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??Who likes a smoke?????GREECE has the highest smoking rate in the world, with each person puffing over eight cigarettes every day according to ERC, a market-research company. Of the 123 countries surveyed, 17 European countries feature in the top 20. Smoking rates tend to decline when countries get wealthier, thanks to higher taxes, bans and [...]
??ON APRIL 1st America’s government announced a big increase in taxes on cigarettes. Federal taxes leapt from 39 cents to .01 a packet. American smokers also pay state taxes ranging from 17 cents in Missouri to a whopping .75 in New York. Anti-smoking campaigners argue that higher taxes encourage smokers to quit and deter others [...]
One in every 25 deaths worldwide can be linked to diseases or injuries related to alcohol consumption, concludes a Canadian-led study, which equates the libation’s burden of harm to that of smoking almost a decade ago.????In 2004, the most recent year for which global statistics are available, 3.8 per cent of all deaths were attributable [...]
According to the Southeast Farm Press, organic tobacco is “the biggest growth area in US tobacco production.” The stuff fetches about twice the price as regular tobacco on the open market. “Any tobacco without pesticide residues is more attractive than conventional in the current market,” said organic tobacco producer Micou Browne.
Browne’s company, Organic Smoke Inc., [...]
The World Health Organization released its 2008 World Cancer Report Tuesday, and the numbers show that developing countries that adopt increasingly Westernized lifestyles and tobacco use are catching up to developed nations in the number of cancer deaths annually.
By 2010 cancer will surpass heart disease, AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis as the leading killer in the [...]
Cancer will surpass heart disease as the world’s number one killer by 2010, with poorer countries set to suffer most from the trend due to smoking, high-fat diets and other factors, international health experts warned Tuesday.
Some 12 million new cancer cases will be diagnosed this year and more than seven million people will die from [...]
In a paper to be published in Nature Genetics on 2nd November, a worldwide consortium of investigators present a major breakthrough for understanding the genetic basis of lung cancer.
The results are based on the largest genetic study of lung cancer ever conducted, and was organised by the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC, Lyon, [...]
Each year on 4 February, WHO joins with the sponsoring International Union Against Cancer to promote ways to ease the global burden of cancer. Preventing cancer and raising quality of life for cancer patients are recurring themes.
The majority of these cancers are found too late, causing many people to die within five years of finding out they have cancer. There exists much information addressing issues related to the patient who has undergone surgery or chemotherapy but little information related to early diagnosis and referral. In a new article in the Journal [...]
The European Commission has relaxed a range of duty free allowances for travellers entering the European Union, while also giving Member States the option to impose tighter restrictions on tobacco products.
The rules apply to non-EU countries or those areas that are not part of the EU customs union, including Gibraltar, the Canary Islands and the [...]
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