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Friday, April 11th, 2008
The Louisiana Legislature has proposed a bill to raise the age of legal tobacco use from 18 to 21 years old.If House Bill 240 passes in the 2008 Regular Session, it will be illegal for anyone under the age of 21 to buy or possess any tobacco products.Walker Hines, D-New ...
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Tuesday, April 8th, 2008
The neurotransmitter acetylcholine is an essential chemical communicator, carrying impulses from neurons to skeletal muscle cells and many parts of the nervous system. Now researchers at the University of Illinois have painstakingly mapped the interior of a key component of the relay system that allows acetylcholine to get its message ...
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Tuesday, April 8th, 2008
Mothers who smoke early in pregnancy are more likely to give birth to infants with heart defects, according to a study funded by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).The study, published in the April issue of Pediatrics, shows that women who smoked anytime during the month before pregnancy ...
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Monday, April 7th, 2008
Babies whose teenage mothers smoked during pregnancy are more likely to suffer from low birthweight (LBW) than babies whose mothers did not smoke, according to a study in the latest Medical Journal of Australia. Associate Professor Elizabeth Sullivan and Denise Chan from the University of New South Wales studied the ...
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Thursday, April 3rd, 2008
State Health Commissioner Richard F. Daines, M.D., is urging New York State supermarkets to be good neighbors and stop selling tobacco products. In a full-page ad in major upstate newspapers, Commissioner Daines appealed to stores to discontinue the advertising and sale of tobacco products, following the lead of three ...
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Thursday, April 3rd, 2008
Markup legislation that would grant the FDA (Food and Drug Administration) authority over tobacco product regulation has been completed by the Committee on Energy and Commerce. The bill, H.R. 1108, the Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act was approved with bipartisan support of 38 to 12. John D. ...
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Wednesday, April 2nd, 2008
The Tobacco Free Florida Campaign is aggressively targeting the approximately 1.5 million youth ages 11 to 17 with the campaign's cigarette and smokeless tobacco prevention message. The campaign's comprehensive approach includes youth-focused ads, in-school Public Service Announcements, a custom limited edition Justice League comic book, and online initiatives such as ...
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Wednesday, April 2nd, 2008
OHSU Smoking Cessation Center researchers outline key steps for developing and implementing clinic-based systems to provide smoking cessation treatment tailored to smokers with respiratory disordersSmokers with lung disease require more than brief smoking cessation interventions to successfully quit, researchers in the Oregon Health & Science University Smoking Cessation Center report.Their ...
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Wednesday, April 2nd, 2008
Hospital staff will suffer the backlash when NHS Lothian sites go smoke-free as expected next year, unions warned. Unison, the public sector union, is concerned that nurses and other workers will be left to tell stressed relatives and unhappy patients not to smoke on NHS land. Currently people can smoke ...
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Tuesday, April 1st, 2008
Cities across Texas are going smoke-free, and physicians stand at the forefront of the movement. More than 20 cities have passed smoking ordinances, many since 2007. Texas Medical Association (TMA) physicians have led successful efforts to pass public smoking bans in Victoria, Abilene, Tyler, and Temple. Amarillo citizens are set ...
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