By Gary Voss, Executive Director, Missouri Bowling Proprietors Association
and Tom Shucart, President, Greater St. Louis Bowling Proprietors
After years of watching 37 other states enact policy on restricting smoking in public places, St. Louis County voters will decide on Nov. 3…
By Dr. Walt Sumner, President, St. Louis Academy of Family Physicians
The St. Louis Academy of Family Physicians supports the St. Louis County clean indoor air proposal for the following reasons:
1. Fine particles in tobacco smoke hurt smokers and non-smokers alike.
These…
About 60 percent of Americans - 175 million people - now live in communities that restrict smoking in public places.
On Nov. 3, voters in St. Louis County can add the county’s nearly 1 million residents to the list by voting…
Flu season — or at least the traditional flu season — still is a month away. But four Jefferson County schools are taking an unexpected holiday this week, closed by outbreaks of swine flu.
That’s left doctors and public health officials…
The federal government finally will regulate cigarette manufacturing and marketing. That’s long overdue, as anyone familiar with the tobacco industry’s shameful history can attest.
President Barack Obama — an occasional smoker who admits that he still struggles daily with his nicotine…
Indian children where skull masks at an anti-tobacco rally in Calcutta.
Cigarettes are a potent delivery device for the drug nicotine. But unlike most other drugs in widespread use, nicotine isn’t regulated by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.
This week, the…
Time was when having a drink in a North Carolina bar meant having a cigarette, too — or at least inhaling a few coffin nails’ worth of tobacco smoke.
Times have changed.
The nation’s largest tobacco-producing state just became the latest state…
Smokers began paying dramatically higher prices yesterday. The federal cigarette tax jumped by 62 cents a pack overnight, to $1.01. Levies on other tobacco products also rose.
Obviously, smokers are upset. But this is an excellent opportunity to do what most…
Smokers and Medicaid recipients in Missouri
This map shows Missouri Medicaid enrollment and smoking rates by county. The darker the color, the greater the percentage of people in Medicaid. Counties with cross-hatching have the highest smoking rates, followed by those with…
One year ago, Illinois’ clean indoor air law took effect. As a kind of anniversary present, a new study published this week points to why it was a good idea: Clean air laws substantially reduce the risk of certain kinds…
Tobacco smoke in public places is a threat to public health. That is the simple truth behind the effort of the St. Charles Wellness Commission to ban smoking in bars and restaurants.
As the Post-Dispatch’s Mark Schlinkmann reported, seven members of the…
Metropolis, Ill., is offering its employees $1,000 if they quit smoking for one year, according to this AP account.
The move is sound economically for the city. Non-smoking employees typically miss fewer days because of illness. Smokers, meanwhile, cost employers nearly…
