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Graphic ads speed up decline in youth smoking
• Tobacco & Marijuana • Mar 01 05
New study findings suggest that adolescents are indeed influenced by antismoking ads on television that use graphic images about death and disease and expose…
Nicotine patches, lozenges help heavy smokers, too
• Tobacco & Marijuana • Mar 01 05
Even highly addicted smokers are helped in their efforts to quit when they use nicotine patches and lozenges to wean themselves off the habit,…
EU launches second campaign to stamp out smoking
• Tobacco & Marijuana • Mar 01 05
Europe’s health chief unveiled a lavish campaign on Tuesday to stamp out smoking across the European Union and reduce the hundreds of thousands of…
Global anti-tobacco treaty comes into force
• Tobacco & Marijuana • Feb 27 05
A global anti-tobacco treaty came into force Sunday, but a leading expert said it needs strengthening fast if it is to be effective in…
Global anti-smoking pact takes effect on Sunday
• Tobacco & Marijuana • Feb 25 05
A global treaty aimed at dissuading children from smoking and helping adults kick the habit comes into force on Sunday despite what health officials…
Anti-smoking message saves heart patients’ lives
• Tobacco & Marijuana • Feb 25 05
Counseling people who have survived a heart attack about quitting smoking before they have even checked out of the hospital appears to reduce their…
Wives of smokers run risk of stroke
• Tobacco & Marijuana • Feb 24 05
Smoking by husbands is associated with an increased occurrence of stroke among their non-smoking wives, according to a new study.
“Growing evidence suggests that…
Reid defends partial smoking ban
• Tobacco & Marijuana • Feb 24 05
The government’s decision to opt out of a full smoking ban in England and Wales will mean a handful of workers will die each…
Sky City Hurt by Smoking Ban
• Tobacco & Marijuana • Feb 21 05
NEW ZEALAND - As reported by the New Zealand Stuff: “Shares in Sky City Entertainment group fell by nearly 3 per cent on news…
Agents arrest medical marijuana grower on federal charges
• Tobacco & Marijuana • Feb 18 05
Federal agents arrested a controversial medical marijuana grower Wednesday following an early morning search of his Upper Lake home and marijuana farm.
Federal Drug…
Quit smoking and live longer, study confirms
• Tobacco & Marijuana • Feb 16 05
U.S. and Canadian researchers have shown that middle-aged people who were helped to quit smoking for good were less likely to die over the…
Partial smoking ban seen as lacking
• Tobacco & Marijuana • Feb 16 05
Mayor Bill White’s proposal to ban smoking in restaurants but not bars wouldn’t do enough to protect patrons and employees from secondhand smoke, speakers…
Hospital site to be smoke free
• Tobacco & Marijuana • Feb 16 05
SMOKING at Milton Keynes Hospital is set to become a thing of the past.
As revealed in this paper two weeks ago patients will…
Smoking Not Worst Cause of Pollution
• Tobacco & Marijuana • Feb 15 05
I do believe this smoking ban borders on the ridiculous.
So far, the Columbus health department had received several complaints on smoking violations. Apparently,…
Mental Health Charity Calls for Cannabis Probe
• Tobacco & Marijuana • Feb 13 05
A British health charity called on Saturday for an investigation into evidence that smoking cannabis may cause psychosis in people at risk of mental…
No, nicotine probably doesn’t ward off Alzheimer’s
• Tobacco & Marijuana • Feb 07 05
The final excuse for smoking - that it might reduce the risk of developing Alzheimer’s disease - has just been stubbed out, findings…
Marijuana may change blood flow to brain
• Tobacco & Marijuana • Feb 07 05
Marijuana smokers develop changes in the flow of blood to the brain, which may explain why smoking marijuana can impair thinking and memory, according…
Cuba, land of long cigars, bans smoking in public
• Tobacco & Marijuana • Feb 07 05
Cuba, which evokes images of cigar-chomping revolutionaries, banned smoking in public places on Monday - an uphill struggle in a country synonymous with fine…
Alcohol, tobacco pose equal burden on global health
• Tobacco & Marijuana • Feb 04 05
When it comes to causing death and disability, alcoholic drinks are as bad as tobacco and high blood pressure.
Alcohol is linked to more…
Jury orders Brown & Williamson to pay $22 mln
• Tobacco & Marijuana • Feb 03 05
A jury in Independence, Missouri on Wednesday ordered Brown & Williamson Tobacco Corp. to pay $22 million to the family of a 73-year-old woman…
Trigger of heroin withdrawal symptoms identified
• Tobacco & Marijuana • Feb 03 05
Researchers have identified a protein called GAT-1 that appears to play a key role in the withdrawal symptoms experienced by people who stop using…
Plan for Cuban public smoking ban has few fuming
• Tobacco & Marijuana • Feb 02 05
Few smokers in Cuba, a nation synonymous with hand-rolled cigars long favored by such famous aficionados as its own revolutionary leader, are fuming…
Catalonia plans cannabis prescriptions
• Tobacco & Marijuana • Feb 02 05
Spain’s northeastern Catalonia region is planning to make cannabis available by prescription to the seriously ill, a regional health official said on Tuesday.
The…
Tobacco takes aim at whistleblower in U.S. trial.
• Tobacco & Marijuana • Feb 02 05
Tobacco industry whistleblower Jeffrey Wigand conceded some “technical inaccuracies” in prior testimony but insisted cigarette makers had knowingly produced an unsafe product as…
Smoking harms women more than men: study
• Tobacco & Marijuana • Jan 31 05
Cigarette smoking is more harmful to women than to men, cutting more than a decade off female smokers’ life expectancy but much less for…