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Alcohol was taken off the shelves of most shops across Nepal Tuesday as the government implemented a regulation that prevents the unauthorised sale and distribution of liquor.
The new measure went into effect at midnight and requires a license for the sale of alcohol, including beer. Similar curbs on tobacco products were expected...
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India on Thursday imposed a countrywide ban on smoking in public spaces in its fight against tobacco use, which a medical study warned would claim 1 million lives in the country each year from 2010.
The ban, aimed at the country's 120 million smokers, has received a good response from people across the country, Health Minister...
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 Today is a memorable day for Nepal,
the country which for the past 239 years has functioned as a monarchy, as its
former King Gyanendra is preparing to move out of the Narayanhiti
Palace in Kathmandu.
Phanindra Raj Pathak, the chief of the palace press secretariat said according to
Times Online that "He is leaving today. He is...
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 China was shaken seriously Sunday morning by an earthquake with a magnitude of 6.4 on the Richter scale, at least three persons being killed in the southwestern province of Yunnan.China’s Earthquake Administration located the quake’s epicenter in the Ning'er county, a few kilometers from the Myanmar border. The strong temblor hit China...
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 Children living with adult smokers stand more chances to have a problem called food insecurity than those who live with non-smokers, a new study suggests. Food insecurity, a term developed in the 1990’s, describes the incapability to access enough food in a socially acceptable way for every day of the year. It is associated with health...
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 According to the recommendations of the CDC’s vaccine advisory committee, adult tobacco smokers should get the pneumococcal vaccine.Over 50 percent of serious invasive pneumococcal diseases occur in adults who smoke cigarettes, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said. Pneumococcal diseases, which are infections caused by a...
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 After more than half a year since it was proposed, Pasadena officials passed a resolution that will partially prohibit smoking in the city.According to the law provisions, smoking will be forbidden in outdoor malls, shopping areas and shopping centers, on movie lines and in outdoor dining areas. AMTS are included, as well as community...
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 Although there have been many
studies warning that smoking is an unhealthy habit, a recently released study
highlights the risk of dying due to smoking. The new study, published Thursday
in the New England Journal of Medicine, says that in India one million people are expected to die
every year in the next decade from tobacco-related...
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 China is again in the spotlight as
far as food safety is concerned. Ten Japanese people fell ill on Wednesday after
eating frozen pork dumplings, known as gyoza, manufactured by Tian Yang Food in
China's Hebei province.
The Japanese authorities
announced that three people in Hyogo prefecture and seven in Chiba
prefecture near...
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Estonia's consumer price index (CPI) rose 1.6 per cent in the third quarter of 2008, according to statistics released Monday.
Prices in the Baltic nation rose by 10.9 per cent compared to the previous third quarter.
The latest figures were mainly influenced by price increases of alcoholic beverages and tobacco, but were mollified...
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 As the European nations have decided, cigars will be prohibited in the Netherlands, inside coffee shops and other public locations. Still, marijuana is allowed in cannabis cafes, but not mixed with tobacco.
Amsterdam has come to be the most popular capital of the world for allowing marijuana and cannabis inside cafes. From Tuesday,...
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 A UN report informed on Thursday that development in drug control efforts may be
threatened by an increase in narcotic supplies in parts of Afghanistan and Columbia.
Last year, Afghanistan had a record opium harvest
and Columbia
increased its coca leaf production with approximately 27 percent, according to
The World Drug Report...
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 J. R. Simplot, the billionaire whose fortune helped create an agriculture business, which made French Fries a staple of the American traditional meal, and also one of the biggest computer chip makers in the world, died on Sunday at his home in Boise.An official at the Ada County Coroner's office said that the 99- year- old died of...
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 On Thursday, Hewlett-Packard launched a commendable initiative with the objective of getting customers to reduce the negative impact printing has on the environment. It its attempt to make people go green, the company unveiled a new printer model, made almost entirely out of recycled plastic, a product labeling system that can inform...
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 Are cell phones bad for our
health?
That is a question that
preoccupies people since the invention of the cell phones. However, specialists
have lately conducted a study centralized on the peril cell phones represented
for unborn children.
The study took into consideration
more than 13,000 children whose mothers used cell...
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 On Wednesday, Dell gave itself a two-year deadline to reduce by up to 25% its products’ energy consumption. This is not Dell’s first environment-oriented effort as, according to company officials, its OptiPlex desktops have recorded a 50% improvement in energy efficiency since 2005 and the Latitude notebooks’ power consumption went down...
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 On Tuesday (Earth Day), at the Fortune Brainstorm conference in Pasadena, California, Dell announced "the company's smallest and most environmentally-responsible consumer desktop PC."This comes after the announcement made by the company on World Environment Day last year, when the idea of a partnership between Dell and...
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 Barbara Sears, best known as “Bobo”
Rockefeller, 91, a coal miner’s daughter and former wife of the wealthy
Winthrop Rockefeller, died May 19 at her home in Little Rock. The Ruebel Funeral Home in Little Rock confirmed the
death, saying that Mrs. Rockefeller died of natural causes. She was 91 and had
lived in Arkansas
for the last...
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 Rapper Clifford Harris, known as T.I. pleaded guilty to
three charges of illegal weapons possession at a hearing in Atlanta on Thursday. The 27-year-old star was
arrested in October last year by agents of the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco,
Firearms and Explosives who found three machine guns and two silencers in the
rapper’s...
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Some antibiotic medicines like Bayer AG's Cipro need
stronger "black box" warnings regarding the peril of tendonitis and
fractured tendons, U.S.
health regulators said yesterday.
Label for the antibiotics comprise warnings about the
tendon problems. Regardless of those alerts, "the FDA continues to...
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 According to a new study
conducted by Oxford
scientists, oral birth control pills are effective against ovarian cancer.
"Worldwide, the Pill has already prevented 200,000 women from developing
cancer of the ovary and has prevented 100,000 deaths from the disease. More
than 100 million women are now taking the Pill, so the...
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 Eleven major international corporations, including Dell computers, L’Oreal or PepsiCo, reaffirmed their commitment for the fight against global warming on Sunday, as they announced their plan to start monitoring the amount of carbon emissions that their suppliers produce.The initiative continues the path that Wal- Mart began last...
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 According to the New York Times, the House of Representatives approved legislation on Wednesday that would give the Food and Drug Administration the authority to regulate tobacco industry.Taking into account the record of warnings about smoking risk and the fact that smoking causes one in five deaths in the U.S., John D. Dingell,...
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 Being married to a smoker can considerably increase your risk of stroke, even if you’re a non-smoker, suggests a recent study carried out by a team at Harvard University and published in the newest issue of American Journal of Preventive Medicine.It is almost unanimously known the fact that smokers are far more likely to suffer stroke...
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 The American business magnate Bill Gates and New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg announced Wednesday they will spend $500 million for a worldwide, anti-smoking campaign.According to the World Health Organization’s estimates, tobacco will kill almost a billion people in the 21st century, which means 10 times as many as it killed in the...
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 A new law passed in the Chicago Park District will vote
Wednesday on a proposal to ban smoking at public beaches, playgrounds and play
lots. If it passes, it will go into effect immediately.
The Chicago Park District announced the proposal at Margate
Park on Tuesday morning. It would
prohibit smoking at all of the beaches, play...
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 Richard “Dickie” Scruggs, the lawyer who became famous by taking on tobacco, asbestos and insurance companies, received a sentence of five years in prison for conspiring to bribe a judge.Scruggs, who is 62 years old, was very shocked when the judge scolded him for his behavior. U.S. District Judge Neal Biggers Jr. described Richard...
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Five people died and 20 have been hospitalized with severe
burns, 17 of them in medically induced coma after the explosion and fire at the
Imperial Sugar refinery, near Savannah,
Georgia, which occurred
Thursday night, the Associated Press reports.
The twenty workers were hospitalized Saturday in Augusta, Georgia,
and seventeen...
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 California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger reached a deal to extend
health insurance to most of the 7 million Californians who are not
covered.
The 14.7-billion-dollar compromise deal passed the state Assembly
Monday night on a vote of 46-31, with all Schwarzenegger's Republican
Party colleagues voting against it. The deal will be...
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 In acceptance with the Great American Smokeout, a national campaign sponsored by the American Cancer Society to encourage smokers who want to quit to seek help, Sheridan hospital banes tobacco.While the hospital has always been a smoke-free facility, the policy will prohibit all forms of tobacco on the hospital grounds, said Len Gross,...
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 According to a recent study conducted in U.S. schools and
announced on Friday, French fries and other fatty and sugary foods and drinks
are becoming harder to come by, but many schools are falling short on providing
physical education for pupils.
More schools prohibit smoking and other tobacco use, but
more than a third do not...
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 According to recent statistics released by the Alberta Cancer Board, Alberta’s economy is being over-burdened by smokers due to annual medical bills and loss in productivity.The study shoes that Alberta allocates more than $470 million of $1.8-billion total annual income, to smokers and tobacco-related illness.More than 3,400 people die...
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Shops in Australia's biggest
state will have to keep cigarettes out of sight of their customers
under new anti- smoking regulations, New South Wales Premier Morris
Iemma said Wednesday. 'Smoking is a one-way ticket to
misery,' Iemma said. 'There's only one reason why the tobacco companies
do this sort of glossy advertising in...
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Smokers in Hong Kong were Thursday facing new spot fines of almost 200 US dollars for lighting up illegally in public.
Legislators in the city of 6.9 million have passed a new law which will
allow officials to issue spot fines of 1,500 Hong Kong dollars (192 US
dollars) if they breach new anti-smoking rules introduced two...
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 A tobacco bill is waiting for approval in the U.S. Congress
that would for the first time give the Food and Drug Administration the power to control tobacco.
The proposed legislation would prohibit cigarettes flavoured
with strawberry, chocolate and a number of other fruit, candy and spice
flavorings. Those flavorings have...
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 The World Health
Organisation (WHO) has made an appeal on governments to prohibit all tobacco
advertising. The measure is meant to help prevent young people beginning to
smoke. WHO also emphasized the importance of applying this, as smoking was estimated
to cause one billion premature deaths this century. The agency
brought out...
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 The number of adults seeking medical help for cannabis
addiction has risen by 50% since Labour downgraded the drug, health authority
figures show.
Over 16,500 adults sought treatment for cannabis use in
England in 2006/7 compared with 11,057 two years earlier when the drug moved
from Class B to C.
Currently 500 adults and...
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 More than three million 12- to 25-year-olds have tried to
get high on over-the-counter cough medicines containing dextromethorphan at
some point in their lives, a large survey found.
But only 1.7% (SD: 0.08%) of this age group, or fewer than one million, had
done so in the past year, according to the Substance Abuse and Mental...
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 Anti-tobacco campaigns registered some significant gains in
2007, with more states banning smoking in public places.
But there's still too little federal and state funding for
smoking-prevention and cessation programs and many states haven't increased
their cigarette taxes.
That's the conclusion of the American Lung...
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 According to a new study, published in the American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine (American Thoracic Society), patients with severe Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) may benefit from a new treatment that includes the use of two drugs: salmeterol and fluticasone. This new treatment may be a better...
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 Studies show that smokers suffer considerable more lung
damage in one inhale compared to those you smoke tobacco. The chemicals cannabis
smokers are exposed to are far more harmful than those of tobacco.
In tests, directly inhaled cannabis smoke contained 20 times
more ammonia than cigarette smoke, five times more hydrogen cyanide...
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 According to a report issued Wednesday, Ohio might not be
snuffing out underage smoking to national standards, but it's one of only 20
states meeting the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention at least
halfway.
An annual report by the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids on
states' funding of tobacco prevention programs,...
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 According to a new study, women who suffer from depression are more likely to reach menopause with a higher risk of bone fractures (osteoporosis), compared to those who don’t have depression. In a study published in Archives of Internal Medicine it was found that 17% of women with depression had less bone mass in a section of their hip,...
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 According to a new report, smoking cigarettes may make teens
more susceptible to depression, alcohol abuse, and illegal drug use.Based on
data from a government drug use survey, researchers concluded that teens who smoke
are nine times more likely to abuse alcohol and 13 times more likely to abuse
illegal drugs than teens who don't...
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 The World Health Organization is asking for a ban against smoking indoors in public buildings and at work, on a global level.
This is the UN health agency’s strongest recommendation yet as to controlling tobacco use, urging all countries to issue a ban against smoking in enclosed public spaces.
“The evidence is clear....
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 Tobacco has been pinpointed as a major health issue once more by an expert federal panel recommending that the Food and Drug Administration regulate the marketing, packaging and sale of tobacco products.
The Institute of Medicine released a report Thursday urging state and local governments to take additional measures in order to...
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 Six major Hollywood film studios joined in the agreement to include antismoking public service announcements produced by the California Health and Human Services Agency on millions of DVDs of motion pictures that include scenes with tobacco use.The antismoking public service announcements will appear on all new movies rated G, PG or...
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 The Motion Picture Association of America has announced that movies will now be evaluated, in terms of protecting a younger audience from improper content, on a newly added criterion: portrayals of smoking.
Sexual and violent scenes and language have long been criteria for rating a film’s suitability for the impressionable minds...
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 What's really the cause of cancer? Not only patients, but people all around the world seem to don’t have a clue about what cancer really is and does, as a new study observed. The research was published at the International Union Against Cancer’s at the World Cancer Congress in Geneva on August 27. It seems that people tend to blame the...
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 Researchers have developed a plant-based cancer vaccine able to start the body's immune response and to adapt to a patient's specific tumor type, says a recent study. The tobacco plant, which is blamed for million of cancer cases, could be the remedy to treat one form of the disease.The study carried out by the National Academy of...
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 China has
15 million (1.5 percent) underage smokers, 68 percent of them experienced their
first contact with cigarettes before they had reached the age of 13, a
government report said.
About 40 million of China’s 130
million children between the age of 13 and 18 have tried smoking and 15 million
have become addicted, China...
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 Researchers from the National Institute of Drug
Abuse proved that consuming marijuana limbers up the chances to develop heart
diseases. It seems that smoking marijuana determines the body to produce a
greater quantity of a protein that increases levels of blood fats, which are
closely linked to heart attack and stroke. The study was...
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 Should we trust all health studies and researches published
in the mass-media? Sometimes studies prove to be very tricky and one may find it
difficult to avoid mass media’s manipulation. Sometimes you may not know what
was behind a study.
In 2006, a tobacco company supported a study that claimed 80
percent of lung cancer...
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 According to a recent study
involving no less than 903 New Zeelanders, it seems that people who frequently
smoke marijuana are prone to severe gum disease, also known as periodontal
disease. This is somehow ironic, to worry about your gums, when you’re addicted
to drugs, but researchers do their jobs and we should take their findings...
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 According to a group of Swiss researchers and a study they
conducted, teens that use only cannabis appear to function better than those
who also use tobacco, and are more socially driven and have no more
psychosocial problems than those who abstain from both substances.
Cannabis or marijuana is the illegal drug most commonly...
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 According to a report issued today, obesity is on course to
overtake tobacco as the leading risk factor for cancer in America.
Moreover, the risk for cancer increases even with modest
weight gain, said Walter C. Willett, M.D., Ph.D., of the Harvard School of
Public Health. He said excess body fat increased the risk for cancers of...
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 According to a recent scientific discovery, nine out of ten
mothers whose babies died to cot or cot related complications smoked during
pregnancy.
The study, thought to be one of the most authoritative to
date on Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS), says women who smoke during
pregnancy are four times more likely than non-smokers...
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 Researchers in the UK have recently discovered that in families where at least one parent smokes children have a level of cotinine (a toxic metabolite of nicotine) five times higher than normal.The word “cotinine” is an anagram of “nicotine” and is a product of the metabolism of nicotine.The British study included 104 new born babies (12...
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 Researchers have found that oral sex with multiple partners increases the risk of contracting the human papillomavirus, which in turn increases the risk of developing throat cancer.
The risk is present for both men and women. The study is published in the May 10 issue of The New England Journal of Medicine. The researchers, from John...
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