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Health Canada is considering ordering cigarette companies to put deathbed photos of an emaciated cancer victim on every package. Health Canada is testing 49 new health warnings for possible placement on cigarette packages.
Two of the new warnings feature photographs of Edmonton anti-smoking cigarettes activist Barb Tarbox, taken just before her death from cancer. Focus groups of smokers across Canada have rated this deathbed image as having the highest impact on them, saying it is far more clear and powerful than most anti-smoking cigarettes warnings.
Various warning messages are being studied to see how credible, relevant, readable and effective they are with smokers, said Christelle Legault, media relations officer for Health Canada.
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Officials at the University of Memphis have decided to push for a tobacco-free campus by next summer.The move was spurred by a student government petition last year and similar actions by faculty and staff leaders. Maria Alam, who is chief human resources officer for the university, told The Commercial Appeal that she is "reviewing and putting together a policy" for the campus."The idea is not to go around policing," she said. "But we'd address it as complaints come in."In her position with the university, Alam oversees workplace regulations, including smoking...
The role of the online cigarettes grower cooperatives that formerly administered the cigarettes store price support program has changed drastically since 2004.It had to: the price support program was ended after that season, and the cooperatives had to find new services to offer to their members.Perhaps the most drastic changes among the cooperatives has been made by the Burley Stabilization Corporation (BSC), which served Tennessee, North Carolina and Virginia. In 2010, it moved its headquarters 200 miles to get closer to its primary production area, and it has implemented an aggressive...
After a lengthy period of consideration, Minnesota State University will become a tobacco-free campus on Jan. 1.MSU, however, won’t be the first institution in the Minnesota State Colleges and Universities system to enact the cheap cigarettes ban.In 2010, the MnSCU Board of Trustees passed a resolution encouraging campuses to adopt such a policy. Shortly after, South Central College became one of the first to do so and has been followed by a number of others, including Winona State and Minnesota State-Moorhead.“This is a movement that’s been endorsed by MnSCU,” said Rick Straka,...
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When apartment tenants light up a cigarette, it's not just their smoking cigarettes-averse neighbors who suffer. Landlords are also sucking it up — in increased cleaning costs. But by implementing complete smoke-free rules throughout their properties, owners of California multi-unit rental buildings could save up to $18 million a year statewide on the cost of cleaning apartments vacated by tenants who smoke, according to a new UCLA study. These policies can also protect their other tenants from the secondhand smoke cigarettes that seeps between units.The study was published online Aug....