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| An Idea Is Planted: Firm Uses Tobacco to Grow Cancer Drugs |
VACAVILLE, Calif. -- The tobacco seedlings reaching toward the bright sunlamps in an indoor greenhouse look fairly ordinary. But the young plants growing in this rural nursery aren't destined to become cigarettes. |
12/16/02 |
| Pregnancy smoking help ineffective |
Most women who smoke during pregnancy are unlikely to respond to self-help programmes designed to help them quit, research has found. |
12/13/02 |
| New Lung Cancer Warning for Women Who Smoke |
FRIDAY, Dec. 13 (HealthScoutNews) -- There's new evidence that the most common form of lung cancer in women is more closely associated with cigarette smoking than previously recognized. |
12/13/02 |
| Bladder Cancer Risk Reduced By Quitting Smoking |
Women who stop smoking reduce their risk of developing bladder cancer. |
12/11/02 |
| No Advantage to Additive-Free Cigarettes |
Dec. 11, 2002 (Ivanhoe Newswire) -- Regardless of popular belief, additive-free cigarettes and bidis, the hand-rolled cigarettes from India, may not offer a less-harmful alternative to normal cigarettes according new research. Instead, they may be more ha |
12/11/02 |
| N.Y.C. To Add More Smoking Restrictions |
Dec. 11 — New York City leaders have agreed to a sweeping ban on smoking in workplaces, including bars and restaurants, Mayor Michael Bloomberg said Wednesday. |
12/11/02 |
| Study Shows New Evidence That Most Common Lung Cancer in Women is More Closely Linked to Smoking Cigarettes Than Realized |
ROCHESTER, Minn., Dec. 10 (AScribe Newswire) -- A Mayo Clinic study of more than 41,000 postmenopausal women in Iowa provides new evidence that the most common type of lung cancer in women is more closely linked to smoking cigarettes than previously recog |
12/10/02 |
| Anti-Smoking Ads May Influence Teen Habits: Study |
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Young people who are exposed to multiple anti-tobacco advertisements on television and who can describe these ads accurately are less likely to take up smoking than their peers, study findings show. |
12/10/02 |
| Germany Prepares Ground for Tougher Smoking Rules |
BERLIN (Reuters Health) - The German government is gearing up to increase tobacco taxes and establish more non-smoking areas in one of the few remaining northern European countries where smoking is often still seen as the norm. |
12/09/02 |
| US Tobacco Growing States Get Billion In Settlement So Far |
WASHINGTON -(Dow Jones)- Tobacco companies have given about billion to 14 states to help offset tobacco growers' losses due to the 1998 tobacco legal settlement, the General Accounting Office said Wednesday. |
12/04/02 |
| Tobacco may stimulate state's economy |
Indianapolis, Dec. 4 - "We are in drastic economic times, and it will take bold action to move Indiana forward." With that Governor Frank O'Bannon unveiled the Energize Indiana Plan, .2 billion of money to jumpstart Indiana's ailing economy. |
12/04/02 |
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