http://www.tobacco.org/newsfeed/category/cessation.rss Latest top tobacco news headlines en-us http://news.bandao.cn/news_html/200805/20080516/news_20080516_613541.shtml http://tobacco.org/news/265392.html 记者从市卫生部门了解到，为了创办“无烟医院”，全市各“无烟医院”都要设置戒烟督导员，但目前真正设立戒烟督导员的仅有一家医院。“先生，您好，这里是医院，不能抽烟，请您配合。” 半岛网, Bandao.cn China Fri, 16 May 2008 04:00:00 GMT http://heilongjiang.northeast.cn/system/2008/05/15/051267156.shtml http://tobacco.org/news/265390.html 今天，哈尔滨市疾控中心启动了“哈尔滨市烟草控制与健康素养监测项目”，医务人员等三个吸烟重点群体被确定为监测重点。哈尔滨市还将建立首家戒烟门诊。 东北新闻网, Northeast News Online China Thu, 15 May 2008 04:00:00 GMT http://americanlegacy.org/2368.aspx http://tobacco.org/news/265383.html Today the U.S. Public Health Service released its 2008 Clinical Practice Guideline: Treating Tobacco Use and Dependence. The American Legacy Foundation� strongly supports these recommendations in the effort to help the 45 million Americans who smoke to quit. Legacy’s mission is to build a world where young people reject tobacco and anyone can quit. The important findings of the 2008 Clinical Practice Guideline promote our mission by ensuring that clinicians and health systems have the tools necessary to help all smokers to quit. The PHS Clinical Guideline have historically been landmark reports, helping to guide best practices for our nation’s health. We are particularly pleased to see within the guidelines, encouragement for intervention and follow-up with all tobacco users who visit doctors. American Legacy Foundation Wed, 07 May 2008 04:00:00 GMT http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/05-13-2008/0004812290&EDATE= http://tobacco.org/news/265352.html Eugene Levy, comedic actor and star of dozens of blockbuster movies, appears in a new in-theater public service announcement released by the American Cancer Society, Entertainment Industry Foundation (EIF), and Will Rogers Institute that offers help to people who want to quit smoking. The goal is to reach millions of moviegoers across the country with this 30-second spot. Leading networks, Screenvision and National CineMedia, are running the PSA. Together, these networks reach thousands of movie screens and will reach millions of people across the country. To view this ad, please visit http://www.wrinstitute.org/. . . . Called Picture Quitting, the success rates of this custom-tailored quit smoking program is twice those of the national average. Visit http://www.eifoundation.org and http://www.hollywoodunfiltered.com. PR Newswire Tue, 13 May 2008 04:00:00 GMT http://www.capitolweekly.net/article.php?_adctlid=v%7Cjq2q43wvsl855o%7Cx48lz4ng4qou43&xid=x48l5x5rfq8saa&done=search.php%3Fsearchparams%3Da%253A5%253A%257Bs%253A9%253A%2522issuedate%2522%253BN%253Bs%253A6%253A%2522author%2522%253BN%253Bs%253A5%253A%2522title%2522%253BN%253Bs%253A4%253A%2522body%2522%253BN%253Bs%253A12%253A%2522article_type%2522%253Bs%253A17%253A%25221192656582969_969%2522%253B%257D http://tobacco.org/news/265306.html the numbers tell a depressing story in Asian-American communities in particular. Research has shown that the numbers of deaths due to cancer is rising faster in Asian Americans than in any other ethnic group. In addition, lung cancer rates are 18 percent higher among Southeast Asian men than for Caucasians. And Asian American and Pacific Islander females are actually the only racial, ethnic or gender group in the nation for which cancer is the leading cause of death. In 2005, 1 out of 5 Asian American males smoked. Here in California, 36 percent of Korean American men and 32 percent of Vietnamese American men smoke cigarettes. Among cigarette smokers in California and Hawaii, Native Hawaiians and other Polynesians are more susceptible to and have higher incidence rates of lung cancer (263.9/100,000) than Whites, Japanese Americans, and Latinos. The numbers don't tell the story of the pain that these grim numbers symbolize for our families and friends. . . . The best way to seriously cut smoking rates is by ensuring that Medi-Cal, the state's health insurance program for the elderly, disabled and poor, covers the full range of smoking cessation services. Today. Medi-Cal only provides partial smoking cessation benefits and too few patients or doctors even know about these benefits. What's worse is that Medi-Cal's policy does not reflect the most current recommendations from the Centers for Disease Control and does not cover all FDA-approved smoking cessation medications. That needs to change. Assembly Bill 2662, (Dymally, D-Los Angeles) which is supported by the California Medical Association and the Asian & Pacific Islander American Health Forum, will increase public awareness of the benefits available for Medi-Cal recipients in order to help smokers quit. . . . For decades, cigarette makers have prayed on the Asian community. Now, it's time to kick the habit once and for all. With Medi-Cal providing smoking cessation treatment for all recipients, California's Asian community may be able to break the tobacco addiction for good. Capitol Weekly Thu, 15 May 2008 04:00:00 GMT http://www.js.chinanews.com.cn/news/2008/2008-05-14/1/33912.html http://tobacco.org/news/265286.html 由江苏省疾病预防控制中心、省爱卫会、卫生厅、教育厅等联合举办的“2008年江苏省戒烟大赛”昨天起正式报名。据介绍，戒烟成功者最高奖金可达1万元。 中国新闻网, Chinanews.com E-mail£ºjs-xww@163.com (冯家清, 仲崇山) China Wed, 14 May 2008 04:00:00 GMT http://old.thejakartapost.com/yesterdaydetail.asp?fileid=20080513.D06 http://tobacco.org/news/265256.html With more people living healthier lifestyles, you might think quitting smoking is going to be the next big thing. Unfortunately, it's not. "Smoking is still a trend today," said Widjajanti, the secretary-general of Lembaga Menangani Masalah Merokok (LM3), a non-profit organization striving for a smoke-free society. "What's horrible is 80 percent of junior high and high school students have tried smoking or are regular smokers," she said. If the trend continues, about 1 billion people will have died from smoking by 2010, she said. The organization reported at least 59 percent of men and 3.7 percent of women in Indonesia are smokers, while some 215 billion cigarettes are smoked in the country last year. Widjajanti has provided counseling for four years to smokers who want to kick the habit. Jakarta Post Indonesia Tue, 13 May 2008 04:00:00 GMT http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/08135/881474-35.stm http://tobacco.org/news/265251.html For years my wife (who has asthma) would get on me to quit smoking. "Look at these walls, close the closet door, the clothes all stink from smoke, you stink." I had a clever response: "Only sissies quit. Did John Wayne, Yul Brynner, Steve McQueen or Humphrey Bogart quit?" They were my heroes -- they would light up in a minute. Yeah, I know, they all died of cancer. But lung cancer happens to other people, not me. In about a week I have an appointment at the Hillman Cancer Center in Shadyside. It's for a biopsy on my left lung. Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Wed, 14 May 2008 04:00:00 GMT http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/05-09-2008/0004810568&EDATE= http://tobacco.org/news/265227.html As Mother's Day approaches, many smokers can give their mothers and themselves the gift of health by quitting. The holiday is an excellent opportunity to quit smoking for Mom, or for mothers to quit smoking for their kids. QUITPLAN(R) Services can help Minnesotans quit smoking, whether it's on Mother's Day or at any other time of the year. Created by ClearWay Minnesota(SM), QUITPLAN Services provide free professional counseling and a variety of help options for those looking to quit. PR Newswire Fri, 09 May 2008 04:00:00 GMT http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/13/health/13jarvik.html?_r=1&scp=2&sq=smoking&st=nyt&oref=slogin http://tobacco.org/news/265223.html Murray Jarvik, a psychopharmacologist who was among the first to study the hallucinogenic drug LSD and whose later research on the physiology and psychology of smoking was instrumental in the development of the nicotine patch, died Thursday at his home in Santa Monica, Calif. He was 84. The cause was pulmonary edema from congestive heart failure, said his son Jeffrey. . . . "It is strange that people should go to such lengths to burn and then inhale some vegetable matter," Dr. Jarvik wrote in an introduction to a 1977 report for the National Institute on Drug Abuse, "Research on Smoking Behavior." "We must find out what is rewarding about it." New York Times Tue, 13 May 2008 04:00:00 GMT http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/05/08/2239542.htm http://tobacco.org/news/265218.html An Adelaide physician has calculated that the average Australian smoker spends about $300,000 on cigarettes in a lifetime. Doctor Ross Philpot's calculations have been published in the Medical Journal of Australia. The research also shows that a person who smokes 20 cigarettes a day will have smoked 500,000 by the time they die. Dr Philpot says telling patients about the cumulative total of cigarettes bought and smoked can be an effective way to get people to quit. Australian Broadcasting Corporation Australia Thu, 08 May 2008 04:00:00 GMT http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2008-05/ra-qsm051108.php http://tobacco.org/news/265174.html People with mental illness are not receiving the support they need to stop smoking, despite high rates of nicotine dependence and deaths from cardiovascular and respiratory illnesses. According to Professor Steve Kisely, from Griffith University's School of Medicine, health services are failing to provide appropriate smoking cessation strategies to people with problems including depression, schizophrenia or post-traumatic stress disorder. He said smoking rates in people with mental illness were twice the rates in the general population. EurekAlert Australia Sun, 11 May 2008 04:00:00 GMT http://www.pr-inside.com/new-federal-medical-guidelines-could-trigger-r579630.htm http://tobacco.org/news/265149.html New federal guidelines issued Wednesday for doctors treating smokers could trigger a wave of wrongful death medical malpractice legal actions, suggests Action on Smoking and Health (ASH), which serves as the legal action arm of the antismoking community. Indeed, says ASH, there are over 40,000 potential plaintiffs yearly. The guidelines require physicians not only to thoroughly warn smoking patients about the dangers of smoking, but also mandate that the clinicians provide one of more of the treatments which have been proven effective in helping people quit. Yet most physicians reportedly fail to do this, and as a direct result a major study shows, more than 40,000 smokers die needlessly. ASH notes that hundreds of thousands more become disabled annually, and could also bring malpractice actions. . . . when the majority of U.S. physicians ignore a very clear federal guideline regarding situations which occur every day (i.e., patient visits by smokers), the doctors' failures are deliberate, as well as often fatal. PR Insider Thu, 08 May 2008 04:00:00 GMT http://news.yntv.cn/category/10101/2008/05/10/2008-05-10_576082_10101.shtml http://tobacco.org/news/265127.html 5月31日是世界无烟日。昨日，由云南省卫生厅和省爱卫办等多个部门共同举办的2008中国戒烟大赛云南赛区的活动正式拉开帷幕。凡报名参赛的烟民，从6月1日起后的半年里完全戒烟，就可以参加抽奖并有机会获得1万元的奖金。据悉，此次戒烟大赛单独设立了医务人员戒烟大赛板块，鼓励医务人员带头戒烟。 云南电视, Yunnan Television China Sat, 10 May 2008 04:00:00 GMT http://www.bizjournals.com/washington/stories/2008/05/12/story10.html?ana=from_rss http://tobacco.org/news/265124.html Money hunt: Doug Cary, who used to work at giant Abbott Laboratories, now runs 14-year-old Cary Pharmaceuticals from his Great Falls home. The biotech is seeking to raise $14 million. A Northern Virginia biotech is beginning its first funding drive with an ambitious road map. Despite sluggish life sciences investments for this region, the company wants to raise $14 million by the summer to launch two clinical drug trials later this year. Washington Business Journal Fri, 09 May 2008 04:00:00 GMT