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| Study Links Smoking, Colon Cancer |
WASHINGTON (AP) - Smoking cigarettes for 20 years or more can increase by more than 40 percent the risk of dying of colorectal cancer, according to a study that blames tobacco use for nearly one in eight such deaths in the United States. |
12/06/00 |
| Newfoundland set to snuff out public smoking |
ST. JOHN'S, Nfld. -- The Newfoundland government plans to introduce a new law that would make it the first province to ban smoking in restaurants, malls and other public places where children gather. |
12/06/00 |
| HMOs join cigarette tax effort |
The state's major HMOs are joining patient advocates and health care professional groups in support of a 50-cent cigarette tax increase to raise money to expand health care programs for the poor. |
12/06/00 |
| Tobacco Industry Denies Hiding Risk |
NEW YORK (AP) - Tobacco industry lawyers on Tuesday denied allegations that cigarette manufacturers waged a decades-long campaign of deception about the heightened risk their products posed to asbestos workers. |
12/05/00 |
| Teens Will Quit Smoking to Save Others |
MONDAY, Dec. 4 (HealthScout) -- Teens and young adults -- those folks who take the car without asking and pretend not to hear when you ask them to turn down the music -- apparently are more likely to stop smoking if they think their smoke could harm those |
12/05/00 |
| Student groups protest Philip Morris recruiting at Rutgers |
(U-WIRE) NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J. -- Protesters demonstrated at Rutgers University Monday against the Philip Morris corporation's recruitment of graduating seniors for positions within the company. |
12/05/00 |
| Suit of Smokers Exposed to Asbestos Says Tobacco Groups Hid Cancer Data |
Opening arguments are to begin Monday in the latest flash point in the tobacco wars, a lawsuit brought on behalf of smokers with lung disease who were exposed to asbestos, the lethal industrial fiber. |
12/04/00 |
| Grant money spreads anti-tobacco message |
A woman who lost her voice through smoking plans to spread her anti-tobacco message with the help of a ,000 grant, one of seven authorized recently with part of Montana’s money from the tobacco industry. |
12/04/00 |
| Workers Seek B in Tobacco Suit |
NEW YORK (AP) - The tobacco industry went on trial Monday, with a trust representing asbestos workers demanding billions in damages for a wave of death and disease allegedly caused by a combination of asbestos and cigarettes. |
12/04/00 |
| Friendship Heights Aims to Bar Smoking |
In the urban village of Friendship Heights, just north of the District line, the mayor is fighting for the strictest smoking ban in the country. |
12/03/00 |
| Don't Let Smoke Get in Your Eyes |
SATURDAY, Dec. 2 (HealthScout) -- You may get more than smoke in your eyes when you light up a cigarette. |
12/02/00 |
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