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Using electronic cigarettes to quit smoking is hazardous to your health and nervous system. They cram too much nicotine into your blood, a study reveals.
Mahidol University dental school researcher Dr Varanant Buejeap says electronic cigarettes contain nicotine and 28 carcinogenic substances, such as alkaloida, which releases substances that have amphetaminelike effects.
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Cigarette smuggling in the city is increasing with instances of smugglers even attacking anti-smuggling forces, the market watchdog in the city has reported.
Over the last six months, market watchdog division 5B in District 5 has seized more than 60,000 packs of smuggled cigarettes and imposed penalties against smugglers in 54 cases.
The division is in charge of the area that hosts the city's largest cigarette trading spot - the eponymous market on Hoc Lac Street- where both certified and illegal cigarettes are frequently transacted.
Head of the market watchdog division 5B, Ngo Van Tung, said smugglers have resorted to violence to resist authorities who confiscate their cigarettes.
Tobacco retailers across the region are being urged by the Greater Western Area Health Service to train staff who sell tobacco products.
The health service has even offered to assist with the training.
GWAHS population health area manager Dr Tony Brown said that with tobacco killing one in two smokers, selling tobacco products carries a great deal of responsibility. Retailers and their staff are required under the NSW Public Health Act 1991 not to sell tobacco products to people under the age of 18 years.
RECENTLY, there have been quite a few articles on quitting smoking. People would say it’s the same old, same old. It has been talked about so much that kicking the habit has become a cliché for anti-smoking campaigns. Yet, we are hardly a stone’s throw away from where we started.
It is unfair to say that healthcare authorities have not tried to do their part. . . .
You can blame it on lack of enforcement, but the guilt lies on us for not trying hard enough to accept the help that is offered.
Yes, “us” refers to smokers and non-smokers alike. We need lots of courage from smokers and encouragement from non-smokers to get this working.
Some may wonder what the fuss is all about. After all, the problem has been there for the past seven decades. Well the fact is, thanks to the smoking habit, the incidence of many respiratory diseases has increased. One of it is lung cancer.
Go ahead a light-up as usual in Lewisville for the time being. The City Council has put-off a proposal for a smoking crackdown. The Council was looking at putting a tougher smoking ordinance on the ballot this November for voters to decide on any crackdown on lighting-up. But Councilman Greg Tierney says the clock was against them. The Council was running short on time and did not want to put anthing before the voters that wasn't exactly what they wanted.
It's buried in a funding proposal floated by Virginia Commonwealth University to create a new health center for pregnant women: Research shows that nicotine entering the bloodstream of pregnant women enrolled in smoking-cessation programs improves the health of their unborn children.
Indeed, in the annals of tobacco-related research there isn't a consensus on the effects of nicotine patches and cessation therapy during pregnancy. The lack of consensus, though, isn't what goads critics. It's that the nicotine replacement claim is part of a funding proposal that VCU recently shopped to Altria, parent company of Philip Morris USA.
The proposal is at the heart of the uproar over VCU's research partnership with Philip Morris.
Does the end justify the means? Am I willing to take tobacco money to do good? Yeah. I think it's immoral not to.Virginia Commonwealth University Medical School Dean Jerome Strauss, originator and a key proponent of a proposal that Philip Morris fund the new VCU Center for Healthy Pregnancy and Neonatal Outcomes. The proposal claims that research shows that nicotine entering the bloodstream of pregnant women enrolled in smoking-cessation programs improves the health of their unborn children.
Virginia Commonwealth University officials have repeatedly denied the existence of a proposal to create a women's health center funded by Philip Morris USA, but a draft copy of the proposal shows the idea did -- and in some iteration still does -- exist.
A copy of a working paper titled "Proposal to Create the VCU Center for Health Pregnancy and Neonatal Outcomes," obtained by Style Weekly, shows plans for a center focused on treatment and research into preventing defects, early birth and mortality.
The proposal touches on a smoking cessation program to prevent "chronic disease resulting from smoking-related pregnancy complications."
Amid the controversy swirling around the university's relationship with Philip Morris USA, which has cooperated in and paid for tobacco-related research on campus, the health-center proposal offers an unusual twist. In part, the memo obtained by Style reveals a plan for how VCU could solicit money from Philip Morris. . . .
"This was a proposal that the dean of medicine shopped with Philip Morris," says a medical school faculty member, speaking on condition of anonymity. "Since all this has broken, [Strauss] has said [in meetings] that Philip Morris did not accept it or they did not fund it." . . .
David DeBiasi, director of advocacy with the American Lung Association of Virginia, is also aware of the proposal. He says he was "pretty concerned" by Macrina's denial of the proposal's existence.
New Albany Mayor Doug England said yesterday that he hasn't decided whether to veto an ordinance prohibiting smoking in enclosed public areas that the City Council narrowly approved Thursday night.
But England made it clear that he has not ruled out a veto.
"I want to study it," the mayor said of the ordinance, adding that he also would review similar smoking restrictions recently adopted in Louisville and Jeffersonville, and would consult members of his staff before he makes a decision.
"We have two issues -- a public health issue and an economic development issue -- and they are clashing," England said.
One year has passed and the uproar over the introduction of a smoking ban in Denmark has subsided, with more people wanting to avoid the fags.
The latest figures published by Statistics Denmark show that the average use of cigarettes has dropped and that the tobacco industry has been hit in the pocketbook as well.
Since the introduction of the smoking ban last year, cigarette sales have dropped by three percent, which translates to about 200 million fewer cigarettes.
The Cancer Society's latest report shows that in 2007, 40 percent of smokers wanted to quit. This is almost double the number from 2005.
A pub was denied a licence for outdoor drinking after residents said cigarette smoke would drift into their bedroom.
Residents complained about smoke drift
That was one argument used against the application to vary the licence to allow drinking on a new rear patio, and at tables at the front and sides of the Globe in Worthing, West Sussex.
The number of quitters rose by 10 per cent in 2007/8 compared with the previous year.
The ban on smoking in bars, pubs and restaurants came into effect in England in July last year, following similar moves in the rest of the UK.
Data from the NHS Information Centre shows 350,800 people successfully stopped smoking, compared to 319,720 the previous year.
Just over half those who tried to stop were successful, which is defined as not having smoked for a month.
The City of Kalgoorlie-Boulder has attacked Labor's plan to implement a state-wide smoking ban, saying the party is turning Western Australia into Australia's nanny state.
Health Minister Jim McGinty wants to ban smoking on patrolled beaches, in playgrounds and in cars carrying children.
The Mayor of Kalgoorlie-Boulder, Ron Yuryevich, says the ban will not work because local councils do not have the resources to enforce it.
He says the Government should look at banning the sale of cigarettes to stop people from smoking.
The owner of the Adelaide Casino, SkyCity, has reported a fall in annual profit of almost 50 per cent.
Net profit is almost $41 million, dragged down by a multi-million-dollar write down of its cinema business. . . .
The company says smoking bans introduced late last year had a lesser effect on the casino than anticipated.