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New youth markets for tobacco

11 May 2013
During the past two years, the challenges of rising rates of smoking in Indonesia have become increasingly apparent. In this diverse country, tobacco is an integral part of the economy, and tobacco-related industries account for 10 per cent of employment –...
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Using football for health

09 April 2013
As C3 reported in an Alert in 2012 (here >> ), football club FC Barcelona has a history of working to kick the smoking habit among its supporters, first banning smoking across all Barça facilities and then launching a Quit Smoking with Barça initiative....
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Seven simple steps…

20 March 2013
A large study of over 13,000 people in the US, published in Circulation, and tracked over a period of 17–19 years whether lifestyle changes that are known to help to protect against cardiovascular disease would also protect against cancer. The seven lifestyle...
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The balance is clear: quit!

14 March 2013
A study in the Journal of the American Medical Association has shown that the fear that smokers have of weight gain – and consequent health problems – is, in fact, misplaced, as the health benefits of quitting are greater than the health risk attendant on weight...
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Tobacco clamp-down in Bangladesh

05 March 2013
A new set of restrictions on tobacco have been put to parliament in Bangladesh, with new fines around smoking in public places, and changing packaging. The law on tobacco use will be tightened to increase the fines for smoking in public places (doubling the current...
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All or nothing?

30 January 2013
In 2008, The Netherlands banned smoking in cafés, bars and clubs – but has since been criticised for taking a lax approach to enforcement, particularly since small bars (less than 70m2 and with no employees) have since been made exempt, which seems to have had...
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Smoking ban’s positive effect on children

21 January 2013
A new study has confirmed the impact of earlier, smaller studies that indicated that there has been a significant impact on child health from the UK’s ban on smoking in public places, implemented in 2007. Comparing NHS statistics on the number of children...
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Passive smoking and dementia

12 January 2013
A new study of about 6,000 people from communities in rural and urban China, published in Occupational and Environmental Medicine, has compared lifetime exposure to secondhand (passive) smoke and the ‘mental state’ of the over-60s. Home interviews were conducted...
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Resolving anxiety?

04 January 2013
As the new year begins, many people are making resolutions to give up smoking, and the UK government has launched a graphic anti-smoking TV advertisement to help encourage people to kick the habit. To bolster this, a study of about 500 people attending NHS Stop...
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What is the ‘Global Burden of Disease’?

16 December 2012
On 13 December, The Lancet launched the latest iteration of the Global Burden of Disease Study (click here >>). This study is a collaborative effort between 486 scientists, and covering 291 different diseases/injuries and 67 risk factors, and over 200 academic...
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