You may not know that cigarette butts are a major source of plastic pollution that may endanger marine life and harm humans. Each year, cigarette butts top the list of most littered items across California beaches and waterways. In 2017, an astounding 203,474 butts were collected on California beaches as a part of an...
Despite the expectation that mortality rates will decline in future, a growing and ageing population will still see total numbers swell. New research estimates the overall number of deaths from smoking-related cancers is set to increase by nearly a third in the coming decades. The study, produced by Cancer Council NSW and the University of Sydney, predicts...
Over 100 Kenyan tobacco farmers took part in a government-backed project to plant sustainable crops instead of the more usual tobacco plants. Their first harvest so far already yielded 135 tons of high-iron beans. Some 100 Kenyan farmers were part of a pilot project to help farmers transition from tobacco to alternative food crop farming. The...
WEDNESDAY, July 13, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- The potent influence of social media may include tobacco use. By analyzing 29 previously published studies, researchers found that people who viewed social media that contained tobacco content were more than twice as likely to report using tobacco and were more likely to use it in the future, compared...
KUALA LUMPUR, July 13 — Ahead of the Ministry of Health's (MoH) plan to introduce a new policy which will affect the vape industry in Malaysia, four industry associations submitted a memorandum yesterday to urge the government to consider its future when developing regulations. The associations represent more than 3,000 entrepreneurs and businesses, as well...
The researchers investigated the levels of exhaled carbon monoxide in smokers while wearing a mask during working hours, and during days without a mask. Smoking while wearing a surgical mask results in a two-fold rise in exhaled carbon monoxide and impaired blood vessel function compared to non-mask periods, according to a study published in the...
ACCORDING to Malaysia's 2020 report to the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control, an estimated 4.8 million people in Malaysia currently smoke. To put things into perspective, 21.3 per cent of those aged 15 and above are smokers. That makes up one in five Malaysians. The 2019 National Health and Morbidity survey also showed that more...
Smoking damages blood circulation in many ways, leading to a host of related health problems including heart disease, heart attack and stroke. It may also affect the penis. Erectile dysfunction (ED) is defined as the persistent inability to attain and maintain an erection sufficient enough to permit satisfactory sexual performance. For some men, erectile dysfunction can...
In 2009, Mrs. Margaret Kwaada Julius, a 47-year-old grandmother became a tobacco advocate by chance. Stumbling on the information that, “tobacco kills half its users’’ further reinforced her resolve to dedicate quality time to sensitizing people on the harmful effects of the deadly substance on health and the environment. Presently she says, “I am a...
A voter-approved ban on flavored tobacco in Washington County has yet to go into effect after a judge issued an injunction on it Tuesday, saying the county wasn’t prepared to enforce it anyway. County health officials say that’s not exactly the case. But they concede they’ll have to allow sales of the kid-friendly cancer-causing flavored...
