tobacco Day is taking place on May 31. As part of the social media campaigns, the Canadian Dental Hygienists Association is calling for cigarettes to be placed in plain packages to discourage smoking.
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By AFP
Addis Ababa -
A ban on smoking at public gatherings has been announced by the mayor of Ethiopia's capital Addis Ababa, according to local media reports on Wednesday.
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In an effort to curb smoking, Germany is placing startling images of black lungs and rotting teeth on cigarette packages as part of a mandatory regulation established by the European Union.
Predictably, tobacco industry bigwigs are not happy about this.
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The use of e-cigarettes raised several controversies over the last few years. A recent study from the from University College of London (UCL) found these devices helped about 16,000-22,000 English smokers quit in 2014.
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Toronto -
National Non-Smoking Week runs from January 17–23 2015. To mark it, Canada's dental hygienists are reminding people of the important need to eliminate tobacco use for optimal oral and overall health.
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By AFP
Ashgabat -
Turkmenistan's authorities have forced shops to stop selling cigarettes, traders in Ashgabat said Thursday, after its president urged citizens to kick the habit.
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Honolulu -
Effective Friday, January 1, 2016, Hawaii became the first state in the United States to raise the legal smoking age from 18 to 21.
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By AFP
Sydney -
An Australian law requiring cigarettes to be sold in plain packaging has received a boost after an international tribunal said it would not hear a tobacco company's legal challenge.
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By AFP
Paris -
Cigarettes will have to be sold in plain packaging in France from next year after the French parliament narrowly voted through a proposal which has drawn the ire of tobacconists.
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Washington D.c. -
The U.S. government is considering legislation that would ban smoking on public housing land nationwide, and this includes homes, communal areas, and administrative offices within these areas.
The ban could affect about one million homes.
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By AFP
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Flicking your cigarette butt in a Parisian street could from Thursday net you a stiff 68 euro ($75) fine as the city cracks down on "incivility" and pollution.
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London -
Getting people to quit smoking forms the basis of a new raft of health measures put forward by Public Health England. The health agency also has something to say about e-cigarettes.
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Smoking Image
A man lights a cigarette. Kenzo Tribouillard, AFP/File
420, the code name for marijuana. Photo by nikoretro
Foetuses whose mothers smoked (left) continued to show significantly higher rates of mouth movement and self-touching than those carried by non-smokers (right) Dr Nadja Reissland
Cigarillos like these come in many varieties now and are becoming extremely popular with teens in North America. PeddderH
Passive smoking modenaroid
Electronic cigarettes are manufactured in nicotine and non-nicotine varities as well as flavored varities, which include mint, candy and fruit flavors, and are being sold as an alternative to tobacco products. Wikipedia SafeSmokes
Vaping bars such as this one have sprung up throughout the continent as well. Lindsay Fox
It is believed that our difficulty in trying to stop smoking may be due to Neanderthal DNA mutations in some people's genomes. Mr. Archie
A man smoking a cigarette lanier67
Tori the smoking Orangutan at the zoo in Central Java, Indonesia Center For Orangutan Protection
Boy smokes two packs of cigarettes a day. screengrab/ telegraph video
A photo of 117mm e-cigarette Jakemaheu
Logo-free, drab dark brown plain tobacco packaging has been mandatory in Australia since December 2012 Wikipedia
A man smoking a cigarette lanier67
A person smoking a cigarette Roman Pavlyuk
A cigarette burning gaffri
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