Jessica Miller | March 30, 2012
Although eight states boosted their sales taxes on cigarettes over the past two years, that’s a decline in the number of such increases by states compared to 2009, a new report from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows. One thing that smoking prevention experts know from accumulated data is that smoking rates decline as cigarette prices go up, the CDC said. “Increasing cigarette excise taxes directly increases the price of cigarettes, thereby reducing the demand for cigarettes and, ultimately, smoking-related death and disease,” the report’s authors wrote in the March 29 issue of the CDC journal Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Reoprt.
Category: Cigarette Tax, secondhand smoke |
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Jessica Miller | January 3, 2012
The state of California is now making it a little tougher on smokers and a little easier on landlords to keep cigarettes off their property. Smoking may not be illegal in California, but finding a place to do it just got tougher. A new law gives landlords the legal authority to ban smoking almost anywhere in and on their property. Val Vradenburg is an asthmatic who’s had a hard time living next to smokers in the past.
Category: Smoking Restriction |
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Jessica Miller | December 13, 2011
Smoking rates among North Dakota high school students have decreased since 2009, according to a survey released on Nov. 30. In 2011, 19.4 percent of students in the state smoked, down from 22.4 percent in 2009, the 2011 Youth Risk Behavior Survey said. The use of other tobacco products among North Dakota youth also decreased. Jeanne Prom, executive director of the North Dakota Center for Tobacco Prevention and Control Policy, said the decrease in smoking rates is a good sign.
Category: Smoking Habit, Teen Smoker |
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Jessica Miller | December 12, 2011
Doctors are urging the West Australian government to dump a proposal to reverse smoking bans in the state’s secure mental health units. Allowing smoking cheap Armada cigarette would be a backward step for mental health patients who have higher smoking rates than in the general community, the WA branch of The Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists says. “We need to help people with mental illness stop smoking, not encourage it,” the branch’s chair, Dr Alexandra Welborn, said.
Category: anti-smoking regulation, smoking ban |
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Jessica Miller | June 22, 2011
A proposed ban on tobacco advertising on the internet will bring the prohibition into the 21st century, parliament has been told. Liberal senator Concetta Fierravanti-Wells said the current ban on tobacco advertising in Australia applied to television, radio, film and print was legislated in 1992. ”The use of internet was not as widely spread as it is now,” she told the Senate on Wednesday.
Category: Tobacco Advertising |
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Although eight states boosted their sales taxes on cigarettes over the past two years, that’s a decline in the number of such increases by states compared to 2009, a new report from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows. One thing that smoking prevention experts know from accumulated data is that smoking rates decline as cigarette prices go up, the CDC said. “Increasing cigarette excise taxes directly increases the price of cigarettes, thereby reducing the demand for cigarettes and, ultimately, smoking-related death and disease,” the report’s authors wrote in the March 29 issue of the CDC journal Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Reoprt.
