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Parents With Smoking History, Likely To Birth Asthmatic Kids

Parents With Smoking History, Likely To Birth Asthmatic Kids

If tobacco companies had the time to keep up with science and research, a couple of months from now, cigarette packs would have more than the popular one-sentence warning. The warning would be updated to something that might read like— ‘smokers are liable to die young, birth asthmatic children and/or grandchildren.’ Well, a study on smoking and the effects of exposure to second-hand smoke recently reported these hereditary risks.

Let’s cast our minds back briefly. From the good old smoking pipes to neatly packaged cigarette sticks, all the way to the trendy, portable vapes (e-cigarettes), smoking, like other aspects of …

Denmark Set To Ban Cigarette Sale To People Born After 2010

Denmark Set To Ban Cigarette Sale To People Born After 2010

Denmark has unveiled plans that would ensure that future generations are tobacco-free, and is presently considering banning the sale of cigarettes and other nicotine products to anyone born after 2010.

Speaking on Wednesday, Health Minister Magnus Heunicke said;  ‘Our hope is that all people born in 2010 and later will never start smoking or using nicotine-based products’.

‘If necessary, we are ready to ban the sale (of these products) to this generation by progressively raising the age limit,’ he added.

Africa Daily News, New York reports that at the moment, Danes must be 18 years old to buy cigarettes or …

Smoke or Vape - The Growing Public Health Debate

Smoke Or Vape: The Growing Public Health Debate

As the debate rages globally over cigarette smoking and the much-touted smoke-free alternatives, such as e-cigarettes, which are being presented by tobacco companies as safer options for smokers, truth sometimes get killed in the stampede and falsehood often ascends the throne.

Meanwhile, there has been no conclusive study disputing the safety of smoke-free devices. The closest was research by University of California’s scientists Stanton Glantz and Dharma Bhatta which concluded that conventional cigarettes and vapers carried similar risk, with increased likelihood of a heart attack when both are used. The study was originally published on June 5, 2019 and concluded …

38,000 People Die Of Tobacco, Alcohol In Sri Lanka Yearly

38,000 People Die Of Tobacco, Alcohol In Sri Lanka Yearly

About 38,000 people have been reported dead from the excessive use of alcohol and tobacco in Sri Lanka yearly, local media reports, quoting medical experts from the Sri Lanka Medical Association.

According to statistics from the Sri Lanka Medical Association on Tuesday, an estimated 18,000 people died from the use of tobacco and an estimated 20,000 from the use of alcohol in the island country.

Head of the Sri Lanka Medical Association, Anula Wijesundara, told the local Daily News that a person addicted to alcohol consumed at least an average of 3.5 litres of alcohol on a daily basis.

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48 African CSOs urge Senate for tobacco control regulations

Forty-eight groups on the platform of the Africa Tobacco Control Civil Society Organisations have written to the Nigerian Senate asking it to adopt strong Tobacco Control Regulations to protect the present and future generation of Nigerians from the dire health and socio-economic consequences of tobacco use.

In a letter dated May 21, 2019, the groups said that the adoption of the Regulations is critical for effective implementation of the National Tobacco Control Act 2015, provides Nigeria the unique opportunity to align with the requirements of the World Health Organisation- Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (WHO-FCTC), and demonstrate its global leadership …