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[UK] New campaign hammers out stark warning over impact of second-hand smoking on St Helens children (From St Helens Star)
Today (Tuesday, June 4) a new Smokefree Homes and Cars campaign aims to highlight the hazards second-hand smoke can cause in enclosed spaces. St Helens Council is to reinforce national TV and radio adverts that show smoking by a window or the backdoor i
Jun 4, 2013
St Helens Star (uk)
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Jun 4, 2013 02:24
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[UK, USA] £4,000 a year: The cost to employers of smokers' cigarette breaks, illness cover and health care costs
Smokers cost £4,000 a year more to employ than non-smokers, a study has claimed. ... According to NICE, it is not unlawful for UK employers to advertise jobs as only available to non-smokers, and employers can deduct time spent smoking at work and not e
Jun 4, 2013
The Independent (uk)
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Jun 3, 2013 23:56
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[Ireland] UK ‘could lose tough reputation on tobacco controls’
Action on Smoking and Health (ASH) said that there is a danger that Ireland will “snatch the crown” after Irish officials said that they will force tobacco manufacturers to use plain boxes emblazoned with graphic images under tough new laws.
Jun 1, 2013
Yorkshire Post (uk)
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Jun 3, 2013 23:43
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[Ireland] UK ‘could lose tough reputation on tobacco controls’
Action on Smoking and Health (ASH) said that there is a danger that Ireland will “snatch the crown” after Irish officials said that they will force tobacco manufacturers to use plain boxes emblazoned with graphic images under tough new laws.
Jun 1, 2013
Yorkshire Post (uk)
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Jun 3, 2013 23:43
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[UK] Health groups dismayed by news 'big tobacco' funded rightwing thinktanks
The Adam Smith Institute (ASI) and the Institute of Economic Affairs (IEA) have received tens of thousands of pounds in funding from leading tobacco companies. Their admissions have dismayed health groups, which question the degree to which both organis
Jun 2, 2013
The Observer (uk)
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Jun 3, 2013 23:42
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[UK] Michael Douglas, cancer and the growing popularity of oral sex
While head and neck cancers have been declining since the 1970s along with smoking rates, scientists have noticed an increase in a particular type of oral cancer. Known as “oral squamous cell carcinoma”, it is linked to the same strains of HPV known to ca
Jun 3, 2013
The Guardian (uk)
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Jun 3, 2013 12:19
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[UK] Michael Douglas says cunnilingus gives you cancer – but is he right?
the evidence suggests he wasn't quite right to do so. Most people rid themselves of HPV within a few years of catching it – but smoking disrupts this process, meaning the virus remains for far longer in smokers than non-smokers, increasing their risk of H
Jun 2, 2013
The Guardian (uk)
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Jun 3, 2013 12:13
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UK investor puts pressure on Japan Tobacco over returns
four proposals from The Children’s Investment Fund will be put to a majority vote – and each will almost certainly be rejected, as they were last year. Not that this will bother TCI, the UK-based investment group, which expects to make a similar set of p
Jun 2, 2013
Financial Times (uk)
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Jun 2, 2013 12:15
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[Sweden, UK] Many doctors deem nicotine as riskiest component of cigarette
The survey, commissioned by British American Tobacco, involved administering an online survey ... The survey findings show that a substantial proportion of GPs (40%) believe nicotine to be the first or second riskiest component of cigarettes, incorrectl
Jun 1, 2013
DNA India (in)
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Jun 1, 2013 12:21
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[UK] City councillors poised to stub out smoking ads on Bristol taxis
COUNCILLORS are expected to ban an advertising slogan on the side of taxis in Bristol which says "smoking allowed". The city council has been approached by an advertising agency which is organising a campaign in support of smoking. Council officers are
May 30, 2013
This is Bristol (UK)
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May 31, 2013 13:39