North Today: Smoke Danger
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PEOPLE in the North-East are unaware of the multitude of poisonous chemicals found in cigarette smoke, according to a survey released by Cancer Research UK yesterday.   Smoke from cigarettes contains some 4,000 chemicals, 69 of which are known to cause cancer.
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"The Soviet-era practice of issuing appeasing bureaucratic reports instead of taking professional measures, and concealing the actual situation instead of honestly informing the public, can no longer be accepted in Ukraine"  The number of people sickened by smoke from a derailed train's chemical fire reached 152 on Thursday, and Ukraine's transport minister suggested that safety violations caused the accident. via HendersonvilleNews.com
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Fire officers warn that having a festive tipple greatly increases the risk of causing a fatal house blaze.
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The American Cancer Society&#39;s Great American Smokeout took place yesterday, the third Thursday of November, challenging smokers to smoke less or quit smoking for that day.
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The majority of smokers don&#39;t know the facts about what&#39;s in their cigarettes and how these ingredients may be harming them.
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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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Gentler winds and cooler weather expected to give firefighters chance to control fires.
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Thick acrid smoke rising from stoves and fires inside homes causes around 1.6m deaths a year in developing countries, say experts.
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LOS ANGELES -- A Red Flag Warning signifying a high risk of fire will be in effect Tuesday in the mountains and valleys of Los Angeles County because of a combination of Santa Ana winds and very low humidity.
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HELOTES, Tex. -- The smoke comes and goes with the breeze, but some days it blankets Deanna Rodriguez's neighborhood, covering cars in grimy ash and seeping inside homes. Some days, when the wind blows from the south, her house becomes almost uninhabitable.
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Have you ever visited New York on a hot day and seen that haze that appears to hover at the end the street? Is it diesel exhaust? The Con Ed plant? A Korean barbecue?
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FREDERICTON - The New Brunswick Health Department is trying to clear the air about the province&#39;s new smoking ban as the countdown begins to for public places to go smoke free.
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BIG TIMBER, Mont. - Heavy smoke has slowed firefighters battling a 280-square-mile wildfire and also prompted air-quality warnings for much of western Montana.
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By Jenni Laidman, The Blade, Toledo, Ohio  Feb. 20--Black smoke billows across the Maumee River from a fast-moving factory fire.
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A House office building was evacuated Tuesday after witnesses saw signs of smoke.
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Smokers bemoaning the new ban on lighting up in pubs and other indoor public spaces in England have a new sanctuary: Stoke-on-Trent.
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&quot;No cigarettes please,&quot; comes the request, &quot;as the smoke can interfere with our spirit photography.&quot; It is nearly midnight, a few days before Hallowe'en, in the self-styled most haunted city in Britain, and the ghost hunters are getting to work.