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[UK, USA] GAGE: (blog) Poorly conducted research is a gift to the opponents of tobacco control
A study implicates genes in the failure of taxation to get heavy smokers to quit, but the findings are far from clearcut . . . Tobacco control research is under huge amounts of scrutiny from those trying to undermine it. Poorly conducted experiments wher
Jan 16, 2013
The Guardian (uk)
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Jan 16, 2013 07:04
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[UK, USA] E-Cigs Putting Dent in Tobacco Tax Money
the electronic cigarette industry in the United States is growing at such a rate that some estimates suggest nearly 20% of all cigarette smokers in that country will have completely switched to e-cigs by the year 2030. Here is the quandary:
Jan 14, 2013
Burton Mail (uk)
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Jan 17, 2013 08:08
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[USA] For Americans Under 50, Stark Findings on Health
The United States had the second-highest death rate from the most common form of heart disease, the kind that causes heart attacks, and the second-highest death rate from lung disease, a legacy of high smoking rates in past decades.
Jan 10, 2013
New York Times
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Jan 10, 2013 08:31
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[Australia, UK, USA] Impact of plain packaging of tobacco products on smoking in adults and children: an elicitation of international experts' estimates
this study shows that tobacco control experts felt the most likely outcomes would be a reduction in smoking prevalence in adults, and a greater reduction in the numbers of children trying smoking, although there was substantial variability in the estimate
Jan 9, 2013
BioMed Central (uk)
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Jan 11, 2013 11:45
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[UK, USA] Passive smoking increases risk of severe dementia, according to study in China
An international study by scientists in China, the UK and USA has found a link between passive smoking and syndromes of dementia. The study of nearly 6,000 people in five provinces in China reveals that people exposed to passive smoking have a significa
Jan 9, 2013
ScienceDaily
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Jan 10, 2013 08:38
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[Iraq, USA] 'Cigar Marine' offers advice to recruits
His line of premium cigars helps raise money for the Injured Marine Semper Fi Fund
Jan 8, 2013
USA Today
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Mar 19, 2013 02:10
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[USA] Tobacco Industry Tracking Database
bibliographic citations, abstracts, and detailed indexing for more than thirty thousand articles, news stories, and other materials regarding the tobacco industry; clean indoor air campaigns; and other tobacco policy issues.
Jan 8, 2013
Americans for Nonsmokers' Rights (ANR)
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Mar 15, 2013 13:21
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[UK, USA, Zimbabwe] Farmers oppose tobacco ban
TOBACCO farmers in Mhondoro communal lands have described the World Health Organisation’s proposed ban on tobacco production as hypocritical and meant to harm economies not on good terms with countries such as Britain and the United States.
Jan 8, 2013
Zimbabwe Herald (zw)
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Jan 8, 2013 01:32
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[USA] ERB: Australia Hopes To Tax Smokers Into Quitting: Would It Work Here?
It’s one of the reasons, as I’ve noted before, that I admired Russian Finance Minister Alexei Kudrin’s openness about the correlation between revenue and sin taxes. Kudrin famously encouraged Russians to smoke and drink in order to boost the economy, say
Jan 6, 2013
Forbes
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Jan 7, 2013 04:48
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[USA] Socioeconomic, demographic and smoking-related correlates of the use of potentially reduced exposure to tobacco products in a national sample
Because there is little evidence to suggest that PREPs are less harmful that other tobacco products, their marketing as harm-minimising products should be regulated. Smokers, in particular those who are younger, have a lower socioeconomic status, and are
Jan 4, 2013
Tobacco Control
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Jan 6, 2013 13:20