California Taxpayers to Spend a Quarter Million Dollars Studying Effects of Thirdhand Smoke Dust on Skin
According to a press release from the University of California at Riverside, the school has received a $250,000 grant from the state-funded tobacco research program to study the effects of thirdhand smoke dust on the skin.
Why Do Anti-Smoking Groups and Researchers Recommend Pharmaceutical Cessation Aids for Every Patient When Unaided Quitting is More Effective?
Not long ago, an NIH expert panel released a 2008 update of the clinical practice guideline regarding the treatment of tobacco use and dependence (see: Fiore MC, Jaén CR, Baker TB, et al.
University Medical Center in El Paso: Smokers Need Not Apply
The University Medical Center in El Paso, Texas will no longer hire smokers, according to an article in the El Paso Times . According to the article: “‘Smokers need not apply,’ Jim Valenti, UMC’s chief executive officer, said in an interview
Coalition of Anti-Smoking Groups in North Carolina Expresses Interest in Maintaining Cigarette Tax Revenues and Consumption
The North Carolina Alliance for Health – which includes the state chapters of the American Lung Association, American Heart Association, and American Cancer Society – issued a press release in which it expressed an interest in and commitment to the preservation of current levels of cigarette tax revenues. In the press release, the Alliance boasted that despite claims by some opponents, increasing cigarette taxes will not result in large decreases in revenues over time because cigarette smoking will only drop by a little bit, thus maintaining the cigarette revenue stream over time.
