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Researchers Say Nicotine Craving May Be More Mental than Physical
Israeli researchers who studied nicotine craving among flight attendants concluded that the desire for a cigarette may have more to do with habit than addiction to nicotine.
Smoking Alters Hundreds of Genes, Study Finds
Smoking causes dangerous changes in literally hundreds of genes in the body, including those related to tumor growth, inflammatory disease and immune-system suppression, according to researchers from the Southwest Foundation for Biomedical Research.
U.S. Ban on Clove Cigarettes Draws International Scrutiny
U.S. lawmakers say they banned clove cigarettes because of their health risks and appeal to young smokers, but the World Trade Organization (WTO) is investigating whether the ban violated international free-trade agreements.
Snuff Sales, Price Hikes Bolster Tobacco Profits
Higher snuff sales, cost-cutting and price increases led the nation's biggest tobacco company, Altria Group Inc., to a 3.2-percent increase in second-quarter profits.
Skepticism Greets Industry Claims on Menthol Safety
U.S. tobacco companies have ramped up a campaign to keep menthol cigarettes on the market, but U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) officials are skeptical of claims that menthols are no more harmful than regular cigarettes and want to see more data from the industry.
Tobacco Ads in Stores Lure Teens, Should Be Banned: Researchers
Teens who regularly visit stores that display point-of-sale ads for tobacco products were twice as likely to try smoking -- a finding researchers said argues for a complete ban on such advertising.
Cigarette Vending Machines, Nearly Extinct, Set to Evolve
Old-school cigarette vending machines have nearly disappeared from New York City bars, but a new generation of modern machines may soon take their place.
Mass. Delays Antismoking Campaign Pending Outcome of NYC Case
The Massachusetts Department of Public Health won’t proceed with requiring retailers to post graphic warning signs about smoking until an industry lawsuit against a similar campaign in New York City is resolved.
Addiction, Mental Illness Lead to Millions of ER Visits
Patients with addiction or mental-health related problems accounted for 12.5 percent of all hospital emergency-room visits by adults in 2007, according to a report from the U.S. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality.
$21 Million Awarded to Fla. Smoker with COPD
Philip Morris USA was ordered by a Florida jury to pay $21 million in damages to a smoker with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.
Progress Against Teen Smoking Has Slowed, CDC Reports
Major declines in adolescent smoking achieved in the late 1990s and early 2000s slowed to a crawl between 2003 and 2009, the U.S. Centers on Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said in its biennial report on high-school smoking.
Studies Find Children of Smokers at Risk for Chronic Conditions
Children of parents who smoke are more likely to have a higher body-mass index and greater prevalence of behavioral problems, according to a pair of new studies.
Nicotine Replacement Therapy Before Quitting May Help
Recent studies suggest that beginning nicotine-replacement therapy (NRT) -– nicotine-infused gums, patches, etc. –- before quitting cigarettes may improve long-term cessation success.
Russia Puts 'Smoking Kills' Labels on Cigarette Packs
Russia has adopted new policies to regulate and reduce cigarette usage in the country, including 'smoking kills' and other health warnings on cigarette packs.
Report Cites Need to Address Smoking in Gay and Lesbian Community
Stigma and targeted marketing by the tobacco industry have contributed to a smoking rate among the gay and lesbian population that’s twice as high as for other Americans, according to a new report from the American Lung Association.
How did the smoking ban become law?
Jon56 asks:
How did the English smoking ban become law? In particular, it forbids a group of adults from buying or renting an isolated building, currently a cafe, and setting up a smoking cafe, staffed by members of the group on a voluntary basis. Surely such a ban, interfering with an activity which would be legal in the home of one of the participants, contravenes the European Human Rights Act?
The smoking ban in England and Wales was introduced by the Health Act 2006. It operates by creating "smoke-free premises" in which it is an offence to smoke and the person in charge of the premises commits an offence if he or she fails to take reasonable steps to stop someone from smoking there: . . .
In light of all of that, I'm afraid jon56 will have to pursue political rather than legal avenues if he wants to open a smoking cafe in this country.
CAMPBELL: It is right that we should be responsible for our health: The healt...
Is Andrew Lansley happy with anything about the way healthcare is organised and delivered? It seems not. First, he produced an NHS reform white paper to radically alter Nye Bevan's creation in ways that would horrify its founding father. Then, on Monday, he announced a major cull of health quangos. He also plans to bring a similarly unforgiving eye to public health ? the messy, politically sensitive and sometimes fatal business of food, drink, drugs, smoking, infection, driving habits and sexual behaviour.
His speech on 7 July to the annual conference of the UK Faculty of Public Health (FPH) will be . . . "We have to find a new approach ? to think new thoughts. We need a paradigm shift," he said.
Central to his new approach will be a reliance on more people showing more personal responsibility: eating more healthily, exercising more, no longer drinking more than is good for them and so on.
Lansley wants to reduce the growing demand on the NHS, and points out that "nearly a quarter of the deaths in this country each year result, in part at least, from the consequences of unhealthy lifestyle". He has set himself a very big challenge. "We have to impact on demand. That means we have to change behaviour, and change people's relationships with each other, and with drugs, alcohol, tobacco and food," he said.
This is challenging, politically bold, stuff. . . .
It will be fascinating to see how he intends to encourage the greater discipline he says is needed. By exhortation? Unlikely, given Lansley's rejection of "nannying and lecturing". Through financial incentives, such as those used by primary care trusts to get people to lose weight or take a chlamydia test? Or by threat, such as making access to public healthcare conditional on behaviour change or paying charges? Lansley's answer involves incentives such as pedometers, which increase users' physical activity; telling smokers their "lung age", which makes them more likely to quit; and his belief that "advertising social norms can snap people out of the fantasy that their drinking, smoking or eating habits are the same as everyone else's". Public health has just got personal.
Caught in police sting: Airport staff filmed rifling through passengers' suit...
Secret police cameras caught Anthony Currant, 65, and Abdul Hussain, 30, raiding traveller's suitcases for possessions worth thousands of pounds.
Police monitored the pair's behaviour over a six-week period at London's Luton airport.
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The footage showed the cleaners patting bags to identify possessions such as cartons of tobacco, MP3 players or jewellery packed inside before pocketing the contents and closing the bags. . . .
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. When police raided Currant?s home in Luton, they found £32,000 in cash, 12,000 cigarettes and 66 packs of tobacco.
Hussain?s home in the town was also filled with stolen goods, including 4,800 cigarettes, 144 packs of tobacco, electrical items, jewellery and cash.
Haul: Mark Griffiths, Property Officer at Luton Police Station, shows off some of the seized items from the cleaners
Haul: Mark Griffiths, Property Officer at Luton Police Station, shows off some of the seized items from the cleaners
Currant, who had been selling cigarettes and tobacco to co-workers, was jailed for six months at Luton Crown Court on Friday, while Hussain received three months last month. Both pleaded guilty to theft.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/travel/article-1298597/Caught-police-sting-Airport-staff-filmed-rifling-passengers-suitcases-stealing-valuables.html?ito=feeds-newsxml#ixzz0v5xVIuZg
Ex-Imperial chief moves to William Hill
Former Imperial Tobacco chief Gareth Davis has emerged as the surprise choice to replace Charles Scott as chairman of William Hill.
Davis, who stood down from Imps after 14 years at the helm in May, will take the bookies' chair in September.
Scott has been chairman of William Hill (down 1.9p to 169.3p) since 2004 and said in January he planned to move on.
The Business On... Gareth Davis, Chairman-elect, William Hill
Don't I know him?
You'll remember Mr Davis - who William Hill said yesterday would become its chairman on 1 September - from his lengthy tenure as chief executive of Imperial Tobacco. He ran the company - owner of Lambert & Butler - from 1996 until his retirement in May. Since then, he's been tipped for a high-profile chairmanship and this would appear to be it.
From one vice to another?
Careful. Bookmaking is a perfectly respectable business, you know. And Mr Davis has never been too keen on those who choose to vilify smokers - not least because he famously puts away 40-a-day himself. In his time at Imperial Tobacco he was a staunch defender of smokers' rights and always refused to accept that a clear linkage between smoking and lung cancer had been proven.
That must have irritated health campaigners?
It did indeed, but Mr Davis was always very well respected in the City.
Airport cleaners jailed over thefts
CORRUPT staff at Luton Airport are caught on camera looting passengers' luggage for valuables during a police sting.
Anthony Currant, 65, and Abul Hussain, 30, stole thousands of pounds worth of goods including iPods, jewellery and tobacco cartons from innocent travellers. . . .
Police discovered £32,000 in cash at Currant's home as well as 12,000 cigarettes and 66 packs of tobacco.
They found a further 4,800 cigarettes and 144 packs of tobacco at Hussain's home as well as a number of electrical items, jewellery and a quantity of cash.
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Currant, who was selling cigarettes and tobacco to airport co-workers, was sentenced to six months imprisonment at Luton Crown Court on Friday.
Cleaners caught on CCTV looting airport luggage
Two airport cleaners are captured rifling through holidaymakers' luggage by secret police cameras.
Anthony Currant, 65, and Abul Hussain, 30, were filmed as they stole from bags at Luton airport.
They were then arrested and police discovered £32,000 in cash at Currant's home, as well as 12,000 cigarettes and 66 packs of tobacco.
They found 4,800 cigarettes and 144 packs of tobacco at Hussain's home, as well as a number of electrical items, jewellery and cash.
Read more: http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/top-stories/2010/07/29/cleaners-caught-on-cctv-looting-airport-luggage-115875-22448016/#ixzz0v5oZcRQJ
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Felixstowe port officers size large cigarette haul
Port officials in Suffolk have seized 150,000 cigarettes which smugglers were trying pass off as insulation material.
The eight boxes of cigarettes arrived at Felixstowe on Thursday and UK Border Agency officers were not convinced paperwork was authentic.
Jin Ling cigarettes, shipped from Latvia, were found hidden under a layer of stones at the top of each box.
Adolescents' Perceptions of Tobacco Control Measures in the United Kingdom
Twelve focus groups, comprising adolescent smokers (N = 32) and nonsmokers (N = 35) aged 11 to 16 years were conducted in Glasgow and Lothian, Scotland. Each focus group explored factors adolescents encounter in everyday life that they perceive to facilitate or impede smoking, and about smoke-free legislation, smoking in domestic situations, access to cigarettes, and health warnings. It emerged that antitobacco advertisements and smoke-free legislation were considered of value in terms of being capable of reducing smoking. Although some adolescent smokers believed that adult smokers would not stop smoking because of a smoking ban, but instead compensate by smoking more elsewhere, such as at home, most adolescents with smoking parents or relatives indicate that this has not happened. Tightening regulation on ease of access to cigarettes was considered a suitable means of reducing youth smoking, although some smokers suggested that this could be easily circumvented by having others purchase tobacco on their behalf. Despite high awareness, text-only health warnings were not considered to discourage smoking. Point-of-sale tobacco displays however were considered to encourage smoking?being cool, fun, and attractive.
Huge Public Support To Remove Cigarette Vending Machines And Tobacco Displays...
Three quarters of British adults support the removal of shop displays of tobacco (73 per cent) and a complete ban on cigarette vending machines (77 per cent) according to a new survey commissioned by Cancer Research UK this weekend.
These latest figures show the public supports the health community in urging the government to move forward with regulations to protect children from tobacco marketing.
The 2009 Health Act was passed by parliament which set clear deadlines to remove cigarette vending machines in 2011 and to put tobacco displays out of sight in all shops by the end of 2013. But these measures will not be enacted unless the government implements the regulations that are already in place.
Lack of public support has been put forward as an argument against rolling out these regulations. This new survey of more than 1100 people highlights the consistently high level of support from the public for protecting children from tobacco marketing.
No smoke without fire: Homes with smokers living in them are at far more risk...
Last year 29% of all fire deaths in Essex were caused by smoking related materials and 10% of all injuries in fires in the county were caused by smoking.
Essex County Fire and Rescue Service have joined forces with Mid Essex Primary Care Trust to get the fire safety message to smokers.
Mid Essex PCT have launched the Smoke Free Homes scheme to encourage parents who smoke to give up, or not smoke around their children.
All parents who take up the scheme will be given the option to receive a free home fire safety visit.
Prisoner ordered to pay back £370,000 he made from smuggling cigarettes
A prisoner has been ordered to pay back £370,000 he made from smuggling cigarettes.
Mohmed Safi Patel was told yesterday that he has six months to pay the cash or stay in prison for another four years.
Patel, of Roundhill Road, in Leicester, was jailed for six years in 2008 for smuggling 27 million cigarettes and four tons of tobacco.
His co-defendant Anis Vohora, of Diseworth Street, in Highfields, went on the run before the trial and was extradited back from America in June.
Doctors plead for ban on cigarette machines
Greater Manchester?s top doctors are calling on Health Secretary Andrew Lansley not to scrap a ban on cigarette vending machines brought in by the previous government.
Health minister Ann Milton says she intends to review the new regulations which would also have prevented shopkeepers putting cigarettes on display.
The new rules were supposed to start taking effect in 2011 and be fully in force by 2013.
Dr Peter Elton, director of public health for Bury, has written to the minister on behalf of the region?s 10 public health directors.
He said: ?These regulations will protect our children whilst not preventing any adult from buying cigarettes. It will greatly reduce the chances of children developing a smoking habit and being addicted to cigarettes by the time they become adults.
Eastbourne rapist claims smoking ban "breached his human rights"
A rapist has moaned that his human rights were violated when he was banned from smoking in jail after swearing at a warder. Jack Foster, who is serving an indefinite sentence for raping a 16-year-old girl, had his tobacco privileges withdrawn for seven days after he swore at a prison guard.
Foster, who has shown no remorse for his crime, tried to claimed the punishment amounted to "inhuman or degrading treatment" and sought compensation at London?s High Court.
He whinged he should have been given patches to deal with the pain of nicotine withdrawal, however a High Court judge dismissed his claim ?in its entirety?.
Mr Justice Kenneth Parker said that 22-year-old Foster, formerly of Lottbridge Road, Eastbourne, had an ?appalling? disciplinary record at Highdown Prison in Surrey, and had used ?extremely abusive and insulting language? towards the guard.
Hard times for working men's clubs
FOR decades now working men's clubs have provided a safe haven for their members.
But the increase in cheap alcohol available from supermarkets, mixed with the affects of a credit crunch, has finished a lot of Barrow's age old institutions off.
It is not all doom and gloom, however.
Despite the demise of eight clubs in the last decade, there are still a handful of establishments that remain open - albeit a shadow of their former selves.
One of those keeping the club scene alive is the Labour Club and Institute in Cavendish Street, Barrow. . . .
"The smoking ban has had an impact to a certain extend, of course, but on the whole the public seem to have accepted the fact that they have to go outside for a cigarette.
"From our own point of view, decoration wise and cleanliness is 100 per cent better than it was." . . .
Mr Turner also pointed to the contribution of the smoking ban for the down fall of clubs, but he insists there was much more to the demise of his own.
He said: "People stopped at home and went to the cash and carries instead of coming to us.
"We noticed a rapid decrease (in people) but I don't put the smoking ban wholly down to the club's decline - people have tightened their belts, it's as simple as that.
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