Salem-News.com News Feed for articles tagged with tobacco www.salem-news.com 2010 "Noncommunicable diseases are the number one cause of death in the world", declared Dr. Douglas Bettcher, Director of the WHO’s Tobacco Free Initiative, during the presentation of the World Health Organization’s (WHO) World Moratlity Report in 2008. http://salem-news.com/articles/november072011/communicable-diseases-cf.php http://salem-news.com/articles/november072011/communicable-diseases-cf.php Mon, 07 Nov 2011 02:36:00 PST The Foundation Against Drug Addiction (FAD) has launched a new campaign to create social awareness about the dangers of alcohol. One of its slogans is: “What should we do with alcohol?” This campaign is aimed at the general public and its goal is to raise awareness to reflect about irresponsible alcohol consumption. http://salem-news.com/articles/september052011/alcohol-legality-cf.php http://salem-news.com/articles/september052011/alcohol-legality-cf.php Mon, 05 Sep 2011 16:25:00 PDT Smoking is linked with lung cancer, emphysema, and other diseases. According to the CDC each year about 443,000 people die prematurely from smoking or exposure to secondhand smoke, and another 8.6 million live with a serious illness caused by smoking. Despite these risks, approximately 46.6 million U.S. adults smoke cigarettes. http://salem-news.com/articles/april042011/smoking-kills-rs.php http://salem-news.com/articles/april042011/smoking-kills-rs.php Mon, 04 Apr 2011 09:39:00 PDT A flurry of tobacco tax bills with conflicting objectives is under consideration by Oregon state legislators. Oregon currently taxes cigarettes at the rate of $1.18 per pack. One of the bills being considered would hike the tax by an additional $1. http://salem-news.com/articles/march302011/tobacco-tax.php http://salem-news.com/articles/march302011/tobacco-tax.php Wed, 30 Mar 2011 20:41:00 PDT For those who read my postings on this continuum of reality, you know what I am writing about. For any new readers let me put this together starting at square one. I got my inspiration from a documentary on OPB called KILLER STRESS which is a very important and suitable name. http://salem-news.com/articles/january252011/realities-pl.php http://salem-news.com/articles/january252011/realities-pl.php Tue, 25 Jan 2011 23:39:00 PST Oregon news media outlets are sending out smoke signals over the bubbling popularity of Hookah bars, painting these establishments that are very popular in other parts of the world, in a negative light. TV reports have suggested the hookah represents a new problem, though research shows these tobacco water pipes have been in use for hundreds of years. http://salem-news.com/articles/november182010/hookah-bar-tk.php http://salem-news.com/articles/november182010/hookah-bar-tk.php Thu, 18 Nov 2010 20:35:00 PST The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) this week opened a 60-day comment period on dissolvable tobacco candy products. Oregon’s Senator Jeff Merkley urged Oregonians to submit their stories and opinions relating to the sale, distribution, and use of tobacco candy to the FDA. “Tobacco candy poses two significant threats to our children,” Merkley said. http://salem-news.com/articles/october272010/dissolvable-tobacco-tk.php http://salem-news.com/articles/october272010/dissolvable-tobacco-tk.php Wed, 27 Oct 2010 14:40:00 PDT An Iranian official says some of the most popular cigarette brands are contaminated with nuclear substances when smuggled into the country. http://salem-news.com/articles/july302010/marlboro-tainted-iran.php http://salem-news.com/articles/july302010/marlboro-tainted-iran.php Fri, 30 Jul 2010 10:43:00 PDT PCC isn't the first to do it. And by all indications, it won't be the last. But PCC is by far the largest institution of higher education in the state. So when the Board of Directors announced that PCC would become tobacco-free today Sept. 9, 2009, it was big news. "This is something we have been working toward for a long time," said District President Preston Pulliams. "Students have asked for this. Staff and faculty have asked for this. It was the right time to make PCC a healthier place." http://salem-news.com/articles/september092009/pcc_smokes_9-9-09.php http://salem-news.com/articles/september092009/pcc_smokes_9-9-09.php Wed, 09 Sep 2009 16:42:00 PDT Oregon is the first state to ban the sale of so-called electronic cigarettes, and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) will soon be in court to fight the same battle nationally. The battery-operated tube looks like a real paper-and-tobacco cigarette, but contains nicotine and flavors that can be inhaled without producing smoke. The FDA wants to regulate them as drug devices. http://salem-news.com/articles/august092009/smokeless_gigs_ct_8-10-09.php http://salem-news.com/articles/august092009/smokeless_gigs_ct_8-10-09.php Sun, 09 Aug 2009 23:11:00 PDT On June 22, 2009, President Barack Obama signed the Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act, granting authority to the FDA to regulate tobacco products in the U.S. In a news release, they state, "FDA looks forward to taking on this challenge and in doing so will partner with public health leaders at our sister agencies, at the state level, and in localities all around the country." The FDA says the agency will perform its duties by using the best available science to guide the development and implementation of effective public health strategies to reduce the burden of illness and death caused by tobacco products. http://salem-news.com/articles/june222009/fda_tobacco_6-22-09.php http://salem-news.com/articles/june222009/fda_tobacco_6-22-09.php Mon, 22 Jun 2009 20:22:00 PDT It's being called the strongest anti-tobacco measure since the U.S. Surgeon General ruled more than 40 years ago that smoking causes lung cancer. On Thursday, the U.S. Senate voted to allow the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to regulate tobacco. The House already passed a similar bill, and must now vote on the Senate's changes. http://salem-news.com/articles/june142009/teen_tobacc0_ons_6-14-09.php http://salem-news.com/articles/june142009/teen_tobacc0_ons_6-14-09.php Sun, 14 Jun 2009 12:12:00 PDT Legal medical marijuana started with an apprehensive whimper in California in 1996. Doctor Tod Mikuriya, who had studied cannabis/marijuana as safe effective medicine for about 30 years, was most likely the first doctor to jump into the fray and controversy. The California Medical Board went "ape" and harassed him. In 1998, Oregon made medical marijuana legal. I was one of the first doctors who jumped in as I was partially disabled from medical malpractice with a spinal cord injury and could no longer do a regular office practice. http://salem-news.com/articles/june052009/doc_medmjinc_6-2-09.php http://salem-news.com/articles/june052009/doc_medmjinc_6-2-09.php Fri, 05 Jun 2009 07:03:00 PDT Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has urged governments everywhere to address tobacco consumption, which he described as a “needless threat” to public health. In a message to mark World No Tobacco Day, observed on May 31st, Mr. Ban noted that every year, some 5.4 million people die from illnesses caused by tobacco consumption, 80 per cent of them in low- and middle-income countries. Left unchecked, tobacco-related deaths will rise to more than 8 million by 2030. http://salem-news.com/articles/june012009/un_smoking_6-1-09.php http://salem-news.com/articles/june012009/un_smoking_6-1-09.php Mon, 01 Jun 2009 12:32:00 PDT Snuff, chew and dissolvable tobacco could soon cost more in Oregon. The legislature is considering raising the tobacco tax for those products, which haven't seen increases in years. Backers say raising the tax will help keep children away from tobacco, while opponents say any tax increase is a bad idea in the current economy. Reportedly, sales of smokeless tobacco products have been on the rise as indoor clean air laws have passed. http://salem-news.com/articles/may292009/spit_tobacc0_ons_5-29-09.php http://salem-news.com/articles/may292009/spit_tobacc0_ons_5-29-09.php Fri, 29 May 2009 14:10:00 PDT I wasn’t surprised that a high court in the U.S. finally found the Tobacco Companies guilty of fraudulently advertising a very lethal drug which kills about 400,000 people each year and that is just the U.S. The world total may be as high as 10 million. Who knows and who is counting? Why did it take 150 years? http://salem-news.com/articles/may272009/american_poison_5-27-09.php http://salem-news.com/articles/may272009/american_poison_5-27-09.php Wed, 27 May 2009 06:58:00 PDT Attorney General John Kroger announced today that Oregon has received $6.2 million in disputed tobacco payments that are part of a master settlement between cigarette-makers and the states. “This payment comes at a critical time, with the state facing a massive budget crisis. These funds will help pay for essential services to help people in need” Kroger said. http://salem-news.com/articles/february272009/ag_tobacco_2-27-09.php http://salem-news.com/articles/february272009/ag_tobacco_2-27-09.php Fri, 27 Feb 2009 10:23:00 PST Almost everybody knows that nicotine is that which makes cigarettes the lethal drug which they are. A recent article in the Oregonian newspaper stated that nicotine caused certain diseases. Tobacco in cigarettes causes a very high number of deaths from lung cancer but death is NOT caused by nicotine. The culprit is TOBACCO TAR which has little to do with the effects of nicotine. For example nicotine skin patches and oral preparations to get users away from smoking do NOT cause any kind of cancer for that matter. If you are paying attention you’re probably asking “what is going on”? http://salem-news.com/articles/december162008/doc_nicotine_12-16-08.php http://salem-news.com/articles/december162008/doc_nicotine_12-16-08.php Tue, 16 Dec 2008 02:00:00 PST Two just-released federal reports indicate that regulation of tobacco continues to produce a steady drop in teen cigarette use and teen access to tobacco, with current cigarette use by high school students dropping markedly faster than use of marijuana. The just-released 2007 Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports rates of current cigarette use and current marijuana use among teens in grades nine through 12 in a statistical tie at 20 percent and 19.7 percent, respectively. http://salem-news.com/articles/june042008/cdc_smoking_6-4-08.php http://salem-news.com/articles/june042008/cdc_smoking_6-4-08.php Wed, 04 Jun 2008 21:42:00 PDT The United Nations health agency today called on governments to impose a ban on all tobacco advertising, promotion and sponsorship to deter young people around the world from taking up smoking. http://salem-news.com/articles/may302008/un_tobacco_kids_5-29-08.php http://salem-news.com/articles/may302008/un_tobacco_kids_5-29-08.php Fri, 30 May 2008 16:17:00 PDT Officials with the state say that since the beginning of Oregon's Tobacco Prevention and Education Program in 1996, the proportion of mothers who smoked while pregnant has decreased 30 percent. Because of this decrease in smoking, about 17,000 infants have had a healthier start to life. "This decline in the number of moms smoking during their pregnancies is great news for Mother's Day," said Mel Kohn, M.D., state epidemiologist with the Oregon Department of Human Services Public Health Division. http://salem-news.com/articles/may082008/pregnant_smoking_5-8-08.php http://salem-news.com/articles/may082008/pregnant_smoking_5-8-08.php Thu, 08 May 2008 10:39:00 PDT Cigarette and marijuana smoking are down among Oregon middle and high school students, and alcohol use remains the same for 11th graders but has increased 28 percent for eighth graders, according to the Oregon Department of Human Services Addictions and Mental Health Division. http://salem-news.com/articles/march192008/teen_smoking_report_031908.php http://salem-news.com/articles/march192008/teen_smoking_report_031908.php Wed, 19 Mar 2008 05:23:00 PDT Hundreds of retailers throughout Oregon will receive surprise visits during the next six months to see if they are complying with laws that prohibit tobacco sales to persons under age 18. This is Oregon's 14th year as a participant in the federal Synar Compliance Program aimed at putting a damper on youth smoking. http://salem-news.com/articles/february062008/tobacco_sales_2-6-08.php http://salem-news.com/articles/february062008/tobacco_sales_2-6-08.php Wed, 06 Feb 2008 09:16:00 PST Oregonians smoked an estimated 2.6 billion fewer cigarettes between 1996 and 2006 as consumption decreased 41 percent during that time, according a report from the Oregon Department of Human Services Public Health Division. Oregon outpaced the nation by 10 percent, as cigarette smoking dropped 31 percent in the United States during the same period, according to Oregon Tobacco Facts, released by the Oregon Tobacco Prevention and Education Program (TPEP). http://salem-news.com/articles/february012008/or_smoking_2108.php http://salem-news.com/articles/february012008/or_smoking_2108.php Fri, 01 Feb 2008 09:40:00 PST One of the many dramatic displays in Gunther von Hagens' BODY WORLDS 3: The Anatomical Exhibition of Real Human Bodies begins June 28th at OMSI. It features blackened smokers lungs compared to healthy lungs. http://salem-news.com/articles/june252007/body_worlds.php http://salem-news.com/articles/june252007/body_worlds.php Mon, 25 Jun 2007 21:17:00 PDT Tobacco companies spent a massive $135.9 million on marketing in Oregon in 2005, with most of it spent on marketing in retail stores that is effective at encouraging kids to smoke, according to a report released today by the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids. In Oregon, where 17.0 percent of high school students smoke, tobacco use kills 5,000 residents and costs the state $1.11 billion in health care bills. http://salem-news.com/articles/may312007/tobacco_report_053107.php http://salem-news.com/articles/may312007/tobacco_report_053107.php Thu, 31 May 2007 14:15:00 PDT Seven Federal search warrants were simultaneously served today throughout the states of Washington and Oregon regarding the illegal trafficking of cigarettes, says Special Agent in Charge Kelvin N. Crenshaw, Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF). Six of the warrants were at businesses, residences and a warehouse throughout Washington and one secondary warehouse was located in Clackamas, Oregon. http://salem-news.com/articles/may152007/illegal_smokes_51507.php http://salem-news.com/articles/may152007/illegal_smokes_51507.php Tue, 15 May 2007 13:48:00 PDT Governor Ted Kulongoski on Tuesday, joined by legislators, Oregon State Fire Marshal Nancy Orr and members of the Oregon fire service, signed into law legislation (HB 2163) requiring all cigarettes sold in Oregon to be self-extinguishing to prevent accidental fires. From 1999 through 2005, cigarettes caused 8,824 fires in Oregon resulting in 37 deaths, 185 injuries and more than $32 million in direct property loss. http://salem-news.com/articles/april172007/cigarette_bill_041707.php http://salem-news.com/articles/april172007/cigarette_bill_041707.php Tue, 17 Apr 2007 13:44:00 PDT Smokers could have to dig a little deeper in their pockets to buy a pack of cigarettes in Oregon, under legislation pending in the state House of Representatives. To finance a dramatic expansion of Oregon’s Healthy Kids Program, Gov. Ted Kulongoski is seeking an 84.5-cent increase to the state’s cigarette tax to pay for healthcare coverage for an additional 117,000 uninsured children. If approved, the state’s cigarette tax would rise to $2.02. http://salem-news.com/articles/february282007/smoke_taz_22807.php http://salem-news.com/articles/february282007/smoke_taz_22807.php Wed, 28 Feb 2007 15:34:00 PST Tobacco propaganda to build addiction and hide health impacts is as old as the slave-trade on which this poison-product industry was first built. Slavery, you will recall, took nearly 100 years to be resolved, supported during that time by other Supreme errors. For many years tobacco suppliers falsely claimed their product was no poison-pill in-a-roll, threatening human health; and that only personal choice should be the criterion for broad public usage. http://salem-news.com/articles/february212007/oped_022107.php http://salem-news.com/articles/february212007/oped_022107.php Wed, 21 Feb 2007 11:11:00 PST