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• Some Progress But Government Has Missed Opportunities In Queen's Speech, Brit...
  Posted on 3 Dec 2008 at 11:00am
  Measures to tackle smoking-related illness outlined in today's (Wednesday 3 December, 2008) Queen's Speech are positive but lack detail, the BMA says. It also expresses concerns that proposals for an NHS constitution, while welcome in principle, could be used to reinforce the increasing commercialisation of healthcare in England, and will not protect the NHS from being used as a political football.
  
• BERR Must Not Be Allowed To Derail Measures To Protect Children From Tobacco, UK
  Posted on 2 Dec 2008 at 6:00am
  Following the Government's public consultation on the future of tobacco control which closed on 8 September, it was expected that a number of new measures to protect children from tobacco would be included in the Queen's speech on Wednesday, 3rd December.
  
• Exposure To Second-Hand Smoke Reduced, American Journal Of Preventive Medicine
  Posted on 2 Dec 2008 at 4:00am
  As the connection between second-hand smoke and coronary heart disease (CHD) became clearer and legislation was passed to reduce such passive smoking, exposures have been reduced. In an article published in the January 2009 issue of the American Journal of Preventive Medicine, researchers from the University of California, San Francisco, Partners Healthcare, Boston and Columbia University have recalibrated the CHD Policy Model to better predict future trends in CHD.
  
• High Levels Of Prenatal Smoking Exposure Affect Sleep Patterns In Preterm Neo...
  Posted on 1 Dec 2008 at 6:00am
  A study in the Dec. 1 issue of the journal Sleep is the first to show that high levels of prenatal smoking exposure strongly modify sleep patterns in preterm neonates, which places infants at a higher risk for developmental difficulties that could persist throughout early and middle childhood. Results indicate that preterm neonates born to heavy-smoking mothers who smoked more than 10 cigarettes per day displayed disrupted sleep structure and sleep continuity. From 7 p.m.
  
• Hawaii Public School Students Report Smoking Less
  Posted on 30 Nov 2008 at 2:00am
  Lt. Governor James R. "Duke" Aiona, Jr. and the Hawai'i State Department of Health (DOH) Tobacco Prevention and Control Program today released a study that shows fewer youth identifying themselves as smokers. The Youth Tobacco Survey (YTS) also found fewer youth experimenting with cigarettes as well as being exposed to second-hand smoke. "I'm very proud that more of our Hawai'i youth are making the right decision not to smoke," said Lt. Governor Aiona.