Smoking Messages Miss Asian Americans (Medical News Today)
Cigarettes are a particular problem among Asian-American immigrants, where smoking has been estimated to be more than 10 percent above the national average. [click link for full article]
Source: www.medicalnewstoday.com
Age limit to stop teenagers smoking (Kathimerini)
The government intends to enforce an age limit on the sale of cigarettes to help reduce the large number of teenagers lighting up, Health Minister Dimitris Avramopoulos said yesterday.
Source: www.ekathimerini.com
Smoking banned in public in Ontario, Quebec (AFP via Yahoo! News)
Sweeping smoking bans will take effect at midnight Wednesday in Canada's two most-populated provinces, Ontario and Quebec, amid protests by smokers the prohibitions are unfair.
Source: news.yahoo.com
Experts list harmful effects of cigarette smoking (Manila Bulletin)
If you want an inexpensive way to avoid wrinkles, then quit smoking. Doctors yesterday reiterated the negative effects of tobacco on one s health, emphasizing that with some 4,000 chemicals and 43 toxins in them, cigarettes may cause erectile dysfunction, cataract, cancers, and wrinkles.
Source: www.mb.com.ph
NOBEL WINNER SEES NUCLEAR 'HYPOCRISY' (The Monterey County Herald)
For an international atomic superpower to tell other nations not to develop nuclear weapons "is like dangling a cigarette from your mouth and telling everybody to stop smoking."
Source: www.montereyherald.com
