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- A smoker that just sees someone smoking may abandon their quest to kick the habit, according to new research conducted at Duke University Medical Center featured online in Psychopharmacology.
- A dissolvable tobacco product is being test marketed in Columbus, OH. "Cold, fresh and refreshing" is how it is being promoted. The dissolving tobacco product is little orbs, sticks and tiny pouches of tobacco that dissolve in the mouth.
- Smoking hand-rolled cigarettes raises the odds of developing lung cancer, according to a study of Norwegian lung cancer patients presented at the World Conference on Lung Cancer in Seoul, Korea.
- 2008's global economic crisis is forcing some US smokers to increase their smoking habit or delay quitting, according to a new survey commissioned by the American Legacy Foundation. Harris Interactive conducted the online poll.
* 38 percent of lower-income smokers felt this way
* 31 percent of women agreed
* 17 percent of men concurred - $375 million was added to the global anti-smoking campaign by New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg ($250 million) and Microsoft founder Bill Gates ($125 million) in July 2008.
- Billionaire Mayor Michael Bloomberg, an ex-smoker, on August 15, 2006 announced plans to donate $125 million to help the world stop smoking: Worldwide Stop Smoking Initiative. "Tobacco is the world's leading killer. . . it doesn't just hurt smokers, it also harms and can kill people around them," Bloomberg said.
- The struggle continues. . . Heather Crowe champions Canada's anti-smoking battle even after her death. She recieved the Canadian Public Health Association's 2007 National Public Health Hero award, posthumously.
- Popular print ads end. RJ Reynolds Tobacco Company said that it will no longer advertise in newspapers or consumer magazines starting in 2008. Its brands include Camel, whose advertisements use colorful cartoons; past ads include hip, edgy characters like Joe Camel. These ads have caused a firestorm of controversy because critics claim they target young, underaged kids.
* Pennsylvania, New York, Washington, California, Connecticut, Illinois, Ohio and Maryland are suing RJ Reynolds over their Camel ad in for Rolling Stone. They say it violated the landmark 1998 tobacco settlement and the pledge not to use cartoons in cigarette ads. - War on smoking. . . A squad of 8 full-time "smoking police" has been recruited for £90,000 by NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde (Scotland) to get people to stub out their cigarettes on NHS grounds.
- The 'Winston Man,' Alan Landers (Allan Levine), a former cigarette pitchman turned anti-smoking advocate, died of cancer. He was 68.
- Dr. Howard Engle, a Miami Beach pediatrician who won a $145 billion verdict on his tobacco class-action lawsuit, the largest punitive damage award in US history, died at age 89.
- Australia's ALP gives an additional $15 million to the National Tobacco Strategy to escalate the attack on smoking.
- Almost £200,000 a year is being added to stop Lothians from smoking by NHS Lothian (Scotland).
- Paying smokers to quit smoking works. General Electric paid some workers up to $750 to kick the habit in an experiment. The 15 percent success rate was 3 times the success rate of a comparison group who got no bonuses.
- New guidelines to block the tobacco industry from interfering in state health policies and the implementation of a global anti-tobacco treaty emerged from the 2008 week-long conference in South Africa of the World Health Organization's (WHO) Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC).
- $50 per person every year on advertising and marketing is what tobacco companies spend in the United States alone, according to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC).
- 50 percent of all Canadian smokers say they have frequent stress in their lives, vs 35 percent of ex-smokers and only 31 percent of non-smokers, according to data gathered by Princeton Survey Research International for Pew Research in the 2009 recession.
- Only 50 percent of UK smokers smoke because they enjoy it, according to a survey by Cancer Research UK.
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- Graphic anti-smoking ads saved early 60,000 lives according to a study by the Cancer Council. 190,000 people quit smoking in the 6 months following the first graphic anti-smoking ads aired on national television in 1997.
- California saved $86 billion in health care costs in the first 15 years its large-scale tobacco control campaign.
* $9.2 billion in cigarette sales were lost by the tobacco industry between 1989 and 2004 due to California 's tobacco control campaign. - Tobacco giant Philip Morris must pay $8 million to the Florida widow of a lung cancer victim who die from his addiction to cigarettes. 8,000 similar trials in the state of Florida are waiting. . .
- $23 quadrillion, that's the 17 digits folks, was mistakenly charge to a man buying a pack of cigarettes at a New Hampshire gas station. Talk about expensive!
- New Zealanders (Kiwis) wanting to quit need psychological support, according to Dr. Hayden McRobbie, a Senior Lecturer at the Auckland University of Technology, and Smoking Cessation Specialist.
- Smoking while driving creates aggressive drivers that are severely distracted, according to research by Autoglass.
- A new trend. . . Some areas with smoking bans are experiencing large numbers of cigarette butts strewn everywhere, from neighborhoods to business districts.
- Cigarette Litter Prevention Day is Keep Taylor County Beautiful's (Florida) effort to stop people from throwing their cigarette butts on the ground.
- A British mother who let her 3 year old son smoke cigarettes on film was convicted for it but got a suspended sentence.
- Madonna, Queen of Pop, allegedly used cash to bribe her daughter Lourdes to stay away from cigarettes after she caught her smoking.
- Can you believe that Geri Halliwell (the former Ginger Spice of the Spice Girls) was seen smoking a cigarette while pushing her daughter Bluebell in a stroller?
- Supermodel Kate Moss and pop star Lily Allen were photographed smoking a cigarette near Kate's 6 year old daughter.
- Keeping smokers abreast. . . Kerry Katona , a UK star, was warned by her doctor, who rebuilt her breasts, that she must stop smoking or her nipples would fall off.
- Duh! After being photographed smoking months after fighting off cancer, hollywood actress Christina Applegate says she is ashamed.
- What a shame! Hollywood actor Patrick Swayze, who is suffering from pancreatic cancer, is reportedly still smoking.
- Grey's Anatomy star Katherine Heigl, who contines to smoke, believes that "it's so stupid" and she says she is "ashamed" of herself because of it (InStyle magazine).
- Stop smoking before age 50 and cut the risk of dying in the next 15 years in half, vs. people who continue to smoke, according to the American Cancer Society.
- Can you beilieve that people still fall asleep while smoking? Recently an Orange County (Florida) man fell alseep while smoking and not only burned down his home, but was treated at a local hospital for severe burns.
- Anti-smoking messages will appear at the beginning of films for rent rated G, PG or PG-13 and have smoking scenes smoking.
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- Smoking is inextricably linked to poverty, according to the campaigning group Action on Smoking and Health (ASH). Smoking is the biggest killer in England, and it kills more people in poorer communities than in richer ones, says Deborah Arnott, director of Ash.
- Raising socio-economic status of Indigenous Australians can help them quit smoking, according to a study by Dr David Thomas of the Menzies School of Health Research and colleagues in the Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health.
- Malaysian Health Minister Chua Soi Lek gave Philip Morris, British American Tobacco and JT International 2 weeks to end what he said was a price war after meeting with them. The government had hoped high taxes on the price of cigarettes would produce a drop in demand, but tobacco companies responded with heavy price discounts. Malaysia may counter by fixing cigarette prices to cut smoking (April 6, 2007).
- Stop smoking, get rich. In Germany, a Bavarian man who quit smoking three years ago and chose to buy lottery tickets with the savings, won 1.17 million euros (1.8 million dollars) in the Game 77 version of the state lottery (EARTHtimes.org, March 2008).
- Rising tobacco prices have spurred some smokers to grow their own tobacco.
- $1 billion of smuggled Russian cigarettes hit the European underground market, according to 6 investigative reports supervised by the Center for Public Integrity.
* 500 million cigarettes were smuggled into the United States, largely on Indian reservations by an El Paso, Texas smuggler (see above).
* Jin Ling is "the world's first ever cigarette brand designed and manufactured only for smuggling." (see above). - Smokers of 30 cigarettes a day in the UK could save about £250 a month by quitting or £3,108 a year in a typical variable rate saver account.
