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Date |
| Program Aims to Reduce Tobacco Use Among Pregnant Women |
COON RAPIDS, Minn., March 5 /PRNewswire/ -- Mercy & Unity Hospitals will lead a unique new effort to help pregnant women quit smoking. |
03/05/03 |
| Women Show Higher Behavioral Dependence, Lower Nicotine Dependence Than Men |
PEAPACK, N.J., March 5 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- The idea that men are from Mars and women are from Venus has received another boost, as researchers have discovered that sex differences may play a role in trying to quit smoking. |
03/05/03 |
| Impressive Washington State Results Show Tobacco Prevention Programs |
Washington, DC - Washington State’s survey of youth tobacco use released today provides powerful new evidence that aggressive public health measures, including comprehensive tobacco prevention programs and cigarette tax increases, are working to reduce |
03/04/03 |
| Company says it never claimed light cigarettes are safer smoke |
EDWARDSVILLE - Lawyers for cigarette maker Philip Morris, which is on trial in Madison County for allegedly defrauding smokers of light cigarettes, say the company has never claimed light cigarettes are safer than regular cigarettes. |
03/03/03 |
| Oral cancer fear for Asians |
As many as 600 million people around the world could protect themselves from cancer if they stopped chewing tobacco. |
03/03/03 |
| Smoking researchers target Syria |
The tobacco smoke had a sweet apple scent as Dr. Wasim Maziak exhaled. Then he inhaled again, and the water inside the pipe bubbled and danced. |
03/03/03 |
| Smoking spouse raises wife's stroke risk |
Women already at risk of a stroke because they smoke cigarettes increase their stroke risk threefold if they live with a spouse who also smokes, a University at Buffalo study shows. |
03/02/03 |
| Campaign to protect passive smokers from heart disease |
The World Heart Federation (WHF) has launched a campaign aimed at reducing the number of deaths due to passive smoking. |
03/01/03 |
| Big Tobacco in Canada Fraud Case |
The Canadian government filed criminal charges Friday against affiliates of tobacco giant R.J. Reynolds, accusing them of helping to flood that country with cheap contraband cigarettes during the 1990s. |
03/01/03 |
| Tobacco treaty agreed despite U.S., German, some Asian objections |
GENEVA - Concerns about indigenous peoples' rights, free cigarettes for minors and the size of health warnings may stand in the way of the United States adopting an ambitious global anti-tobacco accord. |
03/01/03 |
| Government Rejects Higher Cigarette Tax |
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The federal government has rejected a plan that would raise the federal cigarette tax by a pack to fund programs that would help smokers quit, Health and Human Services Secretary Tommy Thompson said on Wednesday. |
02/28/03 |
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