http://www.mail.com/subjects/4240-smoking.html Mail.com - the best personalized free web-based Email en en http://sec-s.uicdn.com/mail.com/2.28/img/mailcom_logo_rss.png http://www.mail.com/subjects/4240-smoking.html http://www.mail.com/scitech/health/2077388-bold-turkey-woman-hits-cop-to-kick-smoking-habit.html SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Think you've heard of every way possible to quit smoking? Etta Mae Lopez came up with a new one: slap a cop and go to jail, where smoking isn't allowed. Lopez smacked Sacramento County sheriff's Deputy Matt Campoy in the face Tuesday as he left the main jail at the end of his shift. He grabbed her and took her inside the jail, wh... Fri, 10 May 2013 21:48:26 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/health/2077388-bold-turkey-woman-hits-cop-to-kick-smoking-habit.html 2013-05-10T21:48:26Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/health/2036674-nyc-proposes-raising-age-cigarette-purchases.html NEW YORK (AP) — After years of striving to set a national agenda for curbing smoking, New York City may set a new bar by becoming the most populous place in America to raise the minimum age for buying cigarettes to 21. A new proposal would increase the threshold from 18, a federal minimum that is the standard in many places. Four states and some communiti... Tue, 23 Apr 2013 06:40:15 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/health/2036674-nyc-proposes-raising-age-cigarette-purchases.html 2013-04-23T06:40:15Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/health/1991128-fda-longer-use-nicotine-gum.html RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — The Food and Drug Administration says smokers who are trying to quit can safely use over-the counter nicotine gum, patches and lozenges for longer than previously recommended in a move to help millions of Americans kick the habit. Current labels suggest consumers stop smoking or using other products containing nicotine when they begin... Mon, 01 Apr 2013 17:46:43 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/health/1991128-fda-longer-use-nicotine-gum.html 2013-04-01T17:46:43Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/health/1984442-us-launches-batch-graphic-anti-smoking-ads.html NEW YORK (AP) — Government health officials launched the second round of a graphic ad campaign Thursday that is designed to get smokers off tobacco, saying they believe the last effort convinced tens of thousands to quit. The ads feature sad, real-life stories: There is Terrie, a North Carolina woman who lost her voice box. Bill, a diabetic smoker from Mi... Thu, 28 Mar 2013 15:57:32 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/health/1984442-us-launches-batch-graphic-anti-smoking-ads.html 2013-03-28T15:57:32Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/health/1976602-apnewsbreak-ex-surgeon-general-joins-e-cig-board.html RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Former U.S. surgeon general Dr. Richard Carmona, who highlighted the dangers of secondhand smoke and supported a ban on all tobacco products, is joining the board of directors for NJOY Inc., the nation's leading electronic cigarette company — a move that could bring increased legitimacy to e-cigarettes as a viable alternative to traditional cigarettes. ... Sun, 24 Mar 2013 17:43:46 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/health/1976602-apnewsbreak-ex-surgeon-general-joins-e-cig-board.html 2013-03-24T17:43:46Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/health/1964080-nyc-to-bump-tobacco-prime-retail-space.html NEW YORK (AP) — Walk into any convenience store or gas station in the country, and chances are the cigarettes will be in roughly the same spot: at eye level, right behind the cash register. That's no coincidence. Tobacco companies have worked hard, and paid handsomely, to ensure that cigarette displays occupy the retail equivalent of prime real estate. In... Tue, 19 Mar 2013 23:10:23 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/health/1964080-nyc-to-bump-tobacco-prime-retail-space.html 2013-03-19T23:10:23Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/health/1965552-apnewsbreak-us-to-revise-cigarette-warning-labels.html RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — The U.S. government is abandoning a legal battle to require that cigarette packs carry a set of large and often macabre warning labels depicting the dangers of smoking and encouraging smokers to quit. Instead, the Food and Drug Administration will go back to the drawing board and create labels to replace those that included images of ... Tue, 19 Mar 2013 20:56:06 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/health/1965552-apnewsbreak-us-to-revise-cigarette-warning-labels.html 2013-03-19T20:56:06Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/health/1962662-nyc-plan-would-tobacco-products-sight.html NEW YORK (AP) — Cigarettes would have to be kept out of sight in New York City stores under a first-in-the-nation plan unveiled by Mayor Michael Bloomberg on Monday, igniting complaints from retailers and smokers who said they've had enough with the city's crackdowns. Shops from corner stores to supermarkets would have to keep tobacco products in cabinets... Tue, 19 Mar 2013 01:15:36 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/health/1962662-nyc-plan-would-tobacco-products-sight.html 2013-03-19T01:15:36Z http://www.mail.com/business/economy/1951104-philip-morris-intl-ceo-camilleri-to-step.html RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Philip Morris International Inc. said Wednesday that CEO Louis C. Camilleri will step down and be replaced by the man who led it before it became an independent company. The seller of Marlboro and other cigarette brands overseas said its current chief operating officer, Andre Calantzopoulos, will become CEO immediately after the compa... Wed, 13 Mar 2013 15:06:07 GMT http://www.mail.com/business/economy/1951104-philip-morris-intl-ceo-camilleri-to-step.html 2013-03-13T15:06:07Z http://www.mail.com/business/finance/1941486-utah-moves-to-tax-e-cigarettes-regular-smokes.html SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A proposal in the Utah Legislature that would tax electronic cigarettes at the same rate as regular cigarettes has put the state at the forefront of a national movement to regulate the increasingly popular devices. More than 35 proposals calling for some type of regulation of electronic cigarettes have been introduced this year in le... Sat, 09 Mar 2013 01:10:10 GMT http://www.mail.com/business/finance/1941486-utah-moves-to-tax-e-cigarettes-regular-smokes.html 2013-03-09T01:10:10Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/health/1922494-woman-who-smoked-through-hole-throat-dies.html LOS ANGELES (AP) — A woman who smoked a cigarette through a hole in her throat to illustrate her struggle with nicotine addiction in a California public service advertisement has died of cancer, health officials and her family said Wednesday. Debi Austin died Feb. 22 at Valley Presbyterian Hospital in Van Nuys, according to family friend and spokesman Jim... Thu, 28 Feb 2013 18:47:47 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/health/1922494-woman-who-smoked-through-hole-throat-dies.html 2013-02-28T18:47:47Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/health/1915036-koop-who-transformed-surgeon-general-post-dies.html With his striking beard and starched uniform, former Surgeon General Dr. C. Everett Koop became one of the most recognizable figures of the Reagan era — and one of the most unexpectedly enduring. His nomination in 1981 met a wall of opposition from women's groups and liberal politicians, who complained President Ronald Reagan selected Koop, a pediatric su... Tue, 26 Feb 2013 04:04:51 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/health/1915036-koop-who-transformed-surgeon-general-post-dies.html 2013-02-26T04:04:51Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/health/1875088-order-greek-lawmakers-fume-smoking-colleagues.html ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Greek lawmakers are fuming over colleagues who openly flout the country's anti-smoking laws in the very building where the statutes were passed. A cross-party group of 88 representatives wrote to the Parliament speaker Thursday urging action against what they call a "pathetic and infuriating" state of affairs. Greece has one of the E... Thu, 07 Feb 2013 14:39:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/health/1875088-order-greek-lawmakers-fume-smoking-colleagues.html 2013-02-07T14:39:00Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/health/1847828-penalties-smokers-obese-sense.html NEW YORK (AP) — Faced with the high cost of caring for smokers and overeaters, experts say society must grapple with a blunt question: Instead of trying to penalize them and change their ways, why not just let these health sinners die prematurely from their unhealthy habits? Annual health care costs are roughly $96 billion for smokers and $147 billion for... Sat, 26 Jan 2013 22:21:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/health/1847828-penalties-smokers-obese-sense.html 2013-01-26T22:21:00Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/health/1844170-penalty-smokers-health-overhaul.html WASHINGTON (AP) — Millions of smokers could be priced out of health insurance because of tobacco penalties in President Barack Obama's health care law, according to experts who are just now teasing out the potential impact of a little-noted provision in the massive legislation. The Affordable Care Act — "Obamacare" to its detractors — allows health insure... Thu, 24 Jan 2013 20:17:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/health/1844170-penalty-smokers-health-overhaul.html 2013-01-24T20:17:00Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/health/1841554-women-caught-up-to-men-lung-cancer-risk.html Smoke like a man, die like a man. U.S. women who smoke today have a much greater risk of dying from lung cancer than they did decades ago, partly because they are starting younger and smoking more — that is, they are lighting up like men, new research shows. Women also have caught up with men in their risk of dying from smoking-related... Wed, 23 Jan 2013 21:15:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/health/1841554-women-caught-up-to-men-lung-cancer-risk.html 2013-01-23T21:15:00Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/health/1813888-lung-cancer-scans-backed-older-heavy-smokers.html After decades of qualms about lung cancer screening, the American Cancer Society says there now is enough evidence to recommend it, but only for current and former heavy smokers ages 55 to 74 and after a frank talk about risks and benefits. The new guidelines, announced Friday, are a cautious but exciting step against the world's most deadly cancer, docto... Fri, 11 Jan 2013 15:17:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/health/1813888-lung-cancer-scans-backed-older-heavy-smokers.html 2013-01-11T15:17:00Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/health/1810488-indonesia-to-add-photo-warnings-to-cigarette-packs.html JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Indonesia has issued regulations that will require cigarette packets to bear graphic photographic warnings, a long-delayed measure in a country with one of the highest rates of smoking in the world. The regulations were watered down following opposition by tobacco farmers and cigarette companies, and fall far short of those in ma... Thu, 10 Jan 2013 08:44:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/health/1810488-indonesia-to-add-photo-warnings-to-cigarette-packs.html 2013-01-10T08:44:00Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1794726-brain-image-study-fructose-spur-overeating.html This is your brain on sugar — for real. Scientists have used imaging tests to show for the first time that fructose, a sugar that saturates the American diet, can trigger brain changes that may lead to overeating. After drinking a fructose beverage, the brain doesn't register the feeling of being full as it does when simple glucose is consumed, researcher... Tue, 01 Jan 2013 20:05:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1794726-brain-image-study-fructose-spur-overeating.html 2013-01-01T20:05:00Z http://www.mail.com/business/economy/1763580-fda-review-tobacco-products-grinds-to-halt.html RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Talk about a smoke break. Tobacco companies have introduced almost no new cigarettes or smokeless tobacco products in the U.S. in more than 18 months because the federal government has prevented them from doing so, an Associated Press review has found. It's an unprecedented pause for an industry that historically h... Thu, 13 Dec 2012 18:21:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/business/economy/1763580-fda-review-tobacco-products-grinds-to-halt.html 2012-12-13T18:21:00Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/health/1758560-there-arose-clatter-pipe-free-santa.html NEW YORK (AP) — Santa has kicked the habit in time for Christmas. No, not the sugar plum habit, or his fur-wearing habit, or his penchant for romping recklessly around open flame. No, gentlepeople, this is the year the man in red gave up pipe tobacco, at least in a new book version of "Twas the Night Before Christmas" that has received attention from some... Tue, 11 Dec 2012 16:29:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/health/1758560-there-arose-clatter-pipe-free-santa.html 2012-12-11T16:29:00Z http://www.mail.com/news/politics/1727058-judge-orders-tobacco-companies-to-they-lied.html WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal judge on Tuesday ordered tobacco companies to publish corrective statements that say they lied about the dangers of smoking and that disclose smoking's health effects, including the death on average of 1,200 people a day. U.S. District Judge Gladys Kessler previously had said she wanted the industry to pay for corrective statem... Tue, 27 Nov 2012 21:37:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/politics/1727058-judge-orders-tobacco-companies-to-they-lied.html 2012-11-27T21:37:00Z