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[Denmark, Finland, Greenland, Iceland, Norway, Sweden] Nordic Countries Aim to Ban Smoking

The Welfare Committee of the Nordic Council, chaired by Icelandic MP Siv Friðleifsdóttir, announced in Helsinki yesterday that they want the Nordic countries to be smoke free by 2040. The committee will also work towards a 10 percent reduction in alcohol
Iceland Review (is)
added Nov 2, 2012 13:46
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[Europe] Denmark to enforce smokeless tobacco ban

Government caves on EU's snus restrictions
Copenhagen Post (dk)
added Sep 10, 2012 11:07
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[Denmark] Nine out of ten smokers would fire up a child's cigarette

A thought-provoking new hidden camera video (see it below) shows two girls, one nine and the other ten years old, approaching random smokers on the square outside of the main train station in Aarhus and asking for either a light or a cigarette. In the vi
Copenhagen Post (dk)
added Oct 4, 2012 15:30
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[Denmark] NORMARK: Smoking bans and socially incompetent Danes

As I see it, smoking laws to protect others against second-hand smoke only make Danes more dysfunctional than they already are. Ironically, that’s why Danes welcomed them. The new smoking laws stand to face more resistance, since they go against our prac
Copenhagen Post (dk)
added Sep 6, 2012 15:34
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[Denmark] Mortality: H.I.V.-Positive Smokers Lose More Years to Tobacco Than to the Virus, a Study Says

H.I.V. patients who obtain good treatment but who smoke lose more years of life to tobacco than to the virus, a new Danish study has found. . . . A 35-year-old H.I.V. patient who did not smoke was likely to live to age 78, while one who smoked was lik
New York Times
added Jan 1, 2013 11:38
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[Denmark, Finland, Norway, Sweden] Local Nordic tobacco interests collaborated with multinational companies to maintain a united front and undermine tobacco control policies -- Hiilamo and Glantz 22 (2): 154

Local tobacco companies worked with multinational companies to undermine tobacco control in distant and small Nordic markets because of concern that pioneering policies initiated in Nordic countries would spread to bigger market areas. Claims by the local
Tobacco Control
added Feb 16, 2013 13:07
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[Denmark] Copenhagen aims to be smoke-free by 2025

A new vision by Copenhagen’s deputy mayor of health was lauded by some but criticised by others for being unrealistic and unjust Copenhagen council has introduced an ambitious plan that will have the city smoke-free by 2025
Copenhagen Post (dk)
added Aug 22, 2012 13:32
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[Denmark] New smoking law attacked from both sides

While the opposition argues the government's new smoking law is far too strict, anti-smoking charities say it does not go far enough
Copenhagen Post (dk)
added Apr 23, 2012 00:00
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[Denmark, Tanzania] Smoking leads to false negatives in TB test

A recent study conducted in Tanzania and Denmark found that cigarette smoking caused false negative and indeterminate interferon gamma release assay results for tuberculosis testing.
Vaccine News
added Dec 29, 2012 12:59
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[Denmark] Smoking More Lethal than HIV

* Smokers with HIV had substantially higher rates of all-cause and non-AIDS mortality than HIV-positive non-smokers, with more than 60% of deaths among HIV patients associated with smoking. * Note that HIV-infected smokers lost more life-years to smokin
MedPage Today
added Dec 19, 2012 06:11
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