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| ACS urges Chinese employers to go smoke free |
| Dr. Otis Webb Brawley, the chief medical officer
for the American Cancer Society, was in China this past weekend to
launch an effort with more than 70 multi-national and Chinese companies
to develop smoke-free worksites.
The launch coincided with...read more |
Ms Garrido-Herrero Lara 2008-08-14 16:07:45
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| Ni hao from Beijing! |
| Source: Miami Herald. By Jorge Rojas.12 August 2008.
Holy smokes! I caught the U.S.-Japan soccer match in Tianjin the other
day and got a good glimpse of China's smoking problem.
We took a
30-minute bullet train, which was nice, but both the Beij...read more |
Ms Garrido-Herrero Lara 2008-08-14 16:04:13
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| Welcome to the smoke-free Olympics. Got a light? |
| Source: Reuters via The Guardian (UK). August 12, 2008
By Belinda Goldsmith
BEIJING, Aug 12 (Reuters) - It's been declared a "smoke free Olympics" -- but tell that to the furtive puffers dragging on their cigarettes around Olympic venues.
In China...read more |
Ms Garrido-Herrero Lara 2008-08-14 00:16:12
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| Man uses Olympic tickets in anti-smoking drive |
| Source: Shanghai Daily. 11 August 2008
An anti-smoking advocate will donate his 10 Olympic tickets to any
smoker who promises to butt out, a Beijing newspaper reported today.
Xiong Wei hopes his gesture will raise awareness about the harmful effec...read more |
Ms Garrido-Herrero Lara 2008-08-11 17:21:59
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| A smoke-free Games? Not for all the athletes |
| Source: Reuters. 6 August 2008.
Early to rise, early to bed, and lots of exercise in between:
athletes are supposed to be models of clean living, right? But some
Olympians have a more healthy lifestyle than others.
For Italian weightlifter Giorgi...read more |
Ms Garrido-Herrero Lara 2008-08-11 17:17:45
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| Gates' foundation aids smoking ban for Games |
| By Wang Zhuoqiong. 28 July 2008
Source: China Daily
The retired co-founder of computer giant
Microsoft, Bill Gates, has earmarked $130,000 from his foundation to
support a "smoke-free Olympics".
"Awareness of the
disease burden that smoking cau...read more |
Ms Garrido-Herrero Lara 2008-07-28 14:52:54
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| A Smoke-Free Olympics? |
| Source: International Herald Tribune. Originally published by The New York Times Media Group. 23 July 2008
By Andrew Jacobs
A smartly dressed man carried a lighted
cigarette into the elevator of an upscale apartment building one recent
morning, a...read more |
Ms Garrido-Herrero Lara 2008-07-24 15:34:48
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| Beijing goes softly on enforcing smoking ban |
| China View. 21 July 2008
Beijing health chiefs are insisting they will use education and persuasion to discourage illegal smoking in public places, rather than use spot fines to enforce a ban that was passed to clean up the city's image ...read more |
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