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| SmokeLess States Announces 24 New Grant Awards for Tobacco Harm Reduction Effort |
CHICAGO, June 12 /PRNewswire/ -- The SmokeLess States National Tobacco Policy Initiative of The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF), based at the American Medical Association, today announced the second phase recipients of approximately million in g |
06/13/01 |
| Kids Can't Filter Cigarette Fantasy |
TUESDAY, June 12 (HealthScoutNews) -- In the battle between cigarette advertising and anti-smoking campaigns, it looks like kids are losing. |
06/13/01 |
| Teens Invited to Anti-Tobacco Summit and Rally |
SEATTLE, June 13 /PRNewswire/ -- Hot on the heels of the popular anti-tobacco Internet reality show Unfiltered, Washington teens have another opportunity to help save lives by joining the fight against tobacco use. The state Department of Health is inviti |
06/13/01 |
| Fed Wants Money for Treating Smokers |
WASHINGTON (AP) - The Justice Department urged a federal judge Monday to reconsider an earlier decision not to let the government sue the tobacco industry to recover billions spent treating sick smokers. |
06/12/01 |
| Group to fight Angelos’ tobacco fee bid |
A newly formed citizens group said yesterday that it is willing to go to court to fight attorney Peter G. Angelos in his bid to collect a billion-dollar legal fee for handling the state's case against tobacco companies. |
06/12/01 |
| Warning: Nicotine Can Inhibit Healing |
Smokers who need spinal-fusion surgery in their necks may be in for an unfortunate surprise: their habit, already associated with other health problems, may also make the surgery less successful, a new study reports. Researchers, writing in a recent Journ |
06/12/01 |
| State might invest in tobacco |
In 1997, Florida leaders stopped investing state money in tobacco companies, worried that their own lawsuits against cigarette makers could come back to burn them. |
06/12/01 |
| Study on Tobacco Ads Impact on Youths |
WASHINGTON (AP) - Joe Camel may be gone, but cigarette makers are still coming up with ads that have a greater impact on young people than anti-smoking messages, said a study released Monday. |
06/11/01 |
| Contract awarded for health college funded by tobacco |
The University of Arkansas board of trustees approved contractors Friday for two of the first projects fueled by the .6 billion tobacco settlement. |
06/11/01 |
| B&W: Judge Strikes Ban on Web, Mail Cigarette Sales |
NEW YORK (Reuters) - A federal judge has struck down a New York state ban on mail-order, Internet and telephone sales of cigarettes, Brown & Williamson Tobacco Corp. said on Friday. |
06/08/01 |
| Md. Court Refuses Angelos Billion |
Maryland's highest court decided yesterday that lawyer Peter G. Angelos is not automatically entitled to 25 percent of the state's .4 billion settlement with cigarette makers. |
06/08/01 |
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