http://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress internet news portal provides the latest news on Health and Medicine. The Philippine health department warned the public on Friday against electronic cigarettes, saying the tobacco substitute could turn children into smokers. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-04-philippines-e-cigarette.html Health Fri, 12 Apr 2013 05:30:01 EST news284960686 Rather than being a purely grassroots movement that arose spontaneously in 2009, the Tea Party developed in part as a result of tobacco industry efforts to oppose smoking restrictions and tobacco taxes beginning in the 1980s, according to a study by researchers at UC San Francisco. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-02-tea-party-ties-tobacco-industry.html Health Mon, 11 Feb 2013 06:50:02 EST news279786665 (HealthDay)—Even though proven anti-smoking strategies exist, more than 440,000 Americans still die each year from cigarette smoking or exposure to secondhand smoke, federal health officials said Friday. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-01-heavy-toll-cdc.html Health Fri, 25 Jan 2013 17:30:01 EST news278355566 The Philippines Thursday raised tobacco and alcohol taxes in a reform President Benigno Aquino hailed as helping to liberate "more Filipinos from the vices of smoking and drinking". http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-12-philippines-tobacco-alcohol-taxes.html Health Thu, 20 Dec 2012 04:25:56 EST news275199945 The Philippines has moved closer to raising tobacco and alcohol taxes, the government said Wednesday after the Senate passed a bill aimed at weaning millions of smokers off the habit. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-11-philippines-closer-tobacco-alcohol-tax.html Health Wed, 21 Nov 2012 05:13:21 EST news272697191 (AP) -- States have spent only about 3 percent of the billions they've received in tobacco taxes and legal settlements over the last decade to fund tobacco prevention programs, making it harder to reduce the death and disease caused by tobacco use, according to a report released Thursday by the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-05-state-tobacco-funding-lacking.html Health Thu, 24 May 2012 16:10:01 EST news257093754 (AP) -- There are smoke-free bars, smoke-free parks, even smoke-free college campuses. But a smoke-free country? http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-05-smoke-free-country-zealand-taxes-aim.html Health Thu, 24 May 2012 05:01:59 EST news257054505 (AP) -- Tobacco taxes and smoking bans haven't budged the U.S. smoking rate in years. Now the government is trying to shock smokers into quitting with a graphic nationwide advertising campaign. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-03-cdc-graphic-anti-smoking-ad-campaign.html Health Thu, 15 Mar 2012 05:04:11 EST news251006643 While smoking remains legal, the number of smokers is never going to fall significantly, argues public health doctor in a letter to this week's BMJ. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-10-doctor-tabloids-publish-daily-death.html Health Tue, 25 Oct 2011 19:09:24 EST news238788499 A new study shows that 145,000 deaths could be averted in the next 30 years in the Netherlands by implementing stronger tobacco control policies. This set of policies, as recommended by the MPOWER report of the World Health Organisation, consists of increasing tobacco taxes to 70% of the retail price, bans on smoking in workplaces and public places, a complete marketing ban, well-funded tobacco control campaigns, graphic health warnings, youth access laws, and comprehensive cessation treatment. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-09-stronger-tobacco-policy-netherlands-thousands.html Health Mon, 26 Sep 2011 14:38:22 EST news236266376