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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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[UK-Scotland] Car kids smoking ban plea

South of Scotland MSP Jim Hume is planning to launch a campaign to ban smoking in cars when children are present. Australia, Canada and South Africa are among those countries who have already banned smoking in vehicles.
ITV Network Limited (uk)
added Apr 3, 2013 09:28
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[UK-Scotland] Tobacco Control Strategy - Creating a Tobacco-Free Generation

The strategy sets out a 5 year plan for action across the key themes of health inequalities, prevention, protection and cessation. Key actions include: setting 2034 as a target date for reducing smoking prevalence to 5%; a pilot of the schools-based ASSI
Scottish Executive (uk)
added Apr 3, 2013 03:08
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[UK-Scotland] MSP Jim Hume plans to ban adults smoking in cars with children

Jim Hume, a list MSP for South of Scotland, says similar laws have been successfully introduced in countries such as Australia, Canada and South Africa. He said outlawing smoking at the wheel would stop children suffering passive smoking on the way to s
STV (uk)
added Apr 1, 2013 09:36
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[UK] Simon Calder: No smoke but plenty of ire

Ridgway said I should have commended his airline for jettisoning the ridiculous notion that it was acceptable to have naked flames lighting toxic substances to produce fumes that were then inhaled by everyone on board the plane. "Virgin Atlantic was the
The Independent (uk)
added Mar 30, 2013 15:40
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[Maryland] Senate votes to ban smoking in cars with kids

The Maryland Senate last week passed a bill that would prohibit drivers and passengers in vehicles from smoking when a child younger than 8 is present. The Senate passed the bill 27-20, the second year in a row the chamber has voted to support it, givin
Southern Maryland Newspapers
added Mar 27, 2013 15:07
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[Connecticut] Red light cameras, ban on smoking in cars die in committee

Guerrera said the legislation raised questions over what age it becomes appropriate to have kids inhaling second-hand smoke. “It didn’t make sense. Why is it okay to smoke with a 7-year-old kid in the car and not a six-year-old?” he asked.
New Haven (CT) Register
added Mar 27, 2013 15:06
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[California] Anti-tobacco crusade closes motorhome-based CigaRV business

A California State Board of Equalization directive that apparently went unnoticed in a BOE newsletter threatens to close a popular San Francisco Bay Area mobile tobacco business that operates out of a classic GMC motor home. Jack Grant’s 26-foot-long mob
Examiner.com (National)
added Mar 27, 2013 10:31
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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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[Australia] Coffee Can Help Truckers Stay Safe on the Road: Study

There was a link between heavy smoking and crash risk, but this did not remain after accounting for other factors, according to the study, which was published online March 19 in the British Medical Journal.
HealthDay [HealthScout]
added Mar 20, 2013 15:24
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