Health News
Canada finalizes new cigarette health warnings…and the US lags behind
09/28/2011Canada announced the finalization of regulations to require the new set of health warnings on packages of cigarettes and little cigars. The warnings will increase in size from 50% to 75% and go into effect by mid-2012. The new requirements include A set of 16 new package picture-based health warnings, with an increase in warning size from More
Iraq Takes Aim at Smoking
07/19/2011New York Times May 12, 2011 By JACK HEALY BAGHDAD — In a country where the power blinks out several times a day, where filling up a gas tank can take hours and motorists stew in seemingly endless traffic jams, smoking is one thing that seems blissfully easy. A pack of cigarettes costs as little as 25 cents. More
Putting a Crimp in the Hookah
06/15/2011New York Times May 30, 2011 By DOUGLAS QUENQUA Kevin Shapiro, a 20-year-old math and physics major at the University of Pennsylvania, first tried a hookah at a campus party. He liked the exotic water pipe so much that he chipped in to buy one for his fraternity house, where he says it makes a useful More
When Citizens (Gasp) Are the Smoking Police
09/17/2010“It is a common misconception that civil libertarians should be on the side of smokers. ‘There is no constitutional right to smoke…’”
FDA Looks Into Marlboro ‘Gold’
07/02/2010“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.”