Stop Smoking News Archive

09-Oct-2006

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'Iron chain' links smoking and poverty (Guardian Unlimited)

smoking is inextricably linked to poverty, says the campaigning group Action on smoking and Health.

Drug May Help Women Stop Smoking (Newswise)

Adding the opiate blocker naltrexone to the combination of behavioral therapy and nicotine patches boosted smoking cessation rates for women by almost 50 percent when assessed after 8 weeks of treatment, but made no difference for men. Naltrexone helped reduce the craving and lessened the discomforts of withdrawal for women. It also reduced weight gain.

'Iron chain' links smoking and poverty (Guardian Unlimited)

Smoking is inextricably linked to poverty, according to the campaigning group Action on Smoking and Health (Ash), which today launches interactive maps revealing the close match between cigarette consumption and deprivation.

Employers, insurers fight about stop-smoking tab (The Columbus Dispatch)

Employers and health-insurance companies aren?t seeing eye to eye about coverage of smokers, according to industry experts.

'Iron chain' links smoking and poverty (Guardian Unlimited)

Smoking is inextricably linked to poverty, according to the campaigning group Action on Smoking and Health (Ash).

Japan: Linares stops Martinez (Boxing Insider)

WBA#2/WBC#3 ranked feather, unbeaten Japan-based Venezuelan Jorge Linares (22-0, 13 KOs), 128, proved too fast and smart for durable Colombian Humberto Martinez (14-4-1, 11 KOs), 128, and finally caught him with a beautiful right cross that dropped his opponent to prompt the referee?s intervention at 2:34 of the sixth round on Saturday in Tokyo, Japan.