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June 5, 2012 / USA Today Travel / — Want to light up a cigarette before or after your next flight? Good luck with that.  According to the American Nonsmokers’ Rights Foundation, indoor smoking is completely banned at 27 of the 35 busiest U.S. airports.  Soon it will be 28. Well, make that 27 and 3/4. Denver International Airport, currently the only public building in Colorado where indoor smoking lounges are still legal, is on its way to becoming smoke-free. At a May 18th airport press conference, Denver Mayor Michael B. Hancock announced that lease-holders for three of the four smoking lounges at Denver airport have agreed to shutter those lounges by the end of this year and remodel or replace them with non-smoking... Read More

May 31, 2012 /Businessweek/ —  Cigarette makers led by Philip Morris International Inc. (PM) (PM) and British American Tobacco Plc (BATS) are scrambling to derail Russian plans to halve smoking in the world’s largest tobacco market after China. The companies, along with Japan Tobacco Inc. (2914), are trying to convince the government to scale back a plan to restrict the sale, advertising and public use of cigarettes, they said yesterday. BAT, Europe’s largest tobacco company, is seeking a “mutually acceptable decision,” it said in an e-mail. President Vladimir Putin has backed curbs on smoking as part of a wider effort to stem the country’s population decline. A draft law published by the Health Ministry May 20 calls for... Read More

May 29, 2012 / Nurse.com News / —  Cigarette smoking contributes to significantly higher hospital costs for smokers undergoing elective general surgery, according to a study. When researchers analyzed data on more than 14,000 patients, they found that postoperative respiratory complications help drive up these costs. According to previous estimates cited in the study, which appears in the June issue of Journal of the American College of Surgeons, about 30% of patients undergoing elective general surgery procedures smoke. Although an abundance of research has associated smoking with an increased risk of numerous postoperative complications, especially those related to pulmonary, cardiovascular and wound-healing outcomes, little... Read More

Here are a few facts related to smoking ... we thought may interest you. • There are over 2,000 chemicals in cigarette tobacco smoke, and 68 are known to be cancer causing Read More Facts Read More

In recent years, smoking has become an acute global problem, and it is estimated that there are 1.2 billion smokers worldwide. The habit of smoking cigarette was once considered sexy, cool, good for health, was promoted by the sportsmen, advertised all over the television and was widely enjoyed by many people. The world has now awoken to all the hazardous effect of cigarette smoking, and it is now considered a bad habit which can cost a smoker his or her health and life. In the 20th century, smoking killed more than 100 million people worldwide, and tobacco kills one person. . . Read More Read More

MOSCOW, May 21, 2012 / RIA Novosti / — Russia’s Health Ministry has submitted a draft law to parliament banning the open sale of cigarettes and smoking in public places, in a bid to cut deaths in the world’s largest smoking nation. The ministry hopes the new measures could reduce smoking by 40-50 percent, helping to reduce the annual mortality rate in Russia by 150,000 – 200,000. The draft law would ban smoking in public places including common premises in residential houses, long-distance trains, entrances to railway stations, markets and public eating places. Street kiosks will also be prohibited from selling cigarettes and other tobacco products. Only shops with an area greater than 50 square meters will be... Read More

WASHINGTON, May 16, 2012 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ — Nataanii Hatathlie, 18, of Kirtland, New Mexico, has been named the Western Region Youth Advocate of the Year by the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids for his leadership in the fight against tobacco.  Nataanii is being honored at a gala in the nation’s capital on Thursday (May 17) along with a national winner, three other regional winners and a group winner. Nataanii is president of his school’s Dine Youth Council, which promotes tobacco-free lifestyles, and a leader of Evolvement, the statewide youth tobacco control group. With Evolvement, Nataanii participated in the Meltdown campaign to raise awareness about dissolvable and other smokeless tobacco products, as well as... Read More

KENTUCKY, May 7, 2012 / WFPL News / –  A new poll by a nonpartisan health organization suggests a majority of Kentuckians would support a statewide smoking ban. The Kentucky Health Issues Poll is conducted by the Foundation for a Healthy Kentucky. And its 2011 poll, taken last fall and released this week, shows that 54 percent of Kentuckians would approve an indoor statewide smoking ban. Kentucky’s General Assembly has flirted with a law that would create a statewide smoking ban, but it has yet to fully make it through both chambers. Foundation CEO Susan Zepeda says public opinion has likely changed to support a ban because more cities and counties have adopted similar measures. “And what we saw this year is a tipping of the... Read More

ANN ARBOR, May 6, 2012 / AnnArbor.com/ – In the two years since the smoking ban went into effect in Michigan, a couple of things have become abundantly clear. The first is that the ban enjoys widespread popular support. The second is that it has done what it’s supposed to do, which is rid public places of second-hand smoke, the single most dangerous form of environmental pollution that people are commonly exposed to. So why would the Legislature be considering not just one, but one of the better pieces of public policy to come out of Lansing in recent years? These efforts should be roundly rejected.We have been strong proponents of the ban, passed in 2009 to prohibit smoking in work places, as well as in restaurants and bars. The... Read More