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If you thought that smoking tobacco through a waterpipe was safer than cigarettes, think again: Compared to cigarette smoking, a waterpipe -- also called a hookah or shisha -- delivers more deadly carbon monoxide and roughly the same amount of addictive nicotine, according to a new study.
In a new report on tobacco use and control, the World Health Organization says at least 5 million people die every year due to smoking-related illness.
More than 94 percent of the world's people are not protected by laws against smoking, leaving them exposed to the biggest cause of preventable death, the World Health Organization said on Wednesday.
State Urged to Increase Cigarette Tax and Restore Funding for Tobacco Prevention
WEDNESDAY, Dec. 9 (HealthDay News) -- States cut funding for tobacco prevention programs by more than 15 percent in the past year, even though they're receiving record amounts of money from tobacco taxes and from the 1998 state tobacco settlement, says a report released Wednesday.
Backers of a proposed ballot measure to raise cigarette taxes by $1 per pack for smoking-related cancer research and prevention, which critics said would sap funding from early-childhood education, have reversed course and agreed to rewrite the measure.
State Urged to Raise Cigarette Tax and Increase Funding for Tobacco Prevention
WASHINGTON, Dec. 9 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Indiana has cut state funding for tobacco prevention programs by 28 percent in the past year and currently ranks 29th in the nation in funding programs to prevent kids from smoking and help smokers quit, according to a national report released today by a coalition of public health organizations.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 9 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Tennessee this year ranks last in the nation in funding programs to prevent kids from smoking and help smokers quit, according to a national report released today by a coalition of public health organizations. Tennessee's ranking fell from 40th a year ago after cutting state funding for its tobacco prevention program by 96 percent.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 9 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Oklahoma continues to strengthen its commitment to fighting tobacco use and now ranks 11th in the nation in funding programs to prevent kids from smoking and help smokers quit, according to a national report released today by a coalition of public health organizations.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 9 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Massachusetts has cut state funding for tobacco prevention programs by 63 percent in the past year, falling from 35th to 41st in the nation in funding programs to prevent kids from smoking and help smokers quit, according to a national report released today by a coalition of public health organizations.
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