Smokeless Tobacco Poses Challenge for Stop-Smoking Advocates (Join Together Online)
Smokeless tobacco use carries serious health risks, but it's not as dangerous as smoking, and some people have used it to help them quit cigarettes. That leaves some health experts torn between the desire to see people stop smoking and advocating an alternative that still may be deadly.
Source: www.jointogether.org
Commentary: Beach bans shouldn't stop with just butts (The Palm Beach Post)
I'm glad that Delray Beach is considering a ban on smoking at its oceanfront beaches.
Source: www.palmbeachpost.com
Business boost for no smoking pubs (ic Ealing.co.uk)
Pubs in England and Wales which have banned smoking ahead of new laws are "reaping" benefits, according to a new survey. A poll of 600 publicans showed that one in five selling the most food had already stopped customers lighting up.
Source: icealing.icnetwork.co.uk
NZ efforts to stop babies dying 'plateaued' (Stuff)
A government health expert says New Zealand has stalled in its efforts to stop babies dying, after an American study ranked the country as the second worst in the industrialised world for infant deaths.
Source: www.stuff.co.nz
Commentary: Beach bans shouldn't stop with just butts (The Palm Beach Post)
I'm glad that Delray Beach is considering a ban on smoking at its oceanfront beaches.
Source: www.palmbeachpost.com
Women Who Quit Smoking During Pregnancy Less Likely To Remain Nonsmokers Because Of Concerns About Weight, Study Says (Medical News Today)
Women who quit smoking before pregnancy are less likely to remain nonsmokers after giving birth largely because of concerns about gaining weight, according to a study to be published in the October issue of the Annals of Behavioral Medicine, the Los Angeles Times reports. [click link for full article]
Source: www.medicalnewstoday.com
Freedom from smoking program offered (Mooresville/Decatur Times)
Twenty minutes after you quit smoking, your blood pressure decreases and your pulse rate drops. One day after you break the habit, your chance of heart attack decreases. Five years later, your stroke risk is reduced to that of people who have never smoked.
Source: www.reporter-times.com
Taft supports effort to ban smoking inside businesses (The Columbus Dispatch)
Gov. Bob Taft yesterday endorsed a measure to ban smoking in indoor businesses across Ohio and denounced a rival ballot issue that would allow smoking in bars and parts of restaurants.
Source: www.dispatch.com
Ramadan offers perfect time to quit smoking (Khaleej Times)
DUBAI With Ramadan approaching, it is the perfect time and opportunity for people to quit all forms of tobacco, including smoking and especially shisha, said Ministry of Health's Sharjahs officials at a stop-smoking roadshow held at the Deira City Centre yesterday.
Source: www.khaleejtimes.com
Can I stop my dad from drinking? Should I try? (Salon.com)
His doctors told him he had to quit, and he did for a while, but now he's back at it.
Source: feeds.feedburner.com
