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| Health Department unfazed by teen smoking study |
SEATTLE (AP) -- A study that gave a failing grade to school-based anti-smoking efforts was helpful but shouldn't make schools give up, state Department of Health officials say. |
12/21/00 |
| .5 million goes to benefit O.C. youths |
Santa Ana Unified School District, the Orangewood Children's Foundation and St. Joseph's Hospital are among 45 local organizations that will share .5 million in tobacco-tax money doled out on Wednesday. |
12/21/00 |
| Philip Morris Challenges Lawsuit |
LAUSANNE, Switzerland (AP) - U.S. tobacco company Philip Morris is challenging a European Union civil suit that alleges it has been involved in smuggling cigarettes into the 15-nation trade bloc. |
12/21/00 |
| O.C. to Add Staff to Monitor Use of Tobacco Funds |
County supervisors agreed Tuesday to hire 23 new employees--nurses, analysts, and health educators--to determine how more than million in tobacco settlement money will be distributed to hospitals, clinics and health programs. |
12/20/00 |
| Money aimed at curbing smoking |
St. Louis County is getting its first share of the state tobacco settlement. |
12/20/00 |
| Anti-Smoking Units Failed to Stop Teens |
School-based programs that teach students how to resist social influences pushing them to smoke cigarettes -- long popular with states and more recently with tobacco companies -- have little effect and do not keep teenagers from smoking, according to a 15 |
12/20/00 |
| What Are They Smoking? |
Star Scientific, the fledgling cigarette maker, says it's a nice guy that just happens to run with a rough crowd. The Chester, Va.-based company says it is developing less harmful cigarettes, and it bitterly resents being made to pay for the sins of its f |
12/20/00 |
| Smoking, Blood Pressure Add to Aneurysm Risk |
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) -- People with a family history of brain aneurysms should put out their cigarettes and keep their blood pressure under control, New York researchers suggest. |
12/20/00 |
| Target Market Presses Tobacco CEO to Stop Youth Targeting |
LOUISVILLE, Ky., Dec. 20 /PRNewswire/ -- The tobacco industry claims that it no longer targets youth, but Target Market (TM) leaders aren't so sure following a historic meeting with the CEO of the nation's third largest tobacco company. |
12/20/00 |
| Children of heavy smokers may not get treatment for asthmna they need |
Children of heavy smokers may not be getting the treatment for asthma that they need, suggests research in Thorax. |
12/19/00 |
| White Youngsters Smoke Cigarettes at Earlier Ages |
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - White smokers in the US say they started their habit at an earlier age than their African-American or Hispanic counterparts, researchers report. |
12/19/00 |
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