Jessica Miller | January 31, 2012
While the Palmetto State has made some strides, at local levels, on ordinances banning smoking discount Bond cigarettes in restaurants and bars, we still got all F’s on the American Lung Association’s “State of Tobacco Control 2012″ report, released earlier this month. The report grades states on cigarette tax rates (F), tobacco prevention and control program funding (F), coverage of cessation treatments and services (F) and smoke-free air laws (F). South Carolina was among seven states that made all F’s, while no state received straight A’s.
Category: American Cigarettes, Ban on Smoking |
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Jessica Miller | January 30, 2012
Five years after France introduced a smoking ban in public places, a new report says more people are flouting the rules, particularly at work. Rules introduced five years ago banned smoking discount Chesterfield cigarettes in all public places, including restaurants, cafés and the workplace. Yet the survey conducted for anti-smoking group Droits des Non-Fumeurs (Non-Smokers Rights) found that 64 percent of those questioned said they had seen people smoking in places where it is banned. A big jump was recorded in incidents of people smoking at work. In 2008, a similar survey found that just eight percent of people had been exposed to cigarette smoke at work. By 2009 this had risen to 21 percent.
Category: Ban on Smoking, smoking addiction |
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Jessica Miller | 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.
Category: Ban on Smoking, Cigarettes Business |
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Jessica Miller | January 25, 2012
Illinois officials say the recession, which hit in December 2007 — and not just a statewide smoking ban implemented in 2008 — played a significant role in the decline of revenue that state’s gaming facilities. But still, risking a decline in gaming revenues by enacting a comprehensive smoking ban that includes Casino Aztar may cause the Evansville City Council to shy away from including the riverboat in a proposed expansion of the city’s smoking ordinance. Council members have concern that with newer gaming facilities that permit smoking, such as the French Lick casino, only a short distance away, including Aztar in Evansville’s smoking ban could be detrimental to tax revenue.
Category: Ban on Smoking, secondhand smoke |
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Jessica Miller | January 16, 2012
Another large, integrated health system has joined the ranks of medical facilities that no longer offer jobs to those who smoke cigarettes or cigars or use smokeless tobacco products. As of Feb. 1, Geisinger Health System, based in Danville, Pa., will hire only those who test negative for nicotine during the routine drug testing that is part of the pre-employment physical. The testing is carried out after an offer has been made but before the person starts the job.
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