Stub out cigarettes at support sessions
SMOKERS looking to quit their habit have been invited to a series of support sessions in south Essex.
NHS South East Essex Stop Smoking Service is hosting a series of events to help people stub out the cigarettes for good.
Anyone who smokes is welcome to attend and find out more about local NHS stop smoking services.
Although [...]
My New Years Resolution And Electronic Cigarettes
Every year millions of people all over the world make New Years Resolutions, but an awful lot of those promises are broken pretty soon. The most popular resolutions are to stop smoking or lose weight, both difficult to do in their own way.
This year I will be making an Old Years resolutions and this is: [...]
New NDSU president supports campus-wide smoking ban
North Dakota State University’s new president says he supports a outdoor smoking ban on campus.
Richard Hanson says he’ll be consulting other administrators on campus to discuss possible enforcement. NDSU’s university Senate has voted to support the ban, and Hanson says he’s likely to sign it.
NDSU now bans indoor smoking and says smokers need to be [...]
Clearing air on cigarette ads
One is a tweedy academic — the family medicine professor and director of the Center for the Study of Tobacco and Society at the University of Alabama who has devoted his dead-serious career to the prevention of tobacco-induced illnesses.
The other is the self-described “Bart Simpson of the anti-smoking movement” — the alter ago who donned [...]
New discovery shows cigarettes full of disease causing bacteria
Researchers from France have used a technique called DNA microassay to find that cigarettes are full of a variety of disease causing bacteria. In the past, scientists used small pieces of cigarettes and lab cultures to test cigarettes for bacterial contamination. Some of the disease causing bacteria also found in soil, responsible for [...]
‘Timing is right’ for hemp, state senator says
Within the next three weeks, State Sen. Joey Pendleton plans to take a group of Kentucky farmers to study the industrial hemp trade in Canada where the crop has been grown legally for the past 10 years.
Pendleton, D-Hopkinsville, has introduced a bill for 2010, renewing a push to legalize industrial hemp in Kentucky as a [...]
Oklahoma Supreme Court rules in tobacco dispute
The state Supreme Court has issued a ruling that would allow the state to collect higher taxes on cigarettes sold by Osage Nation tobacco stores.
However, the Oklahoma Tax Commission said Monday that it already has a new deal with the Osage Nation requiring it to pay a tax of 66 cents per pack.The state tax [...]
Tobacco Rules Challenged in U.S. Free-Speech Lawsuit
Tobacco legislation signed by President Barack Obama in June violates the First Amendment protections for free speech, according to a lawsuit joined by Reynolds American Inc.’s R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co.
The legislation “imposes unprecedented restrictions” on companies by “limiting their ability to disseminate truthful information about tobacco products to adult consumers,” according to the lawsuit, filed [...]
