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A new European Commission study finds that 30 percent of Europeans over the age of 16 admit to smoking, with Greece topping the list as the country with the highest percentage of smokers.
The majority of the 26,500 Europeans polled in the study that reported smoking said they did so regularly, with only 5 percent calling [...]
Philip Morris International’s chief executive got a 68 percent raise in his 2008 compensation as he oversaw the spin-off of the world’s biggest non-governmental cigarette maker into a standalone company.
CEO Louis Camilleri was given compensation valued at .9 million, according to an Associated Press analysis of a regulatory filing made Thursday.
Richard Nixon may be better remembered for the Watergate scandal, but 35 years after he was forced out of the White House, the world is benefiting from a more positive, if over-ambitious, aspect of his presidency: the “war on cancer”.
In the nearly 40 years since his 1971 pledge “to launch an intensive campaign to find [...]
Ronald Davis, MD, age 52, passed away November 6, 2008 after a courageous 10-month battle with pancreatic cancer. Ron’s star shone very brightly, albeit too briefly in the medical community. He graduated medical school from the University of Chicago, where he also received a Master of Arts in Public Policy Studies. He trained at the [...]
Data synthesis: We identified 15 relevant studies (from 1988), set in North America, the UK and Australasia. The available data indicates that, for the jurisdictions with data, there is majority public support for laws requiring cars that contain children to be smokefree. There appears to be an increase over time in this support. In five [...]
The sheep, the lemmings and the appeasers within the Trade said it could never happen. The government itself along with it’s minions and the entire puritan health industry insisted it was not possible.
But it’s true. It seems that at last the UK smoking ban has been amended to legally allow indoor smoking rooms and lounges, [...]
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Ron Davis
Ronald Davis, aged 52, passed away November 6, 2008 after a courageous 10-month battle with pancreatic cancer. . . .
2008 Spanish treatment consensus
New national report now published.
This collaboration between the national committee for the prevention of tabaquismo (CNPT) and the Ministry of Health was launched in late 2008. . . .
Smoker [...]
Imperial Tobacco Group Plc, Europe’s second-largest traded cigarette maker, said business so far this fiscal year is meeting company forecasts due to gains in Asia, the Middle East, and Africa.
The company is “on track” to deliver 180 million euros (2.6 million) in cost cuts and efficiencies by the end of the fiscal year in September, [...]
BEN: I think it’s not a good idea. I appreciate the concept, but I think it really almost infringes on people’s rights to do something such as smoke if they so desire. I’m not a smoker myself, but if I go into a bar I have no problem whatsoever with people smoking. In this way, [...]
Workers who toil in tobacco fields have suffered quietly for years from a type of acute nicotine poisoning called green tobacco sickness.
Now, the world’s biggest tobacco companies — under pressure from human-rights and farm-labor activists — are publicly acknowledging the health risks associated with green tobacco sickness and taking steps designed to help prevent it.
At [...]
A nonsmoker is forced to find food, but for a smoker breakfast can be a cigarette and a cup of bad coffee.
— Brock Fiant
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