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Monday, 23 February 2009 10:06 |
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Sunday February 22, 2009
By DR NOR ASHIKIN MOKHTAR 
We know smoking is dangerous, but for women, there are also other health risks due to physiological and lifestyle differences, which puts women in a more dangerous position.
A CAR pulled up next to me as I was waiting at the traffic light last week. A slim hand reached out from the car window, a cigarette dangling from the fingers. When I looked over, I saw that the driver was a young woman, maybe in her early 20s. More and more women, especially teenage girls, are picking up the filthy habit of smoking. This is despite decades of medical and public health campaigns about the dangers of cigarettes. Unfortunately, the voices of scientists and health authorities are often drowned out by powerful advertising and marketing by tobacco manufacturers. |
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Jury awards Cooper City widow $8 million from Philip Morris |
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Friday, 20 February 2009 11:32 |
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by Tonya Alanez | South Florida Sun Sentinel
3:49 PM EST, February 18, 2009
FORT LAUDERDALE - Tobacco giant Philip Morris must pay $8 million to a Cooper City widow whose husband died of lung cancer, a Broward County jury decided today in a landmark case that could foretell the outcome of about 8,000 similar lawsuits pending in Florida. |
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FIGHTING AEDES: We must change the way we think |
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Thursday, 19 February 2009 11:10 |
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2009/02/18 By : TAM YONG YUEE, Muar  Residents must create a clean, healthy, safe and peaceful environment for themselves and their neighbours.
WHEN you come to think of it, it is a dismal state of affairs that after 51 years of independence, Malaysians are far from civic-minded.
I agree with Perak health director Datuk Dr Ahmad Razin Ahmad Mahir that keeping our community safe, clean and healthy is a "shared responsibility" (NST, Feb 16). The authorities that oversee our community have roles to play and it is incumbent upon them to take their jobs seriously. If they are guilty of negligence or complacency, they must be admonished. |
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Friday, 20 February 2009 09:15 |
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By Joseph McCaffrey, MD, FACS 
Society has a love-hate relationship with plastic. We sure use a lot of it, but even before an actor whispered "Plastics..." as a word of advice in the movie The Graduate, plastic often meant shoddy, imitation, and uncool. Ardent environmentalists tend to hate plastic. You know the issues there. Now there are other concerns about plastics -- namely, that they are poisoning our food supply. These concerns stem from the fact that unsavory chemicals in some plastics can leach into food. Canada highlighted the issue by proposing a ban of plastics containing bisphenol-A, a compound with significant toxicity. |
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Marlboro top choice of regular teen smokers |
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Wednesday, 18 February 2009 09:42 |
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Friday February 13, 2009  Picture source: www.howtoquitsmokingtobaccocigarettes.com/ CHICAGO (AP) - Marlboro, the cigarette favored by adults, is also the runaway favorite of U.S. teens who regularly smoke, according to a new federal report released Thursday.
The results led anti-smoking advocates to complain that the same advertising that's supposed to target adults is also influencing teens, even though smoking rates for that age group have dropped in recent years.
"Cigarettes are still the most heavily advertised drug in America," said Dr. Victor Strasburger, a professor of pediatrics at the University of New Mexico School of Medicine and a spokesman for the American Academy of Pediatrics.
"It's sad." |
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