 | | | | Tobacco Cessation Headlines | | | WASHINGTON (Deutsche Presse-Agentur) -- The US Supreme Court on Monday rejected an appeal by the US government seeking billions of dollars in payments from the tobacco industry under anti-racketeering laws.
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (Canadian Press) -- Malaysia began enforcing a ban on small cigarette packets, the health minister said Monday, after a short-lived postponement of the move caused a tobacco company to threaten legal action.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- New restrictions on mailing tobacco products are about to take effect.
LONDON (AP) -- The family of a 28-year-old British woman who unknowingly received a lung transplant from a smoker says she would have been "horrified" and have lodged a complaint.
MUNICH (Deutsche Presse-Agentur) -- Results of a new German study indicate passive smoking can increase the risk of contracting type 2 diabetes. The survey was carried out by the German Diabetes Centre and the Helmholtz Centre and looked at 1,351 people. Until now scientific studies had only shown a link between active smoking and diabetes.
BERLIN (Deutsche Presse-Agentur) -- Mothers who smoke not only damage their children during pregnancy but can also negatively affect their development in the breast-feeding phase. Nicotine and other dangerous substances contained in tobacco enter breast milk and then the child's system, according to a new report from the German Cancer Research Centre.
CAIRO (Canadian Press) -- Egypt is taking its first serious stab at clamping down on smoking with a campaign launched Thursday to enforce a ban in the scenic seaside city of Alexandria, no small feat in a nation where four out of 10 men use tobacco.
MOSCOW (AP) -- A Russian official says the government is considering more than doubling the minimum price of vodka in three years.
(USA TODAY) -- Once an economic engine whose marketing dollars blazed a trail for much of the sport's expansion, the era of tobacco sponsorship in NASCAR will be extinguished quietly this month.
GENEVA (Deutsche Presse-Agentur) -- Young girls in many countries are now as likely as boys to pick up smoking, the World Health Organization (WHO) warned Friday.
(Associated Press) -- With half of all men in some developing countries already hooked on cigarettes, the tobacco industry is now courting lucrative new customers -- young women, a report said Thursday.
JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) -- Ardi Rizal, 2, throws a tantrum when his parents refuse him a cigarette. His father gave him his first when he was just 18 months old.
DAMASCUS, Syria (USA Today) -- In the shadow of the storied Umayyad Mosque, at the heart of Damascus' old city, one of the last classical Arabic storytellers takes to his throne in the Al-Nawfara Coffee Shop. Rashid Hallak, better known as Abu Shadi -- it means "father of Shadi," a common affectionate reference to a man's eldest son -- appears here almost every night.
DAMASCUS, Syria (Canadian Press) -- A smoking ban that few are expected to abide by went into effect in Syria Wednesday, a country where people light up even in hospitals.
BOGOR, Indonesia (Canadian Press) -- Just a few miles after passing a towering Marlboro Man ad, a second billboard off the highway promotes cigarettes with a new American face: Kelly Clarkson.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Scientists may have found a way to tell which smokers are at highest risk of developing lung cancer: measuring a telltale genetic change inside their windpipes.
ATLANTA (AP) -- Fourteen states, the nation's capital and the federal government hiked their cigarette taxes last year, but health officials worry that tobacco company discounts are keeping prices down.
TORONTO (Canadian Press) -- Many patients with debilitating lung disease aren't being diagnosed early enough by their family doctors, and more should be done to catch these cases and provide treatment, a new study suggests.
(Associated Press) -- Nearly one in three smokers worldwide lights up in China, where cigarettes -- commonly given as gifts -- are so tightly woven into the culture, some believe it's an impossible habit to kick. But a new report suggests the keys to quitting lie in the country's own backyard.
BRASILIA, Brazil (AP) -- Brazil's president says a recent health scare led him to quit smoking -- a habit he's had for 50 years.
SHANGHAI (AP) -- Restaurants and office buildings in China's commercial capital Shanghai are scrambling to set up nonsmoking areas as the city bans lighting up in indoor public spaces ahead of the World Expo.
LONDON (AP) -- Can you really be bored to death?
ATHENS (Deutsche Presse-Agentur) -- More than six months after Greece introduced a ban on smoking in public places, officials were conceding that the third attempt to stamp out the habit is failing, it was reported Friday.
(Associated Press) -- If 2010 is the year you plan to finally drop a few pounds or snuff that smoking habit, your employer may offer incentives to make those resolutions stick or even pay off with lower health premiums.
LANSING, Mich. (The New York Times News Service) -- Michigan will become the 38th state to ban smoking in public places on May 1, following passage Thursday of the prohibition by the House and Senate and a vow from Gov. Jennifer Granholm to sign the bill.
(Boston Herald) -- Leslie Cook was losing control of her life one cigarette at time, 20 cigarettes a day.
ATLANTA (AP) -- Cigarette smoking rose slightly for the first time in almost 15 years, dashing health officials' hopes that the U.S. smoking rate had moved permanently below 20 percent.
(McClatchy-Tribune Information Services) -- In a Louisville, Ky., Holiday Inn, Brown and Williamson researchers brainstormed novel ways to sell tobacco.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- A major report confirms what health officials long have believed: Bans on smoking in restaurants, bars and other gathering spots reduce the risk of heart attacks among nonsmokers.
(McClatchy-Tribune Information Services) -- Pushing smokers outside drives down hospitalizations for heart attacks by about 17 percent in the first year and 36 percent after three years, according to an analysis of 13 studies looking at heart-attack rates after indoor-smoking bans.
One plaintiff is a cancer patient. Another is represented by his widow. The third, has emphysema and rolls into the courtroom on a wheelchair with tubes trailing out of his nose. The three Japanese are waging a minnow-vs.-whale battle against Big Tobacco in one of the world's most smoker-friendly countries. But precedent suggests they're likely to lose, and they hope their suit will at least draw attention to the dangers of smoking.
(McClatchy-Tribune Information Services) -- Is the tobacco tin half full or half empty?
WASHINGTON (Deutsche Presse-Agentur) -- U.S. President Barack Obama on Tuesday offered his most direct answer yet to a question that has been on everybody's mind since he entered the White House: He still smokes, but very rarely.
(Australian Associated Press) -- Australian smokers burn a collective $7.4 billion hole in their pockets every year to sustain their habit.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama is lauding the passage of historic anti-smoking legislation that gives the government sweeping authority to regulate tobacco products, pledging to quickly sign the measure into law.
(McClatchy-Tribune Information Services) -- Major progress has been made in reducing cigarette smoking in the United States, but the success is uneven across the states and below national goals, according to a new report.
(USA Today) -- After more than a decade of debate, Congress is poised to approve the most sweeping effort ever to regulate tobacco products.
ATLANTA (The New York Times News Service) -- When he takes the helm of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Monday, Dr. Thomas Frieden will bring a solid record of success -- and controversy.
ATLANTA (AP) -- Dr. Thomas Frieden has swung a big stick as New York City's top health official, pushing through bans on smoking and artery-clogging trans fats.
MADRID, Spain (AP) -- The World Health Organization, which has helped spearhead efforts to contain swine flu, won Spain's prestigious Prince of Asturias prize on Wednesday for its work fighting global killers such as AIDS, polio and tuberculosis.
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