Hospital Appeal Over Smoking

The Southern Health and Social Care Trust has appealed to the public to keep buildings and entrances at Craigavon Area Hospital smoke free. Dr Gillian Rankin, Director of Acute Services for the Trust explained: “Smoking at the front of the hospital exposes people entering the building to tobacco smoke and causes smoke to enter the Hospital building, impacting on patient care. “Whilst visitors accept and follow regulations that no smoking is allowed within hospital buildings, there are problems arising from people smoking Monte Carlo cigarettes close to hospital entrances and windows.” Dr Rankin added: “We appeal to everyone coming to our hospitals to help us protect patients, visitors and staff from the harmful effects of tobacco smoke. If you smoke please use the smoking shelter provided which is located directly outside the Hospital.

Colin Farrell's cigarette break-up

Colin Farrell wrote a "break-up" letter to tobacco when he gave up smoking Bond cigarettes. The 'Fright Night' actor stopped smoking when he turned 34 last year and admits he did nothing but consume cigarettes the day before he quit the deadly habit. He said: "I gave up the Sunday before I turned 34. I spent the whole day with a packet of cigarettes. I didn't really see anyone and with every cigarette I smoked. I smoked with as much awareness as I could. And then I wrote a little letter to tobacco. "It said the usual, 'I remember the first time we met and all that we've been through together. That time you helped me through such-and-such a situation...' and yada-yadda.

Flavored Tobacco Ban in Port Orange

The bright purple package behind the convenience store counter looked as if it held some kind of sugary treat.

But the familiar Surgeon General warning at the bottom of the wrapper indicated the product inside could cause much more than cavities.

The five "honey berry" cigars were among a growing array of flavored Kiss cigarettes products that critics say are luring underage teens into smoking.

Health and Tobacco Smoke

Few public health campaigns have been as successful as that which is determined to see New Zealand free of all tobacco smoke by 2025. It may be an aspirational goal, with little chance of absolute success (how, for example, will visitors to New Zealand who smoke Marlboro cigarettes be prevented from doing so?) but in terms of improvement to the national health, there can be little argument.

EC anti-smoking Directive

The directive has stimulated 24,000 from Poland letters on the issue from a total of 85,000 - the biggest amount of letters devoted to one topic ever received by the European Commission in its history.

The Revision of Directive 2001/37/EC on the manufacture, presentation and sale of tobacco products requires that all smoking-related items sold in the EU must at least show the written health warning, bans misleading expressions such as “light” or low-tar”, bans tobacco for oral use.

The directive also obliges manufacturers to inform member states of the ingredients they use while setting the maximum levels of tar, nicotine and carbon monoxide in Glamour cigarettes.

New Anti-Smoking Campaign

A hacking cougher with emphysema and a guy using a hand-held electronic device to talk through a tracheotomy hole are among the powerful images in the state’s newest anti-smoking television campaign.

The 30-second ads, which began airing Monday and run through Sept. 25, were highlighted Tuesday at a news conference at Roswell Park Cancer Institute to announce the effort to persuade smokers to quit.

Quakes Trigger Smoking habits

Cantabrians are turning to Camel cigarettes to cope with earthquake stress. Canterbury Smokefree co-ordinator Vivien Daley said Canterbury calls to Quitline had dropped from 14 per cent of the total to 9 per cent since the February quake.

She said feedback from General Practitioners (GPs) and quit-smoking organisations showed more people had started smoking again.

"This is very worrying but an understandable trend given what we've all been through in the last nine months," she said.

"For smokers, the memory of the way they used to handle crises by smoking was triggered by the enormity of the earthquakes and the effect they have had on our lives."

Daley said smoking was expensive and people would probably regret starting again.

For Young People, Hookah is Cool

Sitting in a cloud of cinnamon-scented smoke on the patio of House of Hummus in Murfreesboro last week, Nick Mackie chatted with a group of friends while absent-mindedly surfing the Web on his laptop.

Mackie, House of Hummus’ manager, and his friends were smoking flavored Al Fakher tobacco through a traditional Middle Eastern hookah — a glass chamber filled with water that is usually a couple of feet long. Tobacco on top of the hookah is heated by burning coals. Smokers inhale the tobacco smoke through a hose that is attached to the hookah.