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Florida program working to reduce underage smoking |
Teen smoking has long been a problem in the United States and as a result, allegations have been lodged against Big Tobacco that they were targeting children in their ads. |
02/02/01 |
Philip Morris’ New Virginia Slims Advertising Campaign Insults and Degrades Women |
Philip Morris, the world's largest tobacco company, insults and degrades women with its new magazine ad campaign for Virginia Slims Cigarettes. |
02/01/01 |
Anti-smoking funds sparse Despite a 0 billion tobacco lawsuit windfall, only a few states are using the money to fight teen smoking. However, those that try are coming up big. |
When Mississippi's governor signed House Bill 641 last May, making it illegal for anyone, including teachers, to use tobacco in public schools, it was a major victory for the state's newest anti-smoking warriors: a teen advocacy group called Frontline. |
01/31/01 |
Smokers' Preferences Irrelevant To Nicotine Replacement Outcomes |
Women wanting to quit smoking may be better off trying a nicotine inhaler rather than nicotine gum, and men may be better advised to approach it the other way around, that is, trying the gum rather than inhaler. |
01/31/01 |
UCSF Gets Million to Publish Tobacco Documents |
The University of California at San Francisco announced today that a million gift will allow researchers to publish 40 million pages of top secret tobacco industry and related documents on the Internet. Christine O. Gregoire, chairwoman of the America |
01/31/01 |
Smokers Get Free Mobile Help to Kick Habit |
MADRID (Reuters) - Spanish smokers finding it hard to kick the habit are being offered comfort and support from an unexpected quarter -- their mobile phones. |
01/30/01 |
Restaurant owners file motion against smoking ban |
KENOSHA, Wis. (AP) -- Four restaurant owners cited for violating the city' s smoking ordinance filed a court motion asking a judge to declare the measure unconstitutional. |
01/30/01 |
New York Mayoral Candidate Seeks Stricter Curbs on Smoking |
New York, Jan. 30 -- New York's Democratic mayoral candidate and City Council speaker Peter F. Vallone, is supporting a proposal to expand New York's restrictions on smoking cigars, pipes and cigarettes. |
01/30/01 |
What's Tobacco's Future in the Bush Era? |
While the rest of the world was focused on election lawsuits in Florida, tobacco industry lawyers were following not only that litigation but also other suits in Florida courts that could cause them serious harm. |
01/29/01 |
Study helps educate youth about risks of smoking |
For years, the ultra-cool Joe Camel cartoon brought a James Dean sort of hipness to smoking, and young people heeded the call of tobacco. |
01/29/01 |
High Court: FDA Can't Regulate Tobacco |
TUESDAY, March 21 (HealthScout) -- The Food and Drug Administration has no power to control tobacco as a drug, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled today. |
01/27/01 |