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CONCLUSIONS.
The cost-effectiveness ratio for nonsmall cell lung cancer was higher than traditional thresholds used to define cost-effective care. The most favorable results were for persons diagnosed with early stage cancer. These results suggested caution when encouraging more intensive care for lung cancer patients without first considering the tradeoffs with the costs of this therapy and its potential effects on mortality and/or quality of life.
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Bad for business - that is what some licensees think of the public smoking ban.
They have done it in Dublin and New York - but Grimsby and Cleethorpes will be different. In the most dramatic health move for a generation, MPs have voted to introduce the ban in all English workplaces - including pubs, clubs and restaurants - by summer, 2007.
And it has been extended to cover private members' clubs.
Many Daviess County businesses started out the new year smoke-free.
But it's more than a resolution -- it's the law. A county ordinance that bans smoking in any public establishment that is open to people under 18 took effect Jan. 1.
Police say the start of the ban went smoothly. Both the Owensboro Police Department and Daviess County Sheriff's Department said they had had no calls to enforce it.
It was the fourth smoking ban to take effect in Kentucky, the nation's top burley tobacco producer.
Leonard Matheny, who stood smoking a cigarette outside of Buffalo Wild Wings, abided by the ordinance even though he didn't agree with it.
If you are not ready to quit, you should tell your children that you're trying and that they should not copy you. Make sure you tell your friends and family not to smoke around your children. If you smoke, please try to quit. If you do not smoke, don't start.
When you think of health problems associated with smoking, you probably think of things like lung cancer and heart disease. But what about diabetes? WAVE 3 Medical Reporter Lori Lyle explains why smoking is double trouble for diabetics.
Studies have shown that smoking can increase your insulin resistance, which can contribute to diabetes. While researchers aren't quite ready to say that smoking causes diabetes, they do know it causes big problems for those who have diabetes.
The Bartow Rotary Club, which plans to restore the historic Thompson and Co. Cigar Factory, is looking for early photos of the building.
The club also would like to compile recollections of people who have memories of having visited the factory when it was in operation, or who took part in social events at the building. . .
The club plans to undertake restoration of the building as a local project to commemorate the 100th anniversary of Rotary International. RI has asked all of its clubs to undertake a "major community project" in honor of the international service organization's centennial anniversary, which will occur in 2005.
Only about half of the eight million hectares of land seized from Zimbabwe's white farmers has been occupied by new black owners, prompting fears of a drastic decline in agricultural output next year. . .
'People should be on their farms before the end of the rainy season'Mashonaland East province, which had some of the country's most productive farmland and biggest tobacco farms, was the worst affected. David Karimanzira, the province's governor and resident minister, admitted that only half of the seized land in the province had been occupied, close to a month after the expiry of the first deadline for the new black farmers to move there.
"We have given the new settlers a deadline of up to the end of this month, failing which the land will be given to other applicants," Kariomanzira told the state-owned Herald newspaper.
The deadline is the second issued to the new settlers in as many months.
"We want production on the farms and people should be on their farms before the end of the rainy season," said Karimanzira.
When Van Zandt County Agents DeeLee Smith and Tommy Phillips decided to take a stand in a community-wide stop-smoking effort, they called out the S.W.A.T. team.
Students Working Against Tobacco is a coalition of young people who are dedicated to spreading the word about the hazards of tobacco use.
Samantha Owens and Spencer Perkins, both 13, joined the S.W.A.T. team; so did Kearby Wilkerson, 14; Christopher West, 12; and Brittney Tarno, 9. They all agreed that spreading the word about the hazards of tobacco to their peers is vital. . .
The goal of the team is to take the tobacco use prevention message to their peers and the entire community. "We have about 30 members" in this new 4-H project club, Smith said, which is the first group of its kind in a rural county in Texas.
"Right now they (S.W.A.T. team members) are working on skits to take around to schools," said Phillips, county Extension agent for 4-H and youth development. In addition, members are working on speeches and presentations they will use to help them spread the message against smoking and tobacco products throughout the community.
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Tobacco giant Phillip Morris says it is giving $40,000 to Connecticut 4-H Clubs and the University of Connecticut Cooperative Extension System, as part of its effort to keep young people away from cigarettes.
But the anti-tobacco MATCH Coalition appealed to 4-H Wednesday to reject the grant on the grounds that Philip Morris is using 4-H as a ''front organization'' to repair the company's battered public image. . . ''If Philip Morris were serious about wanting to stop kids from smoking, they would stop marketing to children,'' said Rochelle Ripley, spokeswoman for MATCH. . . Ripley said presenting tobacco use as a ''choice'' will just make children want to smoke more. MATCH has favored curriculum that teaches children that smoking causes cancer, heart disease and other illnesses.
''They have made a very serious error in judgment,'' Ripley said.
The National 4-H Council accepted funding so it could develop a youth tobacco prevention program. A few persist in criticizing this program because of the funding source. This program is being developed independently from Philip Morris. Philip Morris has no control over the curriculum, program design, its implementation or its evaluation. . . It grieves me greatly to see the good name of 4-H tarnished by a few critics.
I urge Post-Dispatch readers, who surely know the value of 4-H programs in their communities, not to allow this negative ad placed by an outside organization to sour their opinion of the excellent 4-H youth development programs in Missouri and Illinois.
I encourage others who care about the future of young people, like the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids, to devote funding to developing resources that will improve the lives of young people, not to use negative ads attacking youth organizations.Richard J. Sauer, president and chief executive officer of the National 4-H Council, wants the CTFK to stop criticizing and start funding. Quoted in <i>SAUER: COUNTERPOINT : 4-H program seeks to keep young people from smoking</i>
``We've made a decision that we at this time are not going to pursue part of those monies,'' said Christy Leeds, acting associate state leader for the Ohio 4-H program.
Part of the reason, Leeds said, was concern about taking part of a two-year, $4.3 million grant, shared among participants nationwide, from a tobacco company.
``That issue was raised in some staff members' minds -- what's the long-term implication of aligning our name, whether it's an Anheuser-Busch or the maker of guns and weapons?'' she said. ``I think we'd look at any kind of company and say, `Is this the image we want to align the 4-H name with long term?' '' . . ``Philip Morris and other tobacco companies . . . have embarked on a huge endeavor to buy back respectability,'' Novelli said. . . Novelli's group claims about 27 state 4-H groups have opted not to take any of the grant money from Philip Morris.
Neiberger questioned whether that figure was high, saying the National 4-H Council had received only ``a couple of letters from a couple of state 4-H offices'' saying they would not participate.
That issue was raised in some staff members' minds -- what's the long-term implication of aligning our name, whether it's an Anheuser-Busch or the maker of guns and weapons? . . . I think we'd look at any kind of company and say, `Is this the image we want to align the 4-H name with long term?'Christy Leeds, acting associate state leader for the Ohio 4-H, which has refused the Philip Morris anti-youth-smoking program. Quoted in <i>Critics: Tobacco money taints 4-H image</i>
"Recently released internal tobacco industry documents show that the motivation behind programs like these has not been to reduce tobacco use among kids, but rather to gain positive publicity, deflect political pressure, avoid government regulation and create the appearance of action. Unfortunately, Philip Morris is using the 4-H to prevent the government from requiring fundamental change in the tobacco company's marketing and manufacturing practices that would truly reduce youth tobacco use and save lives. . . The state groups have identified this farce and so should the National 4-H Council."
Some critics also worry that 4-H's reputation might suffer because of its involvement with Philip Morris.
"If you are a youth-development organization -- especially one with four H's in its name, one standing for health -- it's not appropriate to take money from a company that makes a product that is so seriously unhealthy and that presents a serious health risk for youth," says Gary L. Heusel, head of Nebraska's 4-H program. . . 4-H leaders in as many as half the states have declined to participate in the national council's anti-smoking program. . . But critics inside and outside the 4-H system still worry about the tobacco company's involvement. They note that Philip Morris officials participated in planning meetings; that the company will, by agreement with the council, have access to all research and other information from the program; and that the company's name may appear on the program's materials.
We realize we are going to have people skeptical of our efforts to reduce youth smoking. . . The only thing we can do is ask that our actions be judged in the long term.PM spokesman Brendan J. McCormick. Quoted in <i>4-H Defends Anti-Smoking Program Financed by Tobacco Company</i>
The 8-month 4-H, Yes! Philip Morris, No! campaign -- representing unprecedented cooperation between 4-H state programs and tobacco prevention advocates -- achieved both of its objectives: (1) depriving the nation's #1 tobacco company of the chance to define the direction of tobacco prevention for 4-H youth programs across the United States and (2) forging a new spirit of partnership and cooperation between tobacco prevention workers and 4-H/Cooperative Extension Service programs in dozens of states.
Despite a $4.3 million "gift" from Philip Morris USA to fund a National Youth Smoking Prevention Program in collaboration with the National 4-H Council, the majority of 4-H state programs decided AGAINST accepting any funds from Philip Morris USA for tobacco use prevention programs.