Thema Roken

Antirookorganisatie Clean Air Nederland (CAN) sleept de Nederlandse staat voor de rechter om herinvoering van een volledig rookverbod in de horeca te eisen. Dat meldt persbureau Novum.
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Vragen van het lid Bouwmeester aan de minister van Volksgezondheid, Welzijn en Sport over de uitzending "Minister van tabak".
Lees hier de reactie van Minister Schippers .

Minister Edith Schippers (Volksgezondheid) voelt er niets voor om een protocol op te stellen zodat duidelijk is hoe ambtenaren op haar departement moeten omgaan met de tabaksindustrie.
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Rokers die kort na het opstaan hun eerste sigaret roken hebben een verhoogde kans op kanker in vergelijking met rokers die pas na 1 uur hun eerste sigaret roken.
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It is well known that smoking leads to a reduction in levels of fractional exhaled nitric oxide (FeNO), which is a marker for airway inflammation.
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Fathers-to-be should stop smoking to protect their unborn child from the risk of stillbirth or birth defects, scientists say. UK expert said it was "vital" women knew the risks of second-hand smoke. University of Nottingham researchers found that pregnant women exposed to smoke at work or home increased their risk of stillbirth by 23 percent and of having a baby with defects by 13 percent. They looked at 19 previous studies carried out in North America, South America, Asia and Europe.
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Door het stoppen met Postbus-51 campagnes tegen roken en het niet langer vergoeden van ondersteunende medicijnen bij stoppen met roken, zullen er zeshonderd mensen extra overlijden aan de gevolgen van roken. Dat blijkt uit een onderzoek van de Universiteit van Maastricht en Stivoro naar de gevolgen van het beleid van minister Edith Schippers van Volksgezondheid. De resultaten van deze SimSmoke-studie worden gemeld in de ‘ZEMBLA’-aflevering ‘Minister van Tabak’, vrijdag 21 oktober om 21.20 uur op Nederland 2.
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Rookverbod stopgezet
Edith Schippers is een opmerkelijke minister van Volksgezondheid. Ze wordt door de rooklobby beschouwd als een trouwe bondgenoot. Vooraanstaande artsen spreken met afschuw over haar rookbeleid: ze heft het rookverbod voor de kleine horeca op en campagnes om mensen van het roken af te helpen worden stopgezet.
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Detecting cancer early to improve survival rates

Lung cancer is one of the UK’s biggest killers; and yet it has been “hugely overlooked” in recent years, a new report from the British Lung Foundation states.
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NYON (ANP) - Het Europees kampioenschap voetbal 2012 wordt volledig rookvrij. Dat heeft de Europese voetbalbond UEFA donderdag bekendgemaakt. In de stadions en de nabije omgeving daarvan geldt een verbod op het roken, de verkoop van tabak én het reclame maken voor tabak.
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Quitting cigarettes and spurning alcohol before bed may help remedy poor sleep quality, according to a study in Japan.
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The diagnosis of cancer can motivate patients to reduce smoking, but few quit altogether and a smaller number increase or even take up smoking. These changes occur early after receiving a diagnosis of cancer. Patients with a smoking history believed that the treating radiation oncologist should discuss smoking cessation with their patients and that the ideal timing is at the first consultation. The periodic nature of treatments and consultations at radiation oncology centres suggest there is the potential for an effective smoking cessation programme.
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De Nederlandse antirookmaatregelen zorgden in 1996-2010 voor een daling in het aantal rokers van 16%. Bovendien voorkwam dit beleid 7078 sterfgevallen. Met een pakket fikse maatregelen kan het echter nog veel beter, zo blijkt uit een studie in Addiction (2011; epub 26 september).
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African Americans, Hispanics, service and blue-collar workers, and residents of rural areas are among those facing higher rates of workplace secondhand smoke exposure in states without smokefree workplace laws. Consequently, these groups also experience more negative health effects resulting from secondhand smoke exposure. The objective of this study was to examine disparities in workplace secondhand smoke exposure in a state without a comprehensive statewide smokefree workplace law and to use this information in considering a statewide law.
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That's important because the age at which women stop getting their periods may influence their risk of bone and heart diseases as well as breast cancer.
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If you smoke cigarettes, you have more in common with someone who has cystic fibrosis than you think. A new research report appearing online in the FASEB Journal shows that smoking cigarettes affects the lungs in a way that is very similar to cystic fibrosis, a life threatening disease affecting the lungs and other organs.
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he Food and Drug Administration currently is assessing the public health impact of menthol cigarettes. Whether menthol cigarettes pose increased barriers to quitting is a critical issue because previous declines in smoking prevalence have stalled.
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To summarize, pancreatic cancer is caused by DNA mutations, and there are three ways that we can damage our DNA. We can be born with a DNA mutation inherited from mom or dad, we can do something, like smoke, that damages our DNA, or our DNA can be damaged by chance.
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"Individuals who smoke are much more likely to have a heart attack, and will present with a heart attack a decade or more earlier," said Dr. Gregg Fonarow, a cardiologist at the David Geffen School of Medicine at the University of California, Los Angeles, who wasn't involved in the new study.
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United Nations health chief Margaret Chan Fung Fu-chun, has come out fighting against tobacco giants, urging Asian governments not to be cowed by the industry but instead maintain life-saving efforts against smoking.
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Since 2006, leading US cigarette companies have been promoting new snus products as line extensions of popular cigarette brands. These promotional efforts include direct mail marketing to consumers on cigarette company mailing lists. This study examines smokers' reactions to this advertising and perceptions of the new snus products.
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This study examines child poisonings resulting from ingestion of tobacco products throughout the nation and assesses the potential toxicity of novel smokeless tobacco products, which are of concern with their discreet form, candy-like appearance, and added flavorings that may be attractive to young children.
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Compared to people who don't smoke, smokers face twice the risk of stroke and they are likely to have that stroke nearly a decade sooner, a Canadian study finds.
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Globally, people believe that friends and family have as much responsibility for their personal health as do health care providers, according to the Edelman Health Barometer 2011. After "themselves," nearly half (43%) of respondents believe that their friends and family have the most impact on their lifestyle as it relates to health, and more than a third (36%) believe friends and family have the most impact on personal nutrition.
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Belgian officials are to be docked for time they spend smoking outside their workplaces because the puffing fonctionnaires have been told they are "are bad for the image" of the civil service.
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In deze nieuwsbrief onder andere aandacht voor aansprekende campagnes voor jeugd, aandacht voor zwangeren en lokaal beleid t.a.v. roken.
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U.S. health regulators said on Thursday they will follow the behavior and health of 40,000 smokers aged 12 and older to study the effects of new tobacco regulations.

The joint effort by the Food and Drug Administration and the National Institutes of Health is the first such study since Congress asked the FDA to regulate tobacco products in 2009.
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Smoking is a significant exogenous risk factor for various ocular conditions, such as age-related macular degeneration, cataracts and diabetic eye disease. As the patient’s main source of information about smoking and eye health, the optometrist is uniquely positioned to deliver a message of intervention.
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Almost 20% of people smoke tobacco worldwide—a percentage projected to rise in many poor countries. Smoking has been linked to increased individual risk of tuberculosis infection and mortality, but it remains unclear how these risks affect population-wide tuberculosis rates.
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Curbing smoking worldwide through aggressive tobacco control could prevent millions of deaths from tuberculosis (TB), according to new research published in the BMJ that says smoking is undermining the progress towards the millenium goals for reducing TB deaths.
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Een sigaretje roken in de baas z'n tijd; in Nederland kan het nog. Maar volgens de Stichting Volksgezondheid en Roken (Stivoro) duurt dit niet lang meer. Bedrijven willen af van de speciale positie van rokers. Bovendien ergeren niet-rokende werknemers zich aan de regelmatige afwezigheid van rokende collega's. Moet de paffer straks aan de prikklok? Of 'poldert' ons land zich ook wel weer door dit probleem?
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The percentage of the Canadian population that smokes cigarettes has been dropping steadily since anti-smoking efforts began in earnest in the 1970s. In 1965, 49 per cent of Canadians over the age of 15 smoked. Sixty-one per cent of males smoked while 38 per cent of females indulged in the habit.
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he aim of this study was to characterise the natural course of smoking cessation behaviour in a web-based survey of current and former cigarette smokers (CS and FS) in the United States.
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A US study suggests that men who successfully stopped smoking improved on lab measurements of sexual health more than those who relapsed after a quit-smoking program, showing that smoking may be affecting the sexual health of men who consider themselves perfectly all right in bed, researchers said.
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In Engeland kunnen rokers voor hun pakje sigaretten niet meer terecht bij sigarettenautomaten. Die zijn vanaf 1 oktober 2011 verboden aldaar. Bij overtreding kan de boete oplopen tot 2900 euro.
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Not only are smokers twice as likely to have strokes, they are almost a decade younger than non-smokers when they have them, according to a study presented today at the Canadian Stroke Congress.
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Smoking rates in the USA range from 28.4% for adults with no high school education, 28.6% among individuals with no health insurance, to 9.1% for employees with at least a bachelor's degree.
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A new study claims that tobacco companies knew for years that cigarette smoke contained dangerous and potentially deadly radioactivity but purposefully didn’t let the public know.
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