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Photo credit: Boris Hamer by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition CBS News reports that Sweden is close to becoming the world’s first smoke-free country. On May 31, World No Tobacco Day, it was reported that only 6.9% of Swedes age 15 and older were daily...
Photo credit: Kenneth C. Zirkel licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0 by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition The Providence Journal reports that Mayor Brett Smiley is trying to deal with that city’s non-enforcement of its existing sound ordinance. He includes funds for...
Photo credit: David McElwee by Arline L. Bronzaft, Ph.D., Board of Directors, GrowNYC, Co-founder, The Quiet Coalition, and Honorary Chair, Quiet American Skies Here I am writing again about noise leading to a violent act. In this case, an Oakland, California resident...
Photo credit: Markus Winkler by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition The Associated Press and other media recently covered the CDC’s report that the U.S. adult cigarette smoking rate hit a new all-time low of only 11%. That’s a decrease from 42% in the...
Photo credit: Tony Webster licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0 by Arline L. Bronzaft, Ph.D., Board of Directors, GrowNYC, Co-founder, The Quiet Coalition, and Honorary Chair, Quiet American Skie As the GrowNYC board member who oversees our noise activities, I receive many...
Photo credit: by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition International Noise Awareness Day was started in 1996 to raise awareness of unwanted noise and its dangers. Today, April 26, is this year’s observance. Noise has auditory and non-auditory health effects....
Image courtesy of Sound Defense Alliance by Arline L. Bronzaft, Ph.D., Board of Directors, GrowNYC, Co-founder, The Quiet Coalition, and Honorary Chair, Quiet American Skies Readers of The Quiet Coalition posts know that noise does not just harm humans--research has...
Image courtesy of the American Public Health Association by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition Each year the American Public Health Association sponsors National Public Health Week, this year from April 3-9. Public health deals with the health of populations,...
Photo credit: Marqués de la Force licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 by Arline L. Bronzaft, Ph.D., Board of Directors, GrowNYC, Co-founder, The Quiet Coalition, and Honorary Chair, Quiet American Skies As I say often, noise does not discriminate-–it can affect everyone:...