Tobacco Free Florida expone los riesgos de la exposición al humo de segunda mano

elcolombiano.net – 12 de Mayo 2016 – EEUU

TALLAHASSEE, Florida, 12 de mayo de 2016 /PRNewswire-HISPANIC PR WIRE/ -- El gobernador Rick Scott ha proclamado el 8 al 14 de mayo como la semana de Tobacco Free Florida y para celebrar, el programa de Tobacco Free Florida del Departamento de Salud de la Florida lanza una nueva iniciativa, Secondhand Smoke Exposed, para educar los floridanos sobre los peligros de la exposición al humo de segunda mano.

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India Railways to promote 'Anti-tobacco campaign'

Indiatimes.com – 26 de Abril 2016 – India
New Delhi, Apr 26 (ANI): The Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (MoHFW) with technical support from global health experts Vital Strategies has announced the launch of powerful outdoor 'Tears You Apart anti-tobacco campaign' to raise awareness of the harms of smokeless tobacco.

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http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/delhi/India-Railways-to-promote-Anti-tobacco-campaign/articleshow/51992680.cms 

FDA's 'The Real Cost' Anti-Tobacco Campaign Now Targeting Smokeless Tobacco, Rural Teens

medicaldaily.com – 20 de Abril 2016 – EEUU
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has teamed up with Minor League Baseball to help take a hard swing against smokeless tobacco.

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FDA launches campaign against smokeless tobacco

thehill.com – 19 de Abril 2016 – EEUU
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is mounting a campaign to discourage teenagers from using smokeless tobacco.

The anti-smokeless tobacco campaign will target white, male teenagers in rural areas, who are twice as likely as other teenagers to use products such as dip, chew and snus. The television ads will run in 35 rural markets around the country.

The FDA estimates that nearly one-third of white, male teenagers are at risk of using smokeless tobacco products.

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http://thehill.com/regulation/healthcare/276801-fda-launches-campaign-against-smokeless-tobacco 

Shatru Hails Total Prohibition Decision, Calls for Curbing Use of Tobacco

allafrica.com – 11 de Abril 2016 – Camerún 

A meeting between senators and anti-tobacco campaigners took place to this effect in Yaounde.

An informative meeting between the Cameroon Coalition Against Tobacco and senators involved in the "Champion of Tobacco Control" on the anti-tobacco law and tobacco consumption in the country took place on Saturday April 9, 2016 in Yaounde. Speaking at the event, the coordinator of the Champion of Tobacco Control, Senator Ngalli Ngoua Pierre Henri said they are going to intensify campaigns on the negative effects of tobacco while making sure that an anti-tobacco law is effectively enacted.

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Event encourages tobacco users to quit

nbcneb.com – 19 de Noviembre de 2015 – EEUU

Grand Island, NE- One Grand Island event encouraged tobacco users to kick their unhealthy habit.

More than a dozen area organizations teamed up for the Great American Smoke Out. The event was started by the american cancer society in the 1970's and is held in places throughout the country.

"It's a crucial event, not only to talk about the great american smoke out, but to talk about prevention overall, so to have folks in the community learn about organizations that help with prevention is really key," said Matt Prokop, American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network director.

For the first time ever, Thursday's event also offered free health screenings. Participants could have their blood work tested teeth checked and even receive a flu shot.

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Taiwan anti-smoking campaigner calls for halt to Japanese tobacco plant construction

scmp.com – 21 de Agosto de 2015 – Taiwan

An anti-smoking group in Taiwan has urged the Taiwanese government and a Japanese tobacco giant to immediately halt plans to build a factory in the south of the island.

Calling the investment plan a “hoax”, Yau Sea-wain, chief executive officer of John Tung Foundation, told a press conference that while Japan Tobacco International (JTI) – the international tobacco division of Japan Tobacco Inc. – claimed it would spend NT$9.27 billion (HK$2.2 billion) on building the plant, it was expected to milk more from its loyal Taiwanese customers through increasing prices of its some 20 brand products by NT$10 to NT$30 per pack.

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http://www.scmp.com/news/china/policies-politics/article/1851500/taiwan-anti-smoking-campaigner-calls-halt-japanese

FIR Against Tobacco Company for Surrogate Advertising

ndtv.com – 2 de Agosto de 2015 – India

NEW DELHI: An FIR has been lodged against a tobacco company for alleged surrogate advertisements of its gutka and tobacco products on TV and radio.

The FIR was lodged last week on the complaint of Tobacco Control Cell of Delhi government.

"We sent a strict compliance notice under Section 5 of COTPA 2003 to the company on July 24 to immediately stop the surrogate advertisements of its 'pan masala' which is being aired on TV and radio for some time."

"But the company has failed to comply with the notice and therefore we have lodged FIR against the company at Deputy Commissioner of Police (East Delhi) for appropriate action," Dr S K Arora, Additional Director of Health, Delhi government said.

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http://www.ndtv.com/india-news/fir-against-tobacco-company-for-surrogate-advertising-1203012

Anti-tobacco initiative puts teens undercover

toacorn.com - 22 de Julio de 2015 – EEUU

Teens may be their own secret weapon in the fight to stop youth smoking.

A group of Ventura County teenagers devoted some of their spring and summer breaks to go undercover in Camarillo, Moorpark and Simi Valley to try to buy tobacco products at a variety of local stores.

They did it to help the Ventura County Sheriff’s Office and the Ventura County Public Health Department better understand how and where teens are buying cigarettes.

The teens, members of the law enforcement Explorer Scout program, visited area businesses and attempted to buy cigarettes in April and June.

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Tobacco tax brings in money to Petersburg Borough

kfsk.org – 25 de Junio de 2015 – EEUU

Anyone buying tobacco in Petersburg is paying more than they did a year ago in town. The tax on all tobacco products went up January 1 after local voters supported it in last fall’s election. Cigarettes are up to $12 a pack and other tobacco products increased by 45 percent.

Amy Long-Drew helps addicts who want to quit tobacco. She is the Tobacco Prevention and Control Grant Coordinator for the Petersburg Indian Association. She said several people told her that the higher cost was one of the reasons that they decided to quit..

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Red Cross takes out rally against tobacco consumption

thehindu.com– 4 de Junio de 2015 – India

A large number of nursing students and Indian Red Cross Society members took out an awareness rally to highlight the ill-effects of tobacco use here on Wednesday. The rally was organised by the Tiruchi branch of the Indian Red Cross Society.

The students and IRCS members, highlighting the dangers of smoking and use of tobacco in other forms, marched from the Mahatma Gandhi Memorial GH to the Corporation office.

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Proposed tax would help kids to eschew chew and other forms of harmful smokeless tobacco

lancasteronline.com – 14 de Mayo de 2015 – EEUU

This isn’t a complicated issue, like, say, the extent to which sales and income taxes should replace property taxes.

This one is a no-brainer.

Pennsylvania should impose a tax on smokeless tobacco, and join the 49 other states — yes, 49 other states — that have such a tax.

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http://lancasteronline.com/opinion/editorials/proposed-tax-would-help-kids-to-eschew-chew-and-other/article_d61ae682-f9c0-11e4-9721-3fb03f16b55c.html

New Initiative Inspires Tobacco Users to Quit and Tell

wctv.tv – 23 de Abril de 2015 – EEUU

TALLAHASSEE – The Florida Department of Health’s Tobacco Free Florida Program is launching a new initiative called Quit and Tell to celebrate Floridians who have quit tobacco and inspire more people to join them.

The Quit and Tell initiative launch aligns with the seventh annual Tobacco Free Florida Week from April 27 to May 3. It is part of a statewide effort to raise awareness about the 3 Free & Easy Ways to Quit available to help Floridians. These free and proven-effective services can double a tobacco user’s chances of quitting.

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Islamabad leads districts in implementing tobacco control law

dawn.com – 15 de Abril de 2015 – India

ISLAMABAD: Out of the 10 model districts selected to assess the implementation of the Protection of Non-Smokers Health Ordinance 2002, the Islamabad capital territory (ICT) leads the way, according to statistics collected by the federal ministry of national health services and regulations.

Over the last four years, 593 cases were registered against smokers for violating various sections of the ordinance which mainly emphasizes making public places smoke-free.

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‘Observe last day of every month as no tobacco day’

hindustantimes.com – 14 de Abril de 2015 – India

No Tobacco Day or Tobacco Dry Day will be observed in Rajasthan on the last day of every month, National Health Mission additional director Neeraj K Pawan has said.

Pawan said all tobacco vendors would be appealed to keep their shops closed for one day, on last day of the month and similarly, tobacco consumers will be appealed not to consume tobacco for a day like keeping fast.

Pawan has written to all the district collectors and chief medical and health officers in the state to encourage vendors to not sell tobacco products on the last day of every month.

He has also asked the officials to get a resolution letter filled by the vendors that they would extend their cooperation in this effort.

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California must renew fight against tobacco

sacbee.com – 8 de Abril de 2015 – EEUU

We represent distinctly different parts of a diverse state, but we stand together when it comes to keeping communities safe and healthy, reducing the risk of illnesses associated with tobacco and increasing access to health care.

In 1964, the Surgeon General released a groundbreaking report that linked smoking to many health issues, including lung cancer and heart disease. It sparked a national movement to prevent tobacco-caused disease, and California has led the way with policies to curb tobacco use. Despite the progress we’ve made, tobacco remains the nation’s leading cause of preventable death – 480,000 people annually, more than alcohol, murder, illegal drugs, AIDS and motor vehicle accidents combined.

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Don’t get addicted to tobacco products, students told

thehindu.com – 6 de Abril de 2015 – UK

Tobacco products such as cigarettes, bidis and gutka are highly toxic and cancerous and kill more people than all other major diseases put together. About 70 per cent of smoking-related deaths worldwide would be in developing countries alone by 2020, Vasanthkumar Mysoremath, convener, Anti-Tobacco Forum (ATF), Mysuru, has said.

Delivering a lecture at the Government First Grade College (GFGC) in Periyapatna recently, Mr. Mysoremath graphically demonstrated the ill-effects of consumption of smoke and non-smoke tobacco products like cancer, tuberculosis, pulmonary diseases, and heart diseases etc. He appealed to the students not to get addicted to tobacco products by making smoking a habit.

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13,500 tobacco deaths since April 1: Activists launch campaign to push for cigarette pack warnings

scroll.in – 6 de Abril de 2015 –India

In the first five days of April, an estimated 13,500 people died of tobacco-related diseases in India – roughly one death every 32 seconds. In the same period, the six biggest tobacco companies in the world made a profit of more than Rs 400,000 lakh – approximately Rs 87,000 per second.

These figures, calculated on the basis of research by TobaccoAtlas.org, are at the forefront of a new social media campaign to push the Indian government to implement new pictorial warnings on tobacco product packaging.

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'Children's charter' aims to create tobacco-free generation by 2034

nj.com – 31 de Marzo de 2015 – Escocia 

A "children's charter" to highlight the goal of creating a tobacco-free generation in Scotland within two decades is being launched by health campaigners on Wednesday.

The charity ASH Scotland said its document, the Charter for a Tobacco-free Generation, is aimed at organizations working directly or indirectly with young people and their families.

At its heart is an ambition for Scotland to achieve an adult smoking rate of 5% or less by 2034.

Organizations are being asked to sign up to the charter's six principles and to pledge to review their policy and practice to help protect children from the harms caused by smoking.

ASH Scotland chief executive Sheila Duffy said: "The Charter for a Tobacco-free Generation is a way of driving forward Scotland's compelling vision to free our children from the tobacco epidemic that has claimed so many lives and led to so much misery.

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Raising tobacco awareness on ‘Kick Butts Day’

fox17online.com – 17 de marzo de 2015 – EEUU

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. — March 18 is National Kick Butts Day — a day for kids and teens to take a stand against smoking. And with the huge rise in popularity of flavored tobacco products and e-cigarettes, advocates say it’s more important than ever to raise awareness.

Organizers of the 20th annual Kick Butts Day describe it as a day of empowerment that aims to not only educate kids and parents about tobacco, but also give them opportunities to let their voices be heard. They say the tobacco industry spends huge amounts of money on marketing strategies that aim to reach young, potential customers, citing the $8.8 billion spent nationwide by the industry. With the popularity of e-cigarettes skyrocketing, there are more temptations than ever for young people to pick up the habit.

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