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American Cancer Society South Dakota Government Relations Director Jennifer Stalley says, “It is appropriate that today, on the 34th annual American Cancer Society Great American Smoke Out—a day dedicated to helping smokers quit—the American Cancer Society, along with more than fifty diverse public health, business and medical groups, will begin in earnest our statewide effort to support the smoke free law on the November 2010 ballot and ensure that no one has to choose between their health and their job in our great state."
“We are confident that the vast majority of South Dakotans support this law and that by this time next year –the 35th annual Great American Smoke Out—South Dakota will be a smoke free state.”
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Officials for the American Cancer Society in South Dakota say they won't appeal a court decision that will now send a smoking ban in South Dakota bars, restaurants, casinos and other businesses to the vote of the people in 2010.
The announcement by the Society's government relations director Jennifer Stally came on the 34th annaul American Cancer Society Great American Smoke Out Day. Stalley said in a news release that the Cancer Society "will begin in earnest our statewide effort to support the smoke free law on the November 2010 ballot and ensure that no one has to choose between their health and their job in our great state."
TAHLEQUAH -- In an effort to keep area residents healthy, Thursday, has been designated as Great American Smoke-out Day in the Cherokee Nation. In honor of the event, the tribe is offering classes and incentives to help smokers and tobacco users stop for at least one day.
Cherokee Nation Healthy Nation will be celebrating the day by offering free cessation kits and prizes to all who commit to stop smoking and using tobacco for at least one day. Resources
undred sixty nations, many of them in the developing world, have vowed to stand up to the tobacco industry and its efforts to water down antitobacco laws. . . .
This weekend, at a meeting in Durban, South Africa, countries took that treaty a step further by agreeing that tobacco lobbyists must be prevented from interfering with healthcare policy.
"This was a big step," says Kathy Mulvey, international policy director for Corporate Accountability International, based in Boston. "The anchor principle of this meeting was that there is a fundamental conflict between tobacco industry interests and public health interests. These guidelines will help advocates and public officials begin to slam the door on tobacco industry tactics, and focus on implementing the treaty's lifesaving measures."
Times have been hard for the tobacco industry in the developed world, as smoking diminishes in Europe and North America – evidence that education on tobacco's harms are starting to pay off. But as the tobacco industry shifts its attentions farther south to Africa, Latin America, and Asia – betting that weaker governments or corrupt officials will smooth the path for their product to be sold – it has met surprising resistance from individual nations and citizens groups who refuse to allow their countries to be dumping grounds for what has been called the world's largest preventable epidemic.
Ready to take back your mind, health and life? The Great American Smokeout is a great excuse to come home! Sadly, the Great American Smokeout has been hijacked by pharmaceutical interests. Originally a day to quit smoking nicotine, it has been transformed into a day to use "replacement" nicotine, or new nicotine designer drugs that imitate it. The following cold turkey quitting tips recapture the glory of the very first Smokeout, of ending use of the chemical that has kept you enslaved. .
Watching Pfizer's new tortoise and hare Chantix commericals, you'd think cold turkey quitters never succeed. But according to the American Cancer Society, 91% of America's 46 million ex-smokers quit entirely on their own: more than 41 million strong. Truth is that the hare isn't a turkey but placebo. Truth is that placebo isn't even a real quitting method. Will Pfizer ever allow Chantix to go head-to-head with real cold turkey quitters? I doubt it.
The below quit smoking tips are a sampling of the cold turkey quitting lessons available at WhyQuit, a totally free, all-volunteer, non-commerical quit smoking site that sells nothing and actually declines donations. Since mid-2000 WhyQuit has been the Internet's most popular abrupt nicotine cessation destination.
TAHLEQUAH, Okla. - November is Lung Cancer Awareness Month, and the Cherokee Nation and some area health facilities are doing what they can to help fight the disease and what causes it.
Lung cancer is the second most common cancer found in both men (after prostate cancer) and women (after breast cancer). It accounts for about 15 percent of all new cancers, according to www.cancer.org.
"I think the awareness of letting people know the effects of commercial tobacco is very harmful to our people (is important)," said June Maher, CN Tobacco Prevention coordinator. "We (Native Americans) do have a high rate of cancer in these areas and not just lung cancer; it could be any kind of cancer."
One of the leading causes of lung cancer is smoking, and Nov. 20 is an excellent day to start quitting since as part of the Great American Smokeout. . . .
Earlier this year, the tribe put into action a tobacco-free policy at all CN governmental properties. The Nation offers smoking cessation classes and works with schools in the area by developing Students Working Against Tobacco teams in an effort to discourage smoking.
"Cherokee Nation Health Services is committed to reducing cancer rates in the Cherokee Nation," said Dr. Gloria Grim, CN medical director. "The Cherokee Nation Comprehensive Cancer Coalition is one of the first tribal programs to complete a cancer prevention plan and begin implementation of the plan."
CN was also recently recognized for its work in cancer control.
On Thursday, November 20, the countless Americans who want to quit smoking in the American Cancer Society's 33rd Great American Smokeout will have an easier time to stay quit with the new Stay Quit Monday initiative. The idea is to reaffirm their Smokeout commitment to living smoke-free on the Monday following their quit date and recommitting each Monday thereafter.
"Studies show a high relapse rate for most first-time quitters and it takes multiple attempts for most smokers to quit for good," says Frances Stillman, Co-Director of the Institute for Global Tobacco Control at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. "The idea of using each Monday as the day for quitters to reaffirm their smoke cessation goal is a sensible way to stay on track, from Monday to Monday, instead of from 'today to never again.'"
Donald Distasio, Chief Executive Officer of the American Cancer Society, Eastern Division says, "We hope many more smokers will use the Great American Smokeout as an important first step towards living a smoke-free life. Stay Quit Monday is a good tool for smokers to use in reinforcing their commitment to quitting. If you're looking to quit smoking, call your American Cancer Society at 1-800-ACS-2345 or visit http://www.cancer.org. We can help." . . .
"Stay Quit Monday builds in an opportunity every week to commit to quit smoking and to celebrate the progress people are making towards this goal,"
From November 18-20, Miss America 2008 Kirsten Haglund will be in New York City to promote National Smoke Out Day, which is November 20, and to promote her new cause of helping Americans get healthier and kick the smoking habit.
-- Kirsten will be at the corner of Broadway and 51st in New York's famed Times Square Thursday, November 20 from 11:30 to 1:30 for National Smokeout Day, giving out free Zerosmoke(TM) smoking cessation products to those people who want to stop smoking.
-- Miss America 2008 Kirsten Haglund will be available for local and national TV appearances from November 18-20 to promote saving lives and urging smokers to quit the habit as she presents the stats on the smoking epidemic spreading across America.
-- For any live audience shows that she is booked on, she will be giving out free Zerosmoke(TM) smoking cessation products to those who want to stop smoking or want their loved ones to quit. . . .
-- Miss America will be appearing this fall in a national TV documentary, praising the town of Ecru, Mississippi, the first town in America to take the Zerosmoke(TM) Smoke Free Challenge.
ATLANTA--October 30, 2008 - Thursday, November 20, is the 33rd Great American Smokeout, and the American Cancer Society continues its legacy of providing free resources to help smokers quit. The Great American Smokeout was inaugurated in 1976 to inspire and encourage smokers to quit for one day. Now, 44.2 percent of the 45.3 million Americans who smoke have attempted to quit for at least one day in the past year, and the Great American Smokeout remains a great opportunity to encourage people to commit to making a long-term plan to quit for good.
With all the resources available to help smokers quit, there has never been a better time to quit smoking, and the American Cancer Society is here to help. If you smoke, make a plan and set the Great American Smokeout, November 20, 2008, as your quit date. By calling the American Cancer Society Quitline� at 1-800-227-2345, people who plan to quit will be able to speak with a trained counselor and receive free, confidential counseling.
Quitting smoking is not easy, but it can be done. To have the best chance of quitting successfully, you need to know what you're up against, what your options are, and where to go for help.
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As Americans prepare for a day without cigarettes and tobacco products as part of the American Cancer Society Great American Smokeout (R) (November 20), new research gives them more reasons to extend that break to a lifetime, according to the American Academy of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery Foundation (AAO-HNSF). Among the new research presented at the organization's annual meeting in September 2008 are studies that link cigarette smoking and upper airway symptoms ("smoker's nose"), the loss of smokers' ability to smell common odors, and most alarming, the role second-hand smoke plays in the rise of cases of "environmental laryngitis."
The first study, presented by Norwegian researchers, reveals that among 2,294 patients being evaluated for obstructive sleep apnea, snoring, or nose-related issues, smokers were 12 to 27 percent higher than non-smokers in 8 of the 13 possible symptoms. The researchers believe that quitting smoking should be a primary therapeutic measure for patients with these upper airway ailments.
In another study, Brazilian researchers examined the link between smoking and loss of smell. In a clinical study examining 56 healthy volunteers, current and former smokers in the group had greater trouble smelling butanol, an alcohol used widely in odor testing because of its distinct and powerful smell. The authors believe this confirms that smokers will experience altered ability to smell as they continue the habit.
A third study cites second-hand tobacco smoke as one of the primary causes of what the authors term "environmental laryngitis," along with allergens and air pollution. The study, authored by researchers at the University of California-Davis, indicates through animal models that exposure to second-hand smoke can trigger laryngitis symptoms
"I said, 'If You do me a favor, if You get me out of this one, I will never smoke again," he recalled the other day.
Today, true to this word, Jacilla has taken his promise one step further: The owner of Seguine Bagel Bakery in Prince's Bay has teamed with the American Cancer Society of Staten Island and the New York City Coalition for a Smoke Free City in all but eliminating tobacco advertising in his store.
The initiative, in which 10 other Island businesses are participating, is aimed at reducing the incidence of smoking among teens -- and children.
And today, which is celebrated as the Great American Smokeout by the American Cancer Society, Jacilla's pledge has particular poignancy.
He points out that the only tobacco advertising in his place are the promotionals he is contractually obligated to display as a seller of cigarettes, a staple that he said accounts for fully 20 percent of his single-item sales.
The other businesses, which include pharmacies and delis, have removed ads below 45 inches, the ones that are likely to catch the eyes of kids.
Although outdoor smoke dissipates more quickly than indoor smoke, it still affects the air quality of nonsmokers sitting or standing a few feet downwind from a smoker, Neil Klepeis, a Stanford University assistant professor (consulting) of civil and environmental engineering, told Foxnews.com this week.
"Being within a few feet of a smoker or a (lit) cigarette has the potential to expose a person to air pollution levels that are similar to indoor secondhand smoke," said Klepeis, who co-authored a study on outdoor secondhand smoke that was released this past summer.
The Great American Smokeout is Thursday. . . .
Klepeis and his team are now conducting studies on the effects of multiple smokers congregating in outdoor areas, as well as researching the indoor/outdoor transfer of tobacco smoke and the effects of second-hand smoke in an apartment setting.
Crown7 (www.crown7.com), a smokeless and tobacco-free electronic cigarette that is legal indoors, announced today its national launch in celebration of the Great American Smokeout®.
The Crown7 product looks and acts like a cigarette without all the harmful side effects of traditional cigarettes. The Crown7 device replicates the act of smoking using a nicotine cartridge, a microchip and a water vapor mist. When the user inhales through the Crown7 tip, the battery-powered microchip activates an atomizer which creates a nicotine and smoke-flavored water vapor mist. . . .
The good news is Crown7 is completely legal since there is no tobacco used and nothing is on fire with our product.â€
Every year, smokers across the nation take part in the American Cancer Society’s Great American Smokeout® by smoking less or quitting for the day on the third Thursday of November. The event challenges people to stop using tobacco and the Crown7 product is an ideal complement to smokers seeking an alternative to tobacco.
Crown7 (www.crown7.com), a smokeless and tobacco-free electronic cigarette that is legal indoors, announced today its national launch in celebration of the Great American Smokeout®Crown7, a nicotine delivery device, hijacks GASO.
The 31st Great American Smokeout is upon us and so too are a sea of quitting product ads. Sadly, the Great American Smokeout has been hijacked by pharmaceutical interests. Originally a day to quit smoking nicotine, it has been transformed into a day to use "replacement" nicotine, or new nicotine designer drugs that imitate it. In that the vast majority of Smokout quitters will once again be quitting cold turkey, the below quitting tips are designed to support them in their quest for freedom from nicotine.
Watching Pfizer's new tortoise and hare Chantix commericals, you'd think cold turkey quitters hardly ever succeed. But according to the American Cancer Society, 91% of America's 46 million ex-smokers quit entirely on their own: more than 41 million strong. The below quit smoking tips are a sampling of the cold turkey quitting lessons available at WhyQuit, a totally free, all-volunteer, non-commerical quit smoking site that sells nothing and actually declines donations. Since mid-2000 WhyQuit has been the Internet's most popular abrupt nicotine cessation destination.