States Urged to Spend More to Cut Smoking Rate
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The U.S. government's effort to cut the adult smoking rate to 12 percent or less by 2010 will fail unless most states increase funding for anti-tobacco programs, federal health officials said on Wednesday.
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According to the American Cancer Society, smoking will cause about 30 percent of the 563,700 cancer deaths this year. The American Cancer Society also reports that
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The World Health Organization is urging Southeast Asian nations to strengthen curbs on tobacco trade. Shigeru Omi, the WHO regional director for the Western Pacific, told a conference of the Association of
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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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State and local governments should ban smoking in malls, restaurants and virtually all other public indoor settings and the Food and Drug Administration should regulate the marketing, packaging and sale of tobacco products, the influential Institute of Medicine said in a report today on how to...
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More Americans than ever before are surviving cancer and rates in general are falling, mostly because fewer people are smoking, the American Cancer Society reported on Wednesday.
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By Terry Rindfleisch, La Crosse Tribune, Wis.  Feb. 21--When people talk about a statewide smoke-free workplace law, Doug Mormann understands the politics but wishes legislators and others would be more concerned about public health.
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California voters by nearly a 2-to-1 majority would support increasing their state's cigarette tax by $2 per pack to help raise cash for a state effort to provide health-care insurance to the uninsured, according to the latest Field Poll released on Friday.
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Rockford, Illinois- If you&#39;re a smoker and you&#39;d like to quit, your chance to kick the habit and get some major support is coming up.
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China, home to one in three of the world's smokers, is set to see a huge rise in its health care costs as a lack of education and the government's vested interests frustrate prevention efforts, the World Health Organisation (WHO) warned.
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Pinning down exact numbers is difficult, but behavioral and supportive therapies increase success rates for people who want to quit smoking, the American Cancer Society says.
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THURSDAY, Jan. 13 (HealthDayNews) -- States are not doing enough to prevent cervical cancer.
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Over eight million smokers are being asked to quit &quot;cold turkey.&quot; It is part of the American Cancer Society&#39;s 28th Annual Great American Smoke-Out.
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Health officials are considering new moves to crack down on smoking now that lighting up has been banned in bars. Increasing tobacco taxes tops the list as usual, but one new idea is to
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NEW YORK  - Nicotine replacement therapy can help teens quit or at least cut back on smoking, research suggests.
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WASHINGTON - The nation&#39;s governors urged President Bush on Wednesday to spare states the costs of Medicaid in an effort to reduce the federal deficit.
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The legal smoking age should be raised from 16 to 18 to stop young people taking up the habit, a BBC poll suggests.