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Tanzanian parents who smoke can and should play a big role in blocking the young generation from picking up the killer habit.Public education and sensitization, strict enforcement of anti-smoking regulations and sharpening legislation against tobacco are also key facilitators of the campaign against a crop whose effects are medically and environmentally disastrous.So says Professor Robert Machang`u, the National Professional Officer at the WHO Regional Office in Dar es Salaam and Chairman of the Tanzania Public Health Association.He w .... More »

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Children as young as 12 are being given nicotine patches through their schools in an attempt to stop them smoking.Priory School and Sports College is one of several schools in Barnsley, South Yorkshire, which has signed up for the government scheme.In February England's official NHS advisory body said pupils should get help for serious smoking problems.One parent whose teenage son is getting help to stop smoking told the BBC the scheme was "fantastic".'Horrible pictures'Karen White's son Nicky started smoking up to 10 cigarettes a day .... More »

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LONDON: Are you splitting your hair on your kids smoking habit? Well you can play a crucial role by quitting smoking yourself as a new research reveals that a major determining factor of children's tobacco use is the smoking status of their parents.The research, conducted by GlaxoSmithKline Consumer Healthcare, said that if parents of a child never smoked, a child's odds of daily smoking are reduced by more than 70 per cent compared to when both parents continue to smoke. And if both parents were smokers but quit, those same odds are .... More »

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If both parents of a child never smoked, research shows that a child's odds of daily smoking are reduced by more than 70 percent(1) compared to when both parents continue to smoke. And if both parents were smokers but quit, those same odds are reduced by nearly 40 percent.(1) Additional research shows that mothers who quit are less likely to have children who start smoking.(2)As global leaders in tobacco control commemorate World No Tobacco Day (WNTD) on May 31st, the rallying cry is to prevent young people from starting to smoke. Whi .... More »

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Almost 60,000 Australian children are abused or neglected or at risk of being so -- a dramatic jump of 45 percent over the past few years, the government said Sunday.Families Minister Jenny Macklin said the government was launching a discussion paper on a national child protection framework "because the figures on child abuse and neglect in Australia are so bad.""There's now just under 60,000 children either being abused or neglected, and the numbers just keep growing," she told the Nine Network."They've grown by about 45 percent over .... More »

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LONDON, May 22 (UPI) -- Nearly 5,000 British children under the age of 18 were hospitalized in 2007 because they drank too much alcohol, government data revealed.Averaged out, the National Health Service data indicated almost 100 children a week wound up in hospital because of drinking alcohol, The Daily Telegraph reported Friday. The data also indicated the overall number of people admitted to British health facilities because of drinking doubled in just more than a decade.The survey of children found more were staying away from alco .... More »

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As the Internet becomes more and more popular so also do cyber crimes. And too often children are the target for predators on the web.Officials at the Florida Attorney General's office aren't taking cyber crimes and cyber bullying lightly. They're sending crews out to schools to educate children about what to do and what not to do.Tuesday students at Shanks Middle School in Gadsden got their first lesson in on-line safety. It's common for kids to go on-line and even have their own my-space pages.But many say kids need to be careful. T .... More »

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Children as young as 10 at a primary school in Cape Town have admitted to smoking anti-retroviral (ARV) drugs, headache tablets and other over-the-counter medicines to get high, a study shows.This comes after a report to a parliamentary portfolio committee meeting of the department of social development two weeks ago which said special attention needed to be focused on this new trend.Now an impact study by an after-school care project has shown that pupils from Andile Public Primary School in New Crossroads have admitted to buying and .... More »

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The council chambers were overflowing Thursday - and so were the emotions at a special Leamington Police Services Board meeting.The meeting, organized at the urging of some very concerned parents, centred around the drug problem in and around Leamington.Heart-wrenching letters, written by parents of young people heavily involved with drugs, were read aloud.Tears flowed - some out of compassion, others ... well the stories hit a little too close to home.The letters spoke of failing grades, personality changes, theft, violent behavior, .... More »

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The following is a press release from the city of Somerville.Somerville Cares About Prevention Director Tammy Freitas da Rocha today announced SCAP will offer a parent workshop series in early June. Through the Guiding Good Choices program, parents will learn how to help their children make healthy decisions and avoid substance abuse. Five 2-hour workshops for parents of children ages 9-14 will be held on Monday and Thursday afternoons in June at the City Hall Annex, 50 Evergreen Avenue.Guiding Good Choices is an interactive drug prev .... More »

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Getting the cool kids to talk to their peers about the dangers of smoking cut the number of young people who started using cigarettes in one study by nearly 25 percent, researchers said on Friday.Getting the cool kids to talk to their peers about the dangers of smoking cut the number of young people who started using cigarettes in one study by nearly 25 percent, researchers said on Friday.The study published in the journal Lancet took a different approach than most tobacco cessation programmes aimed at youths by asking students to nom .... More »

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Court Appointed Special Advocates, or CASA, seeks adult volunteers or advocates who want to make a difference in the lives of abused and neglected children.The volunteers must be at least 21 years old. They will be trained at twice-weekly three-hour classes beginning May 6 and ending June 11 at CASA University located in suite 312 at 1020 Milwaukee Ave., Deerfield. During training, CASA volunteers will learn about how CASA works with the other agencies, the laws that protect our children, and how to understand families and children in .... More »

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A Londonderry couple whose children were taken into care while on holiday in the Algarve have rejected media reports that this was due to excessive drinking.In a statement, Eamon and Antoinette McGuckin said they were "deeply saddened and hurt" by the events of the past days and claimed the amount of alcohol they consumed on the evening their children were taken into care "would not have been sufficient to render them incapable of being responsible parents".According to the couple, Mrs McGuckin was "violently ill" on arrival at the ho .... More »

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Amarillo isn't the first place to consider a smoking ban... Other area's of the country with bans in place are releasing their research about the ban and teenagers.Researchers say teens who live in towns with strict restaurant smoking bans are 40 percent less likely to pick up the nicotine habit.Antwan Deleon says having a smoke free environment would ease his mind about his kids trying cigarettes. "I worry about it a whole bunch. I don't want my kids smoking, it's a bad habit."He isn't the only parent not wanting his kids around smok .... More »

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SALEM In smaller communities such as Salem County, the numbers are shocking, but true.With a population estimated near 65,000, there are currently 700 children here in the care of Department of Children and Family (DCF) because of abuse or neglect, according to DCF Spokesman Andy Williams.Statistics show that last year 23 children statewide died from abuse, 1,500 died nationwide, and an estimated 10 million globally.So, what can be done to protect children from abuse?Theresa McCutcheon, spokeswoman for Prevent Child Abuse New Jersey, .... More »

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