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| Vitamins Do Not Help Male Smokers Avoid Colds |
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Older men who smoke shouldn't bother to take common ``cold fighting'' vitamins in an attempt to ward off respiratory illness, new study findings suggest. |
01/30/02 |
| Philip Morris Names New CEO |
NEW YORK –– Philip Morris Cos. named chief financial officer Louis C. Camilleri as its new leader Wednesday, ending debate over who would lead the tobacco-food giant in the face of regulatory challenges and smoking lawsuits worldwide. |
01/30/02 |
| Habits: Smokers' Ethnicity May Make Difference |
When it comes to the health effects of smoking, the ethnicity of smokers may be as important as the kind of cigarettes they smoke. |
01/29/02 |
| Lawmakers put lid on tobacco fund |
A House panel voted unanimously Monday to recommend the state use its tobacco money exclusively for health and anti-smoking programs, in an attempt to prevent a raid on the state´s multi-million-dollar share of the national tobacco settlement. |
01/29/02 |
| Move to ban smoking in restaurants, workplace goes to high court |
TALLAHASSEE — Sponsors of a petition drive to ban all smoking in restaurants and workplaces say they hit the 500,000 mark Monday with a signature from a Tallahassee restaurateur. |
01/29/02 |
| UC Berkeley Implements New Rules for Smoking |
The 15 feet surrounding every campus building will be officially designated a nonsmoking section beginning Feb. 5. |
01/29/02 |
| Anti-tobacco budget draws fire |
Despite earmarking millions for an initiative to snuff out cancer, Georgia ranks only fair to middling when it comes to spending its share of funds collected from a multibillion-dollar settlement against Big Tobacco. |
01/28/02 |
| Big Tobacco seeks to block Florida vote on smoking in restaurants, workplaces |
TALLAHASSEE -- Usually a behind-the-scenes player, the tobacco industry is taking a surprisingly public stance against Florida’s proposed constitutional ban on smoking in restaurants and workplaces. |
01/28/02 |
| States Look to Cigarettes as Way to Cut Big Deficits |
HARTFORD, Jan. 27 — Nowadays, cigarettes are not just for smoking. In New York, Connecticut and more than a dozen other states facing budget deficits, cigarettes and other tobacco products, ignored for years by legislatures with plenty of cash, are once |
01/28/02 |
| Brazil to Scare Smokers with Pictures on Packs |
SAO PAULO, Brazil (Reuters) - Brazil will become this week the second country in the world to attach anti-smoking pictures on cigarette packages reminding smokers of the damage they do to their health every time they light up. |
01/28/02 |
| Cloud of smoke over Zyban |
NEW DELHI, Jan. 25. CAN an anti-smoking drug be injurious to health? Pharma giant GlaxoSmithKline (GSK), under fire regarding its smoking cessation drug, Zyban, has risen in defence of its non-nicotine oral drug- in the wake of unproven reports in the UK, |
01/27/02 |
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