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Medical: Secondhand smoke remains unfiltered threat

Now, researchers at Dartmouth University report they've come up with a prototype sensor sensitive and compact enough to use just about anywhere.
Scripps Howard News Service
added Apr 3, 2013 19:06
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[China] Here's A Chinese Toddler Smoking A Cigarette

Expat Shanghai blogger Hart Hagerty was sitting in Fuxing Park the other day when she saw something shocking: "My jaw dropped when his pajama-clad mother handed the tot a cigarette… then lit it for him … then smiled on as he smoked it… then laughed as h
Business Insider
added Apr 2, 2013 19:38
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[Pennsylvania] Second Hand Smoke’s Effect On Children Focus Of Health Department Campaign

The City Health Department is launching a new multi-media campaign to reduce the effects of second-hand smoke on children. About 1/5 of Philadelphia’s low-income kids are exposed to second hand smoke. The campaign, to both educate smokers and direct the
KYW Newsradio-1060 KYW-TV CBS 3 (Philadelphia, PA)
added Apr 2, 2013 15:39
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[South Dakota] Parents React To New Tobacco-Free Parks Policy

On Monday, the City of Sioux Falls is holding a meeting to introduce a new tobacco-free city park policy. The city says the new policy bans the use of tobacco at all city playgrounds and parks where youth activities are taking place.
KELO 1320 AM / 107.9 FM (Sioux Falls, SD)
added Apr 1, 2013 08:51
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Smoke-free Foster Care: Policy Options and the Duty to Protect / A Policy Options Brief (PDF)

This issue brief examines policy options for providing a safe smoke-free environment for foster children — both in foster homes and in vehicles transporting foster children. It describes the risks of secondhand smoke to children in foster care, presents
Public Health Law Center (William Mitchell College of Law)
added Mar 27, 2013 05:19
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Overview of U.S. Smoke-free Foster Care Regulations (PDF)

This table summarizes state smoke-free foster care regulations in effect as of December 2012. For hyperlinks to the regulations below, see the Public Health Law Center’s publication, Smoke-free Foster Care: Policy Options and the Duty to Protect (2d ed.,
Public Health Law Center (William Mitchell College of Law)
added Mar 27, 2013 05:15
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[Canada] Parents' Divorce May Up Kids' Odds for Smoking as Adults

Men who were younger than 18 when their parents divorced were 48 percent more likely to have smoked at least 100 or more cigarettes than men whose parents did not divorce. For women, the risk was 39 percent higher, according to the researchers from the U
HealthDay [HealthScout]
added Mar 25, 2013 20:29
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[UK, Ohio] SULLIVAN: My father, the smoker

To grow up with a self-destructive parent is a special kind of torture. The author of Blood Horses recalls an anxious childhood, and a life cut short
The Guardian (uk)
added Mar 25, 2013 11:00
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[New York] Arrests for tobacco smuggling made in Niagara County Jail

TOWN OF LOCKPORT – A Niagara Falls woman attempted to smuggle tobacco to a Niagara County Jail inmate by hiding it inside a balloon tucked into the pocket of her 4-year-old son, sheriff’s deputies said.
Buffalo (NY) News
added Mar 24, 2013 19:43
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[UK] Deidre Daily Drama: My house stinks of smoke... how can I stop Dad lighting up?

It can be an addiction with difficult withdrawal symptoms. More and more places have a no smoking policy which helps. There is also a lot of support these days. These are outlined in my leaflet Giving Up Smoking? which I’m emailing you.
The Sun (uk)
added Mar 24, 2013 19:42
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