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| Stress Not Cancer Culprit |
THURSDAY, Oct. 31 (HealthScoutNews) -- Stress doesn't put you at greater risk for cancer, but it might provoke unhealthy behaviors that do increase your cancer risk. |
10/31/02 |
| U.S. Approves Nicotine Lozenge to Help Smokers Quit |
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. regulators on Thursday approved a nicotine lozenge that will be sold in stores along with gums and patches to help people quit smoking. |
10/31/02 |
| EU files money laundering lawsuit against R.J. Reynolds in New York court |
BRUSSELS, Belgium - The European Union said Thursday it has filed another lawsuit in New York against tobacco giant R.J. Reynolds, seeking compensation for alleged money laundering. |
10/31/02 |
| Bloomberg, City Council deadlocked over anti-smoking law |
NEW YORK (AP) _ The Bloomberg administration and the City Council remained deadlocked Wednesday over the mayor's proposal to ban smoking in all restaurants and bars. |
10/31/02 |
| Campaign Praises Visa For Taking Strong Action to Stop Illegal Internet Tobacco Sales to Kids |
WASHINGTON, Oct. 29 /U.S. Newswire/ -- In a letter sent today to the chief executive officers of the major credit card companies, the Campaign For Tobacco-Free Kids praised Visa International and Visa USA for taking an important step in addressing the gro |
10/30/02 |
| New Study Finds More Smoking in Movies After Tobacco Settlement |
Washington, DC - A new study released today by the Massachusetts Public Interest Research Group finds that the amount of smoking and other tobacco use increased by 50 percent in youth-oriented, PG-13 movies in the two years after the 1998 state tobacco se |
10/30/02 |
| WHO Report Lays Out Risks To Healthy Life World-Wide |
In an ambitious effort to lay out a global agenda for disease prevention, the World Health Organization issued a report cataloging the biggest risks to health world-wide and offering prescriptions for addressing them on a national or regional basis. |
10/30/02 |
| Tobacco chemical blamed for disease |
Scientists have discovered a chemical in tobacco that may be partly responsible for causing diabetes, cancer, Alzheimer's disease and accelerating the ageing process. |
10/29/02 |
| Poorer education linked to maternal smoking |
Women with lower levels of education are significantly less likely to give up smoking when pregnant and during their child’s early years than those who have been to university, according to US researchers. |
10/29/02 |
| Smokers' Revenge |
In a Los Angeles courtroom last month, tobacco giant Philip Morris relied on the same argument that has protected it for decades. Betty Bullock, a 64-year-old grandmother dying of lung cancer, was well aware of the health risks of smoking as she puffed on |
10/28/02 |
| Town considers ban on outdoor teen smoking |
ROBESONIA, Pa. - Officials want to extinguish teen smoking in the playground and make theirs possibly the first municipality in the state to prohibit minors from smoking outdoors. |
10/28/02 |
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