July 1, 2015
The New York Times June 30, 2015 By DANNY HAKIM A parliamentary hearing was convened here in March to consider an odd remnant of Ukraine’s corrupt, pre-revolutionary government. Three years ago, Ukraine filed an international legal challenge against Australia, over Australia’s right to enact antismoking laws on its own soil. To …
February 10, 2015
Source: “States racing to regulate e-cigarettes,” Liz Szabo, USA Today 2/7/2015 The American Cancer Society has found itself in a surprising position: opposing state proposals to make it illegal to sell e-cigarettes to minors. The cancer society doesn’t want kids to use e-cigarettes, but it objects to what it calls …
January 27, 2015
WAPT News January 27, 2015 by Scott Simmons JACKSON, Miss. —Doctors, health advocates and mayors from around Mississippi held a rally Tuesday for a statewide smoking ban. The group, which includes physicians from the Mississippi State Medical Association, unrolled a 100-foot list of signatures from every county to ban indoor smoking, …
December 15, 2014
JohnsonCityPress.com December 14, 2014 by Tony Casey In 2007, the Non-Smokers Protection Act was enacted by the state, disallowing smoking in most places, including workplaces, but still allowed smoking in places like bars where only people over 21 years old are permitted. And, unlike Arkansas, California, Louisiana, Maine, Oregon, Utah, …
August 5, 2014
Permanent, positive cultural change, as in the case of tobacco control, is the gold standard for progress in public health. In a 2012 article in the Journal of Environmental and Public Health, Mowery et al. reported on the impacts of state preemption of local smokefree laws. While Mowery’s study adds …