Middletown Smokers Who Light Up in a Park Could Face Jail Time
A new ordinance enacted by the Middletown (New York) City Council makes smoking in a park a potentially criminal offense that could result in jail time, according to an article in the Times Herald-Record . According to the article: “Middletown voted to ban smoking in two parks and 30 feet from any city playground on Monday.
Leading Physician in UK Calls Smoking in Cars with Children a Form of Child Abuse
Dr. Steve Field, a UK physician who is the chairman of the Royal College of General Physicians, has stated that smoking in a car with a child is a form of child abuse
Agency probing menthol cigarette risk
GREENSBORO — Pierre Lorillard could hardly have imagined that the small tobacco company he started 250 years ago in New York City would ship 36.3 billion cigarettes a year in the 21st century, 87 percent of which would be flavored with menthol. But the little ingredient found naturally in mint oils poses a serious threat to his legacy: a $3.8 billion cigarette colossus that employs 1,800 people in Greensboro.
Movie Ratings Downplay Smoking Risk
WASHINGTON, – Three years after the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) and the National Association of Theatre Owners (NATO) announced they would include smoking when assigning ratings to films, a new report shows that more than half of widely released films showing tobacco were youth rated (that is, carrying a rating of G, PG or PG-13). According to this analysis, the film industry rated and released 216 box office films with tobacco imagery between May 10, 2007 and May 9, 2010
