Health Groups Applaud Ethical Investment Bill
Scoop - Tobacco smoking kills around 5000 New Zealanders each year from direct smoking and exposure to second-hand smoke. - By the year 2030, tobacco use is likely to be the world s leading cause of death and disability, killing more than 10 million
Stubbing it out: The smoking debate
Daily Mail - The cancer societies object to this study on bases which would invalidate every prior study of second hand smoke ever performed. It is a complete and crushing disregard for ordinary personal liberty to outlaw public smoking even if it *were* harmful
Grand Rapids City Commission approves smoking ban
WOOD - He said he has done the research, and he is not convinced second-hand smoke is as dangerous as the Surgeon General and others claim. Leaders of the anti-smoking coalition pushing the city’s ban admit that there is a lot of contradictory information
One in four smokers doomed to get incurable lung disease
News-Medical.Net - Other risk factors include air pollution, second-hand smoke, history of childhood respiratory infections and heredity factors. Occupational exposure to certain industrial pollutants also increases the odds for COPD. The study examined information on
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Halifax Today - The smoking ban will be good news for those who don’t enjoy a cigarette and allow us to avoid the dangers of inhaling second hand smoke that are as dangerous as if we were hardened tobacco lovers. The awards were developed by the popular Yorkshire