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Study: Skin cancer risk higher for smokers

admin — Fri, 30 Dec 2011 08:02:28 +0000

Jim Hatfield has smoked since he was 10 years old and doesn’t have quitting on his list of New Year’s resolutions. But he knows he will stop smoking one of these days. “Yeah, I will,” Hatfield, 65, of Clayton, N.M., said as he finished a Liggett Select cigarette in the Westgate Mall parking lot Thursday afternoon. “When they put me in the ground, I’ll definitely have to quit.” About 30 percent of cancer deaths in the U.S. are caused by smoking, Texas Oncology physician Phillip Periman said, and the risks of smoking are by no means limited to lung cancer. Hatfield’s wife and fel ... Jump to full article >>

Tobacco industry ropes in teen smokers

admin — Fri, 07 Oct 2011 12:08:09 +0000

As PR spokesperson for Altria Client Services in corporate responsibility, it is disingenuous for Paige Magness to give the impression that the tobacco industry is no longer targeting minors, and that it has their health and best interests at heart (Tobacco firms don’t want kids to smoke, Readers’ Letters, Sept. 8). To say so is totally irresponsible. After all, it is minors that the industry has always focused on in order to create lifetime consumers of their products. Only because the industry has been forced to concede its deception in court battles has it had to change its ways in the ... Jump to full article >>

Charlie Sheen Boosts E-Cigarette Sales

admin — Fri, 22 Apr 2011 08:31:30 +0000

Charlie Sheen avoided breaking strict Toronto smoking laws by using an e-cigarette boosted sales for one of the most popular e-cigarette companies, South Beach Smoke. Charlie Sheen’s tour, “My Violent Torpedo of Truth/Defeat is Not an Option Show” stopped in Toronto April 14th. The venue for this event, Massey Hall, informed Sheen that smoking a cigarette backstage could force them to shut down the show and have him face up to $100,000 in city fines. He reportedly pulled out an electronic cigarette like the products sold by South Beach Smoke and used it to legally avoid the fine and sho ... Jump to full article >>

Worse for wear Lindsay Lohan TRIES to keep it under her hat at the Coachella festival

admin — Mon, 18 Apr 2011 10:17:18 +0000

Due in court next week on theft charges, you would think Lindsay Lohan might want to keep a low profile for a while. But the 24-year-old actress clearly couldn’t resist the temptation to check out some bands at the Coachella music festival. Unfortunately, the strain of recent weeks seem to have taken a toll on Lindsay, who looked distinctly worse for wear as she strolled through the crowds in Indio, California. Wearing a black patterned playsuit and a cropped pink jacket, Lindsay made a half hearted attempt to hide her bleary eyes with her cream hat. But she couldn’t disguise what ... Jump to full article >>

Hippie hip!

admin — Wed, 06 Apr 2011 11:04:47 +0000

Bipasha Basu on being Dum Maaro Dum’s Zoe and why she’s chosen to clam up about John and Rana Dum Maaro Dum looks really fresh. What was your experience like working on it? Well, Dum Maaro Dum is shot in Goa. Goa is one of my most favourite destinations in the world. But (director) Rohan Sippy is a tough taskmaster and he didn’t give us much time to have fun. Our schedule was also very tight and we had to work for long hours. But we did have a lot of fun on the sets. Everyone was really chilled out. Dum Maaro Dum is a new-age thriller. What is coming across as fresh to you is primarily ... Jump to full article >>

Jeremy Irons: ‘Smokers should have rights like disabled people and children’

admin — Tue, 05 Apr 2011 16:21:38 +0000

Smokers deserve the same protection as disabled people and children, Jeremy Irons has said. The actor, who is a smoker, made the startling remark as he attacked new laws in New York that restrict lighting up in public. Mayor Michael Bloomberg has brought in sweeping changes to try and improve the health of the city but has been met with harsh criticism. Irons, 62, is one of the most high-profile people to have spoken out on behalf of smokers’ rights after the ban in 1,700 parks, public squares and beaches, including Central Park and Times Square. Mr Bloomberg, a reformed smoker, introduc ... Jump to full article >>

Tobacco companies misled public

admin — Tue, 05 Apr 2011 07:36:45 +0000

DELAND — For more than three decades, the tobacco industry used public relations strategies to keep people smoking, a professor of history at Stanford University testified Monday. In the first local tobacco lawsuit trial since the Florida Supreme Court opened a floodgate of individual smoker suits in 2006, Dr. Robert Proctor testified about the “history of what the tobacco industry knew and didn’t know.” Starting with explorer Christopher Columbus, whose sailors had a hard time putting down tobacco, Proctor described memos, media interviews and studies — paid for ... Jump to full article >>

Prince Harry falls off the wagon as he is spotted smoking while on charity walk with war heroes

admin — Mon, 04 Apr 2011 08:09:22 +0000

Prince Harry has once again fallen off the wagon in his bid to stop smoking after he was photographed puffing away on a cigarette. He has made several attempts to quit, but it appears he just can’t kick the habit as he enjoys a drag on some Marlboro Golds while on his Walking with the Wounded challenge in the North Pole. The third in line to the throne reportedly started smoking when he was at 14 while he was at Eton. In 2003, when he left Eton, he was seen smoking contentedly in public for the first time while at a polo match at Cirencester. His habit has been met with disapproval and ... Jump to full article >>

Michelle Obama’s Former Congressional District Dead Last for ‘Healthy Behavior’

admin — Fri, 01 Apr 2011 10:01:42 +0000

As First Lady she has fought against American’s bulging waistlines in a nationwide healthy eating campaign that has divided critics. But Michelle Obama may want to focus her message a little closer to home after it emerged today her own Illinois neighbourhood has been ranked last in the U.S. in a key health survey. A nationwide Gallup-Healthways poll assessing eating and lifestyle habits ranked Illinois’ 1st Congressional District 430 out of 436 overall and last for ‘healthy behaviour.’ The figure was down from the district’s ranking of 408th for ‘healthy behav ... Jump to full article >>

Big Tobacco on trial: Lake Worth widow seeks millions for death of her husband

admin — Fri, 01 Apr 2011 07:42:54 +0000

WEST PALM BEACH — Even when he was coughing up blood and knew he was dying from lung cancer, Dominick Tullo still wanted a cigarette. If that’s not addiction, an attorney for Tullo’s widow asked a jury Thursday, what is? The Palm Beach County jury’s answer to that question will be key to whether four tobacco giants will be forced to pay 87-year-old Mary Tullo millions for the loss of her husband of 51 years. Dominick Tullo, a New York City native who spent the last decade of his life in Lake Worth, succumbed to lung cancer in 1998 at age 74. To win, attorney Steven Hammer m ... Jump to full article >>