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| Kicking Habit Kicks Up Depression |
MONDAY, June 18 (HealthScoutNews) -- If you are subject to depression, you're much more likely to suffer the blues again after you quit smoking, new research shows. |
06/19/01 |
| Court says MSA does not violate antitrust laws |
WINSTON-SALEM, N.C., June 19 (Reuters) - A U.S. appeals court has upheld that the landmark 1998 Master Settlement Agreement between major tobacco companies and most U.S. states did not violate antitrust laws, R.J. Reynolds said on Tuesday. |
06/19/01 |
| Students Working Against Tobacco (SWAT) Reveal Big Tobacco's Big Secret At Teen Tobacco Summit 4 |
(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Recent research results from a SWAT-sponsored study show that over 62% of teenagers in various countries on three continents -- Europe, Asia and South America -- have been exposed to some form of tobacco advertising in their country in t |
06/19/01 |
| Local Researchers Use Tobacco To Save Lives |
Tobacco is being used for life saving medicines, according to WKMG News. |
06/18/01 |
| Tobacco Suit Jury Selection Begins |
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - Jury selection began Monday in a statewide class-action lawsuit against the nation's tobacco companies, seeking to force cigarette makers to pay for medical testing and to help smokers in Louisiana quit. |
06/18/01 |
| As many opinions as treatments in tobacco fight |
Despite decades of Surgeon General's warnings and a cornucopia of quit-smoking patches, pills and gums, surprisingly tough hurdles still face smokers trying to quit, researchers report. |
06/18/01 |
| Ethics Board bucks appeal in tobacco-fee case |
The state Ethics Board Thursday tried to block a law professor’s court challenge of the board’s decision in a case involving attorneys who represented the state against tobacco companies. |
06/15/01 |
| Lawmakers examining statewide smoking ban |
ALBANY - State lawmakers are close to reaching agreement on a statewide smoking ban in restaurants, similar to the ban Erie County started enforcing four years ago. |
06/14/01 |
| State tobacco stock ban falls |
TALLAHASSEE -- Florida on Tuesday dropped a ban on investing state funds in tobacco companies, despite pleas from health advocates that doing so endorses a ``morally reprehensible'' industry. |
06/13/01 |
| Lung cancer drugs approved |
Drugs to help terminally ill lung cancer patients lead a better quality of life should be made widely available on the NHS, it has been decided. |
06/13/01 |
| Peer Pressure to Smoke Greater Among White Youth |
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - All teenagers are not the same--especially when it comes to attitudes and susceptibility to smoking. According to new research, white adolescents may be more likely to take up the habit because of peer pressure, but Hispanics a |
06/13/01 |
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