Health News
Secondhand Smoke and Mental Health
07/02/2010Smokers are known to suffer from high rates of depression and other mental health problems, and now a study reports that even people exposed to secondhand smoke are at significantly increased risk — and more likely to be hospitalized for mental illness
FDA Looks Into Marlboro ‘Gold’
“Days before a new federal ban on making tobacco products using the words “light” or other terms that might imply a safer smoke, federal regulators on Thursday sent a stern letter to the Altria Group, maker of the cigarettes known as Marlboro Lights.”
UN Summit On Non – Communicable Diseases
05/16/2010The adoption of a resolution on 13 May 2010 by the UN General Assembly to convene a high-level summit in September 2011 on the issue of prevention and control of non-communicable diseases was a “momentous and historical occasion”
Women now main target of tobacco firms
05/12/2010BEIJING – The number of female smokers in the country may see a sharp rise as Chinese women have become the main target of tobacco companies, a government official said on Tuesday.
WHO database of pictorial health warnings.
05/06/2010Article 11 of the WHO Framework Convention requires Parties to implement large, rotating health warnings on all tobacco product packaging and labeling.
The Cochrane Collaboration Reviews Effectiveness of Legislative Smoking Bans
05/04/2010A new review released by the Cochrane Collaboration finds that legislative smoking bans have achieved their primary objective of reducing exposure to secondhand smoke. The review covered 50 studies, 31 studies relating to the exposure to secondhand smoke and 19 studies measuring its biomarkers. The studies examined the effects of clean air legislation in countries, states and regional areas.
Plainly, cigarette packets get the stub
04/29/2010CIGARETTES will be sold in plain packages from January 2012 as Kevin Rudd introduces the world’s most draconian anti-smoking laws, in a move likely to spark a legal challenge from multinational tobacco companies.