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Excerpts from the Globe's blog on the Boston-area medical community. Discuss COMMENTS (2) Boston inspectors who visited 73 pharmacies during the first week of stringent new cigarettes online control regulations could not find a single pack of online cigarettes on store shelves, the city's health department reported.
Last Monday, Boston became the second major US city - San Francisco was the first - to ban tobacco sales at drugstores.
By early that morning, shelves that once carried cheap smokes at CVS shops in the South End and Back Bay were instead laden with boxes of Nicorette and other nicotine-replacement products designed to help smokers kick the habit. Inspectors have visited nearly every drug store in Boston to make sure they're in compliance with the ban; stocking cheap cigarettes can result in a fine of $200 to $1,000 per offense.

The toughened antismoking cigarettes rules, adopted in December by the Boston Public Health Commission, also prohibit tobacco products from being sold in convenience stores on college campuses. Inspections of those shops also found no evidence of cigarettes.

STEPHEN SMITH
Fresh diagnosis can help people quit smoking cigarettes, lose wieght People are more likely to follow advice to quit smoking cigarettes or lose weight if they have just been told they have cancer, heart disease, diabetes, or another serious condition, a new study shows.

Yale researcher Patricia Keenan analyzed results from a survey of more than 20,000 retired people under age 75 who were overweight and more than 7,000 people of the same age who smoked.

People newly diagnosed with stroke, cancer, lung disease, heart disease, or diabetes were more than three times as likely to quit smoking cigarettes as similar people without a new diagnosis.

Overweight people newly diagnosed with lung disease, heart disease, or diabetes lost an average of 2 to 3 pounds more than those who hadn't just been diagnosed.

"The health diagnosis might serve as a cue not only for the patient but also for the physician," Sherry Pagoto and Judith Ockene of the University of Massachusetts Medical School write in an editorial appearing with the article in the Archives of Internal Medicine.

"However," they added, "the effect of physician advice might only be as good as the availability of supportive services to which patients can be referred."

ELIZABETH COONEY
Peanut recall awareness high, understanding low, Harvard survey says Most Americans know about a massive recall of peanut products linked to salmonella cases across the country, but many do not know which foods are involved, a Harvard survey reports.

A quarter of people polled this month by the Harvard Opinion Research Program mistakenly believed national brands of peanut butter are included in the recall of almost 2,000 products, from snack bars to ice cream, that began last month.

The outbreak of salmonella, which has sickened 636 people in 44 states and caused nine deaths, has been traced to a Peanut Corporation of America plant in Georgia. Peanuts from the plant were used in a handful of small-name peanut butter brands, according to the US Food and Drug Administration.

"There's a striking level of awareness of this recall, and many people have taken action. But they're not aware of the range of products involved in the recall," Robert J. Blendon of the Harvard School of Public Health said in a statement released with the survey. "People should check the Food and Drug Administration recall list."

According to the Harvard survey, about 60 percent of people who knew about the peanut recall responded by checking ingredient lists in the grocery stores, throwing out foods at home they thought were on the recall list, and skipping food with peanuts, including at restaurants. At Stop & Shop, the company is monitoring the FDA investigation to make sure all recalled products are removed from supermarket shelves, a spokeswoman said in an e-mail. "We continue to tell customers that jarred peanut butter is not impacted," Faith Weiner of Stop & Shop said. Most of the survey respondents correctly identified peanut butter crackers as being on the recall list, but fewer than half were aware that cakes, brownies, cookies, some prepackaged meals, and pet treats were also on the list.

ELIZABETH COONEY

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