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| Kids Unaware of Dangers of Chewing Tobacco |
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Chewing tobacco can cause mouth sores, cancer of the mouth and receding gums. But more than 25% of adolescents who use smokeless tobacco do not know that it is harmful to their health, researchers report. |
12/19/00 |
| Tobacco money to help young readers |
Tobacco dollars will add reading teachers at Laura Ingalls Wilder Elementary in Littleton and beef up the school library at Park Elementary in Durango. |
12/15/00 |
| Agency picked for anti-smoking ads |
Madison - The state Tobacco Control Board will pay .5 million to a Milwaukee marketing agency for a new statewide anti-smoking campaign that will begin in January, officials said Thursday. |
12/15/00 |
| School Chief Fires Back at Philip Morris |
When tobacco giant Philip Morris shipped hundreds of boxes of multicolored glossy textbook covers to Hayward schools late last month, interim Superintendent Cynthia Le Blanc shipped them right back, c.o.d., with a "No thank you" note. |
12/15/00 |
| California’s Tobacco Prevention Program Credited with Saving Thousands of Lives from Heart Disease |
Washington, D.C. (December 13, 2000) A new report from the University of California, San Francisco, published in the December 14 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine, credits California’s tobacco prevention program with saving tens of thousands |
12/15/00 |
| Brazil Restricts Cigarette Ads |
BRASILIA, Brazil -- The Marlboro cowboy is heading for the last roundup, but not as fast as some Brazilian lawmakers want. |
12/14/00 |
| EU Parliament OKs Cigarette Warnings |
BRUSSELS, Belgium (AP) - The European Parliament on Wednesday approved a measure that, if enacted, will force tobacco makers to devote a significant portion of cigarette packaging to graphic health warnings beginning in 2003. |
12/13/00 |
| Missouri Supreme Court clears the way for the state to get tobacco settlement money |
JEFFERSON CITY -- The Missouri Supreme Court on Tuesday swept away what could be the last roadblock between the state and its .7 billion settlement with the nation's cigarette makers. |
12/13/00 |
| Smokers' cancer risk 'cut by coffee' |
Drinking coffee may be able to cut a smoker's chances of developing bladder cancer, according to research. |
12/13/00 |
| State looks at cashing in tobacco fund |
A study panel learned Tuesday that Louisiana might be able to get as much as .3 billion in upfront cash by selling .4 billion in tobacco-settlement money the state expects to get over the next 25 years. |
12/13/00 |
| Montgomery Lets Village Ban Public Smoking |
The Montgomery County Council yesterday approved the nation's strictest tobacco ban, prohibiting smoking on all public property, including sidewalks and streets, in the village of Friendship Heights. |
12/13/00 |
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