http://www.tobacco.org/newsfeed/org/nnsw.rss Latest top tobacco news headlines en-us http://www.eveningtimes.co.uk/news/editor-s-picks-ignore/old-firm-stars-stub-it-out-for-life-1.1012400 http://tobacco.org/news/298595.html They are two of the biggest Old Firm names and today they joined the Evening Times Glas-goals campaign and its target to stub out a million cigarettes for Glasgow. As National No Smoking Day got under way Rangers striker Kris Boyd and Celtic forward Diomansy Kamara urged all smokers to kick the habit. They and their team-mates back our campaign to make the people of Glasgow fitter, healthier and enjoying a more balanced diet. Evening Times glasgoals@heraldandtimes.co.uk (Ann Fotheringham ) UK Wed, 10 Mar 2010 05:00:00 GMT http://www.prweb.com/releases/simply-finance/save-on-life-insurance/prweb3710104.htm http://tobacco.org/news/298352.html Smokers who have been inspired to quit following the national No Smoking Day on Wednesday could see significant financial benefits from kicking the habit in addition to the improvements to their health. Those who have taken out life insurance cover to protect their families could save up to 43% on their monthly premium costs, which could add up to thousands over the life of a policy term, according to consumer finance website SimplyFinance. PR Web UK Fri, 12 Mar 2010 05:00:00 GMT http://www.bournemouthecho.co.uk/news/5051056.Dorset_smokers_urged_to_quit_after_house_fire_research_revealed/ http://tobacco.org/news/298267.html SMOKERS in Dorset have been urged to stub their habit out after new research revealed that a third of accidental house Fire victims died in blazes sparked by cigarettes. Despite the shocking statistics, fewer than half of smokers are aware that cigarettes are the biggest cause of fatal house fires. Dorset Fire and Rescue Service reported an unprecedented rise in fire related deaths in 2008, with six relating to smoking in the first nine months of the year. Dorset Echo UK Wed, 10 Mar 2010 05:00:00 GMT http://www.getwokingham.co.uk/lifestyle/health_and_beauty/s/2067281_fire_warning_to_smokers http://tobacco.org/news/298266.html Smokers are being warned by firefighters about the fire risk their habit could pose as part of No Smoking Day today. Royal Berkshire Fire and Rescue Service is supporting the event by issuing the warning that careless smoking can have serious consequences. Statistics show more people die in fires caused by smoking materials than any other type of accidental fire in the home. The most common causes of smoking-related fires are falling asleep while smoking, leaving a burning cigarette unattended and accidentally dropping a cigarette or hot ash. Wokingham Times UK Wed, 10 Mar 2010 05:00:00 GMT http://www.thewestmorlandgazette.co.uk/news/5049715.Smoking_is_going_out_of_fashion_in_Cumbria__says_health_chief/ http://tobacco.org/news/298255.html LIGHTING up in Cumbria is going out of fashion according to the county’s top public health expert. Speaking on the eve of tomorrow's national No Smoking Day, Professor John Ashton, NHS Cumbria’s director of public health, predicted smoking would eventually become as socially unacceptable as drink-driving is today. In 1998, around one in four Cumbrians regularly lit up. Since then, the number of people smoking in the county has dropped to approximately one in five. Over the last decade, legislation has been introduced to ban smoking in public places and more NHS support is available to help people quit. Despite the decline, around 900 people will still die in Cumbria this year from a smoking related illness – 17 deaths each week on average. This is the Lake District UK Tue, 09 Mar 2010 05:00:00 GMT http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/life/health-fitness/health/New-pictorial-warnings-on-tobacco-products/articleshow/5670807.cms http://tobacco.org/news/298251.html Come June 1 and cigarette packets and tobacco products will carry a new set of pictorial health warnings, an NGO said. Binoy Matthew of Voluntary Health Association of India (VHAI), an NGO said: "The ministry of health and family welfare March 5 notified the new pictorial health warnings which will be implemented on all tobacco products from June 1." "Since the news came just a few days before the No Smoking Day, we are very happy. VHAI had field tested these pictorial warnings in seven states in the country and found them to be most effective," he said. The Times of India India Thu, 11 Mar 2010 05:00:00 GMT http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/181812.php http://tobacco.org/news/298241.html Helping a man to stop smoking after 43 years and supporting a woman to quit cigarettes following 15 previous relapses are just two examples where a local pharmacy made the difference of a life time. This No Smoking Day on Wednesday 10 March the Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain (RPSGB) is advising the public to make a trip to their community pharmacy as the first step towards quitting for good. . . . "People come to us wanting to quit smoking for so many reasons and we have great job satisfaction in helping them achieve their desired outcomes. In my pharmacy our heaviest smoker of 70 a day quit on her second attempt and a lady who had 15 relapses previously has not smoked a cigarette for 6 months." The benefits of stopping smoking and further advice on how to get help can be obtained from your local pharmacy. Pharmacists are among the most accessible of healthcare professionals . . . Smoking cessation is the most common enhanced service provided by pharmacies in UK and many will stock the quitting aids available. Pharmacists are also increasingly being used by Primary Care Trusts as No Smoking Advisors in their local communities. Medical News TODAY UK Wed, 10 Mar 2010 05:00:00 GMT http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/top-stories/2010/03/10/ciggies-link-to-fatal-fires-115875-22099194/ http://tobacco.org/news/298239.html Cigarettes are to blame for a third of deaths in accidental house fires, a study claims. Yet fewer than half of smokers knew their habit is the biggest cause of fatal domestic fires, says a poll for today's No Smoking Day. Sir Ken Knight, the Government's Chief Fire and Rescue Adviser, said: "People need to be aware of the risks of smoking in the home." The Mirror UK Wed, 10 Mar 2010 05:00:00 GMT http://sify.com/news/new-pictorial-warnings-on-tobacco-products-from-june-1-news-health-kdktujdcbje.html http://tobacco.org/news/298223.html Come June 1 and cigarette packets and tobacco products will carry a new set of pictorial health warnings, an NGO said Wednesday. Binoy Matthew of Voluntary Health Association of India (VHAI), an NGO said: 'The ministry of health and family welfare March 5 notified the new pictorial health warnings which will be implemented on all tobacco products from June 1.' 'Since the news came just a few days before the No Smoking Day, which is today, we are very happy. VHAI had field tested these pictorial warnings in seven states in the country and found them to be most effective,' he told IANS. Sify.com India Wed, 10 Mar 2010 05:00:00 GMT http://www.portsmouth.co.uk/newshome/Smoking-ban-sees-thousands-quit.6137834.jp http://tobacco.org/news/298209.html Health leaders have hailed the smoking ban a success in the city as thousands of smokers have kicked the habit. About 56,000 adults were smokers in Portsmouth before the ban on smoking in offices and enclosed public places was introduced in July 2007. And now on national No Smoking Day, health officials have announced that since the ban that number has dropped to 45,000. It means instead of 33 out of every 100 adults being a smoker, the number is now about 27 in every 100. Katie Hovenden, NHS Portsmouth's public health smoking lead, said: 'The smoking ban has had a positive impact on the number of smokers in the city. . . . Now NHS Portsmouth is using national No Smoking Day to try to get thousands more people to quit. PompeyQuit teams will be out and about in the city today encouraging people to sign up to the stop smoking programme to get free advice and support. Portsmouth News rachel.hine@thenews.co.uk (Rachel Hine Health reporter) UK Wed, 10 Mar 2010 05:00:00 GMT http://thegovmonitor.com/world_news/britain/northern-ireland-continues-to-reduce-smoking-prevalence-25755.html http://tobacco.org/news/298205.html A review published today of the Northern Ireland Tobacco Action Plan 2003-2008 highlights achievements in reducing the prevalence of smoking in our society. Key successes are:- * Smoking prevalence has reduced amongst all key target groups as well as among the general adult population. * Introduction of the smoke-free legislation in 2007 – a major public health success, helping to protect the population from the damaging effects of tobacco smoke. * There are now over 600 smoking cessation services in a range of setting across NI, including pharmacies, GP surgeries and community centres. These services have helped nearly 65,000 set quit dates from 2005/06 – 2008/09. * The age of sale for tobacco products increased from 16 to 18 in September 2008. The Gov Monitor UK-Northern Ireland Wed, 10 Mar 2010 05:00:00 GMT http://www.metro.co.uk/showbiz/816681-duncan-bannatyne-how-my-fathers-death-made-me-stop-smoking http://tobacco.org/news/298159.html Duncan Bannatyne, 61, is one of the entrepreneurs on BBC1's hit investment show Dragons' Den. He initially became a successful businessman with his chain of nursing homes and nursery schools. Now worth about £320million, he is also president of No Smoking Day today. Why are you supporting No Smoking Day? It makes my throat itch, I cough when I walk through the smell of smoke and my dad died from emphysema caused by smoking. I don't see the need for it in our society. Projections from tobacco companies show they can only survive by recruiting new smokers. We need to prevent young people from starting to smoke. . . . You protested at British American Tobacco's AGM a couple of years ago. What was that about? It was part of a documentary about how the companies market cigarettes to some countries in Africa where people are so poor they can't afford to buy food. I went to Malawi and saw hospitals having to deal with smoking-related illnesses when they couldn't afford to do so. What would you like to see happen in Britain? I want children to stop being abused by smokers. Metro Café UK Tue, 09 Mar 2010 05:00:00 GMT http://uk.news.yahoo.com/21/20100309/thl-expert-calls-for-total-smoking-ban-d831572.html http://tobacco.org/news/298123.html More young people are being treated for smoking-related lung diseases, an expert has claimed. Anindo Banerjee, 41, respiratory specialist at Southampton General Hospital, said even though there is a ban on lighting up in public, cigarettes continue to be a major health problem and not just for older generations. He called for a total ban on cigarettes on the eve of No Smoking Day. Mr Banerjee said he is even treating a 19-year-old for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), which can cause sufferers to slowly suffocate. "Year on year we are seeing increasing numbers of patients with severe chest diseases due to smoking in which the lungs are damaged, such as COPD," he said. "This is not just death, but a slow suffocation in which patients progressively lose the ability to work, go out, or even walk around the shops because they are out of breath. Eventually they become chair or bed-bound, dependent on oxygen to keep them going." Mr Banerjee went on: "It is an old myth that COPD is a disease of old men. Depressingly, large numbers of young people smoke, and they often believe that the warnings do not apply to them. . . . The 19-year-old COPD patient is female and has been smoking since the age of 10, according to a spokesman for the hospital. The Press Association UK Tue, 09 Mar 2010 05:00:00 GMT http://www.google.com/hostednews/ukpress/article/ALeqM5jORrny3jVqOFBSlGuwjfzMObtxLQ http://tobacco.org/news/298110.html A Facebook application to help people quit smoking has been launched by a charity. WeQuit will help people and their friends challenge each other to give up nicotine as well as create rewards for success and forfeits for failure. Quitters will also be able to raise money for charity and track each other's progress by accessing www.WeQuit.co.uk/facebook and adding the application to the social networking site. The Press Association UK Tue, 09 Mar 2010 05:00:00 GMT http://www.exmouthherald.co.uk/exmouthherald/news/story.aspx?brand=EXJOnline&category=news&tBrand=devon24&tCategory=newsexh&itemid=DEED09%20Mar%202010%2016%3A12%3A29%3A203 http://tobacco.org/news/298108.html ROYAL Marines at Lympstone are joining forces with NHS Devon to highlight annual No Smoking Day, March 10, to encourage people to quit smoking. Neilson McCready, chief petty officer and pharmacy manager for the Royal Marines, said: "It is great to be working with NHS Devon on No Smoking Day, we are keen to encourage current and future marines to quit smoking. "Marines who smoke have reduced fitness levels and take longer to heal from injuries. "We follow the same techniques and treatments as the NHS and have a team of six medics who run clinics and individual sessions at Lympstone. "The work of a marine is demanding and they must be at their best physical fitness, smoking greatly reduces this." Exmouth Herald devon.editorial@archant.co.uk UK Tue, 09 Mar 2010 05:00:00 GMT