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Corrie boss defends Street smokers  

Coronation Street's head honcho has defended the soap for having characters who smoke.

Executive producer Kieran Roberts told Radio Times: "While we have a duty not to glamorise the habit, it would be realistic to see nobody smoking - but only a few regulars do."

He added that the smoking ban in 2007 means characters such as Deidre Barlow (Anne Kirkbride) tend to smoke outdoors now, for example in the back yard of the Rovers.

He went on: "Just as in real life, that makes the habit more visible, but it's not actually more prevalent."

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Anti-Smoking Commercials Target Sports Fans Watching TV 

For one in three sports fans, watching the game and lighting up a cigarette go hand in hand. And those are the fans an anti- smoking group hopes to reach during the World Series.

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中国各界呼吁立法减少影视剧中的“烟草镜头” 

“戏不够，拿烟凑”——这句生动有趣的台词反映了中国影视创作中香烟泛滥的现象。香烟成了最常用的“道具”，抽烟成了最常见的“故事情节”。而男性，则是烟民主体。

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中国各界呼吁立法减少“烟草镜头” 

烟雾缭绕的窃听室，满地的烟头，颓废、胡子拉碴的倦容——在电影《窃听风云》中，警员杨真给观众留下深刻印象。

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SAPAKOFF: Tobacco still stains the majors 

For my couch time, Major League Baseball does its postseason almost as well as "The Office" does body language.

Brilliant. Except for all the spittin' and chewin' or, worst of all, both in one quick camera shot.

How does that look in HD? . . .

But MLB holds fast to a disgusting tradition, something not allowed in most workplaces or public buildings throughout America.

You don't see it in the NBA, NFL, NHL or college sports. You don't see it at bookstores or restaurants. Even stodgy NASCAR got rid of its Cup race tobacco sponsorship.

Only big league baseball, thanks to a stubborn union and inept owners bent on ruining all their good publicity with close-up shots of outfielders stuffing bad stuff into their mouths. . . .

Francona is not the only one.

One of your favorite players, maybe someone you know or have met, might have trouble with this image-ruining habit.

Next time you meet such a player, instead of spewing praise, remind them that doctors and the American Dental Association have weighed in. . . .

Too bad it's too late for some.

Jack Krol was the manager of our Charleston Rainbows for three seasons, 1988-1990, and briefly served as interim manager of the St. Louis Cardinals in 1978 and 1980. In 1993, the same year minor league baseball banned smokeless tobacco, the long-time chewer had part of his tongue removed.

Krol, a great guy, died of oral cancer in 1994. He was 57.

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影视剧烟草镜头不容乐观 [Movies and television cameras can not be optimistic about tobacco] 

10月20日在香港举行的第三届两岸四地烟害防制交流研讨会上，中国控制吸烟协会青少年控烟职业委员会专家吕若然、段佳丽指出，目前，我国尚无明确的法律法规限制影视剧中的烟草镜头。虽然与前几年相比，影视剧中的烟草镜头控制情况有所改善，但从2008年的影视剧来看，烟草镜头暴露的情况仍然不容乐观，影视剧中基本没有控制烟草的宣传。

October 20 in Hong Kong, the four at the third cross-Strait Seminar on Tobacco Control, the Chinese Association on Smoking Control Youth Tobacco Control's professional committee of experts Lu and if so, Duan beauties pointed out that currently there is no clear laws and regulations in China restrictions on tobacco film and television drama shot. While in previous years, film and television drama shot in tobacco control situation has improved, but the 2008 TV drama point of view, the lens of tobacco exposure is still not optimistic, film and television drama basically no tobacco control advocacy.

In the agency investigated 10 domestic films, there are four appeared in the tobacco lens, a total of 25 times, average length of the tobacco lens, 1 minute. Have been investigated 11 television shows, then all the emergence of tobacco lens. A total of 453 times the lens of tobacco there, with an average there are 41.1 per tobacco television camera, when the episode an average length of the lens of tobacco 1.5 minutes. Among them, the appearances of tobacco exposure to a television camera the most, with an average occur once every 17.3 minutes tobacco lens.

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• Tobacco sponsorship of tennis tournament goes ahead because of weak Swiss legislation, says campaigning group  

A Swiss antismoking campaign group is concerned that weak legislation in the country is being exploited by Imperial Tobacco to sponsor a tennis tournament and promote its brand of cigarettes and other products. The company is the fourth largest tobacco company in the world.

Switzerland is a sanctuary for the tobacco industry, said Pascal Diethelm, director of the antismoking group OxyRomandie, ahead of the Davidoff Swiss indoor tournament, which starts on 31 October as part of the Association of Tennis Professionals World Tour 500. The tournament, which is one of the last tobacco sponsored tennis events in the world, is being used by the company to intensively advertise its Davidoff brand, on court hoardings and the uniforms of line judges and ball girls and boys, said Mr Diethelm.

The last time the tournament was held in Basel in 2008, the "players drowned in an advertising soup for Davidoff," he said.

He added, "At the end of the match the young ball boys and ball girls received a medal from Roger Federer in recognition of having served the cause of Davidoff so well. Each medal bore the Davidoff logo in order to make sure that these potential future smokers will know which cigarette brand to choose when they start smoking."

OxyRomandie is appealing to the federal tribunal, Switzerland’s supreme court, against a ruling from the Independent Complaints Authority for Radio and Television that Swiss television is allowed to show the tournament even though Swiss law bans tobacco advertising on television.

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The Good Life—that is the art of living. A culture of its own that revolves around taking time, perceiving the world with all the senses in order to experience the fine nuances of pleasure.
Davidoff's "The Good Life" campaign. The Davidoff Swiss indoor tennis tournament is under fire.

• New Survey Finds One in Three Sports Fans Smoke, Five Out of Six Smoke While 

A new survey conducted by the American Legacy Foundation(R) (Legacy) finds that the majority (63 percent) of sports fans surveyed are current or former smokers and 76 percent of them have smoked while watching or attending sporting events. The study examines whether sports fans were exposed to secondhand smoke while watching sports; smoked while watching sports at certain venues; or whether those who quit smoking relapsed while watching a game. The survey also examined whether watching sports was a trigger for fans who smoke.

The survey also indicated that 60 percent of sports fans have been exposed to secondhand smoke in the past year while watching or attending sporting events and that 36 percent of sports fans who smoke or used to smoke are extremely or very tempted to smoke while viewing sporting events in their own homes. When the score of the game is close, nearly one third are extremely or very tempted to light up.

Starting this week and through the winter, many smokers will be exposed to new quit smoking messages through the EX(R) national smoking cessation campaign. Legacy, along with the National Alliance for Tobacco Cessation (NATC), announced today that the next round of new ads in its two-year old EX campaign are now being featured during FOX Sports' broadcast of Major League Baseball's American League Championship Series (ALCS) and World Series.

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I'm smoking on Strictly 

STRICTLY Come Dancing star Craig Kelly has resorted to acupuncture to help him keep off the cigarettes.

The Coronation Street actor stopped smoking four years ago but the pressure of appearing on Strictly drove him back to the deadly habit.

However all the puffing sent his heart racing and left him fighting for breath - so he turned to the Chinese needle treatment to help kick the habit and steady his nerves.

Craig, 38, saw a specialist before last week's Foxtrot and had tiny needles stuck into specific points of his body to relieve stress.

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NCCN Teams with Discovery Health Channel to Focus on Living with Advanced 

NCCN program on Discovery Health Channel profiles patients battling advanced non-small cell lung cancer and highlights their physicians' use of the NCCN Guidelines for Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer in determining the best treatment regimen. The program, which provides free CME credits, premieres on Sunday, October 18 at 7:00 am EDT.

FORT WASHINGTON, Pa., Oct. 16 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Lung cancer is the second most common cancer and leading cause of cancer-related deaths in both men and women. Although tobacco use is the strongest known risk factor for lung cancer, many people who never smoked also develop the disease. Regardless of how one developed lung cancer, treating the disease in the advanced stage faces numerous challenges both for clinicians and patients as well as their families.

The National Comprehensive Cancer Network (NCCN), a not-for-profit alliance of 21 of the world's leading cancer centers, has collaborated with the Discovery Health Channel to produce a program profiling three patients with advanced non-small cell lung cancer and their healthcare team as they determine each patient's best treatment regimen. The program, Living with Advanced Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer, premieres Sunday, October 18, 2009 on the Discovery Health Channel. This program is available for Continuing Medical Education (CME/CE) credits for physicians as well as nurses.

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• Dog gets ill from smoking aunts in ABC's 'Middle' 

One of this year's top comedy's finally has a pet -- and boy, does she have troubles.

ABC's Middle (Wednesday nights at 8:30 ET) has introduced a Basset Hound who developed emphysema after years of living with two chain-smoking elderly aunts.

Frankie, the mom stuck in the "middle" of all the family disasters, takes Doris to her house for a smoke-free environment. Then what? Watch and find out.

Meanwhile, we checked to see if there have been studies done to determine if and how secondhand smoke harms cats and dogs. It doesn't take a health expert to understand the answer is yes.

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Voice of Don Brandt falls silent  

For 48 years, Don Brandt was known as the "Voice of the SCC Blackhawks" and the "Voice of the Burlington Grayhounds" on KBUR.

But he also was a dedicated member of the Burlington School Board, having served several stints over the course of four decades. . . .

"He was very passionate about his work as a school board member, especially in terms of advocacy for students," Book said.

That passion for students was displayed when Brandt voted in a unanimous decision to ban smoking on Burlington School District property in 2003.

"Don had a knack for looking at an issue and dissecting it while looking at it from all sides," Book said.

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Veteran ad exec says 'Mad Men' really were about sex, booze  

AMC cable TV drama Mad Men-- a critics' favorite that recently opened its third season to its largest audience ever -- depicts a hard-drinking, chain-smoking, casual-sex-in-the-office lifestyle for top ad agency executives in the 1960s. How much of this is made-for-TV embellishment -- and how much is real?

USA TODAY marketing reporter Bruce Horovitz took that question to Jerry Della Femina, the veteran ad exec widely regarded as one of Madison Avenue's biggest personalities, most creative thinkers and an over-the-top publicity-seeker. At 73, Della Femina is still a force in the ad biz. . . .

Q: Did agency executives really smoke that much?

A: I smoked three to four packs a day. Everybody smoked at all times in all meetings. Once, when I was sitting in a meeting for the Contac account, I had a (lit) cigarette in my hand and another in the ashtray. When I put down the cigarette to do a chalk talk, I tried to light the piece of chalk.

Q: Was some of that smoking to kiss up to tobacco company clients?

A: We had two R.J. Reynolds brands (Winston Super Kings and Carter Hall pipe tobacco). The R.J. Reynolds guys would get off the elevator on our floor where we had two of those tall ashtrays filled with sand. The RJR guys would claw through the sand to see if there were butts from any other brands. These were executives. They wanted to know what our people were smoking.

Q: Did those clients smoke?

A: One time I went to visit RJR in Winston-Salem (N.C.). They hosted a big party at some country club, and they had a giant dance floor with everyone milling about. I walked up to the balcony and looked down and noticed that everyone was holding a cigarette -- all the clients and all of their wives. But something wasn't right. I noticed that none of the cigarettes were lit. They were simply holding them. They believed the statistics.

Q: Do you still smoke?

A: I haven't touched a cigarette in 20 years. I have heavy allergies and developed asthma. The doctor said if I touched another cigarette, I'd die.

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影视剧吸烟镜头泛滥"诱导"青少年吸烟 控烟亟需法制化 

“我抽第一根烟是因为拍片的需要，导演说，不抽烟就把你撤掉，于是我在香烟上抹着风油精勉强抽了第一根烟。这一抽就是12年，最多的时候每天两包烟。”在近日召开的一场名为“倡导无烟影视净化银屏”的新闻发布会上，国家一级演员冯远征讲述了他的吸烟史。 　　此次新闻发布会由中国控制吸烟协会和中国疾控中心控烟办主办。会上，一个信息的公布———2007年至2009年部分影视剧吸烟镜头的调查结果，令人瞠目结舌。

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• Blu Cigs President Won't Confirm Product in Sex Tape 

In response to a surge of inquiries, blu Cigs president Jason Healy said he will not confirm the speculation by Gawker.com that the mystery cigarette in the Eric Dane/Rebecca Gayheart sex tape which emitted a blue ember but didn't burn was in fact, the company's signature electronic cigarette.

"Our client records are confidential. We respect the privacy of all our clients, not only high profile ones."

Blu Cigs are known for the distinctive blue light that glows when the cigarette is drawn on. They have become popular with smokers in the film, television and music industries as they can be used in indoor no (tobacco) smoking environments such as sound stages and recording studios as there is no ash and the vapor emitted won't bother non-smokers and will not harm sensitive equipment.

Healy adds, "With current and stricter new restrictions coming on the use of traditional cigarettes, blu Cigs provide smokers with a better alternative cigarette experience without the bothersome secondhand smoke."

In response to whether an electronic cigarette such as blu is safe for use in a bathtub, Healy said, "While we would not recommend use in an environment like that, there's no problem if it were dropped in the water. It would have to be dried out sufficiently before using again."

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