Libertarianz: Tobacco Tax Grab Stinks
Libertarianz leader Richard McGrath marked the rise in tobacco excise tax a naked grab for money by the National and Maori Parties.
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Libertarianz: Tobacco Tax Grab Stinks
February 22, 2012 – 4:55 pm
The Illustrated Easyway to Stop Smoking: A Smoker’s Guide to Just How Easy It Is to Quit
February 22, 2012 – 5:04 am
RPT-Australia seeks plain packaging for tobacco products
February 21, 2012 – 4:52 pm
RPT-Australia seeks unadorned packaging for tobacco harvest
(Repeats item first in print from late Wednesday)
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Smoking: Risk, Perception and Policy
February 21, 2012 – 4:49 am
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Do individuals really know and know the risks entailed by their smoking decisions? The inquiry is particularly vital in the case of young persons, since most smokers start during childhood and adolescence. With years of intense publicity about the hurts of smoking, it is generally believed that each teenager and adult in the U.S. knows that smoking is treacherous to health, thus decisions to smoke are informed choices. This book presents a counter-view, based on a survey of several thousand young persons and adults, probing attitudes, beliefs, feelings, and perceptions of expose associated with smoking. The authors agree that young smokers produce modest or no thought to health risks or the problems of addiction. The survey data contradicts the model of informed, rational choice and underscores the need for aggressive policies to counter tobacco firms’ marketing and promotional efforts and to restrict youth access to tobacco.
Shopkeepers to have their say on impending tobacco display ban
February 20, 2012 – 4:53 pm
Shopkeepers to have their say on impending tobacco show ban
A CONSULTATION giving shopkeepers their say about the ban on tobacco displays will be launched today.
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The Price of Smoking
February 20, 2012 – 4:54 am
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What does a pack of cigarettes cost a smoker, the smoker’s family, and society? This longitudinal study on the private and social costs of smoking calculates that the cost of smoking to a 24-year-ancient woman smoker is $86,000 over a lifetime; for a 24-year-ancient male smoker the cost is $183,000. The whole social cost of smoking over a lifetime—including both private costs to the smoker and costs imposed on others (including second-hand smoke and costs of Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security)—comes to $106,000 for a woman and $220,00 for a man. The cost per pack over a lifetime of smoking: nearly $40.00. The first study to quantify the cost of smoking in this road, or in such depth, this accessible book not only adds a weapon to the collection of antismoking messages but also provides a framework for assessment that can be applied to other health behaviors. The findings on the effects of smoking on Medicare and Medicaid will be startling and I don’t know controversial, for the authors estimate the costs to be much decrease than the hurt awards being paid to 46 states as a result of the 1998 Master Settlement Agreement.
Electronic cigarettes allow students to side-step no smoking rules
February 19, 2012 – 4:52 pm
Electronic cigarettes allow students to side-stride no smoking rules
Ryan Prystash has gotten his nicotine manipulate a couple of times in the residence halls. But not with regular cigarettes, chewing tobacco or cigars. Instead, he smokes electronic cigarettes.
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The Smoking Puzzle: Information, Risk Perception, and Choice
February 19, 2012 – 5:12 am
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How do smokers evaluate evidence that smoking harms health? Some evidence suggests that smokers overestimate health risks from smoking. This book challenges this conclusion. The authors find that smokers tend to be overly optimistic about their endurance and future health if they quit later in life. Older adults’ decisions to quit smoking require private experience with the serious health impacts associated with smoking. Smokers over fifty revise their expose perceptions only with experiencing a major health shock–such as a sensitivity attack. But less serious symptoms, such as tininess of breath, do not produce changes in perceptions. Waiting for such a jolt to suggest itself is imprudent.
The authors show that well-crafted messages about how smoking affects quality of life can greatly affect current perceptions of smoking risks. If smokers are informed of long-term consequences of a disease, and if they are told that quitting can indeed come excessively late, they are able to evaluate the risks of smoking more accurately, and act accordingly.
The Smoking Puzzle: Information, Expose Perception, and Choice
SIGNS OF THE TIMES: Historian unlocks mysteries of “signed” buildings
February 18, 2012 – 4:54 pm
SIGNS OF THE TIMES: Historian unlocks mysteries of “signed” buildings
Thomas Burke was in the mens’ clothing business. Octave Desmarais sold newspapers, books, tobacco, globes and lights. Frederick Hoy owned a liquor business. The Talmud Torah Institute taught the tenets of the Jewish belief. Daniel F. Sullivan was a vendor of shoes. They’re gone now, but their commercial memorials are all over the capital.
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Yes! You Can Stop Smoking: Even If You Don’t Want To
February 18, 2012 – 4:49 am
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This is a new edition of the impose a curfew-breaking stop-smoking guide used by treatment centers, mental health agencies, counselors, support groups and individuals. David C. Jones, a ex- three-pack-a-day smoker, has been nicotine-emancipated for over twenty years. In Yes! You Can Stop Smoking, he addresses smoking as an addiction; examines the self-talk and fake beliefs that protect you smoking; details the five stages of recovery; teaches skills for coping with feelings; clarifies how to dodge sabotaging your recovery; provides right-life accomplishment tales; and includes affirmations for the first 90 days of living nicotine-emancipated. With this proven, positive guide, you will stop smoking for excellent-even if you don’t want to!