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Antismoking groups blast McLellan *
Health Minister is undermining tobacco control, coalition complains [More]

Canada joins global pact against use of tobacco *
Amid cheers and clapping, representatives of more than 190 countries approved the world's first public health treaty yesterday in Geneva. It is aimed at controlling and diminishing tobacco use. [More]

CPP dump tobacco holdings? Nonsense *
One person's opinion. Note: evalu8.org does not endorse this point of view. [More]

Evidence mounts against secondhand smoke *
Research finds link to breast cancer, increased blood carcinogen levels. [More]

Fewer Canadians lighting up *
Far fewer Canadians smoke today than a decade ago, and the biggest decline is occurring among teens, a new Statistics Canada says. [More]

First, they came for the smokers ... *
Don't visit Vancouver, Doug: Should pro-smokers have a voice...? Doug Saunders refuses to butt out. [More]

Freedom from smoke, a reBUTTal *
This reader says smoking is no laughing matter: "Doug Saunders's jokey column doesn't include a reason why unprotected exposure to a Class A carcinogen should be a condition of anyone's employment..." [More]

Irish smokers out in the cold *
Ireland outlawed smoking in workplaces on Monday, imposing the strictest anti-tobacco measure ever adopted by any country — and one certain to change the atmosphere in the country's national institution, the pub. [More]

Manitoba considers ban on all workplace smoking *
Manitoba could become the first province to ban smoking wherever people work, indoors or out, with no ifs, ands or butts. [More]

Many helping hands make less smoke *
I went through withdrawal slowly. Now it's over and it's done. I'm a non-smoker, I hope, for the rest of a long and healthy life. [More]

MDs to butt out of smoking cities *
Annual meetings to go to smoke-free burgs. [More]

Obesity to top smoking as No. 1 killer in U.S.: study *
More Americans soon will be dying of obesity than from smoking if current trends persist, which would make being fat the nation's No. 1 cause of preventable death, the government says. [More]

Okay to refuse to hire smokers, EU tells companies *
We're getting cleaner air, slowly but surely. . . [More]

Paris fumes over France's smoking ban *
France and yet another US state join worldwide bans of tobacco in public places, restaurants and bars. [More]

Pro-smoke lobbyists still fighting Ontario smoking ban *
Two months after Ontario finally decided to kick the habit, lobbyists who fought the province's sweeping ban on smoking in public places say it's having precisely the negative impact on their industries that they had feared. [More]

Sir Richard Doll, 92 *
Sir Richard Doll, the scientist who first confirmed the link between smoking and lung cancer, has died today at the age of 92. [More]

Smoking ban forces family strategy *
Was Toronto, like, the last place on the planet to deny smokers in restaurants? So, like, how come they're acting like they invented it, eh? (PS: Boo-HOO!) [More]

Smoking continues to exact a deadly toll *
100 babies die each year due to maternal smoking, new Health Canada data show. [More]

Smoking parents' children more likely to light up *
Parental influence may be just as significant as peer pressure for youths who smoke, according to a new study reporting that the overall number of Canadian youth smokers is declining. [More]

Snoking ban in Norway *
...introduces a total smoking ban in all public places. [More]

The real reason women smokers are at greater risk *
Should cancer of the lung be added to the list of health risks women face just because they are women? [More]

Third-hand smoke identified as health hazard *
According to both the New York Times and the January issue of Pediatrics, experts confirm that toxic residue -- in the form of "third-hand smoke" from cigarettes -- clings to hair and carpets, endangering children. [More]

UN anti-smoking pact kicks in as cigarette firms fight back *
A global treaty aimed at dissuading children from smoking and helping adults kick the habit came into force yesterday with the United Nations saying it could save millions of lives. [More]

Understanding risk factors key to beating SIDS, study says *
Placing babies in the appropriate sleeping position, on their backs, and stopping smoking in the home would virtually eliminate the heartbreaking killer SIDS, new research suggests. [More]

Vaccine can stop lung cancer, U.S. scientists report *
An experimental vaccine wiped out lung cancer in some patients and slowed its spread in others in a small but promising study, researchers say. [More]

Ventilation won't protect non-smokers, expert says *
A U.S. scientist says ventilation systems in bars and restaurants won't protect non-smokers from second-hand smoke. [More]

WHO approves anti-tobacco accord *
The World Health Organization adopted a sweeping anti-tobacco treaty Wednesday in an unprecedented global push to regulate a product it says kills half of its regular users. [More]

Women run double risk of lung cancer *
Female smokers are twice as likely to develop lung cancer as their male counterparts, according to a new study. [More]

Young smokers report lower grades, StatsCan finds *
Poor self-esteem and 'self-damaging behaviour' linked... [More]