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[UK] Child labour rampant in tobacco industry
Child labour in tobacco is rampant and on the increase... Evidence from three continents shows how children aged 14 and under are kept out of school and employed in hard and sometimes harmful physical labour to produce the tobacco leaf that fills cigare
Jun 25, 2018
The Guardian (uk)
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Jun 26, 2018 21:28
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[UK] NHS staff smokers cost health service £200m a year with cigarette breaks and sick days, report finds
There are more than 73,000 smokers among the 1.2 million NHS employees in England and the lost working hours from their combined smoking breaks add up to £99m a year, the Royal College of Physicians’ tobacco advisory group has said. Though smoking break
Jun 26, 2018
The Independent (uk)
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Jun 26, 2018 21:25
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[UK] Help smokers quit, doctors tell hospitals
The NHS’s failure to help smokers quit is “as negligent as not treating cancer”, top doctors say. Every smoker who goes into hospital should be treated for tobacco dependency alongside any other ailments, according to a report by the Royal College of Ph
Jun 26, 2018
Times Of London (uk)
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Jun 26, 2018 21:22
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[UK] Hiding in plain sight: Treating tobacco dependency in the NHS
The principle of justice requires that we offer smokers help to quit smoking; failure to so implies that smokers’ health is less important than that of other patients. Failing to provide help to quit smoking while delivering other similarly or less cost
Jun 26, 2018
Royal College of Physicians (uk)
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Jun 26, 2018 21:21
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[Australia] Anti-smoking advocates urge governments to plug gaps in smoke-free laws
Heart Foundation and Quit Victoria are urging all employers, especially those whose staff work outdoors, to follow Eastlink's lead and introduce smoke-free policies and state governments to plug gaps in existing smoke-free legislation, which leave many p
Jun 27, 2018
Sydney Morning Herald (au)
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Jun 26, 2018 21:10
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Do smoking bans lead to less or more smoking in the home?
The findings of the study indicate that children’s SHS exposure at home did not increase after the introduction of public smoking bans....additional studies are required to assess the impact of public smoking bans on children’s SHS exposure at home. Furth
Jun 26, 2018
BioMed Central (uk)
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Jun 26, 2018 20:47
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Cancer prevalence among flight attendants compared to the general population
Many flight attendants working today were also exposed to high levels of secondhand tobacco smoke before in-flight smoking bans were implemented. The long-term health effects of this mix of occupational exposures, including with regard to cancers which de
Jun 26, 2018
BioMed Central (uk)
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Jun 26, 2018 20:45
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Flight attendants may have higher cancer rates
Scientists have long suspected that flight attendants’ cancer risk might be affected by their exposure to naturally occurring radiation at high altitudes, shift work, time zone changes that disrupt sleep cycles, and poor cabin air quality, researchers no
Jun 26, 2018
Reuters
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Jun 26, 2018 20:42
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Did you know?
A 2015 60 Minutes/Vanity Fair survey found that smoking is not just among the most unhealthy habits, but also the most irritating. The survey, conducted by telephone among a random sample of 1,019 adults across the United States, found that 32 percent of
Jun 26, 2018
Warrensburg (MO) Daily Star-Journal
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Jun 26, 2018 20:25
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What Is Heat-But-Not-Burn Tobacco? Are so-called modified risk technologies safer than traditional cigarettes?
one of the reasons why new smoking technologies like this don't always catch fire (pun intended) among smokers looking to quit or reduce how much they smoke is because it's challenging to replace the look, feel and experience of smoking a conventional cig
Jun 25, 2018
U.S. News & World Report
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Jun 26, 2018 16:05