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Cardiff pub latest in plan to act before the ban Welsh brewer and pubco Brains has made another of its pubs smoke-free – its sixth ahead of next April’s ban.


As part of a continued plan to act early prior to the ban, Brains has transformed one of Cardiff’s oldest pubs into a no-smoking venue.

The Old Arcade, in Church Street, has had part of its roof from the rear section removed to create a courtyard area.

It is linked to the back room by state-of-the-art floor-to-ceiling glass doors that can be opened in good weather. In addition, canopies have been erected in the lane which runs alongside the pub to provide further sheltered outdoor space for customers.

Andrew Lynch-Wilson, the Old Arcade’s manager, said: “The pub is a real institution in Cardiff and has been a Brains’ pub since the turn of the last century, so during the refurbishment we made sure that all the improvements kept its original character while providing a smart, contemporary solution for our customers.”

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Tinley Park has one. Orland Park does, too. And now Oak Forest plans to start asking local businesses whether the city should do what the other suburbs are doing and implement a city-wide smoking ban.


The city's chamber of commerce plans to mail surveys to about more than 170 businesses to gauge their opinion about a proposed ban, said Tamara Kostecki, the chamber's executive director.

City officials plan to formally discuss the prospects of a smoking ban at a committee meeting Nov. 14.

Ald. Richard Simon (2nd) said few of the business owners he has talked with were supportive of the proposed ban.

"I'm a non-smoker, and I have my personal feelings," Simon said. "But my decision will be based on the opinion of the business community."

Ald. Anthony Chinino (1st) said he already made up his mind.

"I'll vote no," he said. "It's up to the business owners to say they don't want smoking."

Oak Forest Mayor JoAnn Kelly said the city would invite representatives from the American Cancer Society to discuss the health effects of secondhand smoke. She said city officials also would look for guidance in the ordinances Orland Park and Tinley Park approved.

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Mr Thierno Diallo the Country Director of Philip Morris International, a Switzerland based cigarette manufacturing company has commended the government of Ghana for its commitment to fight illicit cigarette in the country.

Mr Diallo made the above comment when a memorandum of understanding was signed between Philip Morris International and Custom Excise and Preventive Service (CEPS) in Accra.

He said the company is delighted about the Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) signed to fight illicit trade in cigarette in partnership with CEPS. The MOU would help the two organisations to share information on suspected counterfeit shipments, technical trainings and external communication on counterfeit issues.

Earlier, officials of Custom Excise and Preventive Service destroyed more than 100 million counterfeit cigarette at Kpong near Tema in the Greater Accra Region. The counterfeit cigarettes, bearing Philip Morris International trademarks, were seized in 12 shipping containers in transit at the port of Tema in the second half of 2005.


"I would like to thank the authorities here in Ghana on this milestone destruction of illegal cigarette. This action sends a strong message about Ghana's commitment to address this serious issue. Destruction of seized cigarette is the only way to ensure that these inferior quality product do not find their way back to the legitimate supply chain and into the possession of unsuspecting smokers", Mr Diallo said.

Mr E. N. Doku Commissioner of CEPS who signed the memo on behalf of the commission thanked Philip Morris International for the confidence it has expressed in them. "Our hearts are gladdened by the training facilities Philip Morris has offered to put at our disposal in the MOU."

He said the success of the MOU as a working tool and as a guiding principle cannot be achieved without the requisite skills of our officers assigned duties at our various ports and stati

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For non-smokers, being surrounded by cigarette smoke isn't pleasant, but for Mikenna Stephenson, secondhand smoke really does hurt. "I start to choke, and I can't breathe. It's pretty painful," said Stephenson, a junior communications major. She has cystic fibrosis, and it isn't good for her to be around cigarette smoke.


Even though secondhand smoke is bad for her, she doesn't like asking people to not smoke.

"I'm kind of embarrassed to ask people to not smoke around me," Stephenson said. "I don't want to be the bad guy."

She may not have to be the bad guy if Issue 5 passes next week, which would ban smoking in all public places in Ohio.

However, there are groups out that are hoping to fight smoking without the politics.

Mark Mitchell is the tobacco treatment specialist for the Northeast Ohio region of the American Lung Association. He facilitates "Freedom From Smoking," a group clinic smoking cessation program in Independence.

"The program builds up to a 'quit day' preparing the smokers by helping to increase their motivation, confidence and readiness to quit," Mitchell said. "After the 'quit day' the program focuses on relapse prevention and positive lifestyle changes."

Mitchell said it takes people, on average, seven to eight times to quit smoking, because nicotine is so addicting and such a hard habit to break.

The program also uses nicotine replacement drugs. Although they offer prescription pills, Mitchell said most people choose the patches and gum.

"Based on the clinics I've worked at, most people use patches and gum because they're easier and over-the-counter," Mitchell said.

Scott Dotterer, coordinator of the Office of Health Promotion at the DeWeese Health Center, said the Health Promotion Office may also be offering the "Freedom from Smoking" program in January if grants are approved.

Currently, the American Cancer Society's program called "Fresh Start" is being used at Kent State. Dotterer said students should visit the DeWeese Health Center for more information.

"Students have options," he said. "If anyone is interested in quitting, they can come to us."

Smoking is now a big issue to everyone, whether they smoke or not, Simpkins said.

"The only way to protect people from secondhand smoke is to ask smokers to step outside for a few minutes, so their choices don't hurt others," Simpkins said.

This may surprise some people, but Stephenson doesn't see the issue as black-and-white as most do.

"I have a lot of friends who smoke, and I want them to be happy too, so it's a battle," she said. "But they are courteous and don't smoke around me."

Stephenson believes people know about smoking and its dangers; now it's just based on personal decisions.

"I think we all know about the dangers of smoking, but the choice is up to us," she said.

As for now, she will continue to raise money for cystic fibrosis, and she hopes that more people will make the decision not to smoke.

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KUWAIT: Philip Morris Kuwait Company WLL hosted a Suhoor Party for the local media on Thursday. Hamad Al-Asfour, Manager Corporate Affairs welcomed visitors for a sumptuous Suhoor meal held at Atlantis Restaurant at Marina Hotel. Representatives from Philip Morris Middle East attended the event including Dubai based George Nassif, the director corporate affairs Middle East and Ruwaida Abu Ajram, communication manager.
"We invited you here to spend this Suhoor party with us because we treasures our friendship with all the newspapers here in Kuwait and we hope for more productive years to come. We thank you for coming and I hope you will enjoy our small token of gratitude," said Al-Asfour on the occasion.
The Suhoor party discourages minors from attending since the company was promoting tobacco products not suited for children.
Philip Morris is one of the largest tobacco companies in the world. They produce many of the world's best-selling cigarette brands, including the most popular brand worldwide; their brands are made in more than 50 factories around the world and sold in over 160 markets.
Founded in the 19th century, Philip Morris has grown into a worldwide organisation. Today Philip Morris International alone employs more than 80,000 people.

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James Bond actor Daniel Craig is not allowed to smoke in the new Bond film. The new 007 is furious with movie bosses who decided to cut out smoking scenes because they don't want to send the message that smoking is cool to young Bond fans.


Craig told Parade magazine: "I can blow off someone's head at close range and splatter blood, but I can't light a good Cuban cigar."

The news that Bond will not be smoking cigars in the film comes just days after it was announced he may drink lager instead of martinis in the film.

Craig may never utter the immortal lines "Vodka martini - shaken, not stirred" as film bosses have signed a deal with Heineken.

The film is not realised until November but has already been heavily criticised by fans.

Craig is the first blonde Bond and has admitted to being scared of boats, hating guns, sex scenes and martinis and losing two teeth in his first fight scene.

He told Parade: "Maybe I'm not the prettiest Bond that's ever been, and maybe I'm not the most suave.

"All I can say is there are millions of fans, and I don't want to let them down. I've worked my butt off for this movie. I'm not going to foul it up."

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The Kanawha-Charleston Board of Health surveyed Thursday the minefield it faces with a proposal to make all public places Kanawha County smoke-free, including bars. Putnam County approved a similar policy Tuesday, a move praised by the Kanawha health board. Several states, including Utah and Montana, took a similar approach as Kanawha County by enacting some sort of regulation, then phasing out smoking in bars and private clubs, explained Dr. Kerry Gateley, executive director of the Kanawha-Charleston Health Department.


Kanawha County’s existing rule prohibits smoking in all eateries that rely on food for more than 20 percent of their sales. Restaurant bars can allow smoking if the smoking section is closed off from the eating area.

But some places have run into “definitional problems,” Kerry told board members. In Maine, the regulation exempted private clubs, but becoming a private club was extremely easy, he said.

The board needs to make sure such loopholes do not creep into Kanawha County’s regulations, Gateley said.

“A lot of states seem to struggle with this private club thing,” he said. “The easier this thing is to understand and interpret, the better.”

The smoke-free regulation will take hold gradually so that the public and businesses can adjust, said Dr. Steven Artz, the board’s president.

“The community has plenty of notice,” he said. “If they have adequate notice, I’m sure there will be some grumbling, but we can move forward over time. There will be some structure.”

Part of the reason for the all out ban on smoking is to even the ground between businesses that can allow smoking and those that cannot, board members said.

“Fortunately, the contiguous county just moved,” Artz said, referring to the lack of competition.

Gateley credited the board’s move toward a smoke-free policy for partly inspiring Putnam’s new policy. “What I understand from the Putnam situation is they learned a lot from us,” he said. “We set the ground I think.”

In other business:

Flu shots for the upcoming flu season are ordered, but coming in slowly because of manufacturing delays, Gateley reported.

The county ordered 15,000 doses, plus 11,000 for smaller health departments that usually see delays. The first shipment comes in today, but is only 744 doses. The state provided another 1,080, he said.

A letter from one vaccine company, Sanofi Pasteur, said that 40 to 50 percent of the order should come in by the end of October with the rest to follow in November or December.

The health department made no serious changes to the flu vaccine schedule yet. That

schedule is available online at www.kchdwv.com.

“The only problem I foresee is if they’re late on a shipment,” Gateley said before the meeting. “We want to wait until we have the shots in the cooler. We expect to have enough, but we expected that two years ago, too.”

In 2004, a manufacturing problem caused widespread flu shot shortages.
The health department continues to design a new building that will fit its needs. The two highlighted at Thursday’s meeting are parking and a large storage cooler for vaccines.

“A facility where we provide a clinic without up-to-the-door parking or valet parking is impractical,” Artz said. “Clients need front door access.”

As per the vaccines, Gateley said: “Hundreds of thousands of dollars of vaccines pass through here all the time and we have to keep them cool. We don’t just use a Kenmore refrigerator to do that.”

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TOBACCO use, particularly cigarette smoking, is the single most preventable cause of death in the world. It also causes chronic lung disease (emphysema and chronic bronchitis), cardiovascular disease, stroke, cancer and cataracts. Nicotine, a powerful central nervous system stimulant found naturally in the tobacco leaf, is classified as a drug. It is one of the main ingredients in tobacco. In higher doses, nicotine is extremely poisonous. It is commonly used as an insecticide. The membranes in the nose, mouth and lungs act as nicotine delivery systems – transmitting nicotine into the blood and to the brain.


Nicotine is highly addictive. The addictive effect of nicotine is the main reason why tobacco is widely used.

Cigarette smoking causes 87% of lung cancer deaths and is responsible for most cancers of the larynx, oral cavity and pharynx, oesophagus, and bladder.

Tobacco smoke contains thousands of chemical agents, including over 60 substances that are known to cause cancer.

The risk of developing smoking-related cancers, as well as non-cancerous diseases, increases with total lifetime exposure to cigarette smoke.

Smoking cessation has major and immediate health benefits, including decreasing the risk of lung and other cancers, heart attack, stroke, and chronic lung disease.

US Surgeon General Richard H. Carmona issued a comprehensive scientific report on June 26, 2006, which concludes that there is no risk-free level of exposure to second-hand smoke. Non-smokers exposed to second-hand smoke at home or work increase their risk of developing heart disease by 25 to 30% and lung cancer by 20 to 30%.

The report, The Health Consequences of Involuntary Exposure to Tobacco Smoke, finds that even brief second-hand smoke exposure can cause immediate harm. .

Second-hand smoke contains more than 50 cancer-causing chemicals, and is itself a known human carcinogen.

Non-smokers who are exposed to second-hand smoke inhale many of the same toxins as smokers.

Even brief exposure to second-hand smoke has immediate adverse effects on the cardiovascular system and increases risk for heart disease and lung cancer, the report says.

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New research suggests tobacco companies are sweetening cigarettes, which could make them more attractive to young people.

Additives included plum juice, maple syrup and honey to make products taste better. These ingredients were apparently identified from tobacco company websites.




A British newspaper, The Independent, reported findings of the study that examined sweet additives in tobacco. Results were published in the journal Food and Chemical Toxicology.

The newspaper quoted researchers saying: “The addition of sugars in tobacco can enhance tobacco use in at least two ways — naturalisation of the harsh taste of cigarette smoke and generation of acetaldehyde, which increases the addictive effect of nicotine.”

It went on: “Moreover, the sweet taste and the agreeable smell of caramelised sugar flavours are appreciated in particular by starting adolescent smokers.”

Mike Daube, president of the Australian Council on Smoking and Health, called on tobacco companies to reveal all their ingredients.

“We would like legislation at a Federal level that forces them to reveal everything that goes into cigarettes,” he said. “If we don’t know what goes into cigarettes we don’t know how harmful they are going to be in combination with other components.”

The newspaper quoted a cigarette executive’s denials that sugar additives encouraged young people to smoke.

He said that cigarettes sold in Britain typically did not have sugar.

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Whoever said quitters never win, perhaps never had a clue that quitting can be a good thing. According to Winston Seale, an Orthopaedic Surgeon by profession at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital, and guest speaker at a recent session held by the Barbados Breathe Free Association, good things can happen when smokers stop smoking. Seale was speaking recently at the Opening Ceremony and Pre-Quitting Session of the Barbados Breathe Free Associations Stop Smoking Programme.

The programme, which will officially come into being on October 10, is being held in association with Sagicor Life Inc.

Seale told interested parties gathered at the Savannah Hotel in Hastings on Sunday, that there are 1.1 billion smokers in the world. By the year 2020, he said, studies suggest that the worldwide death toll due to smoking will be somewhere in the region of ten million. There is no part of the body which smoking does not affect, Seale has cautioned, noting that the effects will be manifested in different organ systems of the body, depending on the length of time spent smoking, and the frequency.

However, it is never too late to stop smoking, Seale has assured. There is positive hope and recovery even for long-term smokers who quit, since persons can gradually reverse much of the damage caused to bodily organs from the day they quit, Seale said. Outlining some of the good things that can happen to quitters, Seale has remarked that the carbon monoxide and nicotine levels in the body begin to decline within hours or days after the last cigarette. The cilia lining of the bronchial tree begins to grow back and a smokers cough disappears within a year after cessation. After ten to 15 years of quitting, the risk of developing cancer or heart disease gradually returns to nearly that of a non-smoker.

Meanwhile, Sagicor representative Juanita Blackman has lamented the marked increase in health insurance costs being paid out by her company. The company pays out twenty million dollars in claims annually, she says, noting that to date there are 20 000 insured lives. This presents a major challenge for the company.

In speaking about the nine-day Stop Smoking programme, President of the Barbados Breathe Free Association, George Best has noted that the programme will be in the form of a series of lectures and sessions to be delivered each night at 7:30 p.m. at the L.V. Harcourt Lewis Training Centre, at the Public Workers Credit Union, Belmont Road. The dates for the sessions are October 10, 12, 15, 16, 17, 19, 23, 26 and 30. Individuals will not be condemned for their decision to smoke, the Association says, but will be provided with avenues based on a programme tested and proven in the US to successfully quit for good.

The programme is being hosted by the Seventh-Day Adventist (SDA) Church, and David Beckles, President of the East Caribbean Con-ference of Seventh-Day Adventist, says the programme is one designed to restore and prevent. Noting that the SDA church has always been in the forefront of health reform, he expressed the hope that not only lives will be healed through the programme, but more homes will be happy.

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