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New Study Confirms States Can Reduce Youth Smoking with Well-Funded Prevention Programs, Higher Tobacco Taxes and Strong Smoke-Free Laws

2013-01-17 20:22:28

WASHINGTON, Jan. 17, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The following is a Statement of Matthew L. Myers President, Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids: (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20080918/CFTFKLOGO) A study published today in the American Journal of Public Health provides compelling new evidence that states can significantly reduce youth smoking by implementing well-funded tobacco prevention programs, increasing the price of cigarettes through higher taxes and enacting...

Health leaders praise new plan to keep kids from smoking

2013-01-17 16:23:57

MINNEAPOLIS, Jan. 17, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- The Raise it for Health coalition, a group of Minnesota's leading health and nonprofit organizations, praised Representative Anne Lenczewski (D-Bloomington) today for proposing new legislation aimed at keeping kids from smoking and helping addicted adults kick the habit. "We would like to thank Representative Lenczewski for answering the public's call to raise the tobacco tax," said Matt Schafer, State Government Relations Director for...

California Shows Mixed Results In Reducing Tobacco Use

2013-01-16 08:25:23

New Lung Association in California Report Assigns Grades to All California Cities and Counties on Key Tobacco Control Policies and Follows Money Trail to See How Tobacco Industry Addicts Children LOS ANGELES, Jan. 16, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- California again falls short in adequately funding tobacco prevention programs to protect children and curb tobacco-caused disease according to the American Lung Association's State of Tobacco Control 2013 report released today. The...

Tobacco Industry Continues to Spend Billions While Public Health Shortchanged

2013-01-16 04:21:34

American Lung Association Annual "State of Tobacco Control Report" reveals tragic money trail leading to tobacco-caused death and disease; federal government largely failing to combat industry tactics WASHINGTON, Jan. 16, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Follow the trail of money misused by policymakers and strategically invested by Big Tobacco in the American Lung Association's "State of Tobacco Control 2013" report released today to discover how the leading cause of preventable...

Graphic Warnings On Cigarettes Effective Across Demographic Groups

2013-01-15 10:42:17

Disadvantaged groups stand to benefit from hard-hitting tobacco warnings Quitting smoking is a common New Year's resolution for Americans each year, but research has repeatedly shown it is not an easy task. Some groups, such as racial/ethnic minorities, have an even harder time quitting. New research suggests hard-hitting graphic tobacco warnings may help smokers of diverse backgrounds who are struggling to quit. A new study by researchers at Legacy® and Harvard School of Public Health...

American Lung Association Releases "State of Tobacco Control 2013" Report January 16, 2013, at 5 a.m. (ET)

2013-01-14 12:25:09

WASHINGTON, Jan. 14, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- WHAT: The American Lung Association is releasing the results of its eleventh annual "State of Tobacco Control" report which tracks progress on key tobacco control policies at the federal and state level, assigning grades based on whether laws are adequately protecting citizens from tobacco-caused disease. This year's report follows the trail of money misused by policymakers and strategically invested by Big Tobacco leading to the...

Smokers Utopia E Cigarette Reviews Covers Chase Cigs Brand E Cigarettes

2013-01-14 02:31:55

WAVERLY, Tenn., Jan. 14, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Smokers Utopia, the most brutal electronic cigarette review site, has made its Chase Cigs Review public. From the history of the website, very few new electronic cigarette companies make the first page of the site. Even though the site may be viewed as brutal, it actually has a common sense approach to reviewing the electronic cigarette as no other site does in the industry. The reviews are fact filled on subjects like warranty, return...

Health Groups Launch Ad Campaign Calling for Smoke-Free Kentucky

2013-01-09 12:24:53

Ads Point Out State Has Nation's Highest Smoking and Lung Cancer Rates LOUISVILLE, Ky., Jan. 9, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Kentucky needs a comprehensive, statewide smoke-free law to protect all Kentuckians from harmful secondhand smoke and reduce smoking's health and economic toll on the state, according to a newspaper and online advertising campaign launched this week by a coalition of public health organizations. (Logo:...

New Poll Finds Millions Of Smokers Nationwide Resolving To Quit In The New Year

2013-01-08 00:20:41

Although underutilized (or overlooked), healthcare providers can provide helpful support and tools to increase a smoker's chance of quitting WASHINGTON, Jan. 8, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- New results from a national online public opinion poll of Americans 18 and older show that 34 percent of smokers plan to quit smoking as a New Year's resolution in 2013. Among survey respondents, only 18 percent reported that quitting smoking was a New Year's resolution in 2012, yet twice as...

Smokers Utopia Reviews Features South Beach Smoke and SmokeTip E Cigarettes

2013-01-04 08:21:25

WAVERLY, Tenn., Jan. 4, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- With Smokers Utopia nothing is off limits when it comes to electronic cigarette reviews and the companies behind them. While other review sites have sales type reviews with nothing but the good, Smokers Utopia covers the dirt on the companies that market them to the public. This week the site announced their South Beach Smoke Review and has just recently updated their SmokeTip Review so that consumers are informed of both the good and...