Secondhand Smoke and Heart Disease

Researchers found that of 205 non-smokers with heart failure, those who regularly breathed in secondhand smoke reported more problems in their day-to-day functioning -- physical and emotional. The findings, reported in the Archives of Internal Medicine, do not prove that other people's smoke was to blame. But they add to the large body of evidence tying secondhand smoke to heart disease, researchers say. A number of studies have found that non-smokers who regularly breathe in other people's tobacco smoke have an increased risk of developing heart disease. This latest study suggests that secondhand smoke may also affect a heart failure patient's quality of life, according to the researchers, led by Dr. Kirsten E. Fleischmann of the University of California, San Francisco.

Leading Cigarette Maker Served Legal Notice

Tobacco Control Cell of the Cabinet Division has issued legal notice to a local cigarette manufacturer for publishing tobacco advertisements in print media, in violation of Prohibition of Smoking and Protection of Non-smokers Health Ordinance 2002. Sources told Business Recorder on Saturday as per Tobacco Control Cell, full-page advertisements of some brands appeared in print media during November 2011. This is gross violation of SRO 382(l)/2007 dated August 21, 2007 issued under section 7 of the Prohibition of Smoking and Protection of Non-smokers Health Ordinance 2002 wherein it was stipulated that with effect from May 31, 2007 tobacco advertisement will not be more than one square inch.

Smoking Policy Hits Turbulence

A staff report recommending a policy to eliminate exposure to secondhand smoke in open public spaces in Southgate has run into some resistance. According to the proposed policy no one could smoke cigarettes fashionable within 30 metres of any sports field or play area and within a 15 metres radius of the entrance to any municipal building. For Coun. Dale Pallister it's just more regulations that are virtually unenforceable. "You get so many rules that they reach the place of how do you enforce them all . . . when you need a bylaw enforcement officer to say that you're not to stand 100 feet away from the arena door, or whatever distance it was they came up with, it just seems to me that life doesn't have to be that complicated," he said during Wednesday's committee of the whole meeting.

Davenport City Parks Might Go Tobacco-Free

Smoking could join sex and nudity as behavior banned from Davenport's public parks. The Davenport City Council will consider an ordinance change at its meeting tonight that prohibits tobacco use - smoking best quality Kiss cigarettes or otherwise - from its public parks. The change would not include Modern Woodmen Park where smoking is partially banned under the Iowa Smokefree Air Act. A violation would be a simple misdemeanor. The ordinance change discussion is part of the committee of the whole agenda. It wouldn't get a first vote until next week and would require three votes to amend the ordinance. Alderman Jason Gordon, At-large, requested the change be placed on tonight's agenda. He described the ordinance change as an outgrowth of the Davenport Thrive program, a city-wide coalition that promotes wellness.

Muhammadiyah Bans Smoking

The country’s second-largest Islamic group has thrown its full weight behind efforts to rid Indonesia of its heavy smoking habit. After issuing a fatwa in March 2010 to tell its tens of millions of followers that it was religiously unacceptable to light up, Muhammadiyah is now set to declare all of its health and education institutions smoke-free zones. Muhammadiyah operates some 500 health institutions such as hospitals and clinics, about 15,000 schools from the level of kindergarten to high school and nearly 200 higher education institutions. It also operates 350 orphanages across the country. “On Monday [today], we are going to launch our nationwide program that, starting now, Muhammadiyah’s offices, enterprises and forums are officially smoke-free areas,” Syafiq A. Mughni, Muhammadiyah’s chairman for health issues, told the Jakarta Globe on Sunday. The campaign will kick off at the Muhammadiyah headquarters in Jakarta.

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Cigarettes Seized in Market Place Raid

Almost 80,000 illegal cigarettes have been seized from a Dudley market stall. The raid, which took place earlier this month, was carried out by HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC), Dudley’s trading standards and NHS Dudley and also saw further investigations of a van and a private address. A total of 78,940 cigarettes were taken from the stall. No duty had been paid on any of them, leading to around £18,000 being evaded. Trading standards officials also confiscated a large amount of counterfeit clothing.