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1 hr ago | Jerusalem Post

Teacher smoking rooms to close in 200 schools

In Education Ministry pilot, these schools are to offer smoking-cessation courses for those who want to kick the habit.

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Related Topix: Medicine

3 hrs ago | Room 8

E-cig - The Next Give Up Smoking Cigarette smoking Product

It also helps to find out individual suggestions to assure you're acquiring originating from a dependable and reputable ourite-smoke brand.

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Related Topix: Medicine, Health

7 hrs ago | Free Republic

PHOTO: Anti-Tobacco/Anti-Smoking Sign, circa 1915; Zion, Illinois

Notice the name of the town? They had a big court case a few years ago about the cross on city seal which was on the town water tower.

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Related Topix: Medicine, Health, Zion, IL

11 hrs ago | Examiner.com

Learn How To Quit Smoking The Easy Way

It can be difficult to figure out exactly how to quit smoking when there is so much pressure and influence to keep at it.

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Related Topix: Medicine, Health

15 hrs ago | Cravenherald.co.uk

Salterforth Primary School pupils take a stand against smoking

Salterforth Primary School pupils Sarah Moore and Joshua Barrett are urging adults not to smoke near children's play areas Pupils from Salterforth Primary School are among several students from across Pendle who have designed signs with hard-hitting anti-smoking messages to make smokers think twice about lighting up near Pendle play areas.

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Related Topix: Health, Medicine, Lancashire County, England, United Kingdom, Family, Kids

16 hrs ago | Arutz Sheva Israel News

Education Ministry to Launch anti-Smoking Campaign

Currently, many schools across Israel have a smoking room designated for the use of staff and students, and starting next September, the Education Ministry will gradually introduce 200 schools that have abolished smoking altogether, by mutual consent of parents, students and teachers.

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Related Topix: Medicine, Health

Sat May 25, 2013

Star Tribune

That smoking room may not be smoke-free

Staying in a nonsmoking room in a hotel that allows smoking elsewhere does not prevent exposure to tobacco smoke, a study reports.

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Related Topix: Medicine, Health

Fiji Village

Smoking to be banned in schools and tertiary institutes

Schools or tertiary institutes and amusement centers are amongst the public places where smoking will be prohibited from the first of July.

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Related Topix: Medicine, Health

The New Zealand Herald

Smoking used to 'reward' patients

Patients in closed mental health wards at Waitemata District Health Board are allowed out for cigarettes as a reward for good behaviour, a patient alleges.

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Related Topix: Medicine, Health, Nursing

Roseville Review

Letter: Wise up and snuff out smoking

If our governor read the warnings from his commissioner of public health about the dangers from smoking and second-hand smoke to us citizens, the tax on cigarettes not only would be raised significantly more but smoking be would banned as a threat to public health.

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Related Topix: Medicine, Health

Star999.com

Mass. Advocates Want To Snuff Out Higher Premiums For Smokers

You've heard all the campaigns and statistics: Smoking Kills. It's the leading cause of preventable death in the U.S. And it's expensive.

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Related Topix: Medicine, Health, Massachusetts, Massachusetts Government, Health Insurance, Deval Patrick, US Governors

CiteULike

Active smoking and secondhand smoke increase breast cancer risk: the...

Active smoking and secondhand smoke increase breast cancer risk: the report of the Canadian Expert Panel on Tobacco Smoke and Breast Cancer Risk Four authoritative reviews of active smoking and breast cancer have been published since 2000, but only one considered data after 2002 and conclusions varied.

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Related Topix: Medicine, Health

Fri May 24, 2013

Mental Help Net

Parents Underestimate Influence Over Teens' Substance Abuse: Survey

About one in five parents think they have little control over whether their teens take up smoking, drinking or illicit drug use, a new U.S. government survey finds.

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Related Topix: Drug Addiction (Substance Abuse), Health, Drugs, Medicine

BruDirect

Rise In E-Cigarette Smoking Cause For Concern

Brunei Darussalam is experiencing a growing trend in the number of smokers who are "vaping" with their illegal electronic cigarettes, commonly known as 'e-vap' or 'e-cig', that utilise liquid bases such as propylene glycol or vegetable glycerine mixed with small amounts of nicotine, as well as food-grade flavouring.

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Related Topix: Medicine, Nicotine, NicoDerm, Nicotine (generic)

KTVN Reno

Bill would treat e-cigarettes like other tobacco

Democratic Sen. Ellen Corbett of Hayward says some of the vapors emitted by the e-cigarettes may pose health risks.

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Related Topix: Medicine, Health, California

Eastern Wake News

Pro-smoking bill doesna t make deadline

Knightdale mayor Russell Killen speaks against House Bill 150 at a Wake County Mayors Association press conference in March.

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Related Topix: Knightdale, NC, Medicine, Health, Wake County, NC

C-Health

Prevent diabetes by smoking pot?

Montrealers participated in a march for the legalization of marijuana, Saturday, May 4, 2013, in Montreal.

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Related Topix: Drugs, Marijuana, Medicine, Diabetes, Health, Insulin (generic), Humulin, Novolin, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Hospital Administration, Healthcare Industry

The Winnipeg Free Press

NDP expands ban on sale of tobacco products

THE sale of tobacco products will be banned in health-care facilities and pharmacies, including drugstores and large retail outlets such as Safeway and Superstore, as of May 31 on World No Tobacco Day.

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Related Topix: Medicine, Health, Lung Cancer

KSDK-TV Saint Louis

Young, non-smoking women being afflicted with lung cancer

Samantha Mixon looks and feels great, but she is fighting stage four lung cancer and all the assumptions that people make about her disease.

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Related Topix: Health, Lung Cancer, Medicine

Oxford Times

Larger than life landlord calls time

HE fought the smoking ban and reputedly fell out with Michael Winner, but now legendary landlord Gerry Stonhill has retired.

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Related Topix: Life, Food, Dining, Oxfordshire County, England, United Kingdom, Medicine, Health