Tobacco has killed
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Study shows anti-tobacco ads using fear of disease effective with youths - Anti-tobacco television ads that generate fear or sadness by showing the diseases caused by smoking are more effective in reaching youth, compared to ads that are funny and entertaining or focus on what is or isn't cool, according to a study published by a University of Massachusetts researcher.
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A Broken Promise to Our Children - The 1998 Tobacco Settlement Five Years Later. Disturbingly, in the past two years the states have cut funding for their tobacco prevention programs by more than a quarter, and several states have completely eviscerated some of the most successful and promising tobacco prevention and cessation programs in history. (full story)

The Health Consequences of Smoking on the Human Body - This interactive animation outlines the effects of smoking on the different organs of the body based on the findings of the 2004 Surgeon General's Report. MUST SEE  3-D animation  of the consequences of smoking on the human body!. Click on Flash if you have have a high speed internet connection or HTML if you don't.


Smoke Free Society sets up booth to spend time with kids! -  Our participation in the big, back-to-school "Kiss the Sky Festival," helped kids start the new school year off with a positive alcohol, drug and cigarette-free attitude and was a great success. We were able to reach many kids and parents with our message of a smoke-free lifestyle and the many hazards of smoking.


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Tobacco Takes Silent Victims: America’s Children - 
Unintended exposure to secondhand smoke is critical burden on America’s children, says foundation responsible for effective truth® campaign.
Passive exposure to secondhand smoke, also called environmental tobacco smoke (ETS), puts young people at risk for serious health consequences, including low birth weight, sudden infant death syndrome, asthma and ear infections. While the health consequences are devastating, the significant economic costs of treating children with smoking-related illnesses. (full story)


Pets in smoking households have an increased risk of various cancers - New Evidence that Second-hand Smoke Harms Pets - And your furry friends don't just inhale smoke; the smoke particles are also trapped in their fur and ingested when they groom themselves with their tongues. Of all the compelling reasons to quit smoking, this one should make pet lovers sit up and take notice: there's ample scientific evidence to suggest that secondhand cigarette smoke can cause cancer in companion animals. (full story)


October 14, 2004: Surgeon General Richard Carmona Releases Bone Health and Osteoporosis: A Report of the Surgeon General
New Surgeon General's Report Expands List of Diseases Caused by Smoking - The report also concludes that quitting smoking has immediate and long-term benefits, reducing risks for diseases caused by smoking and improving health in general. By quitting smoking today a smoker can assure a healthier tomorrow." "We've known for decades that smoking is bad for your health, but this report shows that it's even worse than we knew," Dr. Carmona said. "The toxins from cigarette smoke go everywhere the blood flows. I'm hoping this new information will help motivate people to quit smoking and convince young people not to start in the first place." (full story)

Smoky bars top roads for health risk - Which is more harmful to your health -- a smoky bar or a city street filled with diesel truck fumes? Well, you might want to skip your next happy hour! Smoky bars and casinos have up to 50 times more cancer-causing particles in the air than highways and city streets clogged with diesel trucks at rush hour, according to a study that also shows indoor air pollution virtually disappears once smoking is banned.(full story)

Shock pictures for Europe smokers -  BRUSSELS, Belgium --The European Union has launched an aggressive anti-smoking drive with grisly photos of rotten lungs, throat tumors and decayed teeth that it hopes will be used on cigarette packets. (full story) 
Photos - gums with periodontitis caused by smoking. (more)
 

December, 23 2004
Medicare to help kick smoking habit -
Medicare said it intends to pay for counseling to help some of the nation's 4 million older smokers kick the habit. Medicare beneficiaries who smoke and have smoking-related diseases or take certain medicines will be eligible for Medicare-covered counseling when the proposal takes effect next year. Medicare would pay for up to four counseling sessions. If that doesn't suffice, smokers could get a second round of counseling. (full story)

SSM Health Care plans to go smoke-free in November - As of that date, the company will not permit tobacco use of any kind inside or outside of its hospitals, clinics, medical office buildings or nursing homes. In addition, designated smoking areas outside of those facilities will be eliminated, the company said. (full story)

One puff of smoke can damage DNA - Researchers say mutated cells increase risk of cancer, heart disease -- Just one puff of a cigarette could damage a smoker’s DNA, the first step to cancer and heart disease, researchers said on Friday. (full story)


Smoking ban set for England and Scotland - They could become the latest countries to ban smoking in public places, including restaurants and most pubs and bars, under a government proposal. Last week, Scotland's government announced it would seek to ban smoking in all enclosed public places by 2006. (full story)

 

 

 

 
     
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Tobacco's Toll in 2004
757,826 kids
have become regular smokers
242,504 will die prematurely
from their addiction

Strong evidence that smoking by the mother during pregnancy increases her infant's risk for SIDS
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More Americans die from
cigarette-related illnesses than car accidents, AIDS, alcohol, suicide, homicide and illegal drugs combined
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Smoking causes about 90% of lung cancer deaths in men and nearly 80% in women
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Tobacco kills an
average of 7 people
every minute.
That's over
4,000,000 people
a year!

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