Fewer U.S. adults are smoking and those who do light up are smoking fewer cigarettes each day, but the trend is weaker than the government had hoped.
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Smoking rates in the USA range from 28.4% for adults with no high school education, 28.6% among individuals with no health insurance, to 9.1% for employees with at least a bachelor's degree, according to a report "Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, Sept. 30, 2011" issued by the CDC (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention). The overall adult smoking rate in America today - this figure ...
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Fewer U.S. adults are smoking and those who do light up are smoking fewer cigarettes each day, but the trend is weaker than the government had hoped.
Tags: Adult, Adults, Cdc, Cdc Data, Light Cigarettes, Smoking Cigarettes
In this week's PloS Medicine, two articles address the question of whether "adult" ratings should be applied to films with smoking scenes in them. Even though the World Health Organization Framework Convention on Tobacco Control advise the adult ratings should be applied to films which contain smoking scenes, very few governments have complied with this recommendation...
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Here come the men in black...lung. In the new movie starring Will Smith, which appeals to a huge demographic including a large portion of young adults and kids, some of the most endearing characters are smoking cigarettes and the World Health Organization (WHO) is not happy about it. In fact, they are recommending slapping adult ratings on movies with scenes that depict smoking, an approach that ...
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California Smokers’ Helpline is sending free nicotine patches to people in 34 counties in California who call 1-800-NO-BUTTS and enroll in the free telephone-based quitting program will receive a free two-week starter kit of patches, while supplies last. All 34 counties picked have an adult smoking prevalence rate of 14 percent or higher, according to the [...]
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SEATTLE, June 19 (UPI) -- A Seattle research center is recruiting adult U.S. smokers for a study of online smoking cessation programs, researchers say.
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Twenty percent of people who quit smoking because of the Oct. 1 cigarette price hikes have started lighting up again, according to an online survey by Macromill Inc. But the poll, conducted Nov. 1 and 2 with 500 adult respondents, also found that 62 percent of the people who stopped smoking due to the price increases have managed to refrain from smoking even a single cigarette.
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DES MOINES — Despite decreases in adult smoking, more Iowans are asking for help in quitting.The number of calls to Iowa’s helpline for quitting tobacco use skyrocketed in late December and January.
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New Yorkers have set a record low smoking rate for the state as reports show a slight rise in cigarette smoking nationwide. A state Health Department spokeswoman said that only 16.8 percent of New York state residents say they smoked in 2008, the lowest adult smoking rate on record for the state. Last year's state smoking rate was 18.9 percent.
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