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.