While assisted smoking cessation is a highly cost-effective medical intervention, it is not a cost-effective public health intervention. For example, even if the goal is to promote smoking cessation, using resources to educate the public about the dangers of secondhand smoke and advocate for enactment of strong smokefree laws is an order of magnitude more cost-effective per new nonsmoker than using money for direct cessation services such as providing free NRT [1]. ... read more >>
Posts Tagged ‘secondhand smoke’
Putting cessation services in proper context
Thursday, February 25th, 2010
Smoking Exposure Now Linked to Colon, Breast Cancers
Friday, February 5th, 2010
Add colorectal cancer to the list of malignancies caused by smoking, with a new study strengthening the link between the two. And other studies are providing more bad news for people who haven’t managed to quit: Two papers published in the December issue of Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention, a themed issue on tobacco, strengthen the case for the dangers of secondhand smoke for people exposed to fumes as children and as adults. ... read more >>
Add colorectal cancer to the list of malignancies caused by smoking, with a new study strengthening the link between the two. And other studies are providing more bad news for people who haven’t managed to quit: Two papers published in the December issue of Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention, a themed issue on tobacco, strengthen the case for the dangers of secondhand smoke for people exposed to fumes as children and as adults. ... read more >>
Smoker’s Own Secondhand Smoke Adds to Health Risks
Thursday, February 4th, 2010
In addition to the risks associated with directly inhaling cigarette smoke, smokers also face significant risk from their own secondhand smoke, researchers say. The finding, published online Jan. 29 in Environmental Health, challenges the widely held belief that the threat posed to smokers by secondhand smoke is negligible. ... read more >>
In addition to the risks associated with directly inhaling cigarette smoke, smokers also face significant risk from their own secondhand smoke, researchers say. The finding, published online Jan. 29 in Environmental Health, challenges the widely held belief that the threat posed to smokers by secondhand smoke is negligible. ... read more >>
Smokers to face doorway ban in new public health policy
Monday, February 1st, 2010
Smokers could be forced to light up away from the entrances to public buildings under government moves aimed at ensuring that no more than one in 10 Britons smoke cigarettes. The health secretary, Andy Burnham, now favours extending the 2007 landmark law which banned smoking in pubs, workplaces and other enclosed places, to prevent non-smokers having to walk through clouds of secondhand smoke. ... read more >>
Smokers could be forced to light up away from the entrances to public buildings under government moves aimed at ensuring that no more than one in 10 Britons smoke cigarettes. The health secretary, Andy Burnham, now favours extending the 2007 landmark law which banned smoking in pubs, workplaces and other enclosed places, to prevent non-smokers having to walk through clouds of secondhand smoke. ... read more >>
KEITH DURYEA: The numbers are in on secondhand smoke risks
Wednesday, December 30th, 2009
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that in the U.S. about 45 million cigarette smokers expose about 126 million nonsmokers to secondhand smoke, including 60 percent of children 3-11 years old, and kill 53,000 annually. Secondhand smoke contains at least 250 known toxic chemicals, of which more than 50 can cause cancer. The research is done. The cat is out of the bag. Secondhand smoke exposure causes heart disease and lung cancer in nonsmoking adults. Nonsmokers who are exposed to secondhand smoke at home or work increase their heart disease risk by 25-30 percent and their lung cancer risk by 20-30 percent. ... read more >>
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that in the U.S. about 45 million cigarette smokers expose about 126 million nonsmokers to secondhand smoke, including 60 percent of children 3-11 years old, and kill 53,000 annually. Secondhand smoke contains at least 250 known toxic chemicals, of which more than 50 can cause cancer. The research is done. The cat is out of the bag. Secondhand smoke exposure causes heart disease and lung cancer in nonsmoking adults. Nonsmokers who are exposed to secondhand smoke at home or work increase their heart disease risk by 25-30 percent and their lung cancer risk by 20-30 percent. ... read more >>
WHO Report: Governments Not Doing Enough to Protect Citizens from Secondhand Smoke, Implement Other Provisions of Tobacco Treaty
Friday, December 11th, 2009
A new report released today by the World Health Organization (WHO) finds that, even as the global toll of tobacco grows, most governments are falling short in implementing the policies required by the international tobacco control treaty, the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control. In particular, the report finds that governments are not moving quickly enough to enact comprehensive smoke-free laws that provide protection from deadly secondhand smoke, with more than 94 percent of the world’s population still unprotected. ... read more >>
A new report released today by the World Health Organization (WHO) finds that, even as the global toll of tobacco grows, most governments are falling short in implementing the policies required by the international tobacco control treaty, the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control. In particular, the report finds that governments are not moving quickly enough to enact comprehensive smoke-free laws that provide protection from deadly secondhand smoke, with more than 94 percent of the world’s population still unprotected. ... read more >>
Nicotine Levels Higher in Children Exposed to Secondhand Smoke in the Home
Tuesday, December 8th, 2009
New research published in Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention, a journal of the American Association for Cancer Research, supports the World Health Initiative’s efforts for a home smoking ban, according to researchers at Johns Hopkins University. Specifically, hair nicotine concentrations were higher in children exposed to secondhand smoke at home, and the younger the children, the higher the concentration under the same level of secondhand smoke exposure at home. ... read more >>
New research published in Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention, a journal of the American Association for Cancer Research, supports the World Health Initiative’s efforts for a home smoking ban, according to researchers at Johns Hopkins University. Specifically, hair nicotine concentrations were higher in children exposed to secondhand smoke at home, and the younger the children, the higher the concentration under the same level of secondhand smoke exposure at home. ... read more >>
ACH goes smokefree
Friday, November 27th, 2009
Patients entering the ER at Atmore Community Hospital will be able to breath easier beginning Thursday when the campus goes smokefree – indoors and outdoors. The new policy coincides with the Great American Smokeout, a day set aside yearly to urge smokers to quit. ... read more >>
Patients entering the ER at Atmore Community Hospital will be able to breath easier beginning Thursday when the campus goes smokefree – indoors and outdoors. The new policy coincides with the Great American Smokeout, a day set aside yearly to urge smokers to quit. ... read more >>
Fire-Safe Cigarettes – Poisoning Smokers to Save Them?
Friday, November 27th, 2009
“So you had to destroy the village in order to save it?” – Correspondent Peter Arnett I am an avid watcher of AMC’s Mad Men television show. In addition to being great drama, the show is an exercise in anthropology, as we get to view a bygone era where people threw their trash onto picnic grounds without concern for the environment, drink a few cocktails before hopping into their cars with their children unbuckled in the back, and commit all forms of sexual harrassment so that the show almost looks like a what-not-to-do video from a modern human resources department. However, the most obvious disconnect from today’s social norm is the constant smoking – when they get up, when they bottle feed their babies, in meetings, in movies, etc. ... read more >>
“So you had to destroy the village in order to save it?” – Correspondent Peter Arnett I am an avid watcher of AMC’s Mad Men television show. In addition to being great drama, the show is an exercise in anthropology, as we get to view a bygone era where people threw their trash onto picnic grounds without concern for the environment, drink a few cocktails before hopping into their cars with their children unbuckled in the back, and commit all forms of sexual harrassment so that the show almost looks like a what-not-to-do video from a modern human resources department. However, the most obvious disconnect from today’s social norm is the constant smoking – when they get up, when they bottle feed their babies, in meetings, in movies, etc. ... read more >>
Clearing the air in Louisiana: A letter to the editor
Friday, November 27th, 2009
Last week, activities were held across the state in honor of the Great American Smoke Out, the annual event that encourages smokers and tobacco users to quit. ... read more >>
Last week, activities were held across the state in honor of the Great American Smoke Out, the annual event that encourages smokers and tobacco users to quit. ... read more >>
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