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Health Groups Applaud Ethical Investment Bill

We’d like to see the Government put forward a bill so this issue is not subject to the uncertainties of the Private Member’s ballot ...
They were the New Zealand Superannuation Fund, the Government Superannuation Fund, the National Provident Fund, the Accident Compensation Corporation and the Earthquake Commission[1 ...
Cancer Society of New Zealand spokesperson Belinda Hughes says the NZ Government should never have permitted investment in the tobacco industry in the first place ...
Adopting a policy to exclude tobacco companies from all public investment funds is a simple and acceptable solution ...
This is the only industry that sells a product that when used exactly as the manufacturer intends will likely kill you,” says Smokefree Coalition Director Mark Peck ...

Proposition 86: It's all good

The only people who really hate Proposition 86 are big tobacco and their sycophants ...
Saving money on your health insurance and taxes — we all pay for sick smokers ...
Polls show more than 60 percent of Californians favor Proposition 86 ...
Tobacco is easily the greatest preventable cause of disability, disease and death on the planet, killing more than AIDS, alcohol, illegal drugs and car crashes all put together ...
The Heart, Lung and Cancer Societies sponsor Proposition 86, and it’s endorsed by our local hospital staffs, League of Women Voters, the San Luis Obispo Chamber of Commerce, SLO County Board of Supervisors and the SLO County and California Medical Associations ...

Nicotine Replacement Therapy May Hurt Critically Ill

In some critically ill patients, the development of nicotine withdrawal symptoms can worsen their prognosis ...
Nicotine replacement therapy -- commonly used to fight nicotine withdrawal in people trying to quit smoking -- appears to increase the risk of death for critically ill smokers admitted to hospital intensive care units (ICUs), say Mayo Clinic College of Medicine researchers ...
As a result, NRT is given to active smokers in the ICU to prevent nicotine withdrawal symptoms," lead researcher Dr ...
The findings of this study are intriguing and reinforce the need for additional research regarding the effects of nicotine replacement therapy on patients in the ICU," ACCP President ...
The study was expected to be presented this week at the American College of Chest Physicians annual meeting, in Salt Lake City ...

Smoking Cessation Therapy May Be Harmful for ICU Patients

lead researcher Amy Lee, MD, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine, Minneapolis ...
A common smoking cessation therapy used to help reduce adverse events associated with nicotine withdrawal may actually increase the risk of death for smokers admitted to the intensive care unit (ICU ...
patients who smoke can present a significant challenge to the ICU team ...
researchers caution that, because of other conditions that mimic nicotine ...
ethnicity, and severity of illness measured by APACHE III prognostic model ...

Study: Scans May Find Lung Cancer Sooner

That increased to 88 percent if the cancer was detected in an early stage, and to 92 percent if such patients had surgery within a month of diagnosis ...
The vast majority will die, largely because the disease is found too late for treatment to do much good ...
Until there is proof, patients considering screening should ask their doctors about the pros and cons, said Dr ...
Only 16 percent of cases in the United States are detected in Stage 1, when tumors are still confined to the lung ...

Anti-smoking and brimstone

Nonetheless, Caffee said about half the women who attend her presentations prohibit smoking in their homes immediately ...
Homes of African-Americans are least likely to be tobacco-free, according to a University of San Francisco study ...
Knight said he has made the grounds of the church smoke-free, and said the challenge now is follow Caffee's lead ...

Gay/Lesbian sexual orientation increases risk for cigarette smoking and heavy drinking among members of a large Northern California health plan

This is despite the fact that in this study population, the gay and lesbian samples were better educated than the heterosexual comparisons ...
Gilman SE, Cochran SD, Mays VM, Hughes M, Ostrow D, Kessler RC: Risk of psychiatric disorders among individuals reporting same-sex sexual partners in the National Comorbidity Survey ...
Smoking -related disease s include many types of cancer, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease , coronary heart disease , stroke, peripheral vascular disease and peptic ulcer disease [1 ...
A comparison of the demographic characteristics of the heterosexual and gay/lesbian samples is shown in Table 1 ...
Background and significance Tobacco and alcohol use and related morbidity and mortality are critical public health problems ...

$79.5M in punitive damages at core of Supreme Court case

The scheme was damaging the health of a very large group of Oregonians — the smoking public — and was killing a number of that group ...
Washington lawyer Mark Levy, who follows decisions concerning punitive damages, says that suggests that their replacements, Roberts and Alito, could tip the court's vote either way in assessing whether the award in the Williams case was excessive ...
In recent years, however, the court has begun to rein in awards by setting criteria for punitive damages ...
The lawsuit that Mayola Williams filed was among many claims filed against tobacco companies in recent years, but one of the few to lead to a multimillion-dollar judgment ...
Voting 6-3, the court invalidated a $145 million award levied by a jury that had found that the State Farm insurance company acted in bad faith by not settling claims against a policyholder who was involved in a fatal accident ...

Support group fights the stigma of lung cancer

Dana's death becomes a dramatic reminder that lung cancer strikes even non-smokers ...
So when I breathe, it doesn’t go straight up…you know when wind goes around the corner and you get that ...
If somebody tells me they have cervical cancer, the first thing I say to them is not ‘What sort of sexually transmitted disease do you have?’ You just don't do that ...
Three years ago , while living in another state, Cecilia suffered excruciating pain in her right shoulder ...
When 44-year-old Dana Reeve sang Madison Square Garden earlier this year, she showed no sign she was battling lung cancer ...

Minister Launches Lung Cancer Awareness Month, UK

Dr Steve Boorman, Royal Mail's Director of Corporate and Social Responsibility, said ...
Lung Cancer Awareness Month is supported by: Roy Castle Lung Cancer Foundation; Macmillan Cancer Support; Cancer Research UK; Cancer Backup; British Lung Foundation; Men's Health Forum; Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain; National Electronic ...
To highlight the symptoms of lung cancer health minister Rosie Winterton today launched Lung Cancer Awareness Month at the Royal Mail's South London Mail Centre, where she heard first hand the experiences of lung cancer patients and met representatives from Royal Mail, the voluntary sector and health professionals ...