Tobacco industry using movies to recruit young smokers: Experts 30/05/2007 - 11:47:28 The tobacco industry is using cigarette advertising in shops and PG-rated Hollywood films to deliberately target children, a leading expert claimed today. Professor Ken Warner warned that point of sale advertising in shops is one method to lure teens to buy tobacco. He said one third of teenagers who saw more than 150 scenes of smoking in films in cinemas, on video or on television, had tried smoking....

A NUMBER of displaced Zimbabwean farmers who relocated to neighbouring countries to flee the chaotic land reform programme have started to troop back into the country after encountering fresh problems at their new bases, the Zimbabwe Independent heard this week. A NUMBER of displaced Zimbabwean farmers who relocated to neighbouring countries to flee the chaotic land reform programme have started to troop back into the country after encountering fresh problems at their new bases, the...

Later customers, though, are treated to a fresher micro-climate where you can actually smell the dark Peruvian roast and enjoy a ham roll that hasn t received the full tobacco treatment. Politicians smoke, their constituents smoke and thousands of employees depend for their livelihood on the growing, manufacturing, distributing and retailing of the poisonous weed. The problem can hardly be solved by dividing a coffee shop into smoking and non-smoking time zones or by physically splitting...

If you're a hospital patient, you can expect to be on a smoking cessation program -- not cigarettes -- until you are discharged. Officials at Olmsted Medical Center say they will no longer accept smoking or tobacco use on the facility's clinic or hospital grounds. Kachelski learned she has a small area on one of her lungs indicating the start of emphysema, as well as calcified nodules that are not cancerous -- yet. Now, she said, smokers will be asked to extinguish cigarettes and "greater...

According to the committee, the most important tool to reduce use is to set up a parent and community outreach/education program. Also, the task force recommended requiring another DARE program for seventh-graders as a refresher course in order to reduce use. The committee, which is made up of teachers, administrators, parents, students and police officials created and prioritized the recommendations over four meetings held since January. According to University of Delawares ATOD survey...