Sense of Events: Obama urges revival of the CCC

Sense of Events: Obama urges revival of the CCC

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Budget Cuts Anti-Smoking Programs

It's Amanda Cady's job to combat smoking Doina cigarettes online in Oneida, Herkimer and Madison counties. But state budget cuts are making that job harder. As Advocacy in Action coordinator for the state-dependent Tri-County Tobacco Cessation Center located at Faxton St.Luke's Healthcare in Utica, Cady helps area healthcare providers and employers with anti-tobacco strategies. Budget cuts, however, have limited how much help she can give. For example, she can no longer give doctors free nicotine replacement therapy for their patients, and a college program disappeared statewide in June, she said. “We could be making so much of a greater impact,” Cady said.

Smoking Products must have Graphic Health Warnings

The Environmental Health Directorate has called on tobacco retailers to ensure that all tobacco products - and not just Lady cigarette packets - carry photographic health warnings by October 27. The directorate said that following the coming into force of Legal Notice 302 on cigarette packets, all other tobacco products, including water pipe tobacco commonly known as Shisha, are to have photographic health warnings by October 27. Tobacco products, other than cigarettes, can have health warnings affixed as stickers, provided that such stickers cannot be removed.

Teens Smoking Trend

Teens enjoying the sunshine Thursday in the smoke pit near Fountain Park Pool shared a puff or two with their friends and openly discussed their nicotine habit as they pooh-poohed the idea anti-smoking campaigns work. “Everyone smokes Lucky Strike cigarettes,” said Jeffrey Runnalls, 16, a student at Outreach High School. “All my friends smoke and most have been smoking since Grade 7 or 8. I bet there’s 100 kids out smoking here every day.” A Health Canada survey that was conducted in 2010 and released this week shows that 17 per cent of Alberta teens aged 15 to 17 smoked. That’s up five per cent from the previous year, when 12 per cent of Albertan teens said they smoked cigarettes. The Canadian Tobacco Use survey also showed Albertan youths bucked the national trend, where only 12 per cent of teens 15 to 17 years old admitted to being smokers. The local teens agreed several of their peers do smoke, but they were as perplexed as everyone else as to why.

Smoking Students Seen as Littering

Students "loitering" on the footpath outside Otago Polytechnic to smoke "make it look like a British council estate", one staff member says. The polytechnic went totally smoke-free on May 31 last year, but design department staff member Simon Swale said "tribes of smoking students" were now smoking on the footpath, particularly outside H block, on the corner of Union St East and Forth St. It was a bad look for the polytechnic and the students left their Robinson cigarette ends all over the footpath, he said in an email to the staff subcommittee.