The research presented at the American Stroke Association’s International Stroke Conference 2010.
Researchers reported on two new studies from the Familial Intracranial Aneurysm (FIA) project, a multinational collaboration funded by the National Institutes of Neurological Disorders and Stroke to study genetic and other risk factors in families with at least two members affected by intracranial aneurysm.
State Rep. Charlie Brown’s bid to ban smoking in all public places across Indiana has been revived.
The House of Representatives added the statewide smoking ban language Wednesday to a Senate bill dealing with public health laws.
The ban would apply to public places, enclosed areas of employment and all state-owned vehicles.
House lawmakers endorsed the bill on second reading, and a final vote could be taken today.
“Everyone in here has to know about the dreaded disease of second-hand smoke,” Brown, D-Gary, told his colleagues.
Obesity is now a bigger overall threat to people’s health than smoking, according to results of the longest continuing health study of adults in the United States.
Obesity causes as much or more disease than tobacco, says the study, conducted by researchers from Columbia University and the City College of New York. It adds while smoking rates are starting to decline, obesity now shortens as many or even more healthy lifespans than tobacco use.
“Health impacts of obesity are, in many ways, much larger, than the health impacts of smoking,” said Arya Sharma, chairman for obesity research and management at the University of Alberta. “(Smoking) in the end, is limited to heart disease and cancer.”
A Life Cut Short by Tobacco
According to the American Cancer Society, lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer death in American men and women today. It’s also the most preventable form of cancer, with 87 percent of all lung cancer cases attributable to tobacco use.
While tobacco is usually a slow killer, with the toxins and carcinogens in tobacco smoke taking years to poison us, that’s not always the way of it. Sometimes tobacco strikes a person down young.
In the heart-wrenching account I’m sharing with you today, About.com Smoking Cessation support forum member Karen (9Sept) shares this real life story about Cat, a young man who used tobacco much less than the average person and for decades less than most smokers. His story will sadden and scare you … and it should.
The state Department of Health is offering free kits to help Pennsylvanians stop smoking.
The catch: Smokers must set a date for quitting.
A limited number of free nicotine replacement therapy kits will be offered through Pennsylvania’s toll-free Quitline. Interested smokes can start calling 1-800-QUIT NOW (1-800-784-8669) on Feb. 2.
“The average smoker makes between five and eight quit attempts before being successful, and those who have support are more likely to succeed,” Acting Secretary of Health Everette James said.
Pack-a-day smokers generally spend more than $1,500 a year on cigarettes.
Julian A. Leicester a.k.a. The Cigarette Slayer tells ERROL DE CRUZ what it takes to get rid of the habit.
TALK to Julian A. Leicester and you will immediately sense his passion to help smokers quit the habit.
He is always full of energy and he has numerous ways to curb smoking. No wonder he has been often dubbed “The Cigarette Slayer” in the media.
For many years, Leicester has been teaching smokers and schoolchildren how to quit the habit with his clinical interventions, national seminars, talks and newspaper articles.
A three-session Quit Smart smoking cessation course will begin at 6 p.m. Jan. 5 at Grand Strand Regional Medical Center in Cardiac Rehabilitation.
Quit Smart was developed by the director of the Duke Medical Center Stop Smoking Program and teaches smokers two ways to overcome physical addiction. The three classes are taught by hospital personnel.
There is a $50 fee for the three sessions, and registration is required. Call 692-1885 to register or for information.
BABY-SIT
Child care class held at mall
The local Red Cross chapter will hold a babysitter training class from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Tuesday at the Myrtle Beach Mall.
Cigarettes killed my Mom. In fact, I could visualize Joe Camel there with his hooves around my mom’s throat as she lay dying in the hospital recently. Of course, Joe Camel was not literally there in the hospital room squeezing the oxygen out of her as she gasped for each breath like a guppy out of a fish tank; but he killed her just the same.
STOKE-ON-TRENT’S top health official has drafted city councillors into the war on smoking in the Potteries.
Between three and six of them are to form a trouble-shooting group to search for better ways of encouraging people to quit.
They hope to find out why there is some who resist all attempts to give-up no matter how many services are made available to help them. Despite gradual reductions over the years the number of people smoking is still nearly 30 per cent in Stoke-on-Trent, compared to the national average in the low 20s.
The Tories said there was “no evidence” that banning the display of tobacco products in shops would help people stop smoking.
Shadow health minister Mike Penning said ending displays and removing branding and logos could drive local shops and newsagents out of business.
And he claimed banning packs of 10, in an attempt to make it too expensive for many children to smoke, could lead to some adults smoking more.
Mr Penning was speaking about a Government consultation on further measures to try and prevent a habit which kills 87,000 people each year in England alone.