Posted By Jessica Miller on January 27, 2012
Despite the fact that Americans’ access to basic necessities, such as food, medicine, shelter, and healthcare has reached a four-year low of 81.2 percent this October, 21.1 percent of adult Americans continue to smoke, according to new data pertaining to adult Americans 18 years or older from the October 2011 Gallup-Healthways Well-Being Index(R) (WBI). This marks the third month in a row that the percentage of Americans who smoke has reached 21 percent.
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Posted By Jessica Miller on January 27, 2012
The medical executive committee at Samaritan brought a petition to the hospital’s board of commissioners in May to make the Samaritan campus smoke-free and the measure had the board’s approval, said Irwin. Samaritan Hospital and Pioneer Medical Center’s ban on tobacco use goes into effect Nov. 17. Tobacco use is already prohibited within the medical facilities themselves, but the new ban extends to the entire property at Samaritan and Pioneer, including parked cars in their parking lots, said Dr. James Irwin, a member of the committee that recommended the ban.
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Posted By Jessica Miller on January 27, 2012
1. It’s very clear from the numbers that education is working. Cigarette smoking isn’t healthy. Everyone gets it. Tobacco products are taxed to the maximum to fund a variety of education programs. There are reasonable laws in place. People can’t smoke in restaurants and bars. There’s no smoking in city buildings or at our schools or at a department store. Minors are forbidden to purchase cigarettes and retailers are forbidden to sell to minors. All’s right in that world. The number of cigarette smokers has consistently dropped.
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Posted By Jessica Miller on January 27, 2012
All 3,200 employees at casinos to open this year in Columbus and Toledo will have at least one thing in common, if owner Penn National is sucessful: They won’t use tobacco. Everyone who applies to work at either casino will be screened for nicotine use, and those who test positive won’t be hired, according to the company. That doesn’t just preclude smokers, but those who chew tobacco, use snuff or even wear a nicotine patch.
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Posted By Jessica Miller on January 26, 2012
Smokers and some business owners in Mountain View are fuming with the City Council’s decision Tuesday night to expand its smoking ordinance. In a 4 to 3 vote–with Councilmembers Laura Macias, Tom Means and John Inks in dissension–the city approved a ban that prohibits smoking within 25 feet of outdoor dining areas open to the public, picnic areas in city parks and within a “buffer zone,” define as an area also within 25 feet of “any doorway, operable window, crack, or vent into an enclosed area.” Smoking while walking within the prohibited zones would be allowed.
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