A new campaign launched by local health officials is targeting pregnant and postpartum women in the wake of some alarming statistics about tobacco use. According to the county’s Community Health Services Department, nearly one quarter of Lambton women who gave birth at Bluewater Health between 2006 and 2009 reported smoking cheap Prefect cigarettes during pregnancy. “When [...]
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No Comments »Do you like sugar in your coffee, always have a biscuit with your cuppa and struggle to resist an afternoon chocolate run? If so, experts believe that your sugar habit could be as damaging to health as smoking or drinking to excess. In an article called ‘The Toxic Truth About Sugar’, published in the journal [...]
Nebraska can’t seem to get a break. On top of being the second highest state on the national binge drinking list this year, Nebraska fell on the bad end of the American Lung Association’s 10th annual “State of Tobacco Control” report. Ranked in four separate categories that have been proven to save lives and cut [...]
Posted in Anti-Tobacco Laws, Tobacco reviews Tags: discount lady cigarette, smoking prevention No Comments »A ban on cigarette vending machines has come into force in Wales to make it harder for young people to buy tobacco. The Welsh government imposed the ban after it emerged 10% of regular smokers aged 11-15 in the UK said they bought cheapest Doina cigarettes from the machines regularly. Welsh trading standards officials say [...]
Posted in Cheap Cigarettes, Tobacco reviews Tags: cheapest doina cigarettes, cigarette machines No Comments »Smokers should brace themselves for a fresh rise in the price of cigarettes when a new tax approved by the UAE and other Gulf oil producers is enforced at the end of 2012, an official was reported on Monday as saying. Health ministers from the six-nation Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) endorsed the “health tax” at [...]
A recent School of Medicine study chronicles the intricate advertising campaign crafted by cigarette companies using doctors’ endorsements to promote their products as healthful, starting in the 1920s and continuing for half a century. Senior author Robert Jackler, professor of otolaryngology, called the advertisements uncovered by the study “outrageous.” “Tobacco science used pseudoscientific experiments to [...]
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