Passive smoking probe planned
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As Northern Ireland prepares for a smoking ban, health officials launch a large-scale study of passive smoking.
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By Cao, Wenqing; Duan, Yixiang  Due to the great potentials in clinical diagnosis, disease state monitoring, and environmental exposure assessment, the breath test is becoming one of the most desirable noninvasive procedures for clinical diagnostics.
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Astana. November 10. KAZINFORM. Medical chiefs have urged Scottish ministers to take the lead in the UK and ban smoking in public places.
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Today is the American Cancer Society&#39;s 28th Great American Smokeout. The event is certainly a smoke-out -- clean air laws kick smokers outdoors for their nicotine fixes.
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One in 10 people keep their smoking habits from loved ones, doctors or employers, a survey suggests.
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A new laser analyzer might be able to help doctors detect cancer, asthma or other diseases by sampling a patient's breath, U.S. researchers reported on Tuesday.
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Drivers could be prosecuted for smoking if they are judged not to be in full control of their vehicle, according to the latest version of the Highway Code, released on Friday.
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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 health secretary is today expected to detail new restrictions on smokers in a move which could see smoking banned in the vast majority of pubs and all restaurants in England and Wales.
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Nicotine vaccine looks to help smokers kick the habit.
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By Jeff Overley, The Orange County Register, Calif.  Sep. 14--Eventually, the marine layer might be the only haze hanging over  Orange County beaches.    County health and environmental officials are pursuing a plan to stamp  out cigarettes on all seven miles of county sand.
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By The Idaho Statesman, Boise  Sep. 11--Free tobacco cessation classes are planned in Boise and Nampa.   The classes, which run for five weeks on Mondays and Tuesdays, begin Monday in Boise at the American Cancer Society, 2676 S.
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PARIS  - A lab owned by US tobacco giant Philip Morris uncovered evidence in the early 1980s about potential risks from passive smoking but its findings were never made public, a study charges.
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Older male smokers and ex-smokers  should get at least one ultrasound scan to make sure they do  not have a developing aneurysm near the heart, a team of U.S.  experts advised on Monday.
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Children exposed to passive smoking are likely to do worse at school than their peers, research suggests.
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A new study conducted by researchers at New York-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center suggests that a social smoker age 50 or older has a risk for developing lung cancer similar to that of a smoker under age 50 who smoked three packs a day
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Even brief exposure to secondhand smoke  in bars and restaurants can result in measurable levels of a  toxin in workers&#39; bodies that is known to cause lung cancer,  U.S. researchers said on Thursday.