Sentences with phrase «use of tobacco products»

For a group of teachers at the Lincoln (Neb.) High School, the start of school this fall brought a potentially unnerving austerity measure — a districtwide ban on the use of tobacco products in school buildings.

«While we've made tremendous strides in reducing the use of tobacco products in the U.S., smoking still accounts for one in five deaths each year, which is far too many,» said NIH Director Francis S. Collins, MD, PhD, in a statement.

The data was collected from the Current Population Survey - Tobacco Use Supplement — a U.S. Census survey of adults 18 years or older conducted to obtain information about the country's use of tobacco products.

In an interview, Leventhal adds that restricting such advertising is an important target for public health campaigns and policies to limit youth use of tobacco products.

BUFFALO, N.Y. (WBEN)- The Buffalo Common Council on Tuesday passed legislation which would outlaw the use of tobacco products at all City of Buffalo parks with the exception of designated smoking areas.

The health department says in the last ten years, use of tobacco products by High School students declined by 37 %, and smoking by Middle School students decreased by 54 %.

A new survey on the use of tobacco products in New York State shows a change in the dynamic of the tobacco marketplace, shifting from traditional cigarette brands to newer products.

As of Jan. 1, local law prohibits the use of tobacco products and e-devices on property owned or leased by Oneida County and is punishable by up to a $ 1,000 fine.

Pregnant women should receive regular prenatal care in addition to avoiding the use of tobacco products and avoiding smoke exposure during pregnancy.

Not exact matches

And while they've been successful in helping some nicotine - addicted adults stop using tobacco products, the number of teens who smoke has soared since their introduction.

WOONSOCKET, R.I. (AP)-- CVS Health Corp. reported better - than - expected third - quarter earnings Tuesday as increased use of specialty drugs helped offset missing sales of tobacco products, which the company stopped selling this fall.

Australia is already having a painful experience with this type of clause — tobacco company Philip Morris Asia has commenced arbitration against the Australian government over its new plain packaging for tobacco products laws using a similar clause in an investment treaty between Australia and Hong Kong.

Smoking and smokeless tobacco use: Smoking and the use of smokeless tobacco products are prohibited in all Park District buildings and fenced areas and within 50 feet of playgrounds, shelters, and outdoor athletic facilities and fields.

Many of the known risk factors of cancer — all cancers — are the same: smoking or any use of tobacco or nicotine products; exposure to radiation; infection; sunlight; genetic factors; hormones; and aging.

Continue to follow a policy of using tax to maintain the high price of tobacco products at levels that impact on smoking prevalence.

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.

In 2017, legislators banned the use of e-cigarettes anywhere on county property where the use of other tobacco products are banned, but declined to advance a law to raise the age.

The Adolescent Tobacco Use Prevention Act or ATUPA is found in Article 13 - F of the NYS Public Health Law which covers regulation of tobacco products and herbal cigarettes and their distribution to minors.

At 9:30 a.m., the Committee on Health will hold a hearing on a bill to prohibit the use of smokeless tobacco products at sports arenas and recreational areas that require tickets.

If tobacco growers are using fertilizer on their plants, it obviously works, even though it is made from uranium - rich phosphate rock and results in polonium 210 — a decay product of uranium — being inhaled with cigarette smoke.

Researchers say the results provide information that the federal Food and Drug Administration's Center for Tobacco Products could potentially use to make future regulatory decisions for point - of - sale tobacco advertising.

The study, conducted in a one - of - a-kind laboratory replica of a convenience store, is the first to use a realistic setting to examine whether limiting displays of cigarettes and other tobacco products in retail outlets can reduce the intention of young people to begin smoking.

Keeping tobacco products out of view in convenience stores significantly reduces teenagers» susceptibility to future cigarette use compared to when tobacco advertising and products are visible, according to a new RAND Corporation study.

«This is problematic because young adults are still developing their tobacco use behaviors, and e-cigarettes may introduce young adults to tobacco use, or promote dual use of cigarettes and smokeless tobacco products.»

«Hiding tobacco products at convenience stores reduces teens» risk of future tobacco use.»

If used as a means to totally wean people off of tobacco products, then e-cigarettes might have value, concedes Ilona Jaspers of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

The use of alternative tobacco products, regardless of nicotine content, may pose a risk to developing fetuses, Zelikoff said.

Though conventional cigarette smoking has declined dramatically over recent decades in the US, the report stresses that e-cigarette use is associated with the use of other tobacco products and that perceptions of e-cigarettes as less harmful than traditional cigarettes can lead to increased rates of vaping.

Surely if, as the advocates of e-cigarettes argue, these products are a game changer in the war against tobacco, then we should be promoting them, using any tools at our disposal?

That scale was developed 25 years ago and does not reflect modern use of tobacco and nicotine products.

«These increases are driving an uptick in the total number of our children who are using tobacco products for the first time in a generation.»

Researchers analyzed surveys of nearly 7,000 kids ages 12 to 17 who had never used a tobacco product as of 2013 to 2014.

DANGERS OF VAPING E-cigarettes have surpassed cigarettes as the most commonly used tobacco product among teenagers.

«For tobacco, give up on moving toward a prohibition of traditional cigarettes — an endgame — and use public health tools to minimize the use of the most dangerous tobacco products, cigarettes.»

For example, although they can't market their products on television or in magazines, tobacco companies use «nontraditional» advertising, such as paying retailers to place their products in the most visible parts of the store (usually either directly behind or in front of the cash register).

Association of electronic cigarette use with initiation of combustible tobacco product smoking in early adolescence.

The report, which the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) said was reviewed by more than 150 experts, said e-cigarettes are now the most commonly used tobacco products among young people.

And, nearly three - quarters of those who never smoked or used any other tobacco products thought drug stores should be free of tobacco products.

Decreasing the use of substances that harm the adrenal gland such as alcohol, caffeine, tobacco, corticosteroids, fried foods, pork products, red meat, processed foods, sugar and white flour will also reduce adrenal strain.

Also the use of popular stimulants such as caffeine products, chocolate, alcohol, tobacco, etc. greatly contribute to nutritional deficiencies.

In the United States, the Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act of 1994 provides this description: «The Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act of 1994 (DSHEA) defines the term «dietary supplement» to mean a product (other than tobacco) intended to supplement the diet that bears or contains one or more of the following dietary ingredients: a vitamin, a mineral, an herb or other botanical, an amino acid, a dietary substance for use by man to supplement the diet by increasing the total dietary intake, or a concentrate, metabolite, constituent, extract, or combination of any of the aforementioned ingredients.

A Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) in today's Federal Register would clarify that the airline smoking rule prohibits the use of electronic cigarettes and similar products, as tobacco products are now prohibited.

If the Insured Person told us that he / she was a smoker and it has been 12 months or more since he / she last smoked or used any substance or product containing tobacco, nicotine or marijuana, he / she can apply for non-smoker rates by completing a Business Credit Life Insurance Notification of Change Form.

3 To be eligible for non-smoker rates, the Insured Person must not have smoked or used any substance or product containing tobacco, nicotine or marijuana within the 12 months of the effective date of coverage.

You are only entitled to non-smoker rates if, on the date your application is received by Manulife, you have not used any form of tobacco, tobacco cessation products or marijuana in the past 12 months and you meet our health standards.

Schweitzer - Mauduit International, Inc. manufactures and sells paper and reconstituted tobacco products to the tobacco industry, as well as specialized paper products for use in other applications in the United States of America.

the most extreme content of the final product - in terms of relevant rating criteria such as violence, language, sexuality, gambling, and alcohol, tobacco and drug reference or use; and

Indeed, less than zero, because energy would have been used to plant, harvest, process & distribute a larger volume of tobacco products.

These are attacks based on anti-regulatory, so called «free market» ideology, not legitimate scientific debate, using a wide range of dirty tricks: from faked science, attacks on scientists, fake credentials, cherry - picking scientific conclusions: a campaign based on the old tobacco industry mantra: «doubt is our product».

Just as tobacco and lead companies sowed doubt about the dangers of their products through the use of front groups and third - party experts, so did ExxonMobil — through its funding of a sophisticated network of denialists — work to deceive the public about climate science and the need for political action to end the fossil fuel era.