The North-east has the highest incidence of consumption of smokeless tobacco (chadha) in the world, and this is not a coincidence that the region also has the highest number of throat and mouth cancer patients. Observing this at a seminar organised by the North East Cancer Hospital and Research Institute in association with the North [...]
Cigarette makers won a round in court in their battle to block the Food and Drug Administration from forcing tobacco companies to put graphic warning labels on cigarette packages to deter smoking discount Davidoff cigarettes. District Judge Richard Leon agreed with the manufacturers that the grotesque images that included a corpse and a man breathing [...]
Cigarettes could be stubbed out of Hamilton playgrounds and parks under a new smoke-free policy to be considered by the council in August. A Waikato coalition group working against smoking, known as Chances, and the Waikato Bay of Plenty Cancer Society are also urging the city council to enforce a non-smoking rule across parks, playgrounds [...]
Ottawa would be a healthier place if smoking is banned at outdoor bar and restaurant patios and on municipal properties such as parks, beaches, sports fields and areas outside city facilities, say public-health officials. Vendor stands at the Parkdale and ByWard markets are also proposed to fall under new smoke-free bylaws that are to go [...]
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No Comments »The BC Lung Association and the Heart and Stroke Foundation of B.C. and Yukon want the provincial government to ban the sale of tobacco products in pharmacies and stores that contain pharmacies. “There are approximately 1,000 retail pharmacies in British Columbia, and many pharmacist-owned and operated stores have already made the laudable decision not to [...]
Posted in Cigarettes shops online, Tobacco Fact Tags: cigarettes shop, tobacco products sale No Comments »Hundreds of millions of pounds of taxpayers’ money has been invested in the tobacco industry by councils which next year take on responsibility for public health, an investigation by The Independent has revealed. Councils across England and Wales have at least £1.3bn of employee pension funds invested in tobacco companies such as Imperial and British [...]
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