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Group-based smoking cessation help US inmates quit tobacco

Behavioral and nicotine replacement therapies offered together can help people who are incarcerated quit smoking, according to Rutgers researchers. "Smokers who are incarcerated, similar to other marginalized populations who smoke, lack the necessary skills to quit and have limited access to treatment options," said Pamela Valera, an assistant professor in the Department of Urban-Global Public Health at the Rutgers School of Public Health. "Without smoke cessation resources and treatment, only 5 percent of those who quit will achieve long-term success."

2020-07-31
medicalxpress.com

Vaping linked with heart problems

In adolescents the use of e-cigarettes doubles the risk of starting to smoke traditional cigarettes, states a position paper [...] "Vaping is marketed towards teenagers and the tobacco industry uses celebrities to promote it as being healthier than smoking," said senior author Professor Maja-Lisa Løchen of UiT The Arctic University of Norway, Tromsø. "Legislation on the marketing and sales of e-cigarettes varies enormously between countries," said Professor Løchen. "Action is urgently needed to halt the growing use in young people. The World Health Organization (WHO) states that e-cigarettes are harmful to health."

2020-07-31
eurekalert.org

Pressure Tactics | How Big Tobacco Soured Vaping at C-Store

OCSA’s membership totals over 3,000 independently run C-Stores in Ontario and the association advocates on behalf of the entire sector of 6,000 family-run stores. In this episode of RegWatch learn about the pressure tactics which Bryans says big tobacco is using to maneuverer around the quickly changing regulatory environment and find out how new restrictions on the sale of vaping products represent a lost opportunity to communicate the virtues of vaping as an alternative to smoking.

2020-07-31
regulatorwatch.com

Health ministry issues advisory against smoking and chewing tobacco, claims it as a high-risk factor in Covid-19 spread

The Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare has issued an advisory on Tuesday that warned people against believing in a non-peer-reviewed study from France that claimed smokers are less vulnerable to contracting Covid-19. The study came about 3 months ago. The Ministry in its advisory claimed that contrary to the study findings, smoking nicotine or tobacco products increases the risk and severity of respiratory infections including Covid-19. This is because the act of smoking involves contacting fingers with lips which increases the risk of the COVID transmission in the body.

2020-07-31
theindianwire.com

BATSA says cigarette ban an ‘exercise in smoke and mirrors’ in court filing

South Africa’s largest cigarette manufacturer, British American Tobacco, says the state’s justification for banning the sale of tobacco products during lockdown is an “exercise in smoke and mirrors” that has produced “few benefits and immense harm”. BATSA is set to challenge the ban in the Western Cape High Court next month. The government defeated an earlier court challenge to unban cigarettes from the Fair Trade Independent Tobacco Association in June, with the court ruling that it fell within the powers of the state under the Disaster Management Act to ban the sale of tobacco.

2020-07-30
citizen.co.za

FDA Cigar/Pipe Warnings Go Up in Smoke

We light up a cigar maybe once a month. Of course, they’re no damned good for us. If we had any doubts, the headache and swamp-breath the next day would remove them. Still, a spirit of convivial dissipation tells us to smoke’em if we’ve got’em. No need to warn us off cigars, or the inevitable accompaniments of brown liquor, rich food, and bad behavior. That would be futile.

2020-07-30
lexology.com

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