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View Post: New laws will help Oregonians smokers quit
Stop smoking
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View Post: Acculturation affects smoking cessation success among Latinos ...
46 minutes ago by BJS  
This information can be used to guide tobacco control efforts and media campaigns." Future research should address why acculturation affects Latinos' smoking cessation and if acculturation exerts a direct influence on smoking or other variables that are important ... The AACR marshals the full spectrum of expertise from the cancer community to accelerate progress in the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of cancer through high-quality scientific and educational programs . ...
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View Post: Acculturation affects smoking cessation success amo ...
22 hours ago
Acculturation affects smoking cessation differently for Latino men an... It is critical that tobacco control efforts place special emphasis on...Acculturation is the process of change that occurs when someone from o...,Acculturation ... Biomarkers & Prevention, a journal of the American Association for Cancer Research. The December issue has a special focus on tobacco. "Acculturation affects smoking cessation differently for Latino men and women," said researcher Yessenia ...
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View Post: Reynolds: Smoke 'em if you got 'em. Then call us once you're ready ...
17 hours ago by Jonathan Berr  
2 tobacco marketer Reynolds American (RAI), parent of R.J. Reynolds, announced today that it's buying Niconovum, a Swedish marketer of smoking-cessation products, for $44 million. ... Still, smoking rates in the U.S. are creeping back up. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention last year estimated that 20.6% of adults were smokers -- a rate essentially unchanged since 2004, when 20.9% were smokers -- but found a small uptick in the percentage of adult smokers, ...
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View Post: Smoking bans can help break cigarette habit - Campus Life
29 Nov 2009
More than 2000 cities and counties now have laws that restrict indoor smoking. One major reason is the statistics for exposure to nonsmokers. According to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, long-term exposure to secondhand ... According to an ABC-TV report, Dr. Stanton Glantz, director for the Center for Tobacco Control Research and Education at the University of California, San Francisco, said the increase in smoking bans relates to a 30 percent drop in ...
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View Post: Obesity threatens benefits from declines in smoking in US
17 hours ago
Prevention. Obesity will put the brakes on life-expectancy gains from less smoking. December 2, 2009 ...
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11 hours ago by admin  
Yan Meek, 42, a finance analyst from Jacksonville, Fla., who was visiting the nation's capital with her 8-year-old son, Jesse, doesn't smoke and suggested the legislation would lead to “too much government control over personal lives, ... Other factors that could cut into tobacco use include the sharp rise in prices — Congress earlier this year approved a 62-cent a pack increase in the federal cigarette tax to pay for a children's health program — and measures by the ...
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View Post: foodconsumer.org - Cigarette Smoking Among Adults and Trends in ...
12 Nov 2009
However, currently less than 3.0% of these funds are dedicated to tobacco prevention and cessation programs in the states. Only 15% of the $24.6 billion in MSA funds and excise tax revenue that states receive annually would be needed to fully ... US Department of Health and Human Services. Objective 27-1a: reduce tobacco use in adults (cigarette smoking). In: Healthy People 2010 (conference ed, in 2 vols). Washington, DC: US Department of Health and Human Services; 2000. ...
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View Post: The Moderating Effects of Cigarettes During Acute Alcohol ...
6 hours ago by admin  
Such a proposal is consistent with animal studies which have indicated that cross-tolerance exists between tobacco and alcohol so that nicotine consumption may diminish sensitivity to the acute intoxicating effects of alcohol (on some measures). ... This research represents an effort to systematically examine the acute effects of moderate doses of alcohol and cigarette smoke alone and in combination, on postural control, oculomotor control, cognitive functioning, ...
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View Post: An open letter to the Financial Secretary to increase tobacco ...
7 hours ago by Ryan Chan  
Tobacco costs Hong Kong 7000 lives and $5.3 billion per year. Any responsible government should protect the people's health and wealth by reducing cigarette use through comprehensive tobacco control including higher tobacco tax. Moreover, Hong Kong is obliged to do so ... Professor Lam Tai-hing, Director of School of Public Health added that: “Smoking is the single most preventable cause of death, and tax level has a major impact on consumption and hence tobacco deaths. ...
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