…focus on helping employees decrease tobacco use. • The Affordable Care Act also provides for Medicaid coverage of comprehensive tobacco cessation services for pregnant women, without cost-sharing. Furthermore, it provides…
If you smoke, you already know you need to quit. It’s bad for your heart, lungs, brain, and even your sex life. But let’s face it: You’d have kicked the…
…as the deadliest form of the disease among female Britons, killing 16,000 women each year. The statistics make for grim reading, with the five-year survival rate for a stage-four (advanced)…
…countries. The Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids, a Washington-based nonprofit group that is active in anti-smoking campaigns around the world, says that 60 percent of men and 22 percent of women…
…viewed at TobaccoFreeCA.com. In California, Black and Hispanic men smoke at higher rates (18.9 percent and 15.5 percent, respectively) than white men (14.3 percent). Among women, Blacks continue to have…
Women who smoke while pregnant can triple the chances of their child succumbing to a major cause of meningitis, according to new research. Several studies have already suggested a link…
Nearly two-thirds of women of reproductive age in China are exposed to second-hand tobacco smoke at home and over half are exposed in the workplace, which raises the risk of…
Women who stop smoking before middle-age live about 10 years longer than women who continue to smoke throughout life, a new study from the United Kingdom finds. Smoking until middle…
…health effects of smoking, which was published in The Lancet and involved 1.3 million women, showed that tobacco is even more dangerous than previously supposed but the benefits of giving…
…effects of risk factor and lifestyle modification. And not to forget, women should be studied in a similar fashion, as it is shown that presence of PAD amongst female patients…
…measures across the EU. Our “Ex-Smokers are Unstoppable” campaign is helping hundreds of thousands of men and women on their journey towards a smoke-free life, and this collaboration should help…
…and Brazil conducted a study of 640 young Brazilian women to determine if cigarettes had the same appeal when presented in plain packaging. “The women in this study rated branded…
…the world, particularly low and middle income countries. Over 60% of Russian men and over 28% of Bangladeshi women use tobacco. No wonder tobacco stocks are doing so well during…
…seem glamorous, especially for women,” he said. “The industry’s marketing efforts also equate tobacco use with Western themes, such as freedom and gender equality.” The study – funded in part…
…that the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women, adopted by the United Nations General Assembly on 18 December 1979, provides that States Parties to that…
…smoked before.) In adults, second-hand smoke causes serious cardiovascular and respiratory diseases, including coronary heart disease and lung cancer. In infants, it causes sudden death. In pregnant women, it causes…
…right to health, right to education, children’s rights, women’s rights, and many others. For example, the tobacco industry often targets their marketing to specific populations based on gender, race, sexual…
…A large number of children, some under 5, also smoked, the report said. Although the smoking rate for Indonesian women was low compared to other parts of the world, it…
