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CALIFORNIA, UNITED STATES: FEBRUARY 16, 2012:- Pharmacies would be prohibited from selling cigarettes and other tobacco products if the selectmen approve a health regulation proposed by the Middleboro Youth Advocates.
LAHORE: FEBRUARY 16, 2012:- The District Committee for Tobacco Control (DCTC) has finalized a comprehensive strategy to ensure smoking free health centres, government offices and public places across the provincial capital through implementation of anti smoking laws.
RALEIGH, UNITED STATES: FEBRUARY 15, 2012:- Wendell resident Ilana Adlee, a fifth-grader at Wendell Elementary School and an American Heart Association youth advocate, recently took part in a town hall meeting with U.S. Surgeon General Regina Benjamin.
PHILLIPPINES: FEBRUARY 15, 2012:- Representative Emilio Abaya’s excise tax bill on tobacco products—a measure President Benigno Aquino III certified as urgent---received on Wednesday a push from tobacco control advocates, who want cigarette prices to rise so the young and poor will be deterred from lighting up the smoking sticks.
MUMBAI: FEBRUARY 15, 2012:- Under its National Tobacco Control Program (NTCP), the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Government of India, in association with the World Lung Foundation (WLF), is slated to launch a mass media campaign titled ‘Tobacco is eating your baby alive' this week.
CARMAN, CANADA: JANUARY 23, 2012:- Is there anybody better to educate children about the dangers of smoking, than the kids themselves?
NEW YORK, UNITED STATES: JANURARY 19, 2012:- The Food and Drug Administration will meet this week to discuss the public health impact of tobacco products known as dissolvable tobacco, which some say resemble candy, including their use by children.
NEW YORK, UNITED STATES: January 10, 2012:- Over the past 10 years, smoking in New York has significantly decreased and currently only 15.5 percent of adults in New York smoke. While this is good news, it still is not great. Tobacco use continues to be the leading cause of preventable death in the United States, and more than 25,000 New Yorkers die every year from smoking.
PATNA: JANUARY 03, 2012:- 2011 was a year of progressive developments in tobacco control in Bihar with several initiatives being taken to check the rising tobacco consuming populace of the state.
MUMBAI: DECEMBER 31, 2011:- The World Health Organisation (WHO) has imposed a Rs 250-crore tax on India, for non-compliance of the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC) by the WHO.
PATNA: December 18, 2011:- Deputy chief minister Sushil Kumar Modi said here on Wednesday that taxes would be hiked on tobacco products and pan masala in a bid to discourage their use as they cause cancer.
WISCONSIN, UNITED STATES: January 03, 2012: With the dawn of the New Year we get a chance to start fresh in a lot of things. A New Year's resolution to quit smoking could add years to your life and the lives of those around you, says Keri Schneider, manager of the American Lung Association Tobacco Control Program in Wisconsin. It's also the single most important step smokers can take to improve their health, she adds.
SILVER SPRINGS, UNITED STATES: OCTOBER 06, 2011:- The U.S. Food and Drug Administration and the National Institutes of Health today announced a joint, large-scale, national study of tobacco users to monitor and assess the behavioral and health impacts of new government tobacco regulations.
WASHINGTON, UNITED STATES: OCTOBER 06, 2011:- Today, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the National Institutes of Health (NIH) announced a collaboration to conduct a large-scale, national study of tobacco use in the United States. The objective of the study is to monitor and assess the behavioral and health impacts of the new government tobacco regulations since the FDA gained regulatory authority over tobacco in 2009. Legacy® and our Schroeder Institute for Tobacco Research and...
DELHI: OCTOBER 06, 2011:- Three years after implementation of the no-smoking rules that came into effect on October 2, 2008, over 42,194 people have been fined/challaned and over Rs.30 lakh has been collected by the Delhi Government from defaulters.
SHANGHAI, CHINA: OCTOBER 06, 2011:- Chinese health experts and tobacco control officers have initiated tobacco-free wedding campaigns in response to the country's indoor tobacco control policy, but have made little headway so far.
BOSTON, UNITED STATES: OCTOBER 06, 2011:- Drug and alcohol prevention advocates traveled to Boston last month to represent Dover Youth to Youth on their tobacco prevention tactics.
FIJI: OCTOBER 03, 2011:- THERE is extensive evidence on the burden of alcohol and tobacco use in the Pacific.
UNITED STATES: OCTOBER 01, 2011:- A new study says tobacco companies knew for decades that cigarette smoke was radioactive and potentially carcinogenic but kept that information from the public.
NEPAL: SEPTEMBER 23, 2011:- Amidst a growing concern on devastating effect of non-communicable diseases (NCDs), the recently implemented ‘Tobacco Control and Regulation Act 2011’ represents a huge stride in the effort to curb NCDs in Nepal. This landmark step sends impressive message to ‘UN High Level Meeting on NCDs’, due on September 19-20, 2011 in New York. Nepal is already a signatory to WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC), which contains blue print for co-ordinated...
UNITED KINGDOM: SEPTEMBER 25, 2011:- The sinister sounding UK Centre for Tobacco Control Studies has produced a report calling for the extension of film censorship.
ISLAMABAD, PAKISTAN: September 20, 2011:- From October 1 onwards, the making and import of packs containing less than 20 cigarettes will be banned in Pakistan.
LOS ANGELES, UNITED STATES: July 10, 2011:- Over the past few years, teenagers from across the San Gabriel Valley have been lobbying their cities for tougher regulations on tobacco sales.
NEWARK, UNITED STATES: July 10, 2011:- Mental Health America of Licking County recently announced the receipt of one of three grants nationwide from the Society of Public Health Educators to continue work in the area of tobacco use education and prevention.
NEW ZEALAND: July 10, 2011:- The ban on smoking in prisons will not stop inmates from lighting up unless it is strictly enforced and they get help giving up, health researchers say.
PHILIPPINES, MANILA: July 08, 2011:- The World Health Organization (WHO) on Friday urged Asia-Pacific countries to boost the use of graphic health warnings on cigarette packs.
PHOENIX, UNITED STATES: July 01, 2011:- After nine months and 500 inspections, state and federal officials have handed out warnings to 19 tobacco retailers. The statewide inspections are part of a crackdown on selling cigarettes to minors.This forum is open only to registered and logged-in users.
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