By Lilly Fowler on September 7, 2010
Although the percentage of American adults who smoke has hovered at about 20 percent since 2004, people are smoking less, according to a new study by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
The CDC’s conclusion was based on figures showing declining sales of cigarettes. Sales fell by more than 20 percent from 2004-2009, thanks in ... Read more »
Posted in News & Notes, Nicotine and Addiction, Secondhand Smoke, Tobacco Industry
By Lea Yu on August 31, 2010
Cigarette advertising has been banished from the airwaves and from billboards. But, The Boston Globe reports, tobacco signs abound in the city’s low-income, minority neighborhoods — in storefront windows and even on light poles and gas pumps.
A dozen years ago Massachusetts tried, unsuccessfully, to ban storefront tobacco ads near schools and playgrounds. Public health advocates in ... Read more »
Posted in News & Notes, Tobacco Industry
By Elise Craig on August 23, 2010
Actors are lighting up less in major movies.
A report released Thursday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found that tobacco use in the most popular films hit a high in 2005, and has been falling since.
The Associated Press reports that, according to the analysis, fewer than half of 2009’s top releases showed smoking. ... Read more »
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By Elise Craig on August 20, 2010
Anti-smoking advocates, when they push for bans on lighting up in public places, often point to studies linking exposure to secondhand smoke to diseases such as emphysema and cancer. Now they may have a new type of research to cite: evidence that secondhand smoke can alter a person’s genes
Time reports that a team of scientists ... Read more »
Posted in News & Notes, Secondhand Smoke, Tobacco Industry
By Lea Yu on August 18, 2010
A new survey reveals the immense challenge facing China as it tries to reduce smoking in the world’s most tobacco-addicted country.
Less than a quarter of the Chinese population believes smoking causes disease like lung cancer, and fewer than one-sixth of the country’s 301 million smokers plan to kick the habit, according to a survey conducted this year by the Chinese ... Read more »
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By Lea Yu on August 11, 2010
A leading electronic cigarette manufacturer has agreed to snuff out its sales in Oregon.
The state’s attorney general, John Kroger, said he took action against Smoking Everywhere Inc. to halt its sales because the company did not seek U.S. Food and Drug Administration approval before marketing its so-called e-cigarettes as a safer alternative to tobacco. In ... Read more »
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