Posts Tagged ‘Tobacco Use’

25
Mar

Counselling key to quit smoking: Study – Zee News

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Zee News

Counselling key to quit smoking: Study
Zee News
Health Centres (PHCs) could be an effective method to persuade even chain smokers to give up cigarattes or bidis. Tobacco use, both smoking and chewing, contributes to 50 per cent of all cancers in men and 15 per cent among women of Kerala.
Seek Help To Quit Smoking Yentha
Nicotine patches 'do not' help smokers to quit Telegraph.co.uk
Extra smoking help 'doesn't work' The Press Association
Leighton Buzzard Today  - IBNLive.com  - Science Codex
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24
Mar

Quitting smoking? Go cold turkey – Las Vegas Sun

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Quitting smoking? Go cold turkey
Las Vegas Sun
Cy Ryan's March 19 online article, “TV ad campaign aimed at curbing tobacco use,” reviews the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's new hard-hitting quit-smoking campaign, which uses tragic tobacco-victim stories to motivate cessation.

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23
Mar

ARCC students kick butt to quit smoking – Coon Rapids Herald

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Coon Rapids Herald

ARCC students kick butt to quit smoking
Coon Rapids Herald
Those smokers participating in the event were encouraged to sign up for the QuitCash Challenge, a quit and win contest with someone winning $5000. Participants must quit smoking by April 1 and remain quit throughout April to be eligible to win the ...
Pine Tree High School students pledge to give tobacco products the boot Longview News-Journal
Dozens "Kick Butts and Take Names" against tobacco use at Tom Bean High School KXII-TV
Campion College 'Kick Butts' Jamaica Gleaner

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22
Mar

Bloomberg pledges $220 mill to fight tobacco use around the world – amNY

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Bloomberg pledges $220 mill to fight tobacco use around the world
amNY
After years of trying to make New Yorkers quit smoking, Mayor Michael Bloomberg will spend $220 million to fight tobacco use globally. Calling tobacco "a scourge all over the world" and accusing cigarette makers of "nefarious activities," Bloomberg ...

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22
Mar

College of DuPage may out tobacco – Suburban Life Publications

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College of DuPage may out tobacco
Suburban Life Publications
The Batavia resident who's studying science often takes smoke breaks between classes. But soon, taking a puff of a cigarette on college grounds may not be an option for students and staff at the Glen Ellyn campus. The college's board of trustees is ...
Kickin' butts: Middle schoolers urge UNH students to quit smoking, university ... Foster's Daily Democrat
'Will the President please stop smoking?' Rappler
Bloomberg pledges $220 mill to fight tobacco use around the world amNY
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21
Mar

Vermillion College Students Working Towards a Tobacco Free Campus – FOX 21 Online

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Vermillion College Students Working Towards a Tobacco Free Campus
FOX 21 Online
ELY – Activists across the country encouraging cigarette smokers to quit. Vermillion Community College took the campaign a little further by trying to eliminate all tobacco use on campus. "I've been doing pretty good on 2 or 3 a day, but it's hard, ...

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Oman Daily Observer

NYC to Philip Morris: Education Alone Will Not Curb Youth Smoking
The Online Zamboanga Times
This was stressed by the National Youth Commission (NYC) today in reaction to the claims of Chita Herce, spokesperson of Philip Morris Fortune Tobacco Corporation Inc. (PMFTC), the top tobacco manufacturer in the country, that education and not ...
Kick Butts Day highlights the dangers of tobacco use Juneau Empire
Local youth to participate in national Kick Butts Day Mountain Xpress
Midland youths to join Kick Butts Day Initiative Midland Daily News
MarketWatch (press release)
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18
Mar

Anti-Smoking Campaign Hits Airwaves – Patch.com

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Anti-Smoking Campaign Hits Airwaves
Patch.com
The Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has launched a new media campaign to prevent youth smoking and provide resources to quit smoking. Last week the Surgeon General released a report on tobacco use among youth and young adults examining ...
Teens aim to discourage smoking Shreveport Times
Will These 5 Gruesome Anti-Smoking Ads Encourage Your Kids Not to Start? (PHOTOS) Babble (blog)
Cotine found in children's bloodstream Rocky Mount Telegram
The Canberra Times
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18
Mar

Kick Butts Day highlights the dangers of tobacco use – Juneau Empire

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Oman Daily Observer

Kick Butts Day highlights the dangers of tobacco use
Juneau Empire
The 17th annual Kick Butts Day is Wednesday, March 21, and on this day the SouthEast Alaska Regional Health Consortium (SEARHC) Tobacco Quit Program is spreading the word about the dangers of youth tobacco use and providing information about resources ...
Teens aim to discourage smoking Shreveport Times
Anti-Smoking Campaign Hits Airwaves Patch.com
Kentucky Kids 'Kick Butts' on March 21 MarketWatch (press release)
Rocky Mount Telegram
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15
Mar

CDC unveils graphic ads to combat smoking

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Federal health officials on Thursday are unveiling a $54 million national media campaign to get smokers to quit and prevent anyone else, especially children, from starting. The campaign, called "Tips From Former Smokers," is intended to educate Americans about the dangers of smoking through the stories and graphic pictures of ex-smokers who have suffered severe health consequences of tobacco use ...

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