Archive for March, 2010
UK Publishes ACMD Report On Youths, Drugs, Alcohol And Tobacco Abuse
An assessment of the government’s progress in addressing the hazardous use of tobacco, alcohol and other drugs by young people in the UK is being published by The Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs (ACMD) today.
Pathways to Problems 2009 considers the implementation of recommendations made in the ACMD’s original Pathways to Problems report published [...]
Duty-free tobacco ban negotiations enter next stage
The next round of the negotiations on the illicit tobacco trade protocol commence on Sunday in Brussels
The next stage of negotiations on the World Health Organization (WHO) illicit tobacco trade protocol will commence in Brussels this Sunday. The latest round of discussions could be the last for the duty-free sector and may result in clearing [...]
Fetal Tobacco Exposure Promotes Asthma
NEW ORLEANS — Maternal smoking during pregnancy may exert a more powerful influence on asthma development in children than postnatal secondhand smoke or breastfeeding by smoking moms, researchers said here.
Children of different ethnicities with exposure in utero to tobacco smoking were at nearly six times as likely to develop persistent asthma than children whose moms [...]
