The fight against tobacco

Continued progress in the fight against tobacco.

My previous editorial lamented the apparent decision by the federal government not to proceed with the introduction of new warning labels on cigarette packs. However, at the same time that the November-December issue of the Journal was coming off the presses at the printing house, Health Minister Leona Aglukkaq announced December 30 th that current labels would indeed be replaced by larger and ...

PLANT vs. PATHOGEN: Enlisting Tobacco in the Fight Against Anthrax

Heat sensitivity and the development of thermotolerance of cells isolated directly from surgical specimens of human breast carcinoma, malignant melanoma and squamous cell carcinoma of the head and neck were studied in vitro using the Courtenay soft agar colony assay. The plating efficiency of some of the tumours was sufficiently high (0.3-20.4%) for survival curves covering up to two to three d...

Fight against tobacco in Japan, before and after FCTC

Background In 1965 smoking rate of male in Japan was 82.3% and that of female was 15.7%. In 2005 when the FCTC was enacted, smoking rate of male was 39.3% and that of female was 11.3%. In 2013 smoking rate of male is 32.2% and that of female is 10.5%. It seems that several measures against smoking for the FCTC accelerate to reduce the smoking rates. To find effective measures for decrease smoki...

The Fight against Poliomyelitis

The Fight against Poliomyelitis