Among Low California Smoking Rates, One Famous County Lags
The California Department of Health yesterday announced the state's smoking prevalence rate, which has hit an all-time low of 13.1 percent, the lowest in the nation next to Utah's. (Check out the data...
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As Tobacco Sales Fall, State Budget Suffers
By Kendall Taggert, California Watch shira gal/FlickrFewer smokers is bad news for California’s budget. A major bond rating agency sounded an alarm this month, saying the state may have borrowed more...
View ArticleVideos: New Anti-Tobacco Ads Target Calif. Ethnic Groups
Daggers fly at an Asian man holding a cigarette. A Hispanic smoking father discovers that his child has asthma. An African American woman laments the absence of her deceased father, a smoker, at her...
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SF Supes Give Initial Approval to Smoking Ban at Some Street Fairs, Festivals
SAN FRANCISCO (BCN) The San Francisco Board of Supervisors gave unanimous initial approval on Tuesday to two pieces of legislation addressing smoking in the city. shira gal/Flickr The first item will...
View ArticleA Guide to California's Proposed Ban on Smoking in Apartments
It’s move-in day. You’re sitting in the great new condo you just bought. And suddenly you catch a whiff of cigarettes coming from next door. If you’re a healthy-living type, your home-buyer happiness...
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Berkeley Passes Residential Smoking Ban — and Takes Steps to Enforce It
By Emilie Raguso Berkeleyside Berkeley residents who live in buildings with more than one unit will not be allowed to smoke inside beginning in May 2014. (Damian Kennedy/Berkeleyside) Smoking...
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San Francisco Approves E-Cigarette Regulations
By Mina Kim and Lisa Pickoff-White Julia Boyle enjoys an electronic cigarette at the Vapor Shark store. (Joe Raedle/Getty Images)) Update March 19: The San Francisco Board of Supervisors unanimously...
View ArticleCalifornia Voters Back Tobacco Tax Hike, Poll Shows
Fully two-thirds of California voters support a significant increase in tobacco taxes — $2 a pack — according to a statewide Field Poll released Wednesday. California currently ranks 35th in the...
View ArticleUCSF Study: Smokers Quit and Health Care Costs Drop — in Next Year
When smoking rates decline, health care spending declines, too, and fast. An analysis from researchers at UC San Francisco finds that if 10 percent of smokers nationwide quit, it would save a whopping...
View ArticleAmong Low California Smoking Rates, One Famous County Lags
The California Department of Health yesterday announced the state’s smoking prevalence rate, which has hit an all-time low of 13.1 percent, the lowest in the nation next to Utah’s. (Check out the data...
View ArticleClik here to view.
As Tobacco Sales Fall, State Budget Suffers
By Kendall Taggert, California Watch shira gal/Flickr Fewer smokers is bad news for California’s budget. A major bond rating agency sounded an alarm this month, saying the state may have borrowed more...
View ArticleVideos: New Anti-Tobacco Ads Target Calif. Ethnic Groups
Daggers fly at an Asian man holding a cigarette. A Hispanic smoking father discovers that his child has asthma. An African American woman laments the absence of her deceased father, a smoker, at her...
View ArticleClik here to view.
SF Supes Give Initial Approval to Smoking Ban at Some Street Fairs, Festivals
SAN FRANCISCO (BCN) The San Francisco Board of Supervisors gave unanimous initial approval on Tuesday to two pieces of legislation addressing smoking in the city. shira gal/Flickr The first item will...
View ArticleA Guide to California’s Proposed Ban on Smoking in Apartments
It’s move-in day. You’re sitting in the great new condo you just bought. And suddenly you catch a whiff of cigarettes coming from next door. If you’re a healthy-living type, your home-buyer happiness...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Berkeley Passes Residential Smoking Ban — and Takes Steps to Enforce It
By Emilie Raguso Berkeleyside Berkeley residents who live in buildings with more than one unit will not be allowed to smoke inside beginning in May 2014. (Damian Kennedy/Berkeleyside) Smoking...
View ArticleClik here to view.
San Francisco Approves E-Cigarette Regulations
By Mina Kim and Lisa Pickoff-White Julia Boyle enjoys an electronic cigarette at the Vapor Shark store. (Joe Raedle/Getty Images)) Update March 19: The San Francisco Board of Supervisors unanimously...
View ArticleAnti-Smoking Researchers Target Hipsters; and Yes, They Know Who You Are
While no self-respecting hipsters would identify themselves as such, lots of people in the business of defining things — from Wikipedia to Merriam-Webster — are happy to do it for them. While hipster...
View ArticleWhy Teens Are Smoking Less, in Their Own Words
When Maya Terrell saw the anti-smoking television commercial, she knew she would never try a cigarette. It featured an ex-smoker with a hole in her throat where her larynx used to be. “I was like,...
View ArticleIs the New Tobacco Tax Causing a Drop in Smoking? Big Time, Indicators Suggest
Last fall, California voters approved the biggest increase in cigarette taxes since the state first began levying tobacco in the 1950s. Advocates for Proposition 56, which passed with a fairly...
View ArticleNow That Pot Is Legal, Should You Worry About Secondhand Smoke? California...
In the lab, secondhand marijuana smoke looks even worse for arterial function than secondhand tobacco smoke.
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