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The Texas Department of State Health Services and the Center for Safe Communities and Schools are sponsoring Texas Tobacco-Free Kids Day March 28 to encourage students to live tobacco free. \n
They know the dangers of lung cancer, cardiovascular disease and emphysema, yet health-risk awareness does not seem to prompt smokers to put out their cigarette.
Health-risk awareness does not seem to prompt smokers to put out their cigarette.
Iowa is continuing to make progress in reducing adult smoking even as the decline in smoking appears to have stalled nationwide.
Enforcement of Northern Ireland's smoke free legislation will begin at 6.00am on 30 April 2007. \n
The Middlesex London Health Unit is helping spread the word about a study which could provide smokers who want to quit with free nicotine patches.
A free one day conference on how to motivate staff, students, employees and others to be smoke free and to join an organization's or school's smoke free initiatives.\n
Brain scans of smokers studied by the researchers revealed three specific regions deep within the brain that appear to control dependence on nicotine and craving for cigarettes.
A new antitobacco Web site developed as a resource to help Hispanic residents quit smoking.
Smoking will no longer be permitted in enclosed and substantially enclosed public places at Northern Ireland.\n
District Judge struck an important blow for global health by ordering the tobacco company defendants to stop using misleading cigarette marketing terms like "light" and "low-tar" not only in the United States, but internationally as well.
An increase in the tobacco tax will prevent Iowa youth from starting to smoke and save the lives of adult smokers who quit.
Health Minister Paul Goggins has issued details of the final regulations that will underpin Northern Ireland's smokefree legislation that will come into effect on 30 April 2007.\n\n
The South Dakota Department of Health is reminding current tobacco users that the only certain way to avoid the health risks of tobacco products is to quit completely.
Women who smoke during pregnancy can cause permanent damage to their child's circulatory system, which can increase risks for heart disease and stroke later in life.
The cooperation has led to the high rate of compliance we have documented in the last year.
Nearly 85 per cent of tobacco smoke is invisible and odourless, but it causes just as much harm to people's health as the smoke that is visible.
The long-standing military tradition of cheap cigarettes in military stores persists because of politics in the U.S. military sales system and tobacco industry pressures.
Quitting smoking may be more difficult for individuals whose mothers smoked during pregnancy.
Most European countries have adopted stricter smoking policies, but greater efforts are needed to reduce smoking levels significantly.
Wisconsin has been very active in working against big tobacco corporations and their efforts to lure young people to start smoking.
Middlesex London residents who make the decision to go smoke free for the month of March still have time to enter for their chance to win a free car.
The Tennessee Department of Health encourages citizens to quit smoking during American Heart Month.
Smokeless tobacco is a highly addictive, unhealthy and potentially fatal habit widely adopted in the United States.
Cigarette smokers who switched to spit tobacco products had a higher risk of dying prematurely from tobacco-related diseases than former smokers who stopped using all forms of tobacco.
The Kentucky Department for Public Health's (DPH) Tobacco Prevention and Cessation program is encouraging Kentuckians to be "Through with Chew".
Encouraging school children across the state not to use spit tobacco and quit smoking.
The agency undertakes the proposed rule making process to implement the Smoke-free Arizona Act.
A drug called varenicline increases the odds of success threefold compared to a placebo pill for smokers who want to quit.
Most countries require warnings about health risks on every cigarette package, but the effectiveness depends upon the design and the "freshness" of the messages that urge to quit smoking..
