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Americans Miss Mark on Many Healthy Behaviors

About one in five adults are current smokers, although nearly half of them had attempted to quit smoking within the previous year, the researchers wrote in the study published in the CDC's Vital and Health Statistics.
MedPage Today
added May 25, 2013 13:27
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[California] UCR Today: Getting Help to Live Tobacco-Free, One Day at a Time

With the entire University of California system going smoke and tobacco free on January 2, 2014, Slater is one of many UCR staff, students and faculty who are taking advantage of services offered through campus Wellness programs to help them kick the habi
University of California Riverside
added May 24, 2013 16:23
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[Germany] Electronic Cigarettes – An Overview (PDF)

The German Cancer Research Center welcomes the suggestion made by the European Commission to regulate electronic cigarettes as medicinal products. For one thing, regulation as medicinal products guarantees good product quality and for another, the produc
German Cancer Research Center
added May 23, 2013 22:25
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Former Smoker Who Appeared In Anti-Smoking Commericial Is Honored By CDC

Mary Bubala explains you may not know her name but you've likely heard her voice. Her name is Terrie Hall, a former smoker who's known for appearing in anti-smoking TV ads. Hall is being honored by the CDC with a special award for her courage in tellin
WJZ 13 (Baltimore, MD)
added May 23, 2013 22:01
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[Wisconsin] Smokers hotline sees uptick in calls due to national ad campaign

Wisconsin's Tobacco Quit Line has seen a surge of calls since March, when a national campaign called Tips from Former Smokers started.
Superior (WI) Daily Telegram
added May 23, 2013 13:22
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Men's Journal The Ex-Smoker's Vitamin of Choice

those who also popped a supplement containing gamma-tocopherol, a particular type of vitamin E, saw an additional 1.3 percent boost in function. That extra 1.3 percent may seem negligible, but it actually translates to big improvements in heart health, s
Men’s Journal
added May 23, 2013 12:06
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Health Behaviors of Adults: United States, 2008–2010

This chapter provides an overview of key findings related to the prevalence of cigarette smoking among U.S. adults, including both frequency (daily compared with nondaily) and amount (usual number of cigarettes smoked), age of smoking initiation, a
National Center for Health Statistics
added May 23, 2013 03:17
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CDC to doctors: Help your patients quit smoking!

The campaign – "Talk With Your Doctor" – also encourages clinicians to ask patients whether they smoke and to offer them assistance giving up cigarettes. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, in partnership with several national physicians' org
Los Angeles Times
added May 23, 2013 02:54
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CDC Urges Smokers to “Talk With Your Doctor” About Quitting

Bill is one of the participants in the CDC’s “Tips from Former Smokers” national ad campaign, which today rolled out a “Talk with Your Doctor” initiative. The initiative is intended both to motivate tobacco users to look to their health care providers fo
Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids (CTFK)
added May 24, 2013 12:08
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Supplement / Death and taxes: using the latter to reduce the former

Taxation has become a First Principle of tobacco control worldwide, hailed by the World Bank's 1999 ‘bible’ of international tobacco control, Curbing the Epidemic: Governments and the Economics of Tobacco Control,1 and embodied in Article 6 of the Framewo
Tobacco Control
added May 23, 2013 13:41
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