Sentences with phrase «reduce tobacco»

New research suggests that mindfulness meditation helps people to reduce tobacco use and manage stress, according to... Read more»

New evidence - based resources are available for home visitors working with families to reduce their tobacco use.

Dr Calma outlined the many ways the tobacco program is helping to reduce tobacco use in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people — around half of Aboriginal people smoke, with rates as high as 70 - 80 % in some communities.»

Florida About Blog Tobacco Free Florida (TFF), is a comprehensive effort to reduce tobacco use in the state.

The maximum reward for programs designed to prevent or reduce tobacco use is 50 %.

«Prevention is likely to be more difficult and costly than treatment,» warn the authors, citing the prolonged and difficult struggles to reduce tobacco use or improve diets.

Most importantly, always maintain a balanced diet, engage in regular physical activity, reduce tobacco smoking and limit alcohol consumption to lower risks of lung cancer.

«Evidence - based interventions that prevent and reduce tobacco use and reduce clinical complications of COPD may result in potential decreased COPD - attributable costs,» said Earl Ford, MD, MPH, Division of Population Health, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

The increase in longevity, especially in high - income countries (HICs), has been largely due to the decline in deaths from cardiovascular disease (stroke and ischaemic heart disease), mainly because of simple, cost - effective strategies to reduce tobacco use and high blood pressure, and improved coverage and effectiveness of health interventions.

«E-cigarettes significantly reduce tobacco cravings, study suggests.»

Global health experts believe the best way to reduce tobacco use is by stopping people starting to use tobacco, and encouraging and helping existing users to stop.

The incoming Congress has opportunities to: cut federal subsidies for large farms by encouraging a progressive return to sustainable, integrated farming; encourage low - carbon electricity options for generating clean power; implement policies that ensure the Internet remains free and open; and ratify the World Health Organization's recommendations on how to reduce tobacco smoking.

In another effort to reduce tobacco use, students from Tappan Zee High School met with local leaders and lobbied in Albany and their hard work paid off.

The Liberals are also spending $ 80.5 million over five years starting this year to reduce tobacco use, particularly in Indigenous communities, and raising taxes on cigarettes by $ 1 per carton.

«Reducing tobacco consumption is an important health objective, and a key tool in achieving this objective is the excise duty on tobacco products,» the budget says.

We need the kind of multi-faceted interventions that finally succeeded in reducing tobacco consumption.

Hein said the county has made significant strides in improving the health of its residents, as measured by the Robert Johnson Foundation, but lags in reducing tobacco - related diseases.

«New York State has made great strides in reducing tobacco use, which is the number one preventable cause of death and disease in the state,» said state Health Commissioner Dr. Howard Zucker.

She bought the shares a month after taking over the agency tasked with reducing tobacco use.

Despite many unanswered questions about e-cigarette safety, the impact on public health, and whether the products are effective at reducing tobacco smoking, e-cigarettes have swiftly penetrated the marketplace in the United States and abroad in both awareness and use.

Gregory N. Connolly of the Harvard School of Public Health says FDA should focus on reducing tobacco use, rather than regulating the industry's efforts to develop «safer» cigarettes.

«Despite significant progress made in reducing tobacco use within the general population, individuals with mental illness smoke at rates approximately twice that of adults without mental disorders and comprise more than half of nicotine - dependent smokers,» according to background information in the article.

Comparisons like these led the researchers to the question: Do electronic cigarettes work against reducing tobacco smoking or offer the possibility of minimizing harm for those who just can not quit tobacco cigarettes?

Stomach cancer is also declining in both males and females, thought to be due to improvements in diet, reduced tobacco and alcohol use, and recognition of H. pylori as a risk factor.

Lobelia's medicinal properties have also proven useful in reducing tobacco consumption by alleviating the negative effects of tobacco withdrawal.

Marie McInerney writes: Political and public complacency, and pushback by the tobacco industry are threatening Australia's progress in reducing tobacco use and and harm, an international hea... Read more

These included improved eating habits (e.g. less sugar, less bread), a more active lifestyle, reduced gambling and reduced tobacco and alcohol consumption (I gave up drinking - Uncle Alan).

Not exact matches

The Campaign for Tobacco - Free Kids applauded HUD's actions, saying «this bold step» would reduce smoking among groups that suffer the most from tobacco - related death and disease.

They warm tobacco sticks to a temperature that's high enough to release an aerosol but not enough to cause combustion.They may significantly reduce risk while satisfying users» nicotine cravings.

The purchase of the tobacco shares especially raised concerns, because one of the CDC's goals is to prevent and reduce smoking.

This figure is a good deal higher than the 1.7 per cent for the latest year - ended rise in the CPI, but the pick - up includes the effect of dropping out the impact of the health insurance rebate, which reduced the CPI in the March quarter 1999, some further effects from past movements in crude oil prices, and an increase in tobacco taxes in the December quarter.

Jiang Yuan, an economist with China's National Bureau of Statistics, said makers of steel, cement and tobacco reduced output in response to slack demand.

It follows years of successful campaigning for plain packaging on tobacco, which has already been implemented in several markets as governments try to reduce the number of «premature deaths» caused by smoking.

Reflective mulches also drastically reduced aphid infestations in peppers, thus lowering the incidents of aphid - transmitted viruses, such as tobacco etch.

Asaria P, Chisholm D, Mathers C, Ezzati M, Beaglehole R. Chronic disease prevention: health effects and financial costs of strategies to reduce salt intake and control tobacco use.

Clean raw tobacco materials will not only reduce the risk for the consumer, but also ensure more efficient manufacturing of consumer products avoiding production stoppages, minimizing waste generation and at the same time contributing to environmental improvements (e.g. reduced energy consumption and CO2 emission control).

You should also reduce alcohol, tobacco and caffeine to get the desired result.

Most trials of prenatal home visiting have produced disappointing effects on pregnancy outcomes such as birth weight and gestational age, 9,16,17 although one program of prenatal and infancy home visiting by nurses has reduced prenatal tobacco use in two trials18, 19 and has reduced pregnancy - induced hypertension in a large sample of African - Americans.20

We have also seen the invention of electronic cigarettes which have been introduced to help reduce smoking tobacco.

Involvement has been shown to increase grades, leads to more consistent homework completion, improve student behavior at school, increase high school graduation rates, reduce school drop - out rates, increase college attendance, and lower rates of experimentation with tobacco, alcohol, and recreational drugs.

The Department of Health (DoH) has since made it a stated aim to reduce levels of smoking - despite few efforts from the Home Office to criminalise tobacco.

Look at whether the plain packaging of tobacco products could be an effective way to reduce the number of young people who take up smoking and to support adult smokers who want to quit, and consult on options by the end of the year.

NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio threw his support behind a series of initiatives to cut tobacco use, including raising the minimum price of a pack of cigarettes to $ 13 and taking steps to eventually reduce the number of stores that can sell tobacco products.

Using 50 % VAT on luxury yachts to reduce the taxes paid by the manufacturer of luxury yachts and their employer would be no bad thing; redistribution isn't the only goal of the tax system, if it were we'd have no tax on tobacco.

New York must once again reclaim its national leadership as the place where meaningful steps are being taken and progress consistently is made to reduce the devastation caused by tobacco use.

In his State of the County address earlier this month, Hein said by raising the age the county can reduce the number of tobacco - related deaths and move Ulster County closer to becoming a healthier county.

Hein called on lawmakers in 2017 and again this year to approved the legislation, saying the move would reduce the number of tobacco - related deaths and move Ulster closer to becoming a healthier county.

According to the American Lung Association, a 2015 report from the National Academy of Medicine found that raising the age of sale for tobacco products to at least 21 years old would reduce smoking by 25 percent among 15 - 17 year - olds and by 15 percent among those 18 - 20 years old.

The tobacco control plan is a testament to the campaigning of a huge range of organisations that care about the nation's health and want to reduce the harm from smoking.

Riccardo Polosa, professor of Medicine at Catania University, did a study for the Italian Non-Smoking Association which found that 55 % of the 40 committed smokers in his experiment had significantly reduced or eliminated their use of tobacco cigarettes by the electronic alternative.