Cigarette Sales Decreasing -- but Other Tobacco Product Popularity Increasing
Cigarette smoking and sales have been on the decline over the last decade in the United States -- but health-care providers and other concerned citizens shouldn't be too quick to celebrate, says a study from the Harvard School of Public Health. According to the research, 30 percent of the drop in cigarette sales may be offset by the sale of other tobacco products, including snuff, cigars, and roll-your-own products. The study -- the first to examine concurrent cigarette and other tobacco product sales -- appears in the June 11, 2008, issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association.
Read the full article at: http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/news/press-releases/2008-releases/decline-in-cigarette-smoking-in-offset-by-use-of-other-tobacco-products.html
Thursday, July 24, 2008
Monday, July 21, 2008
Two Questions Can ID Youth At Risk of Smoking
Researchers say youth at risk of becoming smokers can be identified by asking two simple questions: "Would it be easy for you to get a cigarette?" and "Do you have friends who smoke?"
To read more go to:
http://www.jointogether.org/news/research/summaries/2008/two-questions-can-id-youth-at.html
To read more go to:
http://www.jointogether.org/news/research/summaries/2008/two-questions-can-id-youth-at.html
Green City Virginia Beach
Join me in congratulating our coalition members Laura Wood Habr at Croc's 19th Street Bistro and Matt Falvey at Hot Tuna in their success in having Virginia Beach designated the first Green City in Virginia Beach. Check out the restaurants and support our smoke free, green establishments. For more details go to:
http://www.virginia.org/site/features.asp?FeatureID=486
http://www.virginia.org/site/features.asp?FeatureID=486
Thursday, July 17, 2008
Join Together
Secondhand smoke exposure plummets, CDC finds. To read more go to:
http://www.jointogether.org/news/research/summaries/2008/secondhand-smoke-exposure.html?print=t
http://www.jointogether.org/news/research/summaries/2008/secondhand-smoke-exposure.html?print=t
Tuesday, July 15, 2008
Massachusetts Raises Cigarette Tax to Help Fund Health Care Law
Gov. Deval Patrick (D-Mass.) signed a bill that raises the state's cigarette tax by $1, a move that is expected to bring in $174 million in revenues "to help cover the cost of the state's landmark health care law," reports the Associated Press.
http://www.rwjf.org/coverage/digest.jsp?id=8156&c=EMC-ND132
http://www.rwjf.org/coverage/digest.jsp?id=8156&c=EMC-ND132
Iowa Smoking Ban Takes Effect
The Iowa Department of Health began enforcing a new law that prohibits smoking in restaurants, bars, workplaces and other public areas statewide, the Britt News-Tribune reports.
http://www.rwjf.org/publichealth/digest.jsp?id=8115&c=EMC-ND141
http://www.rwjf.org/publichealth/digest.jsp?id=8115&c=EMC-ND141
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