Workplace smoking bans help smokers cut back, says study
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Employees in workplaces with no smoking restrictions smoke almost five more cigarettes daily than those whose workplaces completely ban smoking, says a study by the University of Toronto&#39;s Ontario Tobacco Research Unit (OTRU).
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A Colorado city ban on smoking at   workplaces and in public buildings may have sparked a steep   decline in heart attacks, researchers reported on Monday.
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Cigarette smoking is more harmful to  women than to men, cutting more than a decade off female  smokers' life expectancy but much less for their male peers,  Dutch government research suggested Monday.
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NEW YORK  - New research from Italy provides additional evidence that banning smoking in public places may help prevent heart attacks, at least over the short term.
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MONDAY, Nov. 29 (HealthDayNews) -- The largest study of its kind has come up with hard, cold numbers that pinpoint the risk of lung cancer for smokers and former smokers.
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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released a new report Wednesday, showing a slight drop in adult smoking from 2002-2003.
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Campaigners say a ban on smoking in public places could save more lives than new anti-cancer drugs.
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Licensees in Scotland are being told a ban on smoking in workplaces could cost jobs.
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Scotland's five-month old smoking ban is   hitting pubs and bingo clubs, two British companies reported on   Friday, giving investors more clues what to expect when similar   legislation comes into force in England next year.
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The level of cancer-causing particles in the air is much higher in smoky bars and casinos than on truck-filled highways and city streets, according to the first study comparing indoor air quality before and after a smoking ban.
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TORONTO (CP) - Bar and corner-store owners winced while anti-tobacco activists celebrated Wednesday as the Ontario government introduced a provincewide ban on smoking, part of what it considers the toughest anti-tobacco strategy on the continent.
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An intensive stop-smoking program with at least three months of counseling and free drugs can help smokers kick the habit, U.S. researchers reported on Monday.
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Bar staff are exposed to 86% less smoke after the ban on smoking in enclosed public places, a study suggests.
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(InfoWorld) - Where there's smoke, there's a door. A U.K. security company is warning that smokers may impact IT security, leaving open doors that could let in intruders who could abuse a company's network. It may sound slightly far-fetched. But a penetration tester from NTA Monitor, a company based in Rochester, England, gained access to a professional services company outside London that way, said Roy Hills, technical director. The company hired NTA to test if it was possible to get inside the premises without proper identification, Hills said. The penetration tester waited until the smokers finished their break, then slipped in through the unlocked door, which wasn't the main one but publicly accessible. The tester -- who skirted past other employees by saying the IT department had sent him -- made his way to a meeting room, where he hooked up his laptop to the company's VOIP (voice over Internet Protocol) network, Hills said. The tester could have launched a denial-of-service attack or intercepted phone calls. However, the VOIP network was segregated from the company's data network, a wise precaution IT managers can take, Hills said. "It's much more dangerous if you can get on to the data network, copy data and be gone," Hills said. Regulations that create smoke-free buildings or zones in some areas of the U.S. and Europe have driven smokers outside. In the U.K., a ban on smoking in buildings and facilities used by the public will come into effect in April in Wales and Northern Ireland, and in July in England. Scotland banned public smoking in March 2006. The ban includes smoking in train stations, restaurants and pubs, among other places.
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The British government will today outline proposals to ban smoking in all restaurants, cafes and most pubs in England. The proposed ban is part of a wide-ranging white paper on public health which is being published today.
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Anti-smoking ads can have the opposite effect of what is intended and encourage the habit, a study says.
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Non-smokers reveled. Some smokers grumbled. But others pondered kicking the habit as France's smoking ban went into effect Tuesday with the start of the new year. Owners of bars, restaurants, nightclubs and cafes, where smoking is now prohibited, worried it would be bad for business.