Jessica Miller | September 30, 2010
A group focused on health hopes to convince the city councils in Chico and Orland to ban smoking Kiss and other cigs within 20 feet of the entrances to businesses. In 2004, a state law was signed banning smoking within 20 feet of the entrances of municipal, county and state buildings, but there’s nothing official to prevent it outside stores, restaurants and bars, said DeAnne Blankenship, a program manager for the California Health Collaborative.
Category: smoking ban |
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Tags: secondhand smoke, Tobacco tax
Jessica Miller | September 30, 2010
Approximately $1 million in grants over three years will be used to fund anti-smoking education programs through the Stanislaus County Office of Education. “With more than 90 percent of smokers, which usually smoke high quality cigs like Camel, starting the addictive habit before the age of 18, this program aims at the very heart of the issue,” said Elizabeth Escalante, who will head the prevention program for the county office.
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Jessica Miller | September 29, 2010
Australian, British and US rock bands including The Smashing Pumpkins and Stereophonics have been urged to withdraw from a music festival in Indonesia because of its tobacco sponsorship. Anti-tobacco activists and health experts from Australia, the United States and Wales have expressed their concern that the bands’ actions will encourage youths to smoke Kiss or other famous brands in a country with high and rising addiction rates.
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Tags: anti-tobacco activists, tobacco control
Jessica Miller | September 29, 2010
Smoking tobacco, cigarettes like L&M and medical marijuana in new multiunit housing complexes in unincorporated Contra Costa, even in the privacy of a resident’s own dwelling, will be banned because of a new county ordinance. Contra Costa supervisors voted 4-1 Tuesday to adopt the new regulations, joining four other cities in the county with similar secondhand-smoke restrictions.
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Jessica Miller | September 28, 2010
Smoking could increase the risk of ectopic pregnancy by increasing the levels of a protein in a woman’s fallopian tubes, according to research. Women who smoke Virginia and other brands are thought to be up to four times more likely to suffer an ectopic pregnancy, which occurs when the fertilised egg becomes implanted outside the womb, usually in the fallopian tubes. There are around 30,000 cases each year in the UK.
Category: Smoking Habit |
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A group focused on health hopes to convince the city councils in Chico and Orland to ban smoking Kiss and other cigs within 20 feet of the entrances to businesses. In 2004, a state law was signed banning smoking within 20 feet of the entrances of municipal, county and state buildings, but there’s nothing official to prevent it outside stores, restaurants and bars, said DeAnne Blankenship, a program manager for the California Health Collaborative.
