Smoking News

Nov. 19--The American Cancer Society asks smokers to give up the habit for one day today as part of the Great American Smokeout.

"With recent news that adult smoking rates have remained unchanged since 2004, and research showing that a clear majority of smokers want to quit, we urge smokers to mark today's 34th Great American Smokeout by making a quit plan and finding out about free resources that help them quit successfully.

Public health advocates foresee a perfect storm heading to Ohio next year that could increase smoking rates, gut enforcement of the indoor smoking ban and allow Big Tobacco to lure children into using new, mint-flavored tobacco products.

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. - Finding a spot to light up at Purdue University won't be too easy starting next year.

"Consumerist reports that Apple is refusing to work on computers that have been used in smoking households .

Good news for smokers struggling to quit - an injectable vaccine has been developed that may help you kick the habit.

To celebrate the upcoming ban on smoking in restaurants, Virginia's Health Commissioner today called on Virginians to show their support for the new law and local businesses by dining at their favorite smoke-free restaurants.

By NATHANIEL JONES ARLINGTON - Starting in August 2011, smoking will be banned at the University of Texas at Arlington, President James Spaniolo said Friday.The school is the first four-year college in the region to forbid tobacco use campuswide.'Many of us remember a time when smoking was commonplace in offices, malls, airplanes, public ...

The American Cancer Society says today is the perfect day to kick the habit. Today marks the 34th annual 'Great American Smoke-out'. Former smokers made a stop at Louisiana Delta Community College to speak to students about the dangers of lighting up.

Prospective employees at a central Pennsylvania hospital chain will now be tested for nicotine when they apply for jobs.

The American Cancer Society wants Thursday, November 19th, to be the day for smokers to kick the habit.

Why you need to stop smoking now, especially if you're going under soon. Content courtesy of the American Society of Anesthesiologists November 19, 2009 If you smoke, anesthesiologists recommend that you stop smoking before surgery and stay off cigarettes until at least one week after surgery.

The research team describes the study as the first to show that "cigarettes themselves could be the direct source of exposure to a wide array of potentially pathogenic microbes among smokers and other people exposed to secondhand smoke." Still, the researchers caution that the public health implications are unclear and urge further research.

A total of 606 people have been sanctioned for smoking while on the train in Bulgaria since the beginning of the year, Bulgarian news agency BTA said.

A recent study determined there is a significant risk of seizure for individuals who currently smoke cigarettes.

Health groups are celebrating after a bill was passed allowing the Alberta government to sue tobacco companies for health-care costs associated with tobacco-related diseases.

Confronted with a public smoking ban, higher sin taxes and more anti-smoking efforts, fewer Ohioans are lighting up.

The tobacco ban at the University of Kentucky includes outdoor areas and applies to chew, pipes, cigars and snuff as well as cigarettes.

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. -- Purdue University has backed away from a total ban on smoking on its main campus and instead will limit it to specific areas while prohibiting smoking in university motor vehicles.

The study, thought to be the first to assess levels of a nicotine byproduct known as cotinine in nonsmokers exposed to second-hand smoke outdoors, found levels up to 162 percent greater than in the control group.